Abstract
US culture is filled with the images, values, and overtones of the military: surveillance, cell phone tapping, live television broadcasts of invasions and bombings, bumper stickers that read “Support the Troops” and “Got War?,” metal detectors, bullet-shaped cologne dispensers, boot camp-style fitness classes, the National Rifle Association, Troops-to-Teacher programs, camouflage-clad brides, air shows, urban warfare video games, and the War on Poverty, Crime, Drugs, and Global Terrorism. Our public spaces are being booby-trapped, and our private lives bombed by a culture of violence and war inline with military ideologies and values. Schools such as Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary have become the public spaces for the enactment and media spectacle of societal violence in the form of mass shootings and non-stop media coverage. As we lay prone in front of our TV sets and watch the latest invasion unfold and the latest scenes of domestic and global violence, neoliberalism churns our public lives into private supersized profits.
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