The Debord idea is very appropriate. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Lakshmi Rhone <[email protected]> wrote: > > For Debord that's politics, it's the displacement of social contradiction > into the spectacle of a changing of the guard. Electoral democracy is a > political spectacle through which civil society attenuates its > contradictions. As Nietzschean would make sense of a Hegelian: It's because > so many of us value the stability that constitutional electoral democracy > gives our system that we devise a normative theory that makes constitutional > electoral democracy the most perfect earthly realization of freedom > possible. At any rate, there are other probably more important outlets for > anger--sports, religion, drugs, internet porn and Hollywood star gazing. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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