Status Updates From Zombie Politics and Culture...

the ultra-rich do not have to worry about being unemployed, even though their search for profits produces austerity policies that put millions out of work. p160

...young people whose labor is unneeded,who are locked out of the commodity market, and who often inhabit the impoverished and soul-crushing margins of society. p119

...an intimate connection between an embrace of violence, politics, and a disturbing hatred of both the public sphere and the conditions for real...dialogue over social issues. p99

television.... is perfectly suited for emptying the language of public life of all substantive content, reduced in the end to a playground for hawking commodities, promoting celebrity culture....... p87

Truth becomes the enemy of democracy because it does not support the spectacle and the reduction of citizens either to mere dupes of power or commodities. p45

We need to get the police out of public schools, greatly reduce spending for prisons and hire more teachers, support staff, and community people in order to eliminate the school to prison pipeline. p41