Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)

[Mark Kohut]

I have had it in mind to read (with others) and now I will.

Ordering now.



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 11:38:53 AM
Subject: Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)

This is a difficult book to push through as the author can't prevent
himself from apeing Adams (not Henry but James Luther) or is it
Edwards Jonathan, the last puritan? His protracted sermons include
lengthy clips from the soiled and foul ripped broken and spilled
culture that was once Amerrica or at least the Dream of, if not Dutch
Sailor's eyes, than of Britania. None and never the less, it does text
us on the connectivity of what he calls the corporate take over of
religion--the old profane marketing of the sacred. Not worth more than
an hour or two, but thought I mention this V. treatment of our
postmodern america.