Reddit reviews Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

You don't know what the hell you're talking about. You can't even imagine how rough some people have it.

I live in New York City, and take the train every day. I see at least four or five obviously homeless people a day. I probably see twice or three times as many that are living in a shelter, even though they are invisible to me. Whether you are living on a street or a shelter, homelessness destroys people. Do you think they have it "not that bad"?

Take a look at this video.

And you don't even have to be poor to experience the misery that many people go through in the US. The young psychology major with student loans she can't pay off? The father that just got laid off, supporting a family, and feeling useless while he's unemployed? The mother with frustrated, red eyes, looking at a mortgage statement over a kitchen counter? The young guy that sees another bill mailed to him from a collection company, from that time he went to the hospital for a stomach ache and they charged him thousands of dollars? The children that fail to create familial bonds because their parents are either out of the picture or work too much? The young overweight girl who's fed unhealthy food because that's what her single mother can afford, but is tortured by the images of females advertised everywhere? These are things that profoundly affect peoples lives.


Read this book about the most neglected place of the US. Watch this documentary about how the economy has destroyed families. Read this book about how neglected the poor are in the US, and what they go through. Watch this documentary about how the justice system and the drug war are like a holocaust in slow motion for minority males. Watch this interview about the slums of DC and what young black males go through there. Or this interview about the utter despair of native americans in the US. Or this documentary about children handling povierty. Read testimonials on this website of what it means and how it feels to be poor. Watch this trailer of the vicious immigration system and the oppression poor immigrants go through even though all they want to do is have a good life. Watch this interview on how tens of millions of people in the US don't have adequate access to food.

The poor are invisible. Society is naturally segregated so that you never see them, or they are too ashamed to voice their pain. You have passed them by the side of the road. But hopefully, you will notice now. And you will never say the ignorant statement you just did.

It's refreshing to see younger adults resonate with Chris Hedges. He is one of the last true journalists of this country, and one of the few individuals from the press to openly speak out against the war in Iraq during the Bush administration.

He's one of the few individuals I consider my hero living today. Read his books, "Death of the Liberal Class" and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt", because he paints an accurate picture at the problems we face today: division of the middle class, the profiteers of corporations, the rape and pillage of our ecosystem. It's extremely sad to read and it will make you angry because only then will you truly understand at how backwards American society has become. If anyone is interested to learn more, watch this interview he was in with Bill Moyers. He single-handedly taught me not only to be an objective reader and investigator, but how to debate using facts and sources instead of ad-hominems and logical fallacies, what a true journalist should be in my opinion.

The phrase, "ignorance is bliss" rings so true after reading these books for me, because it opened my eyes up to the greed and willingness of corporations to seek profit over human life. It was difficult for me to process at first because I was never aware of so many things he mentions in these books, I didn't want to believe they were true. The thought of Americans cities as disaster zones, or 3rd world countries, but also how easily they engineered this system of propaganda to an already apathetic and ignorant country upset me not because I was offended, but that it was painfully true. The overall narrative of his language is that very principle of Capitalism itself is to consume all the resources for the maximization profit until it will ultimately consume itself... and he hammers it home brilliantly.

Hell: PM me and I'll buy you a digital copy of these books myself, that is how powerful and impacting they are to me.

Edit: This also an open invitation for anyone else who wants to read these books. My Xmas gift to you guys...

Camden's plight, and how it got that way, is a bit part of Chris Hedges (the author of the article) and Joe Sacco's excellent book "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt".

Chris Hedges wrote a great book about what happened in Detroit. It makes for a great read if you would like to put together an informed opinion about the subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Days-Destruction-Revolt-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586434

http://www.amazon.com/Days-Destruction-Revolt-Chris-Hedges/dp/1568586434

We don't need Generals leading from the rear

His new book with Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is absolutely amazing, and even more revelant to this discussion.

>capitalism's abuse of humanity is so much more subtle than communism's was

Err...read this.