Everybody Knows: Cynicism in America

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U of Minnesota Press, 1978

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Socrates Gone Mad Diogenes and the Cynical Tradition
3
The Values Remedy Community Civility and Belief
15
CynicsinPower Manipulations Lies and Empty Gestures
27
Wig Cynics American Antipolitics and Its Uses
41
Cultural Crisis
55
A Brief History of American Cynicism
57
Federalists and Liberals Setting the Stage for Cynicism
71
Why Americans Hate Politics The Cynicism Trap
85
The Age of Resentment Advanced Applied Cynicism
143
Alternatives
155
Marge the Stoic The Coens Fargo and Civic Solutions
157
So What? Another Side of Cynicism
171
Teachings of the Demonstration Representation in the Streets
185
Politics after Cynicism
201
Solutions and Conclusions
213
Notes
227

Medium Media Mediate Television and Cynicism
101
Bush Burned The Patterns of Televised Politics
115
The Uses of Backlash Applied Cynicism 101
129

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Страница 73 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Страница 75 - A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending...
Страница 75 - So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
Страница 74 - Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Страница 74 - There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: The one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
Страница 35 - Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. " No, no! " said the Queen. " Sentence first — verdict afterwards.
Страница 75 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
Страница 130 - It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

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