American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness

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Pgerharter, September 14, 2006 (view all comments by Pgerharter)
Title American Vulgar means to me the loss of personal and community responsibilities. The fear of the word responsibility due to the past goals of American leisure promoted in the industrial era. American Vulgar states our position at this time. The position of stillness in seeing a future with no personal value, no leadership, no understanding of the whole of humanity within this country. A loss of language that is understood by us all. Not only is there a division of education, medical, and income but there is a huge loss of words that we can all understand. We now accept any crude, violent, and sex oriented language from the whole of America. We accept that the "theys" will take care of us. We accept that the taxes are so hard to understand that we will not participate, thus we remove ourselves from our own family of Americans. We,(I myself), can understand the simple words but we live controlled by the language of the crude and the languge of the politicians. We hurt from the sound of the crude, and we feel inferior, then unconcerned, with the language of the political people. We, low income, are separated from our own countryman by the lack of caring for the whole and racing foward to win. Win what? I would personally like an interpretor for us to come forward and be a guide via caring that will translate to the controllers of our country that we are still alive and trying to do good and continue to feel and continue to want a connection with leadership. Leadership that is not Vulgar. Leadership that does not race forward and leave our value, our health, our education, our view of the future behind just because these leaders racing ahead speak their own language, one that says we matter but shows the vision of leaving us behind to fend for ourselves after being taught that this same leadership would always be there with us all in their mind. American's have been created to be vulgar. It is the bottom of our language source. It is hard to be proud to be American now because of the way we treat our family. We need a good leader who will lead us back to knowing we have value, that our kids have value to the leader, our health, our birth, our death. The circle of American people, via trust of the leadership, is broken.

This response is only to the title American Vulgar, this is what I see the suce a title. I have not read the book. I just now read the rest of the title about awareness. This is a sample I believe of the cultureI I live in, my culture of the unaware created from the living within the knowledge of little human value, war, and division.
We are the stupid one's, the non-participants, non-voters, tax evadors (sp?), assumed the bad part of society that "don't know a thing." We are the creation of the American Dream. Money.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781593761028

Author:

Grudin, Robert

Publisher:

Shoemaker & Hoard

Subject:

Essays

Subject:

Mass media

Subject:

Sociology - Social Theory

Subject:

Popular Culture

Subject:

Government - U.S. Government

Subject:

POL032000

Subject:

Popular culture -- United States.

Subject:

Political culture -- United States.

Subject:

Politics-Political Science

Edition Description:

Trade Paper

Publication Date:

20060931

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Pages:

196

Dimensions:

8.16x5.64x.64 in. .63 lbs.