Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle - Chris Hedges Audiobook
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This narration is one of the best I heard of Hedges’ books!!
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
By: Chris Hedges
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-10-18
Language: English
Publisher’s Summary
We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority - which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected-presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade level.
In this “other America”, serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture - attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies - to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
©2009 Chris Hedges (P)2018 Tantor
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This post has 26 comments with rating of 5/5
July 30th, 2021
Chris Hedges is one of the best, thnks and be my Guest
July 30th, 2021
Well, we do live in the age of spectacle over substance. Looking forward to it.
July 30th, 2021
Whoa - originally released in 2009. Prescient to the events of 2016.
July 30th, 2021
oh, I see - audio from 2018 although first paperback published in 2009
July 30th, 2021
I’ve got a Yen for Hedges. IQs have been steadily declining across the last century; but happily, the wrestling remains blissfully “unaffected” - c wot I did there? You’re invited to boo & hiss, wrestlin’ fans.
July 30th, 2021
Looking forward to it. Thnx!
July 30th, 2021
“The End of Literacy” getting a audiobook is pretty funny
July 30th, 2021
Shut up caesar. You’re an incoherent nuisance and nobody likes you and truth in Wrestling makes more sense than half the shît you dribble.
July 30th, 2021
“The End of Literacy” - and then subliterate toady arrives! Priceless.
July 30th, 2021
I’m not falling for this evil liberal agenda to make people more ejucaterd. No one’s going to tell me I should use my brain, I have a fundamental right to be thick!
July 30th, 2021
Agent, you’re singing to toady’s educationally-sceptical choir. As long as it’s not the ABC song. If so, he’ll give you to a count of 10 to clear off. Which never goes well, ’cause he’s also innumerate.
July 30th, 2021
@toadmanga: Pick on someone your own species. Cesar is a highly intelligent ape (I saw the movie) whereas toads in manga are highly evolved amphibians (Froppy has my back on this one)!
Interspecies rivalries just aren’t ssafe’s thing.
July 31st, 2021
Thanks so much for this!
July 31st, 2021
Saint Hedges, proven prophet. Speaker of spectacle
July 31st, 2021
@ssafe - You’re my trusty Koba (no, wait, that can’t be right…?).
Fanatical toadies also have their warty place.
July 31st, 2021
@ceasar: not too far off the mark, Koba “led a life full of abuse and torment at the hands of humans” and like most bonobos, I’d rather be doing the lovin’ than the warin’ (that and having a penchant for waving my bare bottom around)
July 31st, 2021
I hope that’s metaphorical waving. Think of the neighbours.
They could’ve got that from Stalin’s nickname “Koba the Dread.” Sounds just like the kind of head of state beloved of ideologues. “Let’s go with that one guy: Koba the Dread/Vlad the Impaler/Bob the Brutal Murderer.” A safe pair of red hands, in any event.
July 31st, 2021
Part of me does hail from Ukraine… so there’s that
(not sure which part… most likely my toes)
July 31st, 2021
Exotic - u could be a Viking. Sailing up the icy Volga. Those lads weren’t afeared of a bit of frost. They’re largely to blame for Russia. I meant “responsible” - yeah.
Ever been tempted to do one of those spit tests, to find out the awful truth of your lineage? Did u land on Plymouth Rock? Or did Plymouth Rock land upon u? The greatest fear Irish types have is that they’ll discover they’re partly English (lovely people, on the hole). They could manage Scottish without any problems. Caesar’s majority Irish, with small traces of Irishness in reserve. Calpurnia’s another scéal altogether.
July 31st, 2021
Did a spit test - I’m part Natufian.
No joke.
July 31st, 2021
A regular Leopold Bloom, no less.
July 31st, 2021
Hmmm, Natufian…don’t recall just now which episode of Star Trek featured the Natufians, but the spit never lies. The internet informs me that you guys sat around a lot. They were probably obese before obesity. I didn’t expect that level of obscure detail from a spit & post it exam.
July 31st, 2021
If I find out that Calpurnia or myself are Natufians or the like, we’ll have to get together with u at some kind of summit meeting, and hammer out a treaty, or summat. At least the Natufian epiphany wouldn’t be as devastating & distressing as hailing from Perfidious Al (grinds teeth).
July 31st, 2021
Aye, though it may be a fatal and perfidious bark, built in th’eclipse, and rigg’d with curses dark, that sinks so low that sacred head of thine.
In the meantime, doth Calpurnia allow Caesar to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Neæra’s hair?
That’s how I plan to go, uncouth swain that I am. Battlebots be dam’ned.
July 31st, 2021
That’s tantamount to asking: doth Cal swingeth? Nay, vile, venomous varlot! Thou menial moldwarp!
Calpurnian records are permanently sealeth.
Skynet will decree the manner of our going, I fear.
July 20th, 2023
Thanks, been wanting to finish this for a long time.
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