Tuesday, 12 June 2018

The Coming Collapse by Chris Hedges

Echonomix
Hedges is a journalist who has refused to soften his message. His world view is dire and he crunches all the horrors he has seen into one tidy paragraph:

"All the harbingers of collapse are visible: crumbling infrastructure; chronic underemployment and unemployment; the indiscriminate use of lethal force by police; political paralysis and stagnation; an economy built on the scaffolding of debt; nihilistic mass shootings in schools, universities, workplaces, malls, concert venues and movie theaters; opioid overdoses that kill some 64,000 people a year; an epidemic of suicides; unsustainable military expansion; gambling as a desperate tool of economic development and government revenue; the capture of power by a tiny, corrupt clique; censorship; the physical diminishing of public institutions ranging from schools and libraries to courts and medical facilities; the incessant bombardment by electronic hallucinations to divert us from the depressing sight that has become America and keep us trapped in illusions."

Read the article here: Commondreams. Chris Hedges. The Coming Collapse


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