America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

Everyone is now a potential terrorist.

The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.