Ákos Szilágyi on infantile zombies and mass culture

Childishness and intolerance are the main features of modern civilisation, writes essayist Ákos Szilágyi in the left-liberal daily Népszabadság: "This barbarisation represents a threat posed on the one hand by the fanatics, who lock themselves up in …marginalising aggressive-hysterical tribal identities, and on the other by the zombies who see the world as … an adventure park presented by the entertainment industry … and have their eyes greedily glued on the global screen to satiate their voracious hunger for images. … Both the fanatics and the zombies are the vile products of the mass cultures that feed on the breeding grounds of politics and the market. … The only enemy for fanatics and zombies alike is the autonomous 'adult' who is immune to all kinds of fanaticism and to the restriction and erosion of the mind. By his mere existence he contradicts the mindlessness and lifelessness, the dreariness and baseness of the mass-culture adventure park that produces the zombies and fanatics."

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