ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the thickly textured aphorism: the moral, the political, and the medical are inseparably bound together through the stakes of collective and subjective experience. The stakes of social experience are mutating. New forms of subjectivity and interpersonal relations emerge from an epochal shift in political economy, cultural representations, and collective experience. There is a sense that voyeurism is a leading edge of consumerism and that compassion is thinning out. The moral and the political are conceptually inseparable. What is at stake is the politics of the everyday. The moral, in the ethnographic sense, is about expedience, compromise, scapegoating, and inequality, as much as it is about endurance, solidarity, and empathy. Betrayal, resentment, and revenge are as much a part of such local moral processes as are remorse, regret, and the sensibility to be of use to others.
