America's Meltdown

As entertainers corporations and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator American life becomes increasingly vicarious prefabricated and bereft of meaning. This book examines contemporary American consciousness considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth.Celebrity news video games cookie-cutter schools and shopping shopping shopping. As entertainers corporations and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator American life becomes increasingly vicarious prefabricated and bereft of meaning. This book examines contemporary American consciousness considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth.Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony superficiality attention deficit disorder and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons why a president boasts that he earned Cs in college and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society.