Chris Hedges: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

Chris Hedges: Retribution for a World Lost in Screens - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig: "We tell ourselves they are overreacting. If reality is a bummer, and if there are no easy solutions, we don’t want to hear about it. The facts of economic and environmental collapse, now incontrovertible, cannot be discussed unless they are turned into joking banter or come accompanied with a neat, pleasing solution, the kind we are fed at the conclusion of the movies, electronic games, talk shows and sitcoms, the kind that dulls our minds into passive and empty receptacles. We have been conditioned by electronic hallucinations to expect happy talk."