幻象帝国
Empire of illusion
Chris Hedges · 初版 2009 年
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普利策奖得主 Chris Hedges 记录了一个渴望幻想、狂喜和幻觉的“后文字社会”戏剧性且令人不安的崛起。Chris Hedges 认为，我们现在生活在两个社会中：一个是少数人构成的社会，它依靠以印刷品为基础的读写世界运转，能够应对复杂性，并能将幻觉与真相区分开来。另一个则是日益壮大的多数人社会，它正从基于现实的世界退缩到一个充满虚假确定性和魔法的世界。在这个“另一个社会”中，严肃的电影和戏剧，乃至报纸和书籍，正被推向边缘。承袭 Christopher Lasch 的 T
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…我在报纸上读到或在电视上看到的新闻，极少有不是某种低俗八卦或抓人眼球的奇观噱头的。虽然我大部分内容都没读过，但 Chris Hedges 的书《Empire of Illusion》对这一现象的洞察比我深刻犀利得多。真希望大家都能深呼吸一口新鲜空气（哎呀，这里暗指了另一部媒体作品，虽然平心而论它还挺中立的），然后…
…It is very rare that I read a story in a newspaper or hear one on television that isn't some form of salacious gossip or eye catching spectacle. Though I haven't read most of it, Chris Hedges' book: Empire of Illusion, speaks to this with much greater acuity than I can. I wish we could all just take a breath of fresh air (whoops, there is an allusion to another, though admittedly fairly neutral, piece of media) and…
…- Sharlet 著《The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War》，2023 年。- McWhorter 著《Woke Racism》，2021 年。- Dershowitz 著《The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott is Anti-Semitic》，2018 年。- Hedges 著《Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle》，2010 年。- Chomsky 著《The Fateful Triangle》，1983 年。- Sartre 著《Anti-Semite and Jew》，1946 年。- Hitler 著《Mein Kampf》，1925 年。
…- The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Sharlet. 2023. - Woke Racism by McWhorter. 2021. - The Case Against BDS: Why Singling Out Israel for Boycott is Anti-Semitic. by Dershowitz. 2018. - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Hedges. 2010. - The Fateful Triangle by Chomsky. 1983. - Anti-Semite and Jew by Sarte. 1946. - Mein Kampf by Hitler. 1925.