false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170553916m/60973.jpg 60973 2 Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in <i>The Culture of Make Believe</i>, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical <i>A Language Older Than Words</i>. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. <i>The Culture of Make Believe</i> is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking. 59301 2002 The Culture of Make Believe total:443|5:241|4:134|3:44|2:19|1:5| 443 1916 771 74 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jan 09 08:04:58 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 08:06:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 17:09:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 10:27:53 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 01 00:02:56 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 29 12:13:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 22:21:47 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 22:44:06 -0700 2009 And I consider myself a tremendous skeptic, especially about this country we call America.
But Jensen interweaves economics, religion, history, media (just to name a few) and shows why the w...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Sep 04 13:42:17 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 14:23:39 -0700 2007 This is written with the same disregard for linear logic foun...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:12:30 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 13:58:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 16:53:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 07:43:22 -0700 2009
I didn´t quite regret this. The stated purpose, or one of them anyway, is to examine privilege and the effects of privilege on the privileged. And Jensen has most of the privilege a person can have. He´s male socilaized/identified, he´s straight, he´s a US citizen...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 15:10:24 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 15:12:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Dec 09 06:57:16 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 07:05:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 05 10:30:29 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 10:49:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 16:27:51 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 16:55:14 -0800 2008 However, I decided to give "The Culture o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 15 19:44:52 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 17:08:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 12 13:54:06 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 12 10:55:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Apr 24 23:19:03 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 25 22:35:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 03 13:01:05 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 12 15:58:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 18 14:21:48 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 14:29:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 07 07:13:33 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 20 15:43:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 09 06:46:50 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 06:53:20 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 14:16:29 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 22:39:20 -0700 2009
What a simplistic way to sum up a 600 page historical and philosophical tome exploring the roots, meaning, and causes of white supremacy. But that's all he attempts to do in this book: peal away the layers of falsehoods that we as individuals and soci...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 12 20:38:29 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 21:10:33 -0700 2007

"Derrick Jensen is a man driven to stare without flinching at the baleful design of our culture, which encourages us to honor those who wreak the most havoc on the world (and on human lives) and to scorn those who protest against the ha...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=60973