Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle

We need, as a society, to educate students and others to be literate in multiple ways, to reclaim the high ground of civic courage, and to be able to name, engage and transform those forms of public pedagogy that produce hate and cruelty as part of the discourse of common sense. Otherwise, democracy will lose the supportive institutions, social relations and culture that make it not only possible but even thinkable.


Henry A. Giroux - Truthout.org