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?
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.