“Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianis

You really know how to wrap up a thread on an unanswerable note, Fidel. How do you deal with waiting for that midnight knock on the door?

Just heard Michael Enright interview Chris Hedges on his new book, The World As It Is. Hedges said he recently spoke to a very ill Sheldon Wolin at his home, and was confirmed in his own dark perspective. The U.S. could indeed flip into a totalitarian state given the current rate of institutional breakdown and the depth of ignorance about the real world.

Mind you, Hedges uses a more current set of descriptors than yourself, does not depend so much on hidden intelligence networks - more on degeneration of media networks - but you partner with him in a way. But Hedges would never be caught erroneously quoting George Washington carrying on about corporatism and the merger of states and corporate power. That would tend to cause his readers to doubt the veracity of his other work.

Hedges says that verifiable fact is always needed to protect us from manipulation.