Dr Neville Buch
Abstract
The intellectual hostility directed toward national broadcasters, specifically the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is historically rooted in a partisan political sub-culture that utilizes the “myth of secular humanism” as a primary ideological weapon. This critique often manifests as a form of the “paranoid style,” where the broadcaster is cast as a looming threat to traditional values, utilizing demagoguery to incite fear among a population experiencing status anxiety. Within the “Dynamic of Cognition” framework, this thinking is characterized by a “techné mindset” that prioritizes narrow technical utility and “common sense” over deep intellectual inquiry or pluralistic education. By framing the national broadcaster as a “teaching machine” for liberal or radical ideologies, right-wing critiques effectively produce a “sociology of absences,” rendering the diverse and complex narratives of a modern democracy as non-existent or “un-godly”. This essay examines these cognitive patterns, identifying how historical forgetfulness and ideological reductionism drive the ongoing “curriculum wars” in the public square.
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