Pulitzer prize&;winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can 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,&; serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch&;s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman&;s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture &; attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies &; exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
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