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A Task to Make Democracy Matter

While majority of the media, mainstream and not, remains busy either denouncing or promoting their “better” ideas for a recovery plan, the fundamental and truly urgent questions continue to be buried in the usual political propaganda. But Henry A Giroux’ is not; in his story "Educating Obama" his main concern is the future of democracy. The story published in the online political newsletter counterpunch, he brazenly points to the debauchery that our market driven society has been engaged in for the past 30 yrs and invites us to question the role of the media and other educational institutions in celebrating and legitimizing the value of consumption over rationality and critical citizenship. He believes that the economic crisis presents an opportunity for reevaluating our role in the political process, that knowledge is power and so our corporate leadership is determined to keep us ignorant and sedated. His is a wake up call, and this time we must not snooze, our survival as a democratic society depends on it.