The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that - TopicsExpress



          

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. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears [or Miley Cyrus], enthralls the country … despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class. Read more: https://adbusters.org/magazine/90/hedges-american-psychosis.html
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 03:21:09 +0000

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