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What is happening to the world? Why does it seem like everyone has gone crazy? Why are so many things that seemingly everyone believed the day before yesterday suddenly held to be retrograde, hateful, or even criminal? And why are things that everyone seemed to view as lunacy the day before yesterday suddenly taught or even required?

Cancel Culture, Wokeness und Identitätspolitik sind dabei nur Oberflächenphänomene, denen ein viel gravierenderes Problem zugrunde liegt: Durch digitale Medien katalysiert, werden Institutionen wie Universitäten, Theater oder Kultureinrichtungen extrem durchlässig für politische Kommunikation. Das kann im Extremfall dazu führen, dass sie – anstelle von Wissen, Bildung und Kunst – Ideologie produzieren: Sie verwandeln sich in Ideologiemaschinen. Harry Lehmann identifiziert den Mechanismus, der zu dieser Art von dysfunktionaler Politisierung führt.

It’s everywhere, from commercials to New York Times best-sellers to college (and even younger) classrooms. In fact, pornography has become such a part of normal life in 21st century America that many teens and twenty-somethings have had no more important influence. They are the porn generation, where life’s expectations come from Mouseketeer pop tarts, Victoria’s Secret, internet titillation, and condom-flogging sex education.