Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11

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In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America --a "New Unilateralism"-- and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens.

"[Americans] recognized even then [immediately after 9/11], with flames still visible in lower Manhattan, that the words 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' had come to mean acquiescence to the administration's preexisting agenda --for example the imperative for further tax cuts, the necessity for Arctic drilling, the systematic elimination of regulatory and union protections, even the funding for the missile shield."

Frank Rich in his preface notes: "The reassuring point of the fixed ideas was to suppress other ideas that might prompt questions or fears about either the logic or hidden political agendas of those conducting what CNN branded as 'America's New War.'"

He adds, "This White House is famously secretive and on-message, but its skills go beyond that. It knows the power of narrative, especially a single narrative with clear-cut heroes and evildoers, and it knows how to drown out any distracting subplots before they undermine the main story."

Book and cover design by Milton Glaser, Inc.

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This is one of the best books available on Bush's war.......2007-03-24

As anyone looks back on the quagmire in Iraq, and increasingly so in Afghanistan, this book becomes ever more valuable as an example of the pre-war intelligence that challenged the rush to war.

Everyone knows of the "intelligence" failures about the "weapons of mass destruction" and the like. This slim book, well worth the new or used price, offers the other "intelligence". It is concisely the good intelligence of a prescient writer who cautioned against a headlong plunge into war based on foolish assumptions and the fatuous dreams of President George Bush and the neocons ("neocons" is short for "neo conservatives" and not for "new con artists" as rational readers might assume).

It's foolish to assert what President Al Gore would have done in the aftermath of a 9-11 attack; however, one element is certain: he would have paid heed to the voices of intellectual ability, as typified by Didion in this book. Vigorous and free-ranging debate was the policy during the Clinton administration, rather than ignoring the advice of senior military leaders and recklessly plunging into war to satisfy an ideological whim.

That's what makes this book so disturbing. War wasn't the only option in 2003; it isn't the only option now. In retrospect, any other choice than war would have been preferable. In retrospect, only a madman would send more than 3,000 Americans to their deaths, mostly at the hands of Iraqis who want all foreigners out of their country, but with some help from al Qaeda.

'Fixed Ideas' is really a misnomer; the reality, as Didion makes clear, is that "ideas" in America changed very dramatically after 9-11 to the detriment of democracy, free speech and rational debate. A few people retained the courage to speak out, or "write out" as in this book; for most, minds slammed shut and were locked with the hatred of revenge. She is absolutely right the new 'fixed ideas' were for war and against all dissent or rational questioning.

Didion presents a reminder that freedom is a value, one that should not be lost even when people face unknowable threats and fears. The neocon crushing of dissent is as dangerous to America as the Taliban crushing of free thought. New or used, borrowed or bought, 'Fixed Ideas' is as valuable today as in 2003; perhaps more so, because it is a cogent reminder of what we must rebuild.

Not for the Bulk Buying Club apparently.......2004-09-12

I'm confused by the tone of the reviews. Perhaps it has to do with my not being the type of person who self-describes as "patrician" or the type who'd give a Joan Rivers' "book" on Jewelry five stars?
Or maybe it's because I don't bulk buy at Sam's Club?
I certainly don't purchase a book based on page numbers.
Didion's concise essay has all the hallmarks that have made her one of our finer written voices. Yes, the text is "only" forty-four pages. (And the price is "only" $7.95.) If you're attempting to fill the trunk of your car, this isn't your cup of "patrician" tea.
But if you're wanting to read what one of our foremost writers makes of a situation that shook the country and the official response that followed then this is a read you won't want to miss.
For those who might carp of the "length," it's worth noting that Didion can do more with one carefully crafted sentence than most authors can do with a lengthy chapter.
Quality isn't measured by page count and those who can grasp that and those who enjoy strong writing will enjoy this book.

I guess so.............2004-07-07

Good Lord that's a lot of money! $7.95 for 44 pages... and the margins are big, so text only takes up about half the page. Didion's point is that, post-9/11, certain ideas are fixed -- ideas set by the White House/National Security State/Military Industrial complex/Powers That Be. Mainstream media marches in lockstep, and feeds these fixed ideas to the people. According to Didion, dissenting views are marginalized, and questioning the (upgraded) status quo is a no-no.

