theBruiser500
05-22-2005, 02:33 PM
This is a book which got pretty good amazon reviews, 50 reviews, 4 stars and has kind of an interesting premise.
"Reason, he argues, has run amok; instead of the enlightened utopia envisaged by Voltaire, the modern West is a soulless machine run by technocratic elites that promise efficiency but create disasters. The author targets the insane waste of our "permanent war economy," the perils of nuclear power, the co-optation of democracy by vested interests, the news media's focus on false events and manufactured celebrities, the "personality politics" of presidential campaigns."
But I've read the first 25 pages so far and to be honest, I just don't understand what he's talking about. He is saying a lot of words, but to me they don't mean anything. It sounds like a lot of rhetoric, just the same thing over and over again with no real content. Anyone who read the book... am I being stupid here or this book just bad?
"Reason, he argues, has run amok; instead of the enlightened utopia envisaged by Voltaire, the modern West is a soulless machine run by technocratic elites that promise efficiency but create disasters. The author targets the insane waste of our "permanent war economy," the perils of nuclear power, the co-optation of democracy by vested interests, the news media's focus on false events and manufactured celebrities, the "personality politics" of presidential campaigns."
But I've read the first 25 pages so far and to be honest, I just don't understand what he's talking about. He is saying a lot of words, but to me they don't mean anything. It sounds like a lot of rhetoric, just the same thing over and over again with no real content. Anyone who read the book... am I being stupid here or this book just bad?