ers that be, usually inaccurately. It is an axiom of anthropology that any society takes a handful of ideas or values and recycles them endlessly, something called the "ethos" of a culture. In modern America the prime value is capitalism. Its selfish attitudes dominate mass media, government, and education. It's alleged glories and wonders are endlessly trumpeted, but open discussion of its far more numerous evils are effectively suppressed, at least by the mass-circulation media who are the only source by which large numbers of people might actually be induced to question its system of exploitation, and its failure to meet the needs of the vast majority of human beings in the world. From the capitalist perspective, the predominantly minority residents of inner cities, with their relative lack of education, job skills, literacy, money, and transport, as well as their higher frequency of psychological problems, potential for violence, substance abuse, broken homes, and gang membership, are worthless, unproductive people. Since according to capitalist ideology
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