The only thing is.... I've heard Didion's complaint that dissent is shut down from: Gore Vidal, Bill Maher, Air America, The Nation, Michael Moore, etc. So dissent ain't that shut down.

A look at post-9/11 America.......2004-01-19

"Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11," by Joan Didion, features a preface by Frank Rich. The title page notes that the text is "as published in The New York Review of Books of January 16, 2003." The copyright page notes further that the book is based on a lecture given by the author at the New York Public Library on Nov. 13, 2002. It's a short book (44 plus xiv pages).

The book is an attempt to look critically at the "national pieties," or fixed opinions that seem to have gripped the U.S. national psyche since the terrorist attacks of 2001. Didion discusses the "death of irony," conflicting ideas and attitudes since 9/11, the "New American Unilateralism," etc. She also tries to put "the inevitability of going to war with Iraq" in historical context.

Didion's intentions strike me as admirable, but in the end I found the book to be lacking in profound new insight. Although she raises some intriguing issues, the text is oddly inert and ends abruptly. Still, it's worth reading if you're interested in the cultural debates spawned in the aftermath of 9/11.

Beautiful essay, but does it deserve a whole book?.......2003-09-15

I'm not sure why this essay from The New York Review of Books of January 16, 2003 was made into a book. It's more like a pamphlet, and a short one at that. Of course Joan Didion is an icon of the American left and a prose stylist deluxe as well as a trenchant social and political critic. Perhaps what Didion has to say is of great importance and perhaps she says it very well. Clearly the unstated assumption of the essay--that we would in fact bring about a regime change in Iraq (that is, we would invade Iraq) has proven prescient.

Didion's essay is in three parts. The first part is mostly an observation on how the Bush administration is attempting to preempt criticism of its policies by labeling critics as somehow unpatriotic or worse. One of the nice points she makes is that the "war on terror" is a misnomer since terror is not a state but a technique. (p. 8)

In the second part she identifies the first "fixed idea." She is talking about the government of Israel. She writes, "Whether the actions taken by that government constitute self-defense or a particularly inclusive form of self-immolation remains an open question." She goes on to say that almost no one in the US dare challenge the fixed idea that we must support the actions of the Israeli government. She says that the question is seldom discussed rationally or at all (in her circle, it would seem) because "few of us are willing to see our evenings turn toxic." ( p. 23) That she herself has to bury this assertion into the very middle of her essay and to express it so obliquely reinforces her point perhaps more strongly than she might have imagined.

In the third part she reveals the second fixed idea, which she identifies as the "theory" behind the "regime change in Iraq" pronouncements made in 2002 by President Bush. "I made up my mind [the President had said in April] that Saddam needs to go." (p. 36) The "theory" that Didion is talking about is sometimes called "The Bush Doctrine" or "The New American Unilateralism" or more bluntly, "The American Empire." The second fixed idea then is that "with the collapse of the Soviet Union" we have an opportunity and an obligation to move unilaterally and preemptively against our enemies as an imperial power might.

I'm not going to evaluate Didion's argument here--that is something you will want to do yourself--except to say that:

1) In reference to the rather high-handed attempt at managing the press and public opinion by the Bush administration, had the Democrats been in the White House post 9/11 they would have done something similar.

2) The actions of Hamas and the other Palestinian suicide/murder organizations make it difficult to take any side other than Israel's. If the Palestinian people had better leadership that would pursue their goals in the spirit and manner of, say, Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr., they would find widespread (although not majority) support in the US; indeed, I believe, given world opinion, they would be successful.

3) Yes, we are indeed seeing the emergence of an American Empire. Whether we will have the wisdom to use our power so that we do not go the way of Rome in a relatively quick manner will depend on our ability to work with other nations for the betterment of the entire planet. This is something the Bush administration is not doing very well, but there is hope that the next administration will be wiser.

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Couch Time for America...

Death's Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11
Walter Davis
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"Davis writes with fervor, vision, and keen moral appreciation of our condition. He encourages us to see what we fear to see, to say what we fear to say. This book is illuminating, challenging, fierce." Michael Eigen, author of The Sensitive Self, Rage, Ecstasy, Toxic Nourishment, Damaged Bonds andThe Psychoanalytic Mystic

Why is fear a dominant emotion in contemporary society? Why are politicians using words like 'terror', 'evil' and 'fundamentalism', and what effect is it having on public consciousness?

