Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges [115]
Anne, Lisa
Annual Positive Psychology Forum
Antitrust laws
AOL Time Warner
Appreciative Inquiry
Arendt, Hannah
Army War College, U.S.
Arnold, Matthew
AT&T Broadband
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, Saint
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (Seligman)
Authorization for Use of Military Force (congressional resolution)
Bacevich, Andrew
Bakan, Joel
Balkans
Balzac, Honoré
Banks
bailing out
collapse of
faltering
and Glass-Steagall Act
insolvent
leaders of
and looting of financial system
nationalizing
and poor
and Stewart
Banks, Russell
Barry (porn producer)
Batista (wrestler)
Bear Stearns
Bearer, Paul
Bellah, Robert N.
Ben-Shahar, Tal D.
Benjamin, Walter
Bernanke, Ben
Berry, Wendell
Bewitched (television show)
Biden, Joe
Big Brother (television show)
Big Show (wrestler)
Bigg Boss (television show)
Blackwater/Xe
Blade, Barrett
Blair, Dennis
Blanc, Mel
Blankfein, Lloyd
Blue, Ashley
Bluebird Films
Boeing
Boileau, Jay
Boorstin, Daniel
Born to Be Good: The Science of the Meaningful Life (Keltner)
Botton, Alain de
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, Betty
Bradley, James
Bradley, John
Brave New World (Huxley)
Brint, Steven
British Petroleum (BP)
Brownmiller, Susan
Budden, Jackiey
Buddha
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Business Week (magazine)
Buying the War (television documentary)
Byram, Amanda
California, University of, Berkeley
California, University of, Los Angeles
Calvin, John
Cambodia
Cameron, Kim
Campaigns. See Political candidates and leaders
Canada
Cantor, Paul A.
Carbon dioxide
Carnegie, Andrew
Cash, Johnny
Cassidy, Brent
Cassidy, Tyler
Cato Institute
Celebrity
and adoration and worship
and appearance and lifestyle
and Christian Right
and commodity culture
Eggers on
and emptiness and purposelessness in life
and fantasies of fame and success
and foibles and scandals
gossip
hunger for
and implosion
interviews and profiles
and love
Mills on
as mirror
and reality television
reporters
and revenge and triumph
and wealth
and wrestling
See also Celebrity culture; Corporations: and celebrities as sellers
Celebrity culture
and closeness to celebrities
and commodities
as culture of narcissism
and degradation as entertainment
Deresiewicz on
and escape and fantasy
and exhibitionism
and family
and fictional personas
and frustration and despair
hollowness of
and illusion
and immortality
and inauthenticity
and Internet
and isolation
and junk politics
and magical thinking
manipulation and deceit of
moral nihilism and void of
and personal screenplays
and politicians’ artificial intimacy with public
Roth on
and surveillance
and validation
Celebrity Driving School (television show)
Celebrity (Rojek)
Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes (television show)
Celebrity Weakest Link (television show)
Celebrity Wife Swap (television show)
Center for Representative Politics
Center for the Advancement of Women
Central Command, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chaplin, Charlie
Cheney, Dick
China
Chomsky, Noam
Christian Broadcast Network
Christian Right
Church, Frank
Civil liberties
Claremont Graduate University
Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)
Class divide
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
CNN
Coal
Coast Guard, U.S.
Coca-Cola
Colbert Report (television show)
Colby (Survivor contestant)
Cold War
Colgate University
Collapse (Diamond)
Columbia University
Comcast Cable
Commission on Presidential Debates
Conrad, Joseph
Consumer price index (CPI)
Conyers, John
Cooper, Marc
Cooperrider, David
Corkrey, Megan
Corkrey, Ryder
The Corporation: