Feb 15, 2006

Merchants of Moral Panic

Entra las tantas manifestaciones del marxismo post caída de la ex Unión Soviética se encuentra la lucha permanente de ciertos sectores contra todo lo que significa la modernidad y los valores sobre los que se funda, como la responsabilidad individual:

The term moral panic was popularized by the British sociologist Stanley Cohen in 1972’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics. Cohen described the phenomenon as the process by which prejudice or prudery isolates for scorn a subset, trend, or habit in the broader culture. The scorned tend to be “deviant,” or at least to display characteristics unsettling to established cultural norms. Scorn soon sours to contempt, activists emerge, and the panic is on. Truth, perspective, and context give way to urban legends, hyperbole, and hysteria. A well-executed panic leaves vigilantism, ill-considered legislation, and eroded civil liberties in its wake.

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  1. Un dia vamos a tener que estipular uan definición de "Responsabilidad individual", para salir de la confusión de sus múltiples asepciones, porque sino se hace un difuso caballito de batalla con mucha pompa pero sin contenido, como el caso de la "justicia social" para los zurdos.

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