Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize winning author (blah blah blah) and this is fairly incendiary in tone, offers no alternative vision, etc. But I’m posting this because it raises a singularly important point, the gist of which - that the United States and much of the Western world have so fallen into the religion of the free market that we have, for all extents and purposes, eliminated any opposing ideas from public discourse - rings very true to this observer. A situation which is, of course, very unhealthy for any society
