Q: The job of the popular culture—of bread and circuses—is to lull people into a false sense of security.
A: Drink Starbucks coffee and watch Morning Joe.
Q: Where do you criticize TV? In a book.
Where are books promoted? On TV.
A: In a blog.
Until they take you down for nudity, sex, or excretion.
Q: Or racism.
A: Or racism.
Gloria Steinem gets Larry Flint not invited to the Oscars because she doesn’t like Hustler magazine.
Q: Nat Hentoff and Robert Scheer write columns for Hustler magazine.
A: Do you read it for the articles?
Q: Yes. Not for the pictures.
Or the cartoons. They’re crude.
A: I used to read Joe Bagenat online. At www.joebageant.com.
Q: I read you online. At The Daily Bulletin (www.thedailybulletin.com).
A: Yes.
No advertisers at my website.
No bread and circuses.
A review of Chris
Hedges Empire
of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of
Spectacle.
