can't describe my request any better than this. sorrry if it's too vague. books that dismantle your liberal understanding of the world. can be a historical work of fiction, doesn't really matter. just something that'll leave a mark on you ig
can't describe my request any better than this. sorrry if it's too vague. books that dismantle your liberal understanding of the world. can be a historical work of fiction, doesn't really matter. just something that'll leave a mark on you ig
If you're going to do manufacturing consent why not go for the original, Inventing Reality?
(though actually, its hard to find copies of Inventing Reality outside of libraries and ebooks, plus manufacturing consent may have had more forewords and stuff written, updating it for modern media? The lessons are similar tho)
There's an unofficial reprint on Lulu I got a while ago. It's good quality.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-parenti/inventing-reality/paperback/product-4zy2gp.html
Oh right! I actually found this one in the wild a while back. It seemed perfectly fine. The OG hardback cover art for some of parenti's books are really good tho
They are. There's actually a bunch of reprints in Lulu of other hard to find books. It's just a good site to check out when you run across a situation like Inventing Reality where originals can hit the hundreds.
For example, also found a copy of Tottle's Fraud, Famine, and Fascism.
They had new copies at the bookstore a couple years ago
I guess there is a more relevant foreword, yeah, but the main thing is that as a phrase I find it more precise and recognisable than 'inventing reality'. I love Parenti, and his strength is making things easy to understand from a common sense perspective, but that's my problem with 'inventing reality' as a phrase - used in conversation or academically, it's a combination of words that people from all sides of the political spectrum use for different reasons. Manufacturing Consent is a clear definition tied to Chomsky and his left-ish base.
It's worth reading both really. Open a mind in conversation with Parenti, then bring in the big term from Chomsky once you've got them where you want them.
yeah true, and the idea of government by "consent" of the governed is a recognizable concept to most libs that manufacturing consent clearly and concisely undermines even if they don't bother to read much past the title