| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | Book |
Poorly-written and muddled exposé of White culture’s failings in the economic sphere since the end of the Second World War.
This author clearly knows a lot of economist jargon, but is unable to get across her ideas through the metaphor and analogy so beloved of, and required by, the lay reader. Such an inability clearly indicates a tendency towards propaganda rather than a cool-headed assessment of facts.
The author has clearly spent far too much time with Whites, since her arguments match theirs; while missing-out on making all-important points about why White culture is dying, economically, in the first place. (It is also decidedly-odd to read a Black arguing in favor of White global dominance.)
She claims that the United States was, at some point in its history, a fully-fledged capitalist nation when it has always, in reality, been a mercantilist one. The rest of the Western world has been the same; explaining the West’s ongoing love affair with the military occupation of oil-rich countries and the lack of focus on innovation in non-military fields of human endeavor.
She also posits the fallacy that if one changes one’s mindset, one’s behavior will automatically change. There is little evidence for this in psychology - the opposite is far more likely to be the case - which is why econometrics is always going to be a pseudo-science because it always treats people as the rational actors they so often are not.
Worst sin of all, this author does not explain why the West is worth saving and, by implication, why the terrorists who rightfully-hate the West should not win.
The confusion in this propaganda piece lies, as usual, in the conflation of the Personal with the Political.
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