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The displacement of utopia by the commodity has necessarily entailed a
growing incapacity for outrage. Certain noble goals and high principles
having all been superannuated, there are fewer grounds, or occasions, for
moral indignation. The resultant fatalism, which is especially striking
when we see it in the young (because the young should be uncompromising in
their optimism), has had as well another cause or source--one that, like
the all-pervasive celebration of commodities, has also derived in part
from the corruptive influence of the media trust. I'm referring to the
mass coarsening of sensibility induced by an ever-more-explosive spectacle
of violence.
Mark Crispin Miller
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