Monday, May 9, 2011
Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion | The New School
THE NEW SCHOOL | www.newschool.edu Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is
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