Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas

Accepting the ancient Greeks’ definition of the idiot as a privatized man and expanding on Tocqueville’s understanding that in modern democracies it is mass idiocy that invites tyranny, argues Christopher Britt, associate professor of Spanish. This book aims to pierce through the layers of comfort, security and prosperity that numb imperial idiots in the United States of America to the suffering of the displaced in Colombia and Mexico.