Living in an Empire of Illusion

The following points are great topics for TOV Center “Must Have Conversations.” Their source is the book Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges.

● A culture dominated by images and slogans seduces those who are functionally illiterate but who make the choice not to read.

● Propaganda has become a substitute for ideas and ideology.

● Knowledge is confused with how we are made to feel.

● Commercial brands are mistaken for expressions of individuality.

● And in this precipitous decline of values and literacy, among those who cannot read and those who have given up reading, fertile ground for a new totalitarianism is being seeded.

● The culture of illusion thrives by robbing us of the intellectual and linguistic tools to separate illusion from truth. It reduces us to the level and dependency of children. It impoverishes language.

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