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Focus on Poverty: October 15, 2008

Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:06 pm Posted in Blogs I Read, Society

This is perhaps the most neglected topic in elections. Won’t you join in on the action and post your important thoughts? This is a way to use this medium to raise awareness.

I will be using Patrick Bateman from the film American Psycho as a metaphor for what is wrong with our understanding of the poor. The correction to this illustration of psychotic capitalism comes through Simone Weil’s understanding of affliction.