EMPIRE OF ILLUSION - THE END OF LITERACY AND THE TRIUMPH OF SPECTACLE

In this book, the journalist Chris Hedges explains that we are doomed. He catalogues in essay-length chapters four examples of what he calls modern America's "moral nihilism": its fawning celebrity culture, sadistic pornography industry, insipidly vocational universities, and pervasive corporate influence. Hedges concludes with a wake-up call for a society that, he says, "has become the greatest illusion in a culture of illusions".