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Jean Baudrillard's perspective on the negative impact of TV on social solidarities, particularly as exemplified by the events in the former Yugoslavia, is explored. TV allows a viewer to experience events distant in place & time as though they were happening in the here & now. Reliance on this TV-viewer contact to arouse the world counts too much on the privileged position of the social as a positive. Baudrillard also argues that TV has a negative side of "collapsing the normalizing, expanding, & positive cycle of the social into its opposite: an implosive & structural order of signs." It is concluded that the triumph of the signifying culture means the eclipse of genuine social solidarity. Adapted from the source document.

The breakup of Yugoslavia & especially the war in Bosnia & Herzegovina made many people ask a simple question: Why did this happen? The main goal of this article is to give an answer to this question. More specifically, the article asks: Why did the "eastern" concept of nationalism prove to be more successful than the "western" one during the time of social & political changes in Yugoslavia? Although the article focuses on the end of the 1980s & the beginning of the 1990s, it also touches on some aspects of the historical background. Before explaining the ideological fragmentation in Yugoslavia & Bosnia & Herzegovina, the article defines the term nationalism with a special focus on the differentiation between "eastern" & "western" versions of this ideology/doctrine. References. Adapted from the source document.