Answering these questions, Walter A. Davis taps into the cultural psyche to explore the link between ideology and emotional and psychological manipulation. Starting with the three topics that have preoccupied social discourse since 9-11 -- terror, evil and fundamentalism -- he shows that the Bush administration has been hugely successful in controlling and developing a new political climate through the creation of an almost hypnotic mass consciousness.

Davis's findings take us to the heart of the ideological paralysis of the Left, while offering an innovative approach to understanding contemporary history.

Davis fuses a psychoanalytic and philosophical framework to explain the relation between culture and political events, from the sado-masochist hysteria of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ' to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison; and from the genocidal use of depleted uranium in Iraq to the apocalyptic language driving the Christian Right's assault on basic human rights.

He exposes the motives and belief-systems of this new American psyche and shows how it sustains the Bush administration's agenda. Illuminating how psychological needs govern political action, Davis reveals why the relationship between politics and public consciousness has massive implications for all of us beyond America's borders.

Walter A. Davis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of six previous books, including Inwardness and Existence: Subjectivity in/and Hegel, Heidegger, Marx and Freud (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989) and Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative (SUNY Press, 2001).

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Couch Time for America..........2006-04-25

Disturbing. Provocative. Perceptive.

This is one of those books that - out of all proportion to its size - is packed with unsettling insights into and theories about our uniquely American character. Though, perhaps, it could be equally applied to many different Western nations through modern history, it is particularly attuned to the angst-ridden United States of the early twenty-first century.

Professor Walter A. Davis, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, skillfully and artfully uses his command of language, theater, and philosophy to vivisect the type of persons that we have become in this post-9/11 nation and display for all to see the banality of evil that so marks our domestic and foreign policy.

Manipulated by fear and by the mindless pursuit of a lifestyle, which can only be sustained at the expense of others, we have collectively empowered an increasingly totalitarian form of neo-fascism. All that matters is expansion and power. Envy and Greed rule the day. Dr. Davis examines this unhappy state of affairs at length and diagnoses a form of psychosis peculiar to us - individually and collectively - a psychosis which begins with each of us as individuals, but ultimately manifests itself in the corporate body.

Through the use of predominantly psychoanalytical tools - the application of language; the use of classic literature, theater, and philosophy; and, clinical case studies of mental pathology - Dr. Davis proposes a new and radical way of analyzing what ails our spirit in this failing nation state.

The author does not hesitate to tear down the totems of our society. From the halls of academia to the seats of government - from the altars of fundamentalist churches to the boardrooms of Amerika, Inc. - no one is spared his scathing, all-too-accurate criticism. Doubtless, those who would most benefit from Dr. Davis' call to personal introspection and responsibility will immediately reject any suggestion of their own complicity in our society's ills. Sadly, it is also highly unlikely that most of our fellow Americans will interrupt their "happy" thoughts by attempting to read a book named "Death's Dream Kingdom." Such reading might cause too much psychic discomfort and result in too much guilt. Such reading would be too radical. Such reading would require too much thought.

Unfortunately for Dr. Davis and his work, the subject matter of his volume will neither be conducive to financial success nor to receiving the recognition that it deserves. The vast majority of Christians will dismiss him as a raving atheist and, thus, while waiting on the Rapture will miss valid criticisms of today's "feel good", "easy believe-ism". His academic colleagues will attack him as just another retired liberal arts professor and, thus, be content in their insular smugness and political-correctness. Politicians and corporatists alike will excoriate him as one of "those" Marxists and, thus, reject the totalitarian reality of latter-day capitalism. Instead of Orwell's boot "brought down on the human face forever," we are left with the image of a yellow smiley face doing the same.

In spite of the often brutal diagnostics that Dr. Davis brings to bear upon each of us, he is at heart a Romantic and, consequently, offers the prospect of redemption. Unfortunately, that redemption can only come through the self-psychoanalysis of our own madness - the confrontation of our own inner demons that we strive to hide and deny - the recognition of the truth about ourselves. Only by starting there with our psyche struggling with itself can change occur and the pathological processes at work in each of us begin to be reversed.

