Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.
Henry GirouxThe degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.
Henry GirouxThe propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated in violence and a culture of cruelty. Needless to say, all of these forces intensified the increasing militarization and corporatization of higher education, along with the privatizing of everyday life.
Henry GirouxYoung children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.
Henry GirouxTrump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.
Henry Giroux