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    We live in an age of moral nihilism.

    America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

    By Chris Hedges

    (Stunning Article)

    In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation. They express indignation at AIG bonuses and empathy with a working class they have spent the last few decades disenfranchising, and make promises to desperate families that they know will never be fulfilled. Once the spotlights go on they read their lines with appropriate emotion. Once the lights go off, they make sure Goldman Sachs and a host of other large corporations have the hundreds of billions of dollars in losses they incurred playing casino capitalism repaid with taxpayer money.

    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.

    Our elites are imploding. Their fraud and corruption are slowly being exposed as the disparity between their words and our reality becomes wider and more apparent. The rage that is bubbling up across the country will have to be countered by the elite with less subtle forms of control. But unless we grasp the “societal play of forces that operates beneath the surface of political forms” we will be cursed with a more ruthless form of corporate power, one that does away with artifice and the seduction of a consumer society and instead wields power through naked repression.
    “The emergence of what Eisenhower had called the military-industrial-academic complex had secured a grip on higher education that may have exceeded even what he had anticipated and most feared,” Giroux, who wrote “The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex,” told me. “Universities, in general, especially following the events of 9/11, were under assault by Christian nationalists, reactionary neoconservatives and market fundamentalists for allegedly representing the weak link in the war on terrorism.

    This moral nihilism would have terrified Adorno. He knew that radical evil was possible only with the collaboration of a timid, cowed and confused population, a system of propaganda and a press that offered little more than spectacle and entertainment and an educational system that did not transmit transcendent values or nurture the capacity for individual conscience. He feared a culture that banished the anxieties and complexities of moral choice and embraced a childish hyper-masculinity, one championed by ruthless capitalists (think of the brutal backstabbing and deception cheered by TV shows like “Survivor”) and Hollywood action heroes like the governor of California.

    Moral autonomy is what the corporate state, with all its attacks on liberal institutions and “leftist” professors, has really set out to destroy. The corporate state holds up as our ideal what Adorno called “the manipulative character.” The manipulative character has superb organizational skills and the inability to have authentic human experiences. He or she is an emotional cripple and driven by an overvalued realism. The manipulative character is a systems manager. He or she exclusively trained to sustain the corporate structure, which is why our elites are wasting mind-blowing amounts of our money on corporations like Goldman Sachs and AIG. “He makes a cult of action, activity, of so-called efficiency as such which reappears in the advertising image of the active person,” Adorno wrote of this personality type. These manipulative characters, people like Lawrence Summers, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, AIG’s Edward Liddy and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with most of our ruling class, have used corporate money and power to determine the narrow parameters of the debate in our classrooms, on the airwaves and in the halls of Congress while they looted the country.

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...moral_bailout/
    Thursday January 21st, 2010 The Day WE THE PEOPLE ceased to exist.

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    Yes, any country with a group of people supporting the killing of unborn children while calling it a "choice" is having a morality crisis.
    Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard.

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    a fetus is not a child, moron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FIAWOL View Post
    a fetus is not a child, moron.
    See? We are in serious moral trouble when idiots like this are taken seriously.
    Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigac View Post
    Yes, any country with a group of people supporting the killing of unborn children while calling it a "choice" is having a morality crisis.
    Of course. & the paragon of virtue is Selfishness, stealing, attacking & destroying the living ones lives in the name of overwhelming sadistic unquestioning power. All wrapped up in a nice “ manipulative character” designed to deflect from the hard complicated truths of the article that had nothing to do with party but had to do with our collective moral decay.

    Glad you got your morals all cleared. Funny how it's easy to defend unborn humans but the ones that are alive?

    Fuck em'.

    So we got yuor moral clarity:

    you don't read

    You attack based on tribalism

    & you defend those that don't exist yet...cuz' they might not like your puppy morality. You know the one where you can speak for their thoughts even though they don't exist.
    Thursday January 21st, 2010 The Day WE THE PEOPLE ceased to exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crowonapost View Post
    Of course. & the paragon of virtue is Selfishness, stealing, attacking & destroying the living ones lives in the name of overwhelming sadistic unquestioning power. All wrapped up in a nice “ manipulative character” designed to deflect from the hard complicated truths of the article that had nothing to do with party but had to do with our collective moral decay.

    Glad you got your morals all cleared. Funny how it's easy to defend unborn humans but the ones that are alive?

    Fuck em'.

    So we got yuor moral clarity:

    you don't read

    You attack based on tribalism

    & you defend those that don't exist yet...cuz' they might not like your puppy morality. You know the one where you can speak for their thoughts even though they don't exist.
    Son, until you can admit that the most vulnerable and supremely innocent among us deserve the same opportunity to live as the rest of us, you don't get to expect to be taken seriously when you twaddle on about morality. Your callous disregard for the unborn proves that your interest in this article is far more mental masturbation than any attempt at a serious discussion about the state of morality in this country.

    You can continue on as if your opinion on this matter is worth anything, but you have officially been put in your place.
    Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard.

  7. Quote Originally Posted by crowonapost View Post
    America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

    By Chris Hedges

    (Stunning Article)
    Here we go -- the niggers' surge in power brings out niggers like crowshit, a hatch man, seeking to survey the country from a supposed "higher moral ground".

    Boycott niggers, send them back.

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    of Vancouver, BC, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

    0 :-) We're sorry, but evidence from our review strongly suggests that you lack sufficient situational awareness. < (-:{

  8. Quote Originally Posted by bigac View Post
    Son, until you can admit that the most vulnerable and supremely innocent among us deserve the same opportunity to live as the rest of us.
    Do any of you really believe this? Does that include access to adequate food and medical care to keep them living after they leave the womb? Does that include every child in the world?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnotherLiberal View Post
    Do any of you really believe this? Does that include access to adequate food and medical care to keep them living after they leave the womb? Does that include every child in the world?
    Are you saying that murder to prevent the possibility of a difficult live is preferrable to a difficult life? Is no life better than having it tough? Are the poor incapable of experiencing the joy of the human experience? Do the poor have so little to offer humanity that it becomes acceptable to terminate them before birth?
    Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard.

  10. Quote Originally Posted by bigac View Post
    Are you saying that murder to prevent the possibility of a difficult live is preferrable to a difficult life? Is no life better than having it tough?
    Good! This hints at an answer to the question of where those souls go when they're snuffed out at the onset. Could well be that Osambo's murdered hordes don't get an automatic affirmative action pass into Heaven, and it isn't being invaded!

    I like it.

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    of Vancouver, BC, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

    0 :-) We're sorry, but evidence from our review strongly suggests that you lack sufficient situational awareness. < (-:{

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