Late Stage Capitalism And The Shame Haunted Life: You Can’t Kill Trauma With A Gun

Guest authored post, originally published on Friday, January 4, 2013 by Phil Rockstroh at Common Dreams – View the original article here. “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings of anxiety borne of powerlessness over the criteria of one’s life…
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An American Motto: Free, Armed and Stupid – An Analysis

Given the recent events in Newtown Conn. I redistribute my July 22, 2012 essay written on the occasion of yet another massacre. 16 December 2012 by Lawrence Davidson Part I – Gun Violence Epidemic Continues Well here we go again. Late in the evening of July 20th “a masked gunman entered a Colorado movie theater playing the new Batman movie and “opened fire…killing at least 12 people and wounding 50.”…
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