ISBN:
9781568584379
,
9781568586137
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 232 S.
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media
;
Popular culture
;
Kulturkritik
;
Massenkultur
;
Massenmedien
;
USA
;
Westliche Welt
;
USA
;
Massenmedien
;
Massenkultur
;
Westliche Welt
;
Kulturkritik
Abstract:
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.
URL:
http://www.nationbooks.org/book/192/Empire%20of%20Illusion
URL:
http://www.nationbooks.org/book/192/Empire%20of%20Illusion