Democracies at Odds: Ostracized Public Values and Viable Social Concerns
Democracies at Odds: Ostracized Public Values and Viable Social Concerns

Summary/Abstract: What, if any, might be the connection between attacking democratic public values in Western societies and the emergence of rapid mediation of celebration of violence against women especially, but not exclusively, in the social media? Democratic public values, and the notion of common good, have been waning and bid farewell to the distant past. While this in itself is nothing new, considering public values and public good as pathological remainders of earlier eras has, however, become ever more normative in the discourses of individualism and neo-liberal order (Giroux, 2011). While public values often become wrapped up by warnings of thought-control, relatively little attention is paid to any controlling power of individualism. The less thought-controlling aspects of individualisms are often marketed as an implicit byproduct of neo-liberal ideologies.

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