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Narratives of Hegemony
"Drug addiction is a moral issue"
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Blames the victim, implying that drug addicts deserve illness, victimization and exploitation. |
| Purpose: |
Mobilize voters to support repression, e.g., intrusive police powers, larger prison populations, etc. Engender fear-based stereotypes of "deviancy". |
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Positive |
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Societies which are more free of Puritan legacies treat addiction as a medical issue, not a moral one. These societies vastly decrease the crime and disease associated with street-level drug addiction in the U.S., achieving at the same time far lower percentages of addiction within their societies. In turn, they spend far less on police and prisons than we spend in the U.S. |
| Contradiction: |
Logic. That addiction is a medical issue, not a moral one, is logically true of all forms of addiction, whether it be addiction to sugar or caffein or heroin or abusive relationships. |
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More Information
- Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Laclau
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
- Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Franklin
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Franklin
- Trouble Tickets' narratives book selections
- Reading Capital, Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy, Althusser
- Louis Althusser, Montag
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