Burning All Illusions
Subtitle: a guide to personal and political freedom
By: David Edwards.
Contributors: Foreword by Jonathon Porritt
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Liberty -- Philosophy.; Authority.; Individualism.; Self.
First sentence: (Chapter 1 begins with a quote)

'Our whole social system rests upon the fictitious belief that nobody is forced to do what he does, but that he likes to do. this replacement of overt by anonymous authority finds its expression in all areas of life: Force is camouflaged by consent; the consent is brought about by methods of mass suggestion.' Erich Fromm, "The Art of Being"
Description: All text that follows is from the back cover:

This is a book about freedom, and above all about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained. What prison, after all, could be more secure than that deemed to be 'the world,' where boundaries of action and thought are assumed to define not the limits of the permissible, but the limits of the possible.

In the past we have been prisoners of tyrants and dictators, and consequently have needed to win our freedom in very concrete, physical terms. We now need to free ourselves not from a slave ship, a prison, or a concentration camp, but from many of the illusions fostered in our democratic society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
Published in England under title: Free to be human.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: Foreword by Jonathon Porritt
pagenum: vii; label: Introduction
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: BEYOND TOTALITARIANISM: Noam Chomsky and the Propaganda Model of Media Control
pagenum: 5; title: Proceed with Caution! The Pitfalls of Common Sense; title: Tools of the Trade: Chomsky as Man of the Enlightenment; title: Manufacturing Consent: Media as Propaganda; title: Framing Conditions and 'Accidental' Necessity; title: The Five Reality Filters; title: Testing the Hypothesis; title: Drugs and Terror; title: Invisible Genocide: The Silent Death of East Timor; title: 'It Doesn't Take a Hero!' War Crimes in the Gulf; title: All Aboard the Neptune Express! Chomsky as Latter-Day 'Ass'; label: 2
title: EXTENDING THE SCOPE OF THE PROPAGANDA MODEL
pagenum: 35; title: Freedom to Conform; title: Success as Obedience; title: Who's Watching Big Brother?; title: Filtering the Classics; title: Necessary Beliefs; title: The Economic Expedience of Neurosis; title: Cure or Conformity?; title: The Sickness of Psychotherapy; title: Freudian Psychoanalysis, the Sexual Revolution, and the Propaganda Model; title: Limiting the Debate: Ridicule; title: Limiting the Debate: Silence; title: Limiting the Debate: The Relativity of Truth; label: 3
title: KILLING THE DREAM OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH
pagenum: 59; title: Storms in the Propaganda Tea Cup; title: Clinging Religiously to Non-Belief: the Political Economy of Atheism; title: Security in Despair; title: The CFF is Dead: Long Live Religion!; title: Atheism as Anaesthetic: The Great 'So What!'; title: The Unholy Trinity: Atheism, Consumerism, and 'Progress'; title: 'Always Winter, Never Christmas'; title: Milk and Sugar?; title: What Zarathustra Also Said; title: Power Religion; title: Experts: High Priests of Incoherence; title: 'Wherever I Lay My Hat...' Devils on the Move; title: Free at Last: Again!; label: 4
title: KILLING THE DREAM OF RIGHT CONDUCT
pagenum: 83; title: Enlightened Ethics: Why Not?; title: The Short Arms of Cosmic and Earthly Law; title: Zen and the Art of Living: A Rational Basis for Morality; title: Sin as Mistake; title: Why the Above Interpretation is Absurd; title: Truth and a Good Buying Environment; label: 5
title: THE DESOLATED DAY-TRIPPER
pagenum: 105; title: The Soluble Self; title: 'Can't Find the Wound from Where I'm Bleeding'; title: The Natural History of the Desolated Day-Tripper; title: Desolate: Meaning 'Alone'; label: 6
title: BEYOND 'SUCCESS' -- TOLSTOY'S "CONFESSION"
pagenum: 125; title: The Self-Defined; title: When Life is a Lie: Tolstoy's "Confession"; title: When Life Comes to a Standstill; title: Into the Abyss; title: Returning to the Real World; title: The Reasonable Demand of Life; title: The Need to Know; title: The Demon Cities of the Underworld: Where the Jewels Glow!; label: 7
title: THE WOUND OUTSIDE
pagenum: 133; title: Pyrrhus Recalled; title: The Pathology of Profit; title: Two Voices of Resistance; title: The Real Foundation of Skyscrapers; label: 8
title: JOINING THE TWO WOUNDS: PERSONALIZING THE GLOBAL, GLOBALIZING THE PERSONAL
pagenum: 157; title: 'The Wound That I Beheld Bleeding, Is Bleeding, Now, Within Me'; title: 'Hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead!' The Task of the Hero; title: Shoes for the Road Less-Travelled: the Task of the Individual; title: Destination Unknown: The Archetypal Hero; title: The Call to Adventure; label: 9
title: A CHEST OF TOOLS FOR INTELLECTUAL SELF-DEFENCE
pagenum: 177; title: Against a Sense of Hopelessness; title: The Limits of Freedom; title: Opposition to Vaccine: Inoculating the Body Politic; title: Specific Problems with 'False Friends'; title: Hate as an Obstacle to Solutions; title: Even Genghis Khan Thought He Was the Good Guy! Rationalisation as an Obstacle to Truth; title: Manufacturing Discontent: Advertising Anorexia and Bulimia; title: In Conclusion: A Few Last Questions; label: References
title: References
pagenum: 225; label: Bibliography
title: Bibliography
pagenum: 234; label: Index
title: Index
pagenum: 239