Publisher's Synopsis
Having exposed the Christian Right, Chris Hedges now turns his attention to those secular fundamentalists who, as he demonstrates, espouse a belief system every bit as rigid as those they condemn. In particular, he believes that they caricature the Muslim world in language that is racist, crude and intolerant; that, beneath the veneer of Western sophistication and the assumption of Western superiority, they are calling 'for the same violent Utopianism (but) under secular banners' -- and that they are every bit as dangerous as their religious counterparts. "Utopian ideologues, armed with the technology and mechanisms of industrial slaughter, have killed tens of millions of people over the last century. They ask us to inflict suffering and death in the name of virtue and truth... They commit evil not for evil's sake but to make a better world."
