Importance of TRUTH in the

Media

Stephen LangaEmail: stephenlanga@yahoo.com

Illustration: Glasses

Definition: WORLDVIEW

• A set of assumptions which we hold (consciously or unconsciously) in faith, about the makeup of our world and how the world works

• Like a set of glasses for the mind

The Roots Produce the Fruit

Fruit = Actions / Consequences

Branches = Character

Stem = Values

Roots = Belief System /

Worldview

Ideas have consequences

– Second World War (Japanese & Black American soldiers)

– Cambodia – Khmer Rouge (Pol Kot)

Cambodia's Brutal Khmer Rouge Regime

Under Pol Pot, 2.5m killed

Cambodia's Brutal Khmer Rouge Regime

The Khmer Rouge was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, but during this short time it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century.

The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people - and some estimates say up to 2.5 million perished.

Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside. But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost, and whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.

- Source BBC

Cambodia's Brutal Khmer Rouge Regime

When he came to power, he (Pol Pot) and his henchmen quickly set about transforming Cambodia - now re-named Kampuchea - into what they hoped would be an agrarian utopia.

Declaring that the nation would start again at "Year Zero", Pol Pot isolated his people from the rest of the world and set about emptying the cities, abolishing money, private property and religion, and setting up rural collectives.

Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language.

Pol Pot led the brutal regime, but died without being brought to justice. Hundreds of thousands of the educated middle-classes were tortured and executed in special centres.

Source BBC

The Spread of Ideas

• Ideas travel around the globe, from one area to another.

• Ideas pass to future generations.

• Ideas diffuse into cultures through classes of people.

Horizontal

Temporal

Vertical

Ideas Spread Through CultureThe Intellectuals

(religion, philosophy)

The Balladeers (media, popular music, the arts)

The Professionals (law, politics, economics)

The Common

Worldview Impact on Popular Culture

Development

Economics

Environment

LawEducation

Family Life

The Arts

Politics

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Gathered and Scattered

Gathered for worship & equipping

Scattered for service & discipling the nations

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