TheGIC.org's Blog – January 2010 Archive (2)

Supreme Court Says Corporations Can Spend As Much as They Want on Getting Their Friends Elected

By Pareene



The conservative majority on the Supreme Court reiterated their utterly insane opinion that corporations are people today as they struck down restrictions on campaign spending by corporations in a decision that everyone expected but that is depressing nonetheless.



(A lot of people are reporting that… Continue

Added by theGIC.org on January 22, 2010 at 10:17am — 2 Comments

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty… Continue

Added by theGIC.org on January 5, 2010 at 10:10am — 2 Comments

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