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?
I like Chomsky a lot, but I don’t think he’s who you should turn to if you’re feeling so dispirited and hopeless. As I mentioned in my other comment, there are tons of other contemporary thinkers who are adept at pointing out the problems in our current social systems, but then also giving recommendations for how we can combat it. A lot of the time, it deals with focusing on things we do have control over, whether they’re community building organizations or simply reaching out to like-minded individuals.
I know everything looks really bleak, but there is still hope! I hope you feel better, friend!