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• Title: Is There Only Secular Democracy? Imagining Other Possibilities for the Third Millennium (Essay)
• Author : Journal of Markets & Morality
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 270 KB

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One of the great vices of our age is that we get used to things too quickly. The German philosopher Nietzsche, a master of the dubious aphorism, once remarked that what does not kill us makes us stronger. He held that this was one of the marks of "a human being who has turned out well." (1) For most of us, however, and for most of human history, it is truer to say that what does not kill us we learn to live with. Those of a more pessimistic bent than myself are even tempted to claim that there is nothing that human beings cannot accommodate themselves to, whatever their personal misgivings or fears might be in a given instance. The course of democratic life in the West over the past forty years seems to bear this out. Television is a handy barometer of this. In recent times, one very popular American daytime television show ran a program interviewing people whose intimate partners are animals, including a man who spoke of his five-year relationship with a horse called Pixel. (2) It is not the whole story of contemporary television, of course, and against this example we have to put shows such as Judge Judy, to name only one, which rate just as well and whatever their shortcomings make it very clear that bad behavior--even on television-should not be rewarded. That daytime television should cover bestiality in the same way as it might cover a school's Fourth of July celebrations does not really cause us much surprise. This is a long way from the first night of television in Australia in 1956 when the comperes wore tuxedos and it was unthinkable--literally impossible to imagine--that the f-word would become a staple of dialogue in adult television dramas.

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