The democracies allow all kinds of horrible films and videos in the name of freedom. As long as those films do not criticise anyone in power, they can perpetrate whatever vulgar, demoralising and violent ideas they like. The problem is that such films become models for people's behaviour, so that all these imaginary violent and cruel actions have become actual and contemporary in our societies. The nightmare and the horror scenes have become realities in our cities and private homes. Those who can reproduce most luridly the full horror of contemporary themes are given the highest awards by the judges. For example, recently there was a film that really became a hit about a man who was psychotic and a cannibal.

The film was meant to entertain people by showing how he killed human beings and ate them. In any decent society, this film could never have been made or, if by some aberration it was, it would have been banned. But instead of that it has been applauded and acclaimed by the critics. ... ...

There is a tendency, built up in the West since the time of Enlightenment and the democratic revolutions of the 18th century, that we should be free to absorb all of the unrighteous, unholy, inauspicious and destructive ideas that we can find in every film, every book and every newspaper, whatever the source.