Age Of Neoliberal Savagery Analysis
In the article “Defending Higher Education in the Age of Neoliberal Savagery” by Henry Giroux he talks about how much everything has changed in the era of neoliberalism and how it has changed for the worse. What controls the world now is a market mentality, moralities are “tightening their grip on all aspects of society, democratic institutions and public spheres are being downsized… as these institutions vanish- from higher education to community health care centers- there is also a serious erosion of the discourses of community, justice, equality, public values, and the common good”. Power is becoming more and more global and being removed from local and nation-based politics; more individuals and groups are being defined by a class of ultra-rich who are above the law, while the US continues to “criminalize all sorts of behavior ranging from dress codes to peaceful demonstrations”.
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A consequence of this hypocritical justice is the fact that there is a growing number of people who inhabit zones of hardship, suffering, exclusion, joblessness, and terminal exclusion. This emphasizes the need for educators and others to address important social issues and to defend higher education as a democratic public sphere. There is no such thing as a common good, everything is now backwards where consumerism has become the only obligation of citizenship: citizens are viewed as consumers, school as an act of consumption, faculty as entrepreneurs, and students as customers. Higher education is under massive assault in places like Greece, England and the US because “it is one of the few places left that is capable of educating students to be critical thoughtful, and engaged citizens willing to take risks, stretch their imaginations, and most importantly hold power
A consequence of this hypocritical justice is the fact that there is a growing number of people who inhabit zones of hardship, suffering, exclusion, joblessness, and terminal exclusion. This emphasizes the need for educators and others to address important social issues and to defend higher education as a democratic public sphere. There is no such thing as a common good, everything is now backwards where consumerism has become the only obligation of citizenship: citizens are viewed as consumers, school as an act of consumption, faculty as entrepreneurs, and students as customers. Higher education is under massive assault in places like Greece, England and the US because “it is one of the few places left that is capable of educating students to be critical thoughtful, and engaged citizens willing to take risks, stretch their imaginations, and most importantly hold power