#stephen carter

[doctorwhoisadhd]

jack harkness + hurt people by the garages

[grandpasessions]

The absence of civility in the society of enjoyment indicates the extent to which the subject in this society remains lacking. That is to say, the contemporary subject becomes uncivil because she/he continues to be haunted by her/his own lack of enjoyment. If we were really enjoying ourselves today, we would not develop aggressiveness in response to the other’s enjoyment and believe that this enjoyment is rightfully ours. Instead, content with our own enjoyment, we would adopt an attitude of indifference toward that of the other. When I am really enjoying, I do not envy the enjoyment of the other, as the uncivil and aggressive subject in the society of enjoyment does.

Incivility and aggressiveness are symptomatic of the society of enjoyment because its subjects are constitutively unable to enjoy themselves and yet constantly feel as if enjoyment is their right. Many social commentators have recently tackled the subject of rising incivility and aggressiveness, but none has linked this phenomenon to the disappearance of prohibition as directly as popular cultural critic Stephen Carter. Carter, best known for The Culture of Disbelief, sees incivility as the product of our refusal of individual sacrifice for the sake of the society as a whole—that is, to translate it into our terms, as the result of a turn away from the prohibition of enjoyment. In his treatise Civility, he claims, “Civility is possible only if members of a community bind themselves to obey a set of rules of behavior not because the law requires it but because they understand the virtue of sacrificing their own desires—their own freedom to choose—for the good of the larger community of which they are a part.”

As subjects refuse this sacrifice— or the social order no longer explicitly demands it—civility increasingly transforms into incivility. We become reluctant to set aside our own enjoyment and instead insist on it. This affects the way that we drive, walk, shop, talk, and generally interact with other subjects.

The End of Dissatisfaction Todd McGowan

[grinchwrapsupreme]

The Torchwood writers after they mistake shock value for character and plot development for the third time:

[justineportraits]

Stephen Carter    Dreamscape

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Stephen Carter    Shadow

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Stephen Carter      Dreamscape

[imlivingmylife]

The Emperor of Ocean Park

By Stephan L. Carter

[thecarterbrothers]

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