Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War | 
pickBageant describes school shootings as "rare and declining." To be fair, this book was published in 2007, and sadly, Bageant died in 2011, long before Sandy Hook, Uvalde, etc. Other than his views on gun control (which I'm confident that someone as smart as Bageant would have eventually altered had he lived long enough), I agree with him on everything else. The closing chapter American Hologram is brilliant. #2024Book18 ?✝️
It's gotten worse. This book was published in 2007. I recently read that 56% of Americans are now functionally illiterate. By the way, for me, the fact that there are so many stupid people out there who are wildly successful is single-handedly the most painful thing about being alive.
...poor diabetic person manages to survive insulin shock and lives to make the payments on the credit card he used for that emergency room visit, he is welcome to join a hundred others like him down at the community center for a wellness talk and a free brochure paid for by a leading pharmaceutical company.
"Tough beans, because nobody can stop ignorant folks from having ignorant fun and spectacle, which is pretty much the only kind of fun and spectacle available in this country."
But are poor whites any better-off than poor blacks? And does the fact that most of the super rich are white help poor whites any more than the fact that most millionaire rappers are black helps poor blacks?
...of gadgets, well, they figure they have plenty for which to be grateful even if they do have to buy groceries with a credit card from time to time. People are starving in India, right? Judging from the wall-to-wall double-wide rumps in the pews, no one is starving here. God provides Big Macs and supermarket bakery cakes.
so-soI wish I'd read this book when it was first published. 15 years later, this territory feels not only well-worn, but also exasperating. Years and years of think pieces on the culture, values, and voting tendencies of the "white working class" have left me cold in the wake of 2016. I'm not sure what I was expecting this one to do for me; maybe I hoped to find some new enlightenment about our current situation? Spoiler: I didn't.
#ColeCat makes a handy bookmark (even when you never asked for his help). #CurrentlyReading #CatsOfLitsy
I was asked to put together a collection of books focusing on the Appalachian region for a gift exchange. These are some of the ones I included.
Which books would you have included?
Photo credit: Adam Sexton
#appalachianliterature #athinsliceofanxiety #appalachianstudies #ourregion
pickBook review for Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War by Joe Bageant
http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2017/07/review-deer-hunting-with-jesus_22.htm...
This was my very first blog post, started exactly one year ago today!
#joebageant #athinsliceofanxiety #anniversary #workingclass #america #blog #deerhuntingwithjesus
Best party of birthdays: flowers and books! My sister spoiled me with all of these and a chocolate tart!
Published 10 years ago. So I guess this is the "later" he's referring to. But now the dangerous dimwit wears a red ball cap instead of cowboy boots.
pickThis book gave me so many feels I'm going to be sorry to give it back to the library.
Starting to feel like the sun might never come out. Starting #HelloOctober with a 90 minute ride on my indoor trainer.
