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Hedges, Chris.
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Empire of illusion :...
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Empire of illusion : the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle / Chris Hedges.
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Hedges, Chris.
New York, NY : Nation Books, c2009.
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Mass media -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
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9781568584379
1568584377
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vii, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
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The illusion of literacy -- The illusion of love -- The illusion of wisdom -- The illusion of happiness -- The illusion of America.
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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.
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