Empire of Illusion

by Chris Hedges

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  Index

  Abbott, Jennifer

  Abdul, Paula

  Abu Ghraib

  Achbar, Mark

  Adorno, Theodor

  Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation

  Adult Pay Per View

  Adult Video News (AVN) Awards

  Adult Video News (AVN) expo

  Adult Video News (magazine)

  Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)

  Afghanistan

  AIG

  Amber (Survivor contestant)

  America by Design (Noble)

  American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Hedges)

  American Idol (television show)

  American Medical Association

  American Psychiatric Association

  American Psychological Association (APA)

  The American Scholar (magazine)

  America’s Next Top Model (television show)

  Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman)

  Anadarko Petroleum

  Andersen, Hans Christian

  Anderson, Pamela

  Anderson, Ray

  Andover

  Andrejevic, Mark

  Anne, Lisa

  Annual Positive Psychology Forum

  Antitrust laws

  AOL Time Warner

  Appreciative Inquiry

  Arendt, Hannah

  Army War College, U.S.

  Arnold, Matthew

  AT&T Broadband

  Auden, W. H.

  Augustine, Saint

  Austro-Hungarian Empire

  Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (Seligman)

  Authorization for Use of Military Force (congressional resolution)

  Bacevich, Andrew

  Bakan, Joel

  Balkans

  Balzac, Honoré

  Banks

  bailing out

  collapse of

  faltering

  and Glass-Steagall Act

  insolvent

  leaders of

  and looting of financial system

  nationalizing

  and poor

  and Stewart

  Banks, Russell

  Barry (porn producer)

  Batista (wrestler)

  Bear Stearns

  Bearer, Paul

  Bellah, Robert N.

  Ben-Shahar, Tal D.

  Benjamin, Walter

  Bernanke, Ben

  Berry, Wendell

  Bewitched (television show)

  Biden, Joe

  Big Brother (television show)

  Big Show (wrestler)

  Bigg Boss (television show)

  Blackwater/Xe

  Blade, Barrett

  Blair, Dennis

  Blanc, Mel

  Blankfein, Lloyd

  Blue, Ashley

  Bluebird Films

  Boeing

  Boileau, Jay

  Boorstin, Daniel

  Born to Be Good: The Science of the Meaningful Life (Keltner)

  Botton, Alain de

  Bradbury, Ray

  Bradley, Betty

  Bradley, James

  Bradley, John

  Brave New World (Huxley)

  Brint, Steven

  British Petroleum (BP)

  Brownmiller, Susan

  Budden, Jackiey

  Buddha

  Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Business Week (magazine)

  Buying the War (television documentary)

  Byram, Amanda

  California, University of, Berkeley

  California, University of, Los Angeles

  Calvin, John

 
Cambodia

  Cameron, Kim

  Campaigns. See Political candidates and leaders

  Canada

  Cantor, Paul A.

  Carbon dioxide

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Cash, Johnny

  Cassidy, Brent

  Cassidy, Tyler

  Cato Institute

  Celebrity

  and adoration and worship

  and appearance and lifestyle

  and Christian Right

  and commodity culture

  Eggers on

  and emptiness and purposelessness in life

  and fantasies of fame and success

  and foibles and scandals

  gossip

  hunger for

  and implosion

  interviews and profiles

  and love

  Mills on

  as mirror

  and reality television

  reporters

  and revenge and triumph

  and wealth

  and wrestling

  See also Celebrity culture; Corporations: and celebrities as sellers

  Celebrity culture

  and closeness to celebrities

  and commodities

  as culture of narcissism

  and degradation as entertainment

  Deresiewicz on

  and escape and fantasy

  and exhibitionism

  and family

  and fictional personas

  and frustration and despair

  hollowness of

  and illusion

  and immortality

  and inauthenticity

  and Internet

  and isolation

  and junk politics

  and magical thinking

  manipulation and deceit of

  moral nihilism and void of

  and personal screenplays

  and politicians’ artificial intimacy with public

  Roth on

  and surveillance

  and validation

  Celebrity Driving School (television show)

  Celebrity (Rojek)

  Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes (television show)

  Celebrity Weakest Link (television show)

  Celebrity Wife Swap (television show)

  Center for Representative Politics

  Center for the Advancement of Women

  Central Command, U.S.

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Cheney, Dick

  China

  Chomsky, Noam

  Christian Broadcast Network