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Benjamin Barber Ph.D - Air date: 11-13-07

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Benjamin R. Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, as well as president and director of the international NGO CivWorld, and its annual Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior fellow at Demos. An internationally renowned political theorist, Dr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad. He consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the United States and around the world. Benjamin Barber's 17 books include the classic Strong Democracy (1984) reissued in 2004 in a twentieth anniversary edition; the recent international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld (1995 with a Post 9/11 Edition in 2001, translated into twenty languages) and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole, published by W.W. Norton & Co. in March, 2007. Barber's honors include a knighthood (Palmes Academiques/Chevalier) from the French Government (2001), the Berlin Prize of the American Academy of Berlin (2001) and the John Dewey Award (2003). He has also been awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Social Science Research Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Grinnell College, Monmouth University and Connecticut College, and has held the chair of American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He writes frequently for Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The American Prospect, Le Nouvel Observateur, Die Zeit, La Repubblica, El Pais and many other scholarly and popular publications in America and Europe. He was a founding editor and for ten years editor-in-chief of the distinguished international quarterly Political Theory. He holds a certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an M.A. and Doctorate from Harvard University.

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  • Consumed is very well written and based in solid sociological reasoning.

  • "So today, instead of manufacturing goods, the market is involved in manufacturing needs."

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  • 18:00 This isn't about Jesus. HA

  • Globalisation is Evil Incarnate

  • The United States economy is now modeled upon the British East India Company.

  • The New Man is a form of Neanderthal. It is funny that the elite now change society with each generation and the public merely adapts to new forms of behaviour like you would an animal, no matter how irrational, inhuman, immoral, base, guttural, or sordid.

  • Egocentrism is the New Manifesto of Society.

  • The Mass Man is a form of Bee.

    Those in a post-industrial society are merely "Useless Eaters" now, who have exhausted their use and are just another form of ferral beast to be culled and herded. They are now green agrarian. The history of the Green Revolution, would follow that of the Red (Communist) and Blue, as the color Green is Freemasonic and emblamatic of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

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