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Center For Inquiry Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. The virtues that sustain a nation-state and build community, from honesty to self-sacrifice to transparency to sharing, are ridiculed each night on television as rubes stupid enough to cling to this antiquated behavior are voted off reality shows. Our culture of flagrant self-exaltation, hardwired in the American character, permits the humiliation of all those who oppose us. It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. We have a right, in the cult of the self, to get whatever we desire. The tantalizing illusions offered by our consumer culture, however, are vanishing for most citizens as we head toward collapse.
The Ideas Economy (The Economist) Foreign Policy View the photos. On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country." The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. But that is not the Afghanistan I remember. A half-century ago, Afghan women pursued careers in medicine; men and women mingled casually at movie theaters and university campuses in Kabul; factories in the suburbs churned out textiles and other goods. I have since had the images in that book digitized. Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations