Political History/Cultural Analysis Panel video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289996-4
Authors talked about their books on politics and culture. George Packer is the author of Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; November 10, 2009). Chris Hedges is the author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Nation Books; July 13, 2009). Sam Tanenhaus is the author of The Death of Conservatism (Random House, 2009). "Political History/Cultural Analysis," an event of the 26th Miami Book Fair International, took place Sunday, November 15, 2009, 12:00 p.m., in the Chapman Conference Center of Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Included in program ID 289996-1. ( ~ strange, that Regarding the 9/11 unresolved crime; and especially all the unresolved crimes perpetrated in the name of unresolving that originating crime; Chris Hedges appears to abondon the Literacy of Literal Accountability ;-) === Chris Hedges talked about his book Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 09/22/2009 In his book he describes what he considers to be the economic, political and moral collapse of American culture. He argues that there are now two societies. The minority live in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The growing majority is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. video: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289070-1 === http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IntellectualCrime/message/1406 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IntellectualCrime/msearch?query=reality+based+community&submit=Search&charset=ISO-8859-1 "The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'" http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3822 http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you - something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. 28. Reality Control The Party would announce that two plus two made five, and you would have to believe it. Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. http://www.orwelltoday.com/reality.shtml All that was needed was unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control,' they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. ------------- 911 'Official Story': >you have to convince yourselves by trying to prove us wrong< Rumsfiendish lying on video http://www.lifeisajoke.com/videos8.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ndwQDFhzHc The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. -Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing ---------------------------------------- If it rained, it did not rain hard. It did rain hard. Therefore it did not rain. mein Fuhrer ... I can walk! http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/strangelove/audio/icanwalk.wav "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire (1694-1778) http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ Cognitive-Dissonance as the way of being, Welcome to the future now, Soylent Green? A Tyrannical Strain of eXtropy is instigating a state of entropy upon us to render us docile food for ITs Domination over us. When will we turn around the orchestrated plung into entropy that is upon us? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CogDis/message/8 === The Society of the Spectacle (New translation of the book by Guy Debord) http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle video: La Société du spectacle - Society of the Spectacle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34XVscFkIs http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=society%20of%20the%20spectacle&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv# === --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/shadowgovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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