Content by author: Joe Bageant

Escape from the Zombie Food Court | Joe Bageant

Joe with BingoThe high technological imprisonment of our consciousness has been fairly recent. There are still those among us who remember when it was not so entrapped. A few of us still know what it was like to experience non-manufactured realities -- life outside our mass-produced kitsch culture. Particularly some aging Sixties types, who sought to pass through the doors of perception. Many mad ...

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The Sucker Bait Called Hope -- Making the best of a slow apocalypse | Joe Bageant

Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2008 We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that som ...

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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust “Well, good lordie, you really was writin a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” Aug. 14, 2006 -- That was my friend Fat La ...

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Documentary Film With Joe Bageant Opens (Ken Smith)

Aug. 3, 2011 (JoeBagean.com) -- Kingdom of Survival, a documentary film in which Joe Bageant is a focal point, will premier at the World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde) in Montreal, Augus ...

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Rainbow Pie -- Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation (Morris Berman)

May 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Given how much we had in common, it’s perhaps a bit odd that Joe Bageant (1946-2011) and I never met (although I think we did correspond at one point). He ...

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Lost in the American Undertow (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2011 -- The United States has always maintained a white underclass — citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic ...

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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011

Mar. 27, 2011 -- (JoeBageant.com) -- After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, ...

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A note from Joe Bageant -- Update Feb. 12

Jan. 4, 2011 -- Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States rec ...

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America: Y Ur Peeps B So Dum? -- Ignorance And Courage In The Age Of Lady Gaga (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 7, 2010 -- AJIJIC, Jalisco, Mexico -- If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of ...

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Algorithms And Red Wine: Is The 'Digital Hive' A Soft Totalitarian State? (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular choice of wine, mystified by the tabl ...

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