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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (28 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0715630822
  • ISBN-13: 978-0715630822
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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The impact of US culture on Europe is indisputable. This text argues that the culture of the United States is in decline but it is up to its citizens whether the twilight heralds eternal night or the dawn of a new, more cultural, age. Like ancient Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries, the American Empire has now seen the passage of its most triumphant years and is rapidly approaching a period of increased social chaos. So argues Morris Berman in this damning portrait of American society. Whether examining the corruption at the heart of modern politics, the "Rambification" of popular entertainment, or the collapse of the educational system, Berman's analysis makes clear that there is little Americans can do as a society to arrest the onset of corporate Mass Mind culture. Citing writers as diverse as de Toqueville and Don DeLillo, Berman argues that cultural preservation is a matter of individual conscience, a refusal to base one's life on kitsch or consumerism, profit or self-promotion.


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Morris Berman is well known in the USA as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He teaches in the Master of Liberal Arts Program at Johns Hopkins University.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cutting Assault on Modern Western Life, 26 Aug 2002
This is a powerfully written book which will strike many a chord with those who feel that everything today is geared towards mass culture, production and mass ignorance.
It carefully and eloquently destroys the superficiality of modern US life (and I unfortunately feel that the same is happening in the U.K and proabably everywhere else) and highlights some quite astonishing statistics of the ignorance of the US public to simple facts about their own country.
But this is not so much a political attack and does not even touch on US governmental policy, but rather an attack on the systematic brainwashing of the gullible public to buy happiness, and to abandon critical thought entirely.
Nor is it a quick fix book, which the author scathingly dismisses as a further source of the decline in the collective US intelligence (!), rather a more pragmatic evaluation of the fall of all civilisations, often in much the same way as previous ones have ended. With some telling comparisons with Roman history, the author argues that the transformation if not collapse of Western life is more or less inevitable (as all have fallen before) and the individual should quietly accumulate wisdom and insight for hopeful preservation til something puts the lights back on this decay.
The later section is perhaps a little wordy and philosophical for my personal taste, but the overall quality and intelligence of this book is without doubt.
I haven't given it 5/5 (although I think it deserves it) and I am sure the author would approve of this!! ;-) Don't want too many people reading this, do we......!!?!
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4.0 out of 5 stars a hilarious criticism of the american way of life, 23 Jan 2002
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If you ever get sick of the obsession with the American way of life then take a look at this book. The description of its intellectual decline is particularly funny. The problem with the text is its obvious elitism. However it helps in understanding and questioning the current state of all western society not just America. Can this way of life continue for much longer? Collapse is imminent. Berman is not alone in these types of theory but it offers an ammusing entrance into cultural pessimism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A pithy sequel to "The Closing of the Ameican Mind" by Bloom, 24 Feb 2002
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First part good for its analysis of the current situation of culture in American and by extention here in Britain.But his historical analysis in the second part of the book is a bit Whig Historyish. His ideas about individuals true to their own ideals being the only ones who can take and keep safe elements of culture during the coming new dark age (Monasticism) are interesting
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