Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Paperback)

from dele2451

(Caution: Spoiler alert.) What?!? I paid $24.95 to voluntarily and diligently slog through 191 pages of Mr Hedge's doom and gloom about the imminent collapse of America democracy and the implosion of our morally/intellectually impoverished society only to have the last two pages sum it all up wit...

from Devil_llama

Hedges takes on the phenomenon of pop culture that appears to be making us less politically involved and he feels is being used to control us with pleasure, ala Brave New World. The book is extremely weak; many authors have covered the same ground better. The first chapter allegedly deals with li...

from pessoanongrata

Chris Hedges in January/February 2010 Tikkun:"Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us wit...

from debnance

It's end times for academics. Hedges bewails the plethora of in-your-face-ness in America: wrestling, tv, even government and universities. Thoughtful discourse is found tedious, he moans. "We are chained to the flickering shadows of celebrity culture...."No one who spent an hour in our country c...

from Devil_llama

Hedges takes on the phenomenon of pop culture that appears to be making us less politically involved and he feels is being used to control us with pleasure, ala Brave New World. The book is extremely weak; many authors have covered the same ground better. The first chapter allegedly deals with li...