This Saturday morning I finally take time to promote a book I've been reading for months. Still got some 40 pages left, but I feel it's on the safe side to make my comment on it.
The book of the day is:
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine
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The book explores how crisis gets exploited, disaster capitalism, offering plenty of examples within its 500 pages or so, including Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, September 11th, Pinochet's coup in Chile in the 70's, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Asian financial crisis.
Klein has been criticized for oversimplifying. How ever - the book is - at least for me - yet another story about how this world is showing its ugly face even when what would be needed the most is love and compassion. How a crisis can turn out to be just another mean of exploitation. How one person's disaster is another person's fortune. Klein is no economist and neither am I. That is probably why the book is both criticized and thanked. Popularisation at its best.
Some reviews:
The New York Times
The Guardian
International Herald Tribune
Read it. You don't have to agree or disagree. You just need to think.
There is no easy way
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