Finally, he points out in the closing paragraphs of his book how time limited we are in this historical moment and he calls for action by translating "one's inwardness into the terms of responsibility." With the looming crises of environmental catastrophe, a nuclear holocaust, and the rise of a rogue Totalitarian State, our time may indeed be short for self-correction. "Death's Dream Kingdom," is a much-needed diagnostic and therapeutic tool for correcting the insanity that so grips our land.

The 9/11 Commision Report with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left Americans wondering how such a breach of security could have occurred. Relatives and friends of the victims pushed for the creation of a National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States to investigate the government's preparedness for and response to the attacks and to provide recommendations for preventing future disasters. As Senior Advisor to the 9/11 Commission, Ernest R. May provides students with a firsthand account of the commission's methods and actions. His introduction, which describes the drafting process and the collaboration of the commissioners despite the bitter political divisions surrounding them, allows students to view the report as an historical document. The report itself has been carefully abridged for the classroom while preserving the essence of the complete version. A cast of characters, a glossary of political acronyms, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and questions for consideration make this edition ideal for students.

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i am happier to know u
I am Happier to Know You
Easy to read
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I Am Even Happier To Know Jean Eck & Her Wonderful Book!

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I Am Happier to Know You is the story of the people, culture, sights and fragrances of Egypt and the Middle East viewed through the eyes and heart of a single, midlife woman. Concurrently, it's a memoir of the joys and challenges author Jeanne M. Eck embraced when, on wings of faith, she left her Western culture behind and moved to Egypt.

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i am happier to know u.......2007-05-14

loved it, loved it, loved it...my kind of book....easy to read, extremely interesting & informative...if you have a desire to learn more about the muslim culture & to have a greater understanding of the people of egypt this is the book you must read. the author with her wit & charm has done a wonderful job at making you feel you are there with her sharing her experiences. will definately order more copies to give to my friends (there not getting my copy)who i know will think twice before critising the muslim culture & hopefully have a harder look at our own culture.

I am Happier to Know You.......2006-03-26

Written with humor, honesty and genuine caring, I am Happier to Know You takes the reader into a rich and varied culture with social and political perspectives so necessary to our understanding of today's world. This story of a lone, American woman as she finds personal strength experiencing a totally new life is insightful and compassionate. I felt as if I were in Egypt. Her sense of humor took her through many trying circumstances, but brought with it acceptance and understanding of a country and a people she truly loves. I am Happier to Know You provides both learning and understanding of Middle Eastern customs through non-judgmental eyes and an inspiring, courageous story of personal growth.

Easy to read.......2006-02-25

This book is written in a easy way to read, entertaining and informative in some parts but the writer was misinformed in some other parts. I am an Egyptian and while was reading some parts I was feeling like she was talking about another country than the one I know. Either she was misinformed as I said or didn't understand some aspects of the culture. Overall, it is a good book. At least she took the time to know another culture. I salute her.

Love is the Answer.......2005-11-15

"I Am Happier to Know You" written by Jeanne M. Eck is a memoir of a journey within and without. Written with honesty and clarity Jeanne's voice offers the reader to experience Egypt through her eyes and heart. Her growth and wisdom expands in this faraway land and this growth and wisdom transcends the pages for all to grasp. Ultimately, her message is really very simple and beautiful, " Love is the answer, it is the answer to everything.

I Am Even Happier To Know Jean Eck & Her Wonderful Book!.......2005-11-13

What can I say? Jean is so honest when she writes and I truly love this quality in her latest book "I Am Happier To Know You." As an expat living in Egypt, myself (for 7 years), I truly could not of said it any better than Jean. She captures every little detail of life in Egypt. Her indepth explanation of the sounds, smells, and tastes of Egyptian life is brought to life in-front of your eyes, as you read her book. At times, I felt I wasn't reading - I was just mearly watching her life unfold hear step by step and inch by inch. She has truly done the unknown and remarkable endeavours to create this book. Going were most people don't dare go; she went full force into a life of the unknown and came out to tell about it in "I Am Happier To Know You." I highly recommend this book to anyone that simply once to be able to let go of all you ever known but, just can't! Jean Eck makes it all come true for you in "I Am Happier To Know You."

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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
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Release Date: 2007-10-02

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash—an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11

In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country’s psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore “traditional” manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling “security moms,” swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the “rescue” of a female soldier cast as a “helpless little girl”?

The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite “barbarians” on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.

Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9/11 revealed about us—and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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eye opening.......2007-10-03

Who wouldve know that the stewardesses on the flight 93 had boiled water to toss onto the terrorists? Not many people as the main focus was on the male heros, the male fireighters, (even though they had women firefighters)and male heros on flight 93. Very eye opening. Read it, as its essential to know the real story behind Americas most monumental event in our countries existence.

Keep at it, Susan.......2007-10-03

First things first, I commend Faludi, as always, for her writing style. Faludi's journalism background has made her books very readable and her latest is no exception. Those who fear a long-winded book full of academic jargon need not be afraid. This is vintage Faludi.

Second, a previous reviewer has dismissed the argument of this book that it's just human nature the way people respond to such crises. Faludi goes to show us the opposite: human nature includes a survival instinct within us all, male or female but too often, other forces and the need to create heroes brings up a divide between men and women, casting the former as heroes and the latter as the victimized in need of saving. Perhaps this isn't a new argument, but Faludi brings it new life by comparing the post-9/11 climate to earlier periods in the history of the United States. I had heard of many of the male archetypes referred to here, the Daniel Boones, the Natty Bumppos but I have never read many captivity narratives and to me, this was new ground.

I could have used a bit more in the beginning when Faludi discusses Susan Sontag and Barbara Kingsolver. What those writers said after 9/11 is never quoted in full; I admit feeling a little angry at their comments in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, not because I was bloodthirsty but because they seemed the words of apologists and ill-timed. Then again, that was my emotional response to a day that still haunts me and I'll never be able to think rationally about it, but it would also cause me to miss Faludi's point: it's not so much what they said as the reaction to the women who spoke out as opposed to male commentators who said similar things yet were ignored by the press.

I recommend this book, whether you agree with it or not. As interesting as the first section of the book is, it's the second that held my interest best. This book will undoubtedly anger some, but it's worth reading and discussing, adding to an increasing lists of polemics about the current state of the union.

Put a cork in it, Susan........2007-10-02

I'd hoped that this woman had disappeared, but here she is again, like recurring rash. In this ready-for-the-remainder-table book, she sums up the fear, panic, callous political manipulation and admittedly embarrassing media pigfest that followed 9/11 as a sort of primal rebirth of our nation. According to her, we are all supposed to have been expressing our hardwired need to return to a world where men are men, women are protected, and bad people are sought out and punished -- a world, she opines, like that experienced by the original "settlers" of the New World. The problem is, history doesn't conform to her premise. Nor does the political climate post 9/11, in which some of the more effective voices against the Bush machine have been female. If the evil Mass Media has been pushing back feminism for the last half dozen years, how should one explain the (puzzling to me, a woman) huge success of Hillary Clinton? Faludi holds on for dear life to the "myth" of Jessica Lynch, as if that liferaft can save her weak book from sinking to the murky depths of bad gender sort-of-academia, where it belongs. It's true that Lynch was used by the military,and used by the media, and that her fictional story was eaten up by a gullible American public. But people have always liked a story about a pretty woman being rescued (see Pretty Woman, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, most Romance novels, Jane Austen, most chick-lit, and that cartoon guy who constantly rescued his girlfriend from the railroad tracks...). There's nothing new, or primal, or post-9/11 about that. It's just human nature, and there are plenty of books out there explaining why this is, written by true academics with appropriate qualifications. Faludi's book is a waste of trees.

American Made: three short films written and directed by South Asians explore what it means to be a South-Asian male in post-9/11 America.(CULTURE): An article from: Colorlines Magazine

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American Made: three short films written and directed by South Asians explore what it means to be a South-Asian male in post-9/11 America.(CULTURE): An article from: Colorlines Magazine
Rebekah Kebede
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The degeneration of American political culture and the documentary film in Fahrenheit 9/11.: An article from: The Forum

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Eric Langenbacher
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This digital document is an article from The Forum, published by Thomson Gale on July 19, 2004. The length of the article is 1735 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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