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#Canadian mansion becomes symbol disintegration tv#

But I had had a different conversation earlier with an expat Egyptian journalist living in the West, who was much more critical - from a liberal point of view! She said that the advent of satellite TV in her country had mostly empowered religious conservatives. They were very optimistic about the positive social change they were sure their project was going to bring to the Middle East.

I sat in on a panel of some young Westernized Arabs who were part of a project to bring MTV, or something like it (I can’t recall precisely), to the Arab world. How do you think people are going to react?” Now, consider that a hundred years of modernization is suddenly appearing inside Arab cultures that are far more rigid and traditional than the West ever was in the modern period. “You in the West have had mass electronic media for almost 100 years, and you’ve all adjusted to the changes it has brought. He told me that what Westerners don’t understand is that the advent of satellite television and the Internet in the Arab world caused a tremendous shock to the systems of those countries. I had a conversation there over coffee with a veteran journalist from Lebanon, a man who was a secularist. If anything, I thought it would be a good thing, to introduce some churn into those rigid societies. It would be fair to say that I had an unreflective view of the introduction of mass media into Arab culture. The event brought together journalists and TV producers from around the Arab world. Back around 2006 or so, I went to Dubai, to an Arab media conference. Let me give you an example of something I learned that rocked my world. This is not the point Camus wanted to make!) It wasn’t that they were anti-Arab it was that they understood why the title character did what he did, and forgave him for it. (Side note: a college professor told me recently that he was teaching the Albert Camus novel The Stranger to his students, and that none of them could grasp that the protagonist’s signature act, killing an innocent Arab, was morally wrong. We always face the risk of falling victim to that double-edged French saying, “To understand all is to forgive all.” That is, if we try too hard to enter into the mind of a criminal, we might end up agreeing that he did the right thing. Clearly a lot of people on the Left feel that way about Tarrant. A lot of us on the Right - I was probably one of them for all I know - felt that way about the 9/11 terrorists. There are many people who react emotionally, and who think that to give any ground at all to terrorists is to in some way justify them. As I said in the piece, in the same way that we have to recognize that Islamic terrorists base their murderous ideology in some true things, we have to do the same thing when it comes to white nationalist terrorists like Brenton Tarrant. If you read the entire post, it’s crystal-clear that I’m not endorsing Tarrant’s actions or his manifesto, but rather pointing out that the killer identifies truthful things in his critique of a decadent West. I see that there’s a lot of online controversy over this out-of-context quote from my Christchurch post over the weekend:Įverything Tarrant identifies as qualities of a disintegrating Western civilization is true. Sit down, folks, this is going to be one of those long, rambling posts.