[UC] On American and district stupidity, Giroux

[Glenn moyer]

To be cleaner or safer; That is the question

Whether 'tis stupidity to suffer in the mind

The sense and thoughts of outrageous intellectuals

Or to take arms against truth tellers and thinkers 

And by opposing end them.  To die ; to  sleep...

(The American and UCneighbors soliliquy, Shakespeare)

"America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat...

...The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to  normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity.  Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy."

Henri Giroux, read more, if you aren't too damn stupid, at truthout


http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17647-the-violence-of-organized-forgetting

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