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Summary: Atheism Shows its Colors
Review: From the present text: "The ultimate disgrace is aptly revealed in the title of 'Creator' applied to a God who has created [or fathered] from his own substance a universe in which his creatures, deprived of his resources, begin in a state of total deprivation and progress toward nothingness. A desert valley irrigated with tears is a rather pathetic creation."So this is what it comes down to, O great apostle of revolution? Here you expose yourself, and show the source of all your wisdom: outrage at the world's evil grown cancerous through the decades of your life. Believers have wrestled with the problem of evil for centuries, but you, you arrogant coward, can't bring yourself to wrestle with the problem of good. You've written off the world and its creator as you proceed towards your gnostic paradise of revolution. But of course, all you find is hell, not paradise -- whether the hell of your Marxist brothers in Russia and China, or the hell of your alcoholic, suicidal confrere Debord. Do you think you're the first one to see the world's pain? Wake up, friend: with openness to ALL the phenomena, and a willing heart, it actually IS possible to be a believer. Imagine the power of your insight and criticism if it were grounded in love, instead of intellectual hubris and nihilism!
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Summary: disappointing read......
Review: If you were,like me, profoundly affected by this author's major anarchist text, "Revolution of Everyday Life", you might be expecting more of the same extraordinary originality , fire, and unique criticism, from this book....dont hold your breath....its a curious book to say the least...some of it (very little I'm afraid) lives up to the brightness of his other work, but most of it is only of passing interest to an anarchist or primitivist. The great majority of the book is an in depth study of obscure Christian heretics! Ok, this is interesting, but hardly fascinating unless you are a deeply disillusioned one time candidate for the Fransiscan monkhood! One wonders wether this is the remnants of a post grad thesis dressed up in a flimsy anarchist framework to make a quick buck....Not many of these medieval heretics have much to tell uus, and one wonders at times, whether most of the groups accounted for were merely the Heavens Gate/ Bagwan Rajneeshes/David Koreshes/Aum Shinrikyos of their day....Big deal...Not many of them have any of the profound wisdom of a Meister Eckhardt or a Tomas A Kempis I'm afraid....No, give this one a miss unless you are into obscure medieval mystics and eccentric charlatans...In its favour, some parts of it possess Vaneigem's undoubtedly profound and unique insight....Sadly, not a lot of it is worth reading closely, and is only partially interesting. By all means though, rush out and buy "Revolution of Everyday Life"....an extraordinary book by this great great thinker and observer.
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Summary: disappointing read......
Review: If you were,like me, profoundly affected by this author's major anarchist text, "Revolution of Everyday Life", you might be expecting more of the same extraordinary originality , fire, and unique criticism, from this book....dont hold your breath....its a curious book to say the least...some of it (very little I'm afraid) lives up to the brightness of his other work, but most of it is only of passing interest to an anarchist or primitivist. The great majority of the book is an in depth study of obscure Christian heretics! Ok, this is interesting, but hardly fascinating unless you are a deeply disillusioned one time candidate for the Fransiscan monkhood! One wonders wether this is the remnants of a post grad thesis dressed up in a flimsy anarchist framework to make a quick buck....Not many of these medieval heretics have much to tell uus, and one wonders at times, whether most of the groups accounted for were merely the Heavens Gate/ Bagwan Rajneeshes/David Koreshes/Aum Shinrikyos of their day....Big deal...Not many of them have any of the profound wisdom of a Meister Eckhardt or a Tomas A Kempis I'm afraid....No, give this one a miss unless you are into obscure medieval mystics and eccentric charlatans...In its favour, some parts of it possess Vaneigem's undoubtedly profound and unique insight....Sadly, not a lot of it is worth reading closely, and is only partially interesting. By all means though, rush out and buy "Revolution of Everyday Life"....an extraordinary book by this great great thinker and observer.
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