BBC - RE-DEFINING CULTURAL VALUES

 

The contemporary artist and cross-dresser,

Grayson Perry, has undoubtedly set new

standards in the first of his four offerings

in this year's BBC Reith lectures. In an

atmoshere of raucous buffoonery, he

invited his audience to accept his notion t

hat the subjective concept of beauty goes

beyond its being described as to no

complexion is confined, it is of all

colours and by none defined.

 According to Perry, our idea of beauty is

conditioned by Western civilisation's
cultural inheritance, which he seems to
suggest is a social construct, defined by
class and background.

 It comes as no surprise that Grayson

Perry should have been invited to give
the lectures, given the Corporation's
apparent mission of deconstructing
society's existing cultural values. In
their place the BBC whose original
raison d'etre was to act as an

unbiased public broadcaster, is

following a political agenda, which

is having a profound effect on the

nature of our society.