Arden, John Boghosian, <br/><br/>
America's meltdown :  the lowest-common-denominator society / 
John Boghosian Arden. 
 - vi, 234 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index. 
<br/><br/> The Meltdown --  Cyberspaced --  Vicarious Living --  Infotainment --  Retail Government --  Lock and Load --  The Bottom of the Barrel --  Shopping and Dropping --  Men and Women Are from Earth --  Hyped Sports --  Waging the Soul --  Punching the Clock --  McMedicine --  Shrink Wrap --  Dumbsizing the Schools --  Mall Art --  The Spiritual Supermarket --  Rebuilding the Future.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18. 
<br/><br/> "This book examines contemporary American consciousness, considering the factors that have driven society toward gossip and sensationalism at the cost of substance and depth." "Arden discusses the growing epidemic of acrimony, superficiality, attention deficit disorder, and complaints of ennui. He targets the reasons why American children have expressed their confused rage with deadly weapons, why a president boasts that he earned C's in college, and why society has drifted into craving entertainment laced with violence and cheap thrills. The book is provocative reading for concerned citizens, as well as for scholars and researchers involved with contemporary American culture and society."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0275976394 9780275976392 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002030727 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture--United States.<br/>Mass media--Social aspects--United States<br/>Social psychology--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization--1970-<br/>United States--Social conditions--1980-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E169.12  / .A724 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.92