Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)

[alice wellintown]

Some of the passages Hedges quotes make the otherwise sordid and
tiresome trip through the grave and stupid celebrity postmodern
polytheism not quite the hack job it seems, although his rants on
Bush-world and the wars (stuff I assume he rants about all the time
and fleshed his book out with, almost worth it. For example, " 'For
the truth is, wrote Jose Ortega Y Gasset, "that life on the face of it
is a chaos in which one finds oneself lost."" ...Plato, Boorstin ...
etc.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have had it in mind to read (with others) and now I will.
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> Ordering now.
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> ----- 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)
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> 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.
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