The Mediocracy book takes the form of a lexicon. Is it similar to dictionaries of politically correct terms?
There is a similarity in the sense that one of the features of mediocracy is a tendency to redefine key terms. This goes with the remoulding of everything else concepts, theories, institutions. The purpose, I suggest, is to disguise the fact that certain things are disappearing (e.g. real education, real research, real theatre) by creating ersatz versions whose quantity may well be increasing, thus creating an illusion of progress. There is a greater ambition than with other dictionaries. Im proposing a new model of society with a number of distinct themes which I suggest are related, though not necessarily in a very obvious way.
