> vicariously - like most US-ers- make a big noise about it. I am truly
> shocked by the wide-spread feeling of 'victimization' in this pampered by
> history country whose main export to the world is war.
Makes perfect sense, though -- the ideology of victimization individualizes collective problems, creates a false sense of community to reinforce existing patterns of alienation, etc. Victimization is the humanitarianism of neoliberalism: it commodifies suffering, instead of abolishing it.
-- Dennis