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Advocate-2009-02-Final Web.Pdf Life of Donne February 2009 http://gcadvocate.org [email protected] page 16 GAZA FORUM : Punishment and Frustration By Adel Safty, Ammiel Alcalay, and Naji Ali ALSO INSIDE Christian Parenti on Afghanistan (Part II) (page 9) John Patrick Diggins: In Memoriam (page 4) ‘Pour Your Body Out’ at MoMa (page 18) FROM THE editor’s desk February 2009 Putting Away Childish Things http://gcadvocate.org [email protected] “When I was a child, I spake as a child, Scott Fitzgerald’s Benjamin Button, we tion (the increasing presence of sites like I understood as a child, I thought as a seem to be growing younger and more thumbsuckingadults.com seem to indicate CUNY Graduate Center child: but when I became a man, I put immature every day, even as the nega- the number of adult thumb suckers may Room 5396 away childish things.” tive effects of our immaturity become also be on the rise), we seem to be stuck 365 Fifth Avenue —Corinthians 13:11 increasingly more burdensome for the in our own consumerist stage of capitalist New York, NY 10016 other cultures with whom we share the development, unable to mature beyond globe. The saddest part of this however, (212) 817-7885 “In the epoch in which we now live, our most infantile and base desires. The civilization is not an ideal or an aspira- is that our cultural youthfulness is actu- feedback loop of advertising and desire, ally devoid of any truly youthful virtues. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF tion, it is a video game.” consumption and dissatisfaction has left Instead of the healthy open-mindedness —Benjamin R. Barber us with little in our daily lives that is real James Hoff and kind-heartedness of a normal child; or meaningful and so, like a child who I am not one to gush, especially when instead of the spirited and creative rebel- MANAGING EDITOR doesn’t know any better (or an alcoholic it comes to American presidents and lion of a healthy and independent adoles- or drug addict), we fill that emptiness Michael Busch their speech writers, but there is some- cent, our culture seems to have embraced with more of the same, eventually taking thing about Barack Obama’s inaugural only the negative aspects of youth and its comfort in the very thing that we are try- LAYOUT EDITOR invocation of St. Paul’s call to “set aside selfish desire for quick and easy satisfac- ing to put behind us. Mark Wilson childish things,” that demands comment. tions, devoid of complexity, challenge, or Although he may not have intended it, struggle. Obama’s call for service then, his call MEDIA BOARD CHAIR Obama’s obligatory nod to scripture ac- Indeed, our cultural immaturity has for “a new era of responsibility,” although Rob Faunce tually offered a surprisingly subtle and become so prodigious and all consum- a noble gesture, may very well be falling much needed critique of the sorry state ing that none of us, including me, seem on deaf ears, for it is hard to believe that CONTRIBUTORS of our American culture. “We remain a to be immune to its narcotic effects. As a people used to such easy distractions Benjamin Barber, the prescient author of Ammiel Alcalay young nation,” said Obama, “but in the and insipid amusements as “Jackass” and Jihad vs. McWorld, describes in his latest Naji Ali words of Scripture, the time has come “Nanny 911,” easy listening and smooth to set aside childish things. The time has book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt jazz, or the special effects train wrecks Frank Episale come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow that pass for most Hollywood blockbust- Bill Kelly choose our better history,” adding Citizens Whole: ers, are intellectually capable of anything Alan Koenig This infantilist ethos is as potent in shap- as profound as public service and person- Matt Lau In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a ing the ideology and behaviors of our al sacrifice. As Barber makes clear, our Carl Lindskoog given. It must be earned. Our journey has radical consumerist society today as what post modern consumer culture, which Clay Matlin never been one of shortcuts or settling Max Weber called the “Protestant ethic” promises total liberty and narcissistic in- Jenny McGarry for less. It has not been the path for the was in shaping the entrepreneurial culture of what was then a productivist early capi- dividualism through the cathartic ritual Louis Menand faint-hearted — for those who prefer lei- sure over work, or seek only the pleasures talist society. Affiliated with an ideology of constant shopping, is a threat to more Christian Parenti of riches and fame. Rather, it has been of privatization, the marketing of brands, than just our happiness; it is a threat to Naomi Perley