Quotes by Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to t — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The porn films are not about sex. Sex is airbrushed and digitally washed out of the films. There is no acting because no — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and a — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeur — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue st — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The cult of self dominates our cultural landscape. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficia — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and penetrated by groups of — Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle