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Hoax



Nicholas von Hoffman
May 2004     ISBN: 156025582X


From Hoax "It is though America is in a 3000 mile wide terrarium, an immense biosphere which has cut if off from the rest of the world and left it to pick its own way down the path of history. By the time the America army stepped into Iraq, the difference in world view between the United States and everybody else had grown to the size of a hole in the atmostphere over the South pole."

All that George Bush had to do was plant a weapon of mass destruction on Saddam Hussein in his little cave. He didn't bother. From the start of the Iraqi affair the Bush Administration's mendacities have been negligently slapped together because their artificers knew that they had a public which will believe any preposterous confabulation tossed in its direction.

As it turned out "old Europe" didn't buy it, nor did old Asia or old Africa or old South America or old anywhere. Only in new America did the masses and the elites swallow more White House whoppers than they serve at Burger King.

Hoax explains that Americans have their own reality at variance with the rest of the world's. Having perfected the domed stadium, Americans have erected a transcontinental astrodome, their own private biosphere, under which they breathe their own air and cultivate life forms unknown anywhere else on the planet. Like Russian nesting dolls, Americans live in a succession of diminishing bubbles. They shop in bubbled malls, they live in gated communities, and they move from place to place breathing their own, private air in the bubble-mobiles known as SUVs.

Hoax tells the story of how Americas lost their pioneer independence to become bobbleheads in Bubbleland and found a new world to conquor in the far off Middle East.

About the Authors

Nicholas von Hoffman wrote a syndicated column for the Washington Post for four years. He is the best-selling author of Citizen Cohn and a columnist for the New York Observer.

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