Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

from Center for Global Humanities · host Chris Hedges

A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, or we will continue our headlong retreat into fantasy.

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