Empire of illusion: the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle
Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, able to cope with complexity and to separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, able to cope with complexity and to separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this "other society," comforting, reassuring images, fantasies, slogans and a celebration of violence push reality, complexity and nuance to the margins. The worse reality becomes, the less a beleaguered population wants to hear about it and the more it distracts itself with squalid pseudo-events of celebrity breakdowns, gossip and trivia. These are the debauched revels of a dying culture.--From publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VII, 232 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781568584379 9781568586137 |
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EMPIRE OF ILLUSION
/ HEDGES, CHRIS
: C2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
THE ILLUSION OF LITERACY
THE ILLUSION OF LOVE
THE ILLUSION OF WISDOM
THE ILLUSION OF HAPPINESS
THE ILLUSION OF AMERICA.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
A
culture
that cannot distinguish between
reality and illusion dies. And we are dying
now. We will either wake from our state of
induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip
pass for news and information, one where our
goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable
happiness, to confront the stark limitations
before us, or we will continue our headlong
retreat into fantasy. Those who cling to fantasy
in times of despair and turmoil inevitably turn
to demagogues and charlatans to entertain and
reassure them. And these demagogues, as they
have throughout history, lead the crowd, blinded
and amused, towards despotism.
The New York Times bestselling author of
American Fascists and the NBGC finalist for War is
a Force That Gives Us Meaning travels in Empire of
Illusion to the ringside of professional wrestling
bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to
write about the pornographic film industry,
and to academic conferences held by positive
psychologists—who claim to be able to engineer
happiness
—
to chronicle our terrifying flight as a
culture into a state of illusion. Hedges exposes the
mechanisms used to divert us from confronting
the economic, political, and moral collapse
around us. He attacks the absurd idea that we can
always draw on inner resources and strengths to
have everything we desire.
Reality, we are assured, is never an impediment
to human wishes. It can always be overcome. The
future will always be glorious. And held out to
keep us amused are spectacles and celebrities
who have become idealized versions of
ourselves and who, we are assured, we can all
one day become.
The cultural embrace of illusion, and the
celebrity culture that has risen up around it,
have accompanied a growing system of casino
capitalism, with its complicated and unregulated
deals of turning debt into magical assets, to
create fictional wealth for us, and vast wealth for
our elite. Corporations, behind the smoke
screen, have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed
our manufacturing base and impoverished our
working class. The free market became our god and
government was taken hostage by corporations,
the same corporations that entice us daily with
illusions through the mass media, the entertainment
industry, and popular culture. |
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