The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.
Henry GirouxIt seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence of both a police state on the one hand and an incredible culture of cruelty on the other. All of the sudden, shared hopes are replaced by shared fears.
Henry GirouxWhether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush money." They were the outcomes of struggles. They were the outcomes, in the 1930s, of a viable socialist-communist movement. They were the outcomes of a viable workers' movement. FDR didn't give in because he wanted to shut people up, he gave in because he was under pressure. He had no choice.
Henry GirouxWe need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.
Henry Giroux