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Empire of illusion

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

by Chris Hedges

2009 240 pages ★ 4.0 (3 ratings)

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can…

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