firstchurchofchristspaceman:

“The anti-war movement had spawned both a broad identification with pacifism and public empathy for the victims of war; but in the 1980s the conditions nurturing these currents had to be eliminated and replaced in all areas with a culture of aggressivity and violence. That millions of supposedly liberal or progressive Americans now will dutifully avow that they “support our troops” while remaining silent about the thousands murdered in imperial wars attests to the success of these counter-measures.”

— Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
(via probablyasocialecologist)