Chris Hedges: American Psychosis

In this video Hedges discusses how the US has an unconscious collective illness. It's one that is fed by the oligarchs creating an illusion that prevents us from accepting the reality of our situation. And that illusion is the cult of individualism. We are taught to see our problems as our own rather than structural social problems intentionally created to enslave us. Instead of addressing that latter we seek out personal hedonism to cover the hellish truth. And when we are so oppressed the irony is that we turn to demagogues like Twit who only further enslave us.

As a foreign correspondent Hedges has seen totalitarianism and he sees it growing in our midst. We must wake up from our manufactured consent.  Even though this was filmed in '18 it resonates even more today, as we are fighting back with our prolonged protests for black lives etc. And it is no wonder that our fascist government is adamant at quelling our activism with force. We must keep up the fight or we could very well descend all the way down that dark road.