Yeah -- except for that time back in 2008 when he said atheists were as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists. Remember?
http://www.salon.com/2008/03/13/chris_hedges/
But what the hell -- Everybody blows their wheels every now and again. I mean he earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School so we know he spent a lot of time, and allocated a lot of head space, to the study of gibberish. It was only natural some of that lunacy leaked out. But after The Big Blowout I guess he called the mental health department of Triple A and got back on the road again.
His latest essay, We're Losing the Last Shreds of Legal Rights to Protect Ourselves from Oligarchy,
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/were-post-constitutional-era
is another example of great Chris Hedges writing. But he consistently has a problem with using the correct tenses of verbs. He insists on using the present or future tense when he should be using the past tense.
We’re not losing … we’ve lost.
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