Holiday Advice
Drop what you are doing and pick up the following four books: (1) Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear (10th Anniversary edition, Basic Books 2009); (2) Garry Wills, Bomb Power (Penguin 2010); (3) Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010); (4) F. M. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear and Volkhonsky trans., Vintage Classics, 1991).
A word of explanation:
The books are to be read in the above order as a set.
The first three volumes detail how (and why), over the course of the last century, successive generations of Americans delivered their birthright of freedom into the custodianship of a militarized corporatocracy. The 4th book will disabuse the reader of any illusions s/he may still harbor that things could have turned out any other way.
At which point you will be ready for Sartre...
A word of explanation:
The books are to be read in the above order as a set.
The first three volumes detail how (and why), over the course of the last century, successive generations of Americans delivered their birthright of freedom into the custodianship of a militarized corporatocracy. The 4th book will disabuse the reader of any illusions s/he may still harbor that things could have turned out any other way.
At which point you will be ready for Sartre...
posted by Sidi Hamid Benengeli | 3:15 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home