post-normal booke review

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Book:

_My Name is Chellis & I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization"

John Trudell insight struck me particularly radically, first off: "New Age world in a Old World cage."

book quote, p.113: '...we stand before yet another technological thrust whose expression, rather than providing new horizons of hope, is blindly leading us toward more possibilities for dissociation and, rather than offering reconciliation, is bringing us more possibilities for alienation.'

Goes on to discuss Jerry Mander's idea, only, and i find that strange. Why not more people? Perhaps she is as enthralled by Mander as i by Trudell? Good for curiosity, then!

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What if post-civ/anarchist-type media published this way? Or at least experimented with such?

Pros/cons anyone?

as you can see my less mediated remarks are in the margins, etc. of this book. What if media was published this way more often?

1. It is a pretty good bet that you are not a peasant of any sort, including a naughty one, whatever that means.

2. No one reads the kind of prose presented in that "review" except graduate students forced to read it by examination committees and forced to claim that they take it seriously - whether they do or not.

3. Post modern mumbo-jumbo in general is a diversion from critical engagement with the world and its conflicts and is therefore objectively reactionary.

4. I'd love to see one of these postmondernist "critics" produce a novel of the quality of Crime and Punishment of Hardy's Jude the Obscure. They are about as likely to do that as they are to develop and AIDS vaccine.