Jared Hess's latest film takes on the commercialization and instrumentalization of Christian faith.
The main target of Hess's satire isn't Jews, or even Boaz himself — it's the commercialization and instrumentalization of Christian faith.
It's coercive, and it comes with a built-in measure of bureaucracy — which isn't an argument against the institution of school but a red flag regarding its instrumentalization.
Is it morally permissible to submit to total instrumentalization living beings that, though they do not have a central nervous system, are capable of basic learning and communication?
The same logic ultimately submits to total instrumentalization the bodies of plants, animals and humans by setting them over and against an abstract and rational mind.
"Unfriending reflects the instrumentalization and commodifying of friendship on Facebook," said Lee Siegel, author of "Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob".
Arendt implies that if Eichmann had lived a rich intellectual life he would have been in a better position to resist his instrumentalization in a dehumanizing bureaucratic machine — or would be fully morally responsible for his part in it.
Young women today are more closed-mouthed about sex because they're more conscious of its instrumentalization — because they're asserting their right to have sex as a choice, not as a job requirement or course requirement.
In a terse and uncharacteristically restrained statement on Facebook, she warned against "racist instrumentalization of this affair" but also said that the court should decide "if the facts are true and if Henda Ayari is honest in her approach".
