Review
This is a book that should be required reading. While I disagree with the inaccurate use of ‘Marxist’, it is utilised as a denigrating term in America hence we have to accept the terminology but not necessarily the implication.
We have here a run down on the mass manipulation of peoples thinking. This has been greatly extended into the school system and one is left wondering what the American Nation can get out of all this except control over its apparently increasingly uneducated and unthinking population.
Ample evidence is supplied in the work for its assertions and while state control of individuals appears to be the ultimate aim, purportedly for security reasons, one is left wondering how the nation will manage when most of its inhabitants can barely read and write as in the future will be the case if the scenario described is correct.
However, it is a stark warning to all.
This book should be read only after Susan Blackmore’s work The Meme Machine has been absorbed as Blackmore’s work reveals just why we allow such manipulation of thinking to occur.
The implications of Eakman’s work are frightening, even more so with an understanding of the why and wherefore of our acceptance of such manipulation.