Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)

[alice wellintown]

Your Move: The Maze of Free Will
By GALEN STRAWSON


in NYT today.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:46 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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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