Chris Hedges Part I: Crisis Cults and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization

[marmar]

Published on Feb 6, 2014

Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, concerning areas of extreme poverty that he refers to as 'sacrifice zones', as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies.

[BelgianMadCow]

1. logged in to rec

I posted it in the media forum as well, but that's a longer segment including Sawant.

[Armstead]

2. Chris Hedges is one of the most depressing people on the planet

I can't totally disagree with his analysis of the state of things, but whenever I've listened to him I want to crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head.

The truth often hurts, but he seems to wallow in dead-end "Abandon All Hope" bleakness that removes incentives to improve things.

I prefer people like Katrina VanDenheuval (spelling?), William Greider et. al, who are equally honest and angry, but put it in a somewhat more positive "let's do something about this" framework.