The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire Audiobook (Free)

A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC Experience THROUGH A Country OVER THE VERGE OF THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN-FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TOWARDS THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE HEARTLAND

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the type of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up throwing up demons within an evangelical church in Texas, driving the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling in to the rabbit about THE FANTASTIC Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion on the Twilight from the American Empire gap of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Matt discovered in his moves across the country the fact that resilient blue condition/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A big and developing chunk from the American inhabitants was so transformed off-or radicalized-by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the progressively blatant lies from our market leaders (“they hate us for our independence”) that they deserted the politics mainstream entirely. They joined what he calls THE FANTASTIC Derangement.

Taibbi tells the story of the new American madness by inserting himself into four defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds himself mired in the grotesque black comedy from the American job of Iraq; THE MACHINE, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically important apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants. Together these four interwoven travels paint a portrait of a country dangerously out of contact with actuality and desperately searching for answers in all the wrong areas.

Funny, wise, and a bit heartbreaking, THE FANTASTIC Derangement can be an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America by the end from the Bush era.