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?
Thank you for this intelligent comment.
“What’s the alternative?” assumes an Anglo Saxon perspective with pre-conceived ideals. To the Chinese, as well as some other cultures, the same question is indeed pondered quite carefully upon. And therefore the western answer to that question cannot be automatically and forcefully applied to other cultures. This is the source of many modern conflicts.
My point is that the west cannot think that because American hegemony was good for some parts of the world, it is good for ALL of the world. Context of reality matters.
Anyway, my original point is how information is directed and digested these days with emotion rather than logic.