Zizek/ Wikileaks

[Richard Fiero]

Ian Livingston wrote:
>Wait. You think an individual can develop values prior to cultural
>awareness of those values? It seems to me that it is always a complex
>interaction of cultural conditions and individual curiosity that makes
>any development possible. The subjective attribute of shame can only
>exist where the individual finds himself in conflict with values he
>finds reflected within and in the world. We cannot be ashamed of what
>we do not believe others can consider shameful. However, the
>individual must become conscious of values culturally held by a group
>he admires in order to begin integrating those values into his own
>frame of reference. And so on.
. . .
I can't find any examples of this but can easily identify several 
counterexamples: the presidency of George W Bush, Sarah Palin and the 
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam war, Iraq and 
Afghanistan, and so on.