This is the third installment of our monthly series which “On the Barricades” co-produces and co-hosts with Youri Smouter of 1+1. Co-hosts Boyan Stanislavski, Maria Cernat speak with Youri about the following:
1:30 Thumbs down from Youri on the dancing on the grave of Queen Elizabeth II
7:28 Maria on the lionizing of monarchy in Romania
11:00 Boyan on death and its role it in our culture, nihilism
14:30 Social media sensationalism and fake validation
18:50 Thumbs up from Youri on the Bloc Québécois party in Canada commenting on the Queen’s death
21:00 Maria on the media acts as a tool for creating a “spiral of silence”, with a widening divide between the public hardships and what’s published
31:20 Thumbs up to the Romanian government taxing at 100% revenues for electricity providers who sell Romania outside the country
37:30 How do right wing ideas and conspiracy theories spread in the current conditions? The right wing in Romania
39:30 Why didn’t Romanian academics criticize the EU?
47:30 The EU in shambles
49:30 Priest who sexually abused a woman arrested in Romania (thumbs up), while church representatives tried to defend it (thumbs down)
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Thumbs up, thumbs down part 3: the Queen; how right-wing ideas spread; EU in shambles