Reminder: Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline with Mo... @ Thu Mar 22 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)

more details » Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline with Morris Berman at Modern Times Books Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline with Morris Berman Thursday, March 22: 7 PM Modern Times Bookstore Collective 2919 24th St San Francisco CA 94110 Why America Failed—third and most engaging volume of Morris Berman's trilogy on the decline of the American empire—shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise. Berman will read from this newest book and discuss the perils of empire. *** During the final century of the Roman Empire, it was common for emperors to deny that their civilization was in decline. Only with the perspective of history can we see that the emperors were wrong, that the empire was failing, and that the Roman people were unwilling or unable to change their way of life before it was too late. The same, says Morris Berman, is true of twenty-first century America. The nation and its empire are in decline and nothing can be done to reverse their course. How did this come to be? In Why America Failed, Berman examines the development of American culture from the earliest colonies to the present, shows that the seeds of the nation's "hustler" culture were sown from the very beginning, and reveals how the very tools that enabled the country's expansion have become the instruments of its demise. PRAISE: "Morris Berman's masterpiece is a brutally honest, wonderfully crafted, exceptionally well-documented treatise on how America was spawned, several hundred years ago, to devour its offspring--financially, socially, and technologically. Why America Failed shines a harsh, unavoidable light upon the cunning business mindset at the core of America's creation, expansion, and devolution. Berman describes with stunning clarity how and why the 'hustler'mentality, upon which our country was predicated, eviscerated alternative moral or social doctrines, and thus incorporated the seeds of our self-destruction from its very inception. This book is as uncomfortable to read as it is impossible to miss." --Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage and Other People's Money "Morris Berman is one of our most prescient and important social and cultural critics. He marries a laser-like intelligence with a deep moral core. His writing is as lucid and crisp as it is insightful.His newest book, Why America Failed, rips open the dark and dying carcass of empire.His analysis is sobering and often depressing .But the truth at this stage in the game is depressing, very depressing. Those who refuse to face this truth because it is unpleasant, because it does not inspire happy thoughts or offer false hope, are in flight from the real. The collective retreat into self-delusion has transformed huge swaths of the American populace into a peculiar species of adult-children who live in aPeter Pan world of make believe where reality is never permitted to be animpediment to desire. It is too bad Berman, who sees and writes about all this with a stunning clarity, lives in Mexico.It gets lonely up here." --Chris Hedges, author of Death of the Liberal Class and Empire of Illusion When Thu Mar 22 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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