All of this Hedges' article is important and timely, and so I could not find a representative excerpt.
Truthdig: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout
The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation.
We live in an age of moral nihilism. We have trashed our universities, turning them into vocational factories that produce corporate drones and chase after defense-related grants and funding. The humanities, the discipline that forces us to stand back and ask the broad moral questions of meaning and purpose, that challenges the validity of structures, that trains us to be self-reflective and critical of all cultural assumptions, have withered.
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Whose surprised by what a generation of amoral weasels have wrought? This is Reagan youth as adults.
I think its interesting that he identifies the destruction of the ability to critique the presumed societal structures. Nothing makes this more obvious than the recent rantings of the Republicans, never known for any artistic prowess with the exception of a small handful. They can spew contempt but they offer no original or new ideas because they can't think that way.
Analysis is not the right's forte is it? They basically believe in Market magic or faith based economics. In their simple world view it works like this. If you are wealthy( no matter how u got to be that way) u are filled with God's grace. $$ ='s grace. If you are poor , unemployed etc.. u are among the damned and u deserve no mercy and no help. Moral hazard only applies to giving to those who do not already have. It's Christianity turned upside down.
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