Individual struggles merge into larger social movements. Henry Giroux More Quotes by Henry Giroux More Quotes From Henry Giroux I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy. Henry Giroux white people thinking You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of civic literacy, turns the school into bastions of ignorance. They completely kill the radical imagination in any fundamental way. Henry Giroux ignorance country school The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement. Henry Giroux youth generations way Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service industries, the closing down of educational opportunities, and the stripping of social protections from those marginalized by race and class has produced a generation without jobs, an independent life and even the most minimal social benefits. Henry Giroux independent educational jobs Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure. Henry Giroux time-zones insecure loss Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans. Henry Giroux college loss home Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes. Henry Giroux students expectations world The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment. Henry Giroux credentials fulfillment promise Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future that portends zero opportunities and zero hopes. This is a generation that has become the new register for disposability, redundancy, and new levels of surveillance and control. Henry Giroux zero real jobs Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing. The implications politically, economically and socially for young people are disastrous and are contributing to the emergence of a generation of young people who will occupy a space of social abandonment and terminal exclusion. Henry Giroux fate space responsibility Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individual, whose fate is shaped by forces far beyond his or her capacity for personal responsibility. Henry Giroux fate responsibility doors Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy. Henry Giroux torn-apart retreat space Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. Henry Giroux dominant assumption ideology At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s. Henry Giroux neoliberalism black-youth challenges [Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it. Henry Giroux degrees challenges thinking Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe have placed their bodies on the line, protesting peacefully while trying to produce a new language, politics, imagine long-term institutions, and support notions of community that manifest the values of equality and mutual respect that they see missing in a world that is structured by neoliberal principles. Henry Giroux oakland cities new-york Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways. Henry Giroux violence different problem Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And if we take that index as a measure of the United States, it's utterly failing. You have young people basically who - in schools that are increasingly modeled after prisons. You have their behavior being increasingly criminalized. And one of the most atrocious of all acts, you have the rise of debtors' prisons for children. Henry Giroux children people school Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market. Henry Giroux vacuity moral littles Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. Henry Giroux data gathering people
