Essays in Sham Smashing

About the Book

Concisely and unrelentingly the essays lash into every aspect of American life: the perversions of the legal profession and the attendant curse of an exclusively legalistic view of life; the non-stop bombardment of media images aiming at mass manipulation; the naive expectation of a Darwinian dawn; politics as messianic hope and means of salvation; the asphalt of a standardized culture with its cheap department store happiness and the robotic nature of the herd; the stultification in thinking like the computer; American television treating people like tired mules and then forcing them into an intense state; the corruption and insularity of literature; the mad stampeding haste of contemporary life; the megalomania of the information age; how technology isn't a viable plan of salvation; how group-mentality governs everything we think, say, and do; is it immoral to worship the Constitution? is American philosophy childish and guilty of cosmic impiety?

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