From the bowels of the Yankee empire a voice that attacks without mercy against complacency and stupidity that day, seize American citizens inevitably arises. Morris Berman is the one who uttered this devastating criticism. However, Twilight of American culture is also a lament for the good old days, when the United States maintained a quality culture, a culture that today is an outrageous caricature of its former self. Berman makes the analogy with the Roman Empire of "bread and circuses" only in the case US stupidity is embodied in the glorification of corporate values, consumerism and mass entertainment, in short, in everything that projects the culture called "McWorld." It seems imperceptible, but erosion of true humanist values passes in front of us while we gorged on junk products, whether edible or spiritual. Morris Berman, like good humanist that he is, decides to make a com...read more