The Assault on Reason by Al GoreMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
For the first part of this book I like very much. Gore talks about the orienting response, positing that watching television affects the orienting response, a vicarious traumatization. This figures into a spectacle theory on how media and demagoguery polarizes, traumatizes, and directs the constituency. Unfortunately, that high reasoning is a short first act before a long, low road of a laundry list of criticisms of the George W. Bush administration.
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