I really wanted to love this book. I agreed with so many of her insights and conclusions--but it's amazing how a cultural commentary from 2009 can already sound so, so dated. I can't help but wonder how McEntyre would approach writing these topics in 2020, when we're more media-, information-, lie-saturated than ever before. I also wonder how this book might change if McEntyre were not quite as reliant on the Western literary canon (Wendell Berry and T. S. Eliot in particular) and broadened her bibliography to include more insights from non-American, non-European voices. There are still some gems of truth in this book, though, and I'll certainly be returning to some of my highlighted passages in it.