I couldn’t get pass first 30ish pages in the main book (after reading trough the prefaces and skipping here and there reading some other stuff that piqued my interest also). It got me heavily depressed and left me feeling completely powerless and hopeless and it only reinforced the things I noticed and tought about USA myself.
And I just quit…prefering the sanity of ignorance to the madness of reality.
How can anyone hope to have a normal world with THAT…and I live in Eastern Europe…one would say far away from thr main American Influence. Not so far as it felt before. If we tought that the Nazis or the Communists were evil…ohoho boy…this book makes one feel like there is nothing more vile in the world than the United States of America government.
Did you read it? How did it make you feel?
Wow you make the book sound really good! Looks like I’m going to have to read it now, I love it when people dissect the realities of American power.
If you’re interested in this sort of thing, I also highly recommend the classic The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, read it recently and it absolutely blew me away!
I was gonna recommend Klein as well. She’s honest about the problems we face but not surrendering to despair.
I also recommend her latest book Doppelganger, which actually follows up on some of the themes in her earlier titles.
Then you might want to pick someone who isn’t famous for his irrational hate.
It’s a major issue with all his works outside of the theoretical and one he gets called for regularly, his objectivity is nonexistent and he treats the US is utterly evil and the root of all bad things in the world. He denied the Khmer Rouge genocide because the perpetrators were a communist government, long after everyone else figured out that the refugees weren’t lying. He’s fairly infamous for his lack of objectivity and the leaps of logic he takes to make America at fault for everything, basically a Satan figure.
You’ll get plenty to scratch that ‘America bad’ itch but not really much that can actually be trusted. And if you can’t trust it, well, you might as well go on one of those subreddits dedicated to such complaining.