American Psychosis
http://www.nationinstitute.org/featuredwork/1341/american_psychosis/ BY CHRIS HEDGES ADBUSTERS JUNE 17, 2010 The United States, has become a nation gripped by the trivial and the absurd and no longer able to distinguish between reality and illusion. Email Contact us Print Share IN CONJUNCTION WITH See this story at its source » The United States has become obsessed with the trivial and absurd. The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears or John Edwards, enthralls the country … ...