America's Meltdown The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society

Name: America's Meltdown The Lowest-Common-Denominator Society
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ISBN: 9780275976392

ISBN-10: 0275976394

ISBN-13: 9780275976392

Edition: 2003

Authors: John B. Arden

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Celebrity news, video games, cookie-cutter schools, and shopping, shopping, shopping. As entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning. This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth. Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




The Meltdown



Cyberspaced



Vicarious Living



Infotainment



Retail Government



Lock and Load



The Bottom of the Barrel



Shopping and Dropping



Men and Women Are from Earth



Hyped Sports



Waging the Soul



Punching the Clock



McMedicine



Shrink Wrap



Dumbsizing the Schools



Mall Art



The Spiritual Supermarket



Rebuilding the Future