The Business of America : How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Paperback)

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE FOREWORD: By Marcus Raskin INTRODUCTION I. THE BUSH VISION: A BIPOLAR POLITICAL DISORDER -The Culture of Naked Power -Politics and the Enron Scandal, Part I: The Enron System Works -Well, For Some People! -Enron Part II: Sex and the Enron Scam -A Dialogue About Sex, Violence and the Budget -It's the Budget Stupid! II. CLASSIFY THIS! NATIONAL SECURITY CULTURE SETS THE NORM -The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age -Our Aging Faust -A Panglossian Conversation -History? What's That? III. SHEEP DON'T NEED WHIPPING: MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY -World News in Shotgun Pellets of Anxiety -Religious Diversion From The Issues In The Age Of Reason And Hi Tech -Review of Pollack -Advertising Can Make You Personally and Politically Crazy -Commercial Messages Produce Advance Scatteration -Television: Democracy at its Ugliest -Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves -The Film Industry: Business and Technology IV. AHAB CAN BEAT THE WHALE -At Two with Nature -Commuting in Los Angeles -Privatize- the Key to Public Culture -Will the Next War be Against Smog? -A Global Warming Sermon in Dialogue -An Anza Borrego Odyssey -Mount Whitney Towers Over Death Valley, but Death Valley Doesn't Look Up to Whitney -Diseased Meat? - Could be Wurst! -Exporting the Best Chemicals Money Can Absorb -Las Vegas: Bush's America -Cuba is Not Las Vegas: Scenes from a Late Summer Havana Wedding V. THE IRAQ CONNUNDRUM -Bush and King Henry-Similar Birds of Different Feathers -Don't Get Distracted by Cameron Diaz's Acne or Talk of War -How 9/11 Events Helped Democracy to Evolve toward Perfection -Different Worlds -Shiite Happens -The Quiet American Returns on Film -Shopping, the End of the World and G.W. Bush: Part I and II VI. CLOSING REMARKS -There is Life After Shopping-And It Feels Good VII. ENDNOTES VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY IX. INDEX