http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/adorno-takes-on-the-case-of-susan-boyle/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:32:03 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/adorno-takes-on-the-case-of-susan-boyle/comment-page-1/#comment-756 julia Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:51:02 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=708#comment-756 You're right, Jacob -- this is a moving and empathetic post. Like many people who find themselves embroiled in the mental health system, Susan Boyle is having a normal human reaction to vicious and inhuman treatment by people who care only about ratings and nothing whatsoever about the content or impact of what they produce. She is an ordinary, vulnerable person with some talent. Being female but not pretty, thin or young, she has been taunted and provoked like a creature in a freak show. It would be mad if she had NOT collapsed emotionally, after the way she has been used by hard-nosed, well-protected, powerful people, who will go home to their loving families after a hard day raking in their immoral earnings. You’re right, Jacob — this is a moving and empathetic post. Like many people who find themselves embroiled in the mental health system, Susan Boyle is having a normal human reaction to vicious and inhuman treatment by people who care only about ratings and nothing whatsoever about the content or impact of what they produce. She is an ordinary, vulnerable person with some talent. Being female but not pretty, thin or young, she has been taunted and provoked like a creature in a freak show. It would be mad if she had NOT collapsed emotionally, after the way she has been used by hard-nosed, well-protected, powerful people, who will go home to their loving families after a hard day raking in their immoral earnings.

]]> http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/adorno-takes-on-the-case-of-susan-boyle/comment-page-1/#comment-753 Salman Shaheen Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:20:37 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=708#comment-753 Yeah, I always had Adorno down as more of a Diversity fan. As for Boyle, I'm going with the Charlie Brooker analysis, that she's neither the best singer in the world nor the ugliest person in the world, so we should probably forget her. Yeah, I always had Adorno down as more of a Diversity fan. As for Boyle, I’m going with the Charlie Brooker analysis, that she’s neither the best singer in the world nor the ugliest person in the world, so we should probably forget her.

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