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Title: The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1-893956-28-8 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book to read, absolutely
Comment: Derrick Jensen writes with great prose and passion a story that most of us feel close to us, but not close enough to react for our own sake. This book lays down before the reader the great destructiveness of our civilization in a way that the amnesia afflicting most of us is thrown into oblivion. He is, to my knowledge, the only writer treading through the many inescapable issues of our culture -racism, violence, destruction of the natural world, among other subjects, and I do not think he misses any-, linking them in a very intelligible way. One of the best books I have read on the impossible future of civilization.
Rating: 5
Summary: Can you read this book?
Comment: Can you read this book and not cry? Can you read it and not feel the smoke coming out your ears? Can you read it and not look up gaping in awe as Jensen forces you to see things you've never looked at (or turned your eyes away from)?
That's what THE CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE is all about-- seeing. Most of the time all we let ourselves see is our make believe fairy tale. Jensen digs up the fairy tale and exposes it as the fraud that it is. If we're to turn away from our world-devouring, life degrading culture, we first have to see it for what it is. This book is the definitive tale of our culture's steady progression towards the creation of hell on earth. It goes through detail after detail of the insanity that pervades the past and present of our civilization. But, it's also the first step to a new direction. You can't begin walking another way until you see another way is possible. And you won't have the motivation to change if you think there's nothing wrong with the path you're on. This book accomplishes both tasks. And it makes you ache to get up and do something. It makes you ache to get out there and get active. It makes you want to save the world!
So read this book and tell me, can you read it without crying, without steaming? Can you read it without running outside and saying, ENOUGH, we need new directions and we need them now?!!
This book is a must read. You can't afford NOT to read it. It's a 700 page horror story. But it's not fiction. Neither is it fun. But it's amazing. And it helps you realize you're not alone. And you're not crazy. You're not crazy for thinking things around you are awful. You're not crazy for wanting something different. Even though this book is full of horrors, Jensen gives hope and inspiration. We cannot ever have a real hope and a real future if we continue to ignore reality. We can't get back to the heaven that is our natural birthright as living members of the earth until we look at the hell that we've forced upon ourselves and our neighbors. Let's leave hell behind and rediscover heaven.
Rating: 5
Summary: A painful and beautiful read!
Comment: The power of this book, for me, is that it brings the horrible events it describes into the readers conciousness in a personnel way. A book like Howard Zinn's History of the United States, while Excelent as a text and historical record, doesn't draw out the reality, the sheer magnitude, of so much of our genocidal history. Zinns is more of a catolouge rather than a reflection.
Jenson doesn't pontificate, he illustrates. He makes you cry. He makes you angry. The relatedness of clearcuts to slavery, or any other example of destruction of the living in the name of production, are articulated in a passionate, matter of fact way. This book should be required reading for humanity.
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Title: A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1893956032 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Listening to the Land by Derrick Jensen ISBN: 1893956253 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (Politics of the Living) by Derrick Jensen, George Draffan ISBN: 1931498458 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization by John Zerzan, Theresa Kintz ISBN: 092291575X Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 0553375407 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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