The restructuring of Media Education carried out in much of Europe over the last ten years is showing its first results: classroom crisis, educational discomfort and devalorisation of culture. And yet, the language of education policies continues to emerge from reality and insists on spreading a confusing message with liberalising utopia. This leads to the disconcert of education professionals, who are debated between intimate rebel and blame, which is generated by the imreality of the pedagogical line that marks them. The article reflects on the degree of self-deception involved in that teaching line and the ideology underlying it. An ideology characterised by the acute urgency of change and the ebriety of progress. Its real objectives, however, seem rather to aim at achieving a regressive social order.