Summary Of The Real Enemy Is Within By Chris Hedges

As an extremely well known writer, columnist, reporter and foreign correspondent, Chris Hedges write on America, its government, people, and military in his article “The Real Enemy Is Within”. Hedges gets straight to his thesis as to the destruction on the war machine society that America has developed to be under fear and racism. He claims an extraordinary amount of evidence for to back his claim such as quotes from many well-known intellectuals, past history, and from his own experience. Hedges claims that the militarists and profiteers of the war machine use fear and racism to force their ideas and concepts of the perfect working state, without counter opinion, and without the ability to change unless it is to the benefit of those running

An ever increasing fear that pushes our nation into a corner clouded by the gigantic shadow cast by ongoing propaganda. Propaganda that is shown across the nation, in the home, and questionably imbedded in our bloodlines. This malicious enterprise has given corporations profitable reason to use their resources to support the military effort in expanding and taking over in other countries for countless years. The war machine as Hedges describes it has never been about safety, liberty, or even democracy, but instead a figurehead of an evolving institution in the business of security and surveillance, holding immense defense contracts and being backed by economic and political powers internally. Through statistics and documented expenditures, Hedges shows the monumental expenses that the military drain from the federal budget, on average, that is paid for mostly out of the taxpayers’ pockets. Throwing our “individualistic” mindset out the window, the suffocating smog of the empire has always been this way, war industry growing fat off the middle class, and the middle class blindingly feeding it while it collapses from the

Not to mention the militant and government powers that is coarsely sprinkled throughout the stock market and finely woven in its infrastructure. He shows how so much of the nation being controlled by military publicity there is not big enough community to come together on one even ground to fight against it. Little to no opposition to this lifestyle gives the military full control to limit or extinguish contrasting views for fear of being ostracized in the home and community. In Hedges’, and other distinguished intellectual’s minds, the greed and violence is understood to be masked by patriotism and nationalism, which are gateway drugs to racism and