the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of and a homogenization of taste, this ethos democracy itself. We are so habitual- of infantilization has worked to sustain things — some celebrated but more often ized to the rituals of evening television Alison Powell consumer capitalism, but at the expense men and women obscure in their labor, and weekend shopping, the thought of Mitchell Rocklin who have carried us up the long, rugged of both civility and civilization and at a Adel Safty path towards prosperity and freedom. growing risk to capitalism itself. Although spending an afternoon at a city council MaryJane Shimsky we use the term democratic capitalism in meeting, or a weekend volunteering for Clearly, Obama’s speech was meant to a manner that suggests a certain redun- the parks department seems practically Nichole Wallenbrock dancy, the reality is that the two words instill hope, not shame, in the hearts of un-American. describe different systems often in tension his record-breaking audience that day, PUblICATION INFO with one another. Consumerism has set As long as our economy continues to but his words seem to have offered a kind TheGC Advocate is the student the two entirely asunder. rise or fall based on the number of plas- of indictment as well, for in calling out newspaper of the CUNY Grad- ma screens or Nintendo Wiis that we col- the lazy slackers, the pleasure seekers, In our post-industrial consumer soci- uate Center and is published lectively purchase, there is little hope that the leisure enthusiasts (think John Kerry ety, Barber suggests, the distance between seven times a year. Publication we will find either the time or the pen- wind-sailing), the greedy and the fame what we want and what we need has be- chant for true democratic participation. is subsidized by Student Ac- obsessed (“Who Wants to Marry a Multi- come so drastically contracted that our John Dewey’s dream of a great communi- tivities Fees and the Doctoral Millionaire?”), the president seemed to entire economy seems to depend upon ty where every individual would have “a Students’ Council. be saying in the gentlest and most indi- and demand immaturity and consumer rect way possible: “knock it off and grow allegiance to the useless and increasingly responsible share according to capacity in SUbmISSIONS up already!” unsatisfying products that surround us, forming and directing the activities of the The GC Advocate accepts con- While it’s hard not to agree with the few of which serve any purpose beyond groups to which [he or she] belong[ed]” tributions of articles, illustra- spirit of Obama’s inaugural address, I’m offering an enchanting and temporary now finds its greatest expression in the tions, photos and letters to the afraid I am far less optimistic than our sense of novelty. Consider, for instance, Mall of America, where every individual editor. Please send queries to new president that the nation is actu- the number of grown New Yorkers who is obliged to do his share of shopping ac- the email address above. ally capable of changing its ways. Al- pass their commutes, not reading or con- cording to the capacity of his wallet. Articles selected for publica- though the metaphorical path described versing with their friends or family, but If there is a way out of this dilemma tion will be subjected to edi- in Obama’s speech is not really any more playing video games, watching television it won’t be easy and it probably won’t be rugged, steep, or treacherous than it’s programs on their phones, or listening torial revision. Writers who something that we choose for ourselves. ever been (it seems unlikely, at least for to puerile pop music. Just like a child we contribute articles of 1,000 No economy can sustain itself exclusively the short term, that our current recession seem to need constant stimulation and words will be paid $50 and through merger, speculation, acquisition, will reach depression-era levels of pov- so we fill in all the otherwise thought- those who submit longer ar- and reckless consumption. If we do not, erty and unemployment), the stuffed and ful spaces of our lives with these kinds of ticles requiring research will as President Obama suggests, actually complacent consumers that comprise the media. Because healthy humans are not receive $75. We also pay for begin to make things again, it is clear that mass of the American polity hardly seem naturally inclined to such acts of stupid- photographs and artwork. the system of capitalism as we know it is up to the challenge. Like the fools that ity, and because our consumer economy destined to reach a point of crisis from The GC Advocate is published make up so much of our reality television has become too big to fail, as it were, we which we will not be able to return.
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