It's official - I'm cheating on my boyfriend Albert Einstein with Chris Hedges - hahahaha
It all started with the brilliant, direct, and accessible argument against fundamentalism in I Don't Believe In Atheists, 2008. Now I own 3 more of his books and follow his writings on Truthdig. We have few of these minds left people - I highly recommend taking in some of his jottings.
Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning author with 20 years under his belt as a war correspondent for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and NPR (National Public Radio). This life experience is paired with an MA from the Harvard Divinity School - which I imagine broadens his analytical discourse exponentially. He dissects all aspects of societies and troubles therein - pulling references from the humanities, science, and a profound facility for assertive reasoning. He minces nothing, spares nothing, and gives it straight - which is not only refreshing but so necessary for those of us who dare listen.
Reality is more illusion than ever before where we willingly live entrenched in bullshit (aka overdose of mind-numbing distraction and impractical 'positive thinking') to the point of harmful asininity which seems more now to paralyze our ability to think critically, to speak and act honestly, and to listen to our instincts. All points he appeals in near desperation.
I love this man's mind. Lofty be his brilliance, but his rhetoric is more firmly footed than most of our intellectuals today.
Here is his latest post on the survival and endurance of culture through and because of The Arts: How to Think on Truthdig
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