‘Dirty Work’ with Eyal Press
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Civilizing Process
There's another concept, sociological concept, i believe, a student of freud's, that i was really interested in, about the civilizing process. And at the core of it is not that we get less violence, but that the cruelty and the violence is hidden behind the scenes of social life. That would be considered barbaric to flog some one in public, that's a barbaric practice. But to isolate someone in a solitary unit that no one sees, behind the enes of social life, behind the walls of a prison or a jail, that's civilized in the context of the book.
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