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Culture of Distraction
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Empire of Illusion”, maintains that our popular culture cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy, dangerously relying on spectacle, false idols, and snake...
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Culture of Distraction is an episode from Humankind on Public Radio by David Freudberg. Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Empire of Illusion”, maintains that our popular culture cannot distinguish between reality a...
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Published May 28, 2026, 29:28 long, audio available.
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