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• Title: Watching the America Show
• Author : G.B. Page
• Release Date : January 31, 2013
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,Nonfiction,Philosophy,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1126 KB

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Watching the America Show examines the dissociations by which a once-justified individualism has been squandered on behalf of ideological and institutional leverages for selfism. The book tears into the metaphors, slogans, and illusions which permit a citizenry-turned-audience to live a vicarious mental existence. It bids Americans to wake and see themselves slouching on the couch – watching.


Credulous, we accept that the metaphors are plausible no matter how far they are stretched. Wishing to avoid the work of thinking, we adopt the slogans without reflecting upon their implications. Wallowing in the mass-manufactured illusion we disdain even calculating our public or private self-interest so to better credit the hodgepodge of media-crafted glamor and drama.


Watching the America Show challenges Americans to develop the discourses by which we could break through the mental torpor to think of an alternative America: the one where we would keep faith with our forebears by going back to work for our progeny.


The book includes nine essays:


1. “The Bastardization of America” grounds the moral perspective that is developed chapter by chapter: i.e., that the individual, the family, the community, and society have undergone deep moral dissociations and each is being driven toward disintegration.


2. “The Fascisms of the Self” is a critique of the redistribution equations for self. This chapter describes the ego moralisms and secular ideologies that constitute the development of a new “ideology of selfism.”


3. “The Racism of Antiracism” examines the problem of evil and analyzes the skewed metaphors of racism and antiracism. 


4. “Postdemocracy” tears into the "media metaphors" of some of our most influential social and political ideas. 


5. “The Disintegration of ‘We the People’” describes the pulling apart of our governmental principles by special interest formulations for citizenship and productivity. 


6. “In Security Lies Insecurity Lies” presents the book’s theme of moral determinism in its most universal application. It dismisses all alternatives for mankind but the most mature striving after moral perfection. 


7. “All Process and No Due” criticizes a judicial system turned into an opportunity program for lawyerism. 


8. “Homework Doesn’t” recounts the rot inside of our education program and calls for a reconceptualized high school and college. 


9. “The Redistribution of Egotism – Toward a Politics of Fulfilled Lives” is where the book’s rhetorical fight takes flight as it attacks the moral nihilism of our age.

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