Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots

Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots

Puppet Theater of the Absurd – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations and retreated into echo chambers where fact and fiction were indistinguishable. Donald Trump, and the sycopha…

Chris Hedges - The Rule of Idiots - Brave New Europe

In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor…