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America, Compromised Audiobook

America, Compromised Audiobook

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‘There is not an individual American awake to the world who’s comfortable with the way things are.’ So starts Lawrence Lessig’s sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all discover it-from the offering of Congress to unique interests to the organization capture from the academy. Something is definitely wrong. It’s obtaining worse.

What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that people can’t blame the issues of modern American lifestyle on bad people, about America, Compromised as our discourse all too often tends to carry out. Rather, he points out, ‘We possess allowed core organizations of America’s economic, social, and political life to become corrupted. Not by evil souls, but by good souls. Not really through criminal offense, but through compromise.’ Through case studies of Congress, financing, the academy, the mass media, and regulations, Lessig shows how establishments are drawn from higher reasons and toward money, power, quick rewards-the first steps to corruption.

America is on the wrong path. If we don’t acknowledge our own part for the reason that, and action now to change it, we will hand our kids a less ideal union than we were given. It will be a long struggle. This publication represents the initial steps.

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