Word: disdained
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...however easy it may be to understand, the global culture of disdain is one fraught with risk. To be sure, it gives a voice to people run over by the people who run things. But taken to an extreme, distrust gnaws away at some of the fundaments of modern society. Why vote, if all politicians are charlatans? Why work, if all companies are crooked? Today "anyone with a beef can start a conspiracy theory," says Frank Furedi, a sociology professor at Britain's University of Kent, who argues that deference to traditional authorities is being replaced by reverence...
...positions of authority could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of a generation of European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died,/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." Whatever its roots, today's disdain has implications for companies beyond their corporate image. Watts points out a big conundrum for firms today: traditional forms of advertising and marketing are proving far less effective than in the past, as skeptical consumers stop believing what the ads tell them. "We appear to be spending more and getting...
...described “Embedded Live!” as “poisonous, a production-length conspiracy, guilty of the very sins it attributes to the ‘cabal’ that it claims to expose.”But Robbins believes that national surveys showing American disdain for the war to be at a high point signify that the public is increasingly on his side. “The American people have been lied to, and they know it now,” he says.Despite the show’s political subject matter, Robbins says his reasons...
...felt forced to step in the name of love, but I won’t deny my accompanying discomfort or my subsequent disgust. Who doesn’t feel slightly embarrassed pressed up against their partner, hands stuck to a sweaty back, and onlookers watching on with slight disdain? Dancing today, if you can call it that, has become so mortifying even the semantics make me cringe. Grinding sounds like factory lingo, the month before MCATs, or an ancient activity involving maize. Bumping reminds me of a carnival ride or a skin disease, both of which...
...Perhaps, but Marie-Claude Vitali, a long-time resident of northern Blois who has worked for nearly 30 years to help locals help themselves, says the mutual accusation and disdain dividing French society from the banlieues must give way to common cause if future violence is to be avoided. "Thirty years of uninterrupted policy errors on integration must end with France accepting the various cultures that now exist within French society - including French-born people who aren't the immigrants their parents are, yet not culturally French either," says the ebullient Vitali. Inspired and driven teachers, more experienced cops...