I think he has some good points about the inherent rules about media in this country.

er..supposed to be a reply to Mr Unsual Size

Yes, how dare someone take pot shots at corporate culture.

WHAT.

I am now on the last part of this and I think his main argument is solid regarding the corporate hold on the political sphere. Greed IS unchecked and the working class is under attack. There is very little here you can argue with except for the way he attached MJ at the beginning speech, which was rather weak. When he gets to the debt, the real wages of workers, and the debt spiral, he gets pretty solid.

I think his fears of a police state are valid.

I also think that the idea that Christian right would do exactly as he says...without a model for socialism to combat the corporate oligarchies people will turn to an extreme right Christian radical totalitarianism, is not far fetched. We're already seeing a lot of insanity from the Tea partiers who don't have any clue what their organization really stands for. If things worsen economically, people will get desperate and corporations are going to support the far right above the far left.

Are his fears valid? Maybe. But I would rather his arguments be valid than the emotions behind them.

He is one of those people who would have rather seen our entire economy collapse on the possibility that a different system might emerge. Might emerge, and governed by what? He is rejecting the entirity of our modern world in favor of theoretical system that he cannot describe or explain.

It is not just this recession, the evaporation of localized culture, obesity and celebrity that 'inverted totalitarianism' created: it is every corner of our lifestyle it is everything that is occuring now, especially information technology.

He is criticizing Obama for not being visicously 'socialist' or 'liberal' during his first year of office, rejecting all media as a capitalist conspiracy (never mind his own career within this vile corporate monster he is telling us to ignore). He is not a man concerned with making the future, whatever it is, possible. He is a man rejecting the very subtance of which our current lives are made in favor of something he himself can't explain.

We have a bingo!

I'm five-starring the debate here. I've spent time reading up and listening to this guy and though many of his points are valid, he very much seems to be more interested in predicting doom and gloom than offering solutions. Yes, we need socialized healthcare. But Chris Hedges hasn't the first clue on how to get there.