Tom Engelhardt with Jeremy Scahill
| When: | Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
| Where: |
Lensic Performing Arts Center
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| What: | Readings & Conversations event |
About this Event
Fear has a way of re-ordering human worlds. That only a relatively small number of determined fanatics with extraordinarily limited access to American soil keep Fear Inc. afloat should, by now, be obvious. What the fear machine produces is the dark underside of the charming Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, “A View of the World from 9th Avenue,” in which Manhattan looms vast as the rest of the planet fades into near nothingness. When you see the world “from 9th Avenue,” or from an all-al-Qaeda-all-the-time “news” channel, you see it phantasmagorically. It’s out of all realistic shape and proportion, which means you naturally make stupid decisions. You become incapable of sorting out what matters and what doesn’t, what’s primary and what’s secondary. You become, in short, manipulable. This is our situation today.
From Fear, Inc. on TomDispatch.com
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Audio from this Event
Tom Engelhardt read from his work, then joined in conversation with Jeremy Scahill | Duration: 1:22:26Video from this Event
Tom Engelhardt read from his work, introduction by Jeremy Scahill
Tom Engelhardt in conversation with Jeremy Scahill
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs TomDispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s; The United...
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is a cofounding editor and senior investigative reporter at the investigative news site The Intercept, where he also hosts a weekly news podcast, Intercepted. Scahill is the author of...
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