""The political and economic forces fuelling such crimes against humanity -whether they are unlawful wars, systematic torture, practiced indifference to chronic starvation, and disease or genocidal acts- are always mediated by educational forces," Giroux says. "Resistance to such acts cannot take place without a degree of knowledge and self reflection. We have to name these acts and transform moral outrage into concrete attempts to prevent such human violations from taking place in the first place."
     But we do not name them. We accept the system handed to us and seek to find a comfortable place within it. We retreat into the narrow, confined ghettos created for us and shut our eyes to the deadly superstructure of the corporate state."

     (Fragment from the book "Empire Of Illusion, The End Of Literacy And The Triumph of Spectacle" by CHRIS HEDGES)