Saturday July 03, 2010
American Psychosis
Chris Hedges
Adbusters
What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?
The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble.
This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal.
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