Upset Now? Chris Hedges Thinks Tomorrow Could Be Even Worse

[Dibbler]

Large scale social revolutions may be just around the corner. Author Chris Hedges explains why in this NPR podcast.

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/12/chris-hedges-protest-revolt

Chris Hedges went out into the world as a journalist. Covered war and more all over for years. And came back an activist. Warning first against war, and then more. Against what he calls a corporate takeover of power globally. Against the crushing of the possibility of real change through democracy. Against what he sees as a profit-driven rush to environmental catastrophe, and maybe the extinction of the human race. The only answer now, says Hedges, is revolt. Even if it hurts. It’s a hard message, and he knows it. This hour On Point: Chris Hedges on the case for revolt.

– Tom Ashbrook

Guests

Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Author of the new book “Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt.” Columnist for the progressive news site TruthDig. Also co-author of “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” and author of “Death of the Liberal Class,” among many others.

 

[AmericanSpartan]

Large scale social revolutions may be just around the corner. Author Chris Hedges explains why in this NPR podcast.

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/12/chris-hedges-protest-revolt

So when leftist cry about doom and disaster it must be taken at face value but when people on the right bring up real threats with facts to back it up, it always marginalized and mocked..

 

[joG]

Large scale social revolutions may be just around the corner. Author Chris Hedges explains why in this NPR podcast.

https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/12/chris-hedges-protest-revolt

I can pick out a number of incorrect assumptions like the system being governed by "corporate profit" that are wrong or others risky like a revolution's remaining peaceable. But he is right that our society's legitimacy has waned somewhat. This could bring about more radical measures than we have so far seen.