"we were trained NOT to feel empathy. we were trained not to feel for the suffering of others. and that comes right from the beginning - the day when you're left there for the first time at school and you are told (basically) not to feel sorry for *yourself*." - richard beard, on what gets taught at fancy private boarding schools (where a lot of richies send their kids)

from this podcast episode: "The training of our ‘elite‘. The repression of empathy in public school education" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35rKBH0RQWc

#empathy #inequality #DisciplineAndPunish #wealth #education #SocialReproduction #CulturalStudies

"This demand that the criminal apologize in the course of the song—and hence legitimize the execution—reminds me of Foucault’s observation, in Discipline and Punish, that Western societies originally focused on punishing the criminal’s body, but eventually became more obsessed with the offender’s mind.”

#TedGioia #ExecutionBallads #MichelFoucault #DisciplineAndPunish #Music #Broadsides
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-were-execution-ballads-so-popular