Shared social fabric
A society can be characterised by what we share: the beliefs, values and traditions which shape the attitudes and actions of those who live within the society. This shared perspective enables individuals to live together and co-operate despite having differing personal dreams and goals. We are able to recognise the common good and work within it without losing our individual personality.
Every society, if it is to survive, must adapt to changing circumstances or atrophy and die. We face different events, encounter outside influences and learn from the success and failure of past endeavours. Change, however, must be gradual and grow organically from a shared desire to develop.
It is when change is sudden and deliberately engineered that society is disrupted and fractured into opposing camps unable to work together or even recognise any good in the others. Striving for the common good becomes lost in the drive to impose the will of one group on everyone else. This is where we find ourselves in the UK and the West generally today.
British society is being deliberately subjected to a revolutionary ideological campaign.
Previously there existed a general moral consensus in the West based on Christianity, either Protestant or Roman Catholic. This is not to say that all Western people were Christians, rather that the moral structures of society were consciously drawn from interpretation of the Bible. Today we find that Christian-based social fabric being challenged with a revolutionary attempt to impose a new morality.
Impartial and independent?
Perhaps the chief influence on the reshaping of society is the media. Tony Benn once described the media’s function as being that of providing ‘the raw material upon which a society forms its judgement’. In Britain, more than half of all journalists identify as being on the Left and just under a quarter on the Right.
The BBC Charter says that its first public purpose is ‘to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them’. The Corporation thinks it fulfils this purpose and is ‘impartial and independent’. Yet, according to a poll by BMG Research of 1,004 adults in 2018, only 37% of viewers agreed with the BBC’s estimation of its impartiality.
In 2016 John Whittingdale, then Culture Secretary, laid down a target for the BBC that 10% of senior leadership roles should be filled by LGBT staff by 2020. This at a time when the Office of National Statistics said that only 1.5% of the population identified as LGBTQ etc.
according to a poll ... in 2018, only 37% of viewers agreed with the BBC’s estimation of its impartiality.
Following this, in October 2018 the BBC made a policy decision to increase the number of homosexual characters appearing in all its programmes in order to combat ‘heteronormative culture’. At the time LGBT staff already accounted for 11 per cent of the BBC’s total workforce, and 12% of senior staff. BBC senior staff said: ‘We hope this makes everyone feel included – whether genderqueer, bisexual, homosexual, lesbian, transgender, non-binary, pansexual, intersex, asexual, queer, questioning or an ally.’
In 2020 it was reported that LGBTQ+ people were significantly over-represented on television where they took 11.9% of roles. It is not only a numbers game. Homosexual and bisexual relationships are uniformly presented as positive alternatives to the fraught relationships in heterosexual unions.
At the same time, an increasingly high proportion of LGBTQ+ couples and individuals are appearing in game shows, reality TV, and programmes such as Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing and Channel 4’s Great Pottery Throw Down.
Social Engineering
Statistics released by the Office for National Statistics for 2021 show that a mere 2.8% of the over-16 population of England and Wales identify as homosexual, lesbian or bisexual, with a further 0.3% identifying as ‘other sexual orientation’. This brings the grand total of people not identifying as heterosexual up to 3.1%, and means the number of LGBT+ characters routinely appearing on our screens is wildly disproportionate to their number in the population. Yet it is LGBTQ+ behaviours and lifestyle choices that are being relentlessly pushed, while others of a more traditional and conservative nature are condemned and mocked.
the grand total of people not identifying as heterosexual is just 3.1%, meaning the number of LGBT+ characters routinely appearing on our screens is wildly disproportionate to their number in the population.
Unarguably, LGBTQ+ individuals are significantly over-represented on television, in films and in the media generally. This distortion of reality has the effect, as intended, of changing perceptions and attitudes within society.
Destroying traditional mores
The BBC pursues diversity in everything except opinion. The BBC genuinely cannot see their own bias: it’s what surrounds them 24 hours a day. If you live in a bubble where workmates and friends all share the same woke social and political attitudes, you stop thinking of them as ‘politically-correct’ opinions and start to think of them as simply ‘correct’ views.
British society is being deliberately subjected to a revolutionary ideological campaign aimed at destroying traditional moral values, especially Christian belief, the source of those mores.
Media social engineering is part of an orchestrated campaign to reshape the Christian foundations of Western culture ...
This intention has been apparent since 2012, when an internal BBC report said that drama was a ‘powerful tool’ that should be used to educate viewers about sexuality. The report also said the BBC should use children’s programming to help ‘familiarise audiences through incidental portrayal from an early age’.
This deliberate social engineering might seem like a laudable way of standing up for sexual minorities, but as Sir Roger Scruton pointed out, ‘It sets out to repudiate the hierarchies and distinctions embedded in our traditional way of life.’ Media social engineering is part of an orchestrated campaign to reshape the Christian foundations of Western culture which have, until recently, provided stability within society. What comes after?