This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back, Tom Harbin here with you and in the studio with me Chris Hedges and I'm so

pleased to have Chris with us he's arguably needs no introduction,

but graduate of the Harvard Divinity School,

long time war correspondent in foreign theaters,

some just god awful stuff you've seen.

You are one of the most brilliant writers I know I

love the you're writing it so evocative war is a force that gives us meaning

which is a mind-blowing book Chris's new book is America The Farewell Tour.

Chris Hedges, welcome.

Thanks, Tom.

Your book is broken into chapters that are rather stark in their single word titles decay chapter one chapter two heroin

three work for sadism five hate six gambling seven freedom

why and what do what do these mean it comes out of dirk times great study on

suicide

uh... published in eighteen ninety seven where

he went out and wanted to look at what it is that drove individuals and communities

to acts of self-anilation and he looked for these pathologies of self-destruction and

that's what I wanted to do he coined the term

enemy which in the French translation is rulelessness a n i mean the a n a m i m e a n a m i right, Anemee, which is essentially the rules break down, the social bonds,

the social contract breaks down, that breakdown, that isolation, that alienation, that sense of despair

and hopelessness manifests itself in self-destructive behaviors, which are rippling across the United States.

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