American Crazy: a voyage to the dark side of the American dream

by Jerry Kroth

American A voyage to the dark side of the American dream is a penetrating look at contemporary collective delusions slithering across the American landscape. A delusion is a false idea about the world, a kind of intellectual “trance.” When an individual suffers one, the diagnosis of mental illness is not far behind. When a nation labors under them, we have a state of collective mental instability. This odyssey explores four gargantuan delusions infecting the American psyche, our understanding of our democratic political system, our perception of ourselves in the world, our apperception of the threat of global warming, and in the final chapter, “Slip-slidin to dystopia,” America’s financial myths are dissected along the nightmare that seems inevitable should we not awaken our trance in short order.

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First published July 18, 2011