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The Death Of The Liberal Class (2010)

by Chris Hedges(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1568586442 (ISBN13: 9781568586441)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Nation Books

review 1: “The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not. They tend to neglect reality (they don't run stories about how life is hard, fame and fortune elusive, hopes disappointed) and instead celebrate idealized identities – those that, in a commodity culture, revolve around the acquisition of status, money, fame and power, or at least the illusion of these things. The media, in other words, assist the commercial culture in “need creation”, prompting consumers to want things they don't need or have never really considered wanting" (132).
review 2: Interesting premise, although it is weird how most of the folks that Hedges profiles who are supposedly SOOPER RADICAL and going against the... more grain and stuff are also...middle to upper class white men. Chomsky! Nader! Lanier! Yeah, ok, we get it: romanticization of the privileged white dude who speaks truth to power, with little to no acknowledgement of radicals who don't fit into that category (ie: Angela Davis, disability activist Harriet McBryde Johnson, and NUMEROUS others) but might also have interesting things to say about the decline of liberalism. For a book that has some really on-point things to say about this decline, the lack of diversity in perspectives on something that affects so many people is really strange. less

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