SMOKERS’ CORNER: LOSING THE PLOT

Illustration by Abro The West’s ’legacy media’ and cultural products might be suffering from what is often called ‘institutional inertia.’ Recently, they have been using old conceptual understandings of a world that is fast being changed by new realities. According to the American sociologist William F. Ogburn, this condition occurs when “mental models” fail to adjust to rapid shifts in the material and geopolitical reality. In the context of the 21st century, this inertia is particularl...

By none@none.com (Nadeem F. Paracha)