Contemporary piety has sacralised atrocities beyond what 1960s culture achieved.

Evidence

To imagine the atrocities of September 11th and Abu Ghraib mimetised in the alternate death of Paris Hilton feels far more unacceptable, because contemporary piety has sacralised its atrocities in a way that the Sixties could not. In Atrocity, Dr Nathan’s reminder that, at the level of the unconscious, “the tragedies of Cape Kennedy and Vietnam… may in fact play very different parts from the ones we assign them” is extremely timely. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 194

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Morality shifting redefines the frame so atrocities no longer seem immoral; Genocide is both an old practice and a hallmark of high modernity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 256

Broader Connections

• Morality shifting redefines the frame so atrocities no longer seem immoral #expands (0.80)
• Genocide is both an old practice and a hallmark of high modernity #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 256