Wake-Up Call

Spent an extra half-hour in bed this morning listening to an interview on CBC Radio's The Current with American author Chris Hedges about his new book Empire of Illusion. We all need a little escapism in our lives, I think. A guilty pleasure, a harmless vice. But when we live that way 24/7, whether through our relentless consumption of sports programming, Hollywood blockbusters, porn, reality TV, video games or whatever, what we end up doing is becoming disassociated from anything remotely resembling reality. Which suits the political, economic and religious elites in our society just fine. Here's the transcript of another radio interview Hedges did recently with Thom Hartmann.