A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless
Автор:Eduardo Velasquez Год: 2007 Издание:Intercollegiate Studies Institute Страниц: 200 ISBN: 1933859288 What accounts for the apocalyptic angst that is now so clearly present among Americans who do not subscribe to any religious orthodoxy? Why do so many popular television shows, films, and music nourish themselves on this very angst? And why do so many artists - from Coldplay to Tori Amos to Tom Wolfe—feel compelled to give it expression? It is tempting to say that America’s fears and anxieties are understandable in the light of 9/11, the ongoing War on Terror, nuclear proliferation, and the seemingly limitless capacity of science to continually challenge our conceptions of the universe and ourselves. Perhaps, too, American culture remains so permeated by Protestant Christianity that even avowed skeptics cannot pry themselves from its grip. In A Consumer’s Guide to the Apocalypse, Eduardo Velasquez argues that these answers are too pat. Velasquez’s astonishing thesis is that when we peer into contemporary artists’ creative depiction of our sensibilities we discover that...
