{"id":15412,"date":"2013-12-05T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15412"},"modified":"2013-12-08T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:32:20","slug":"the-pathology-of-the-rich-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/05\/the-pathology-of-the-rich-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pathology of the Rich &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has what I presume will be a series of videos that starts with <a title=\"The Real News Network video\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=11150\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Pathology of the Rich &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt1<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges discusses the psychology of the super rich; their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L6unS2JF8TA?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Is it my naivete or unreasonable optimism that has kept me from fully coming to terms with what Chris Hedges is saying?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to items mentioned in the video:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Amazon page for this book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges-ebook\/dp\/B00440D9DM\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1386281115&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=death+of+the+liberal+class\" target=\"_blank\">Death of the Liberal Class<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Amazon's list of books by Chris Hedges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chris-Hedges\/e\/B001IR1G16\/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1386281115&amp;sr=1-2-ent\" target=\"_blank\">Books by Chris Hedges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/19527-lets-get-this-class-war-started\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hedges | Let&#8217;s Get This Class War Started<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>December 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p>I have now purchased <strong><a title=\"Amazon page for this book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges-ebook\/dp\/B00440D9DM\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1386281115&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=death+of+the+liberal+class\" target=\"_blank\">Death of the Liberal Class<\/a><\/strong>.  I am sure i am going to have a lot to say about this book in future blog posts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>December 8, 2013<\/p>\n<p>See part 2 of the series in my subsequent post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/08\/credibility-of-the-ruling-elite-is-being-shredded-chris-hedges-on-reality-asserts-itself-pt2\/\" title=\"Subsequent post\" target=\"_blank\">Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded \u2013 Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has what I presume will be a series of videos that starts with The Pathology of the Rich &#8211; Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself pt1. On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges discusses the psychology of the super rich; their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}