End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle...(?)
Saturday, 14. November 2009, 19:09:18
Book of interest:
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Written by Chris Hedges
(from Amazon's page)
..."Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins."...
[this is not only in the USA but most areas. - tkm]
Watch the Interview on c-span's Book-TV, running time 61min.(broadband needed).
Link:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/10883/After+Words+Chris+Hedges+Empire+of+Illusion+Interviewed+by+Ron+Suskind.aspx
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Written by Chris Hedges
(from Amazon's page)
..."Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins."...
[this is not only in the USA but most areas. - tkm]
Watch the Interview on c-span's Book-TV, running time 61min.(broadband needed).
Link:
http://www.booktv.org/Program/10883/After+Words+Chris+Hedges+Empire+of+Illusion+Interviewed+by+Ron+Suskind.aspx
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