Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle

TruthOut by Henry A. Giroux | Sep. 8, 2009 (Opinion)

Within these politics, largely fueled by market fundamentalism - one that substitutes the power of the social state with the power of the corporate state and only values wealth, money and consumers - there is a ruthless and hidden dimension of cruelty, one in which the powers of life and death are increasingly determined by punishing apparatuses, such as the criminal justice system for poor people of color and/or market forces that increasingly decide who ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics, Media
Topics: Culture Wars, Ethics in Journalism, Mainstream Media
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 8, 2009 - 4:18 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Sep 8, 2009 - 4:26 PM PDT

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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 8, 2009

Giroux lends his considerable insight to questions of bullying, force, hate, the suspension of ethics as those things occur in or reflect in our culture. He sees an a larger scale that the cruelty and hate are not individual actions, but are becoming a part of our culture, and part of our entertainment.

this is just a small sampling of the kind of hate talk that permeates right-wing media. This could be dismissed as loony right-wing political theater if it were not for the ... More »

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