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...community figures are long gone. "Being a clergyman doesn't have much moral authority these days," he says. And as a vicar, he says he sometimes struggles to balance demands for what people ask him to do with what he feels is right. "We're living in a very consumerist society, and the church must compete in the marketplace," he says...
...perhaps, is the point. So much of '60s dogma has become mainstream that young Europeans have nothing to protest about. Rebellion has been transformed into angst. The politics of passion has given way to quotidian worries about jobs, pay and pensions. (You can't despise capitalism and enjoy the consumerist heaven to which young Europeans aspire.) Grand schemes no longer engender devotion - or, if they do, do so for a brief moment, preferably one (like this year's Live 8 concerts) that involves rock music. It is this dismissal of the big idea, surely, that lies behind young voters' rejection...
...fatuous farce, as much as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But just because these things don’t exist doesn’t mean that they aren’t incredibly powerful rallying points. Santa Claus almost single-handedly incites massive consumerist frenzies during the holiday season. Likewise, polls and their “general public” do as much to cement massive conformity as they do to highlight differences in opinion...
...norms of his society. What leftists do is question status quos, dream of something better and envision solutions; they challenge their own behaviors in hopes of changing society. Meanwhile, conservatives are content to maintain and uphold—not to question. By failing to question free-market, consumerist norms, they avoid the civil war of the self altogether. This is not the sort of consistency Socrates would have advocated...
...school-uniform blue suits with white shirts and red ties. Photographer Weng Peijun takes a hard look at modern urban China in his On the Wall series, in which a schoolgirl sits astride walls facing the cold skyscrapers of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities. Comment on the brash new consumerist society sprouts up in Beijing artist Song Dong's Edible Bonsais, miniature landscapes of ham hock mountains, prosciutto hills and broccoli-flower trees. "What About China?" doesn't pretend to be comprehensive - it doesn't include unofficial artists or those from the worldwide diaspora - but it does provide an introductory...