immediately pick up and read the shock doctrine by naomi klein. this is the single most important book published this year, if not this decade. against obscurantism, against conspiracy theory, against the misuse of language and media, against apocalypticism. this is one thousand plateaus through the looking glass and out the other side: finally, the secret, actual history of late capitalism. finally, a big picture to counter the seemingly endless series of short, sharp, shocks purposefully to destabilize. the next time someone talks about capitalism's deterritorializing flows not only will you know exactly what this means but really how it works and what it actually costs. this book lets you know exactly how milton friedman is a war criminal many times over and how this is not hysterical hyperbole as this book draws a straight line from sept. 11, 1973 to sept. 11, 2001; from mkultra (not as innocent as formerly thought!) to gitmo and the current bush admin's strategeries for domestic psyops and why this results in more charter schools in your neighborhood and why blackwater is patrolling them (or not). the argument which has described these people and their enterprise as a failure is completely refuted. this is not another complaint of "the system is broken". the system is in the best of health and not going anywhere anytime soon. what people on the ground may see as catastrophe just means everything is going excellently well. please read!!!!! love, me.