1/20/2010

Review of The Corporate Cult: More of What Men Know That Women Don't (Paperback)

Who is Zubaty you might ask?Good question.Zubaty followed the American dream: house, kids, business, and he even helped his wife through school.When she graduated, she filed for divorce and got half his stuff and probably most of his dignity.So what does he do?Cut a hole in a trunk of a car and shoot people at gas stations? No.He does what all of us wish we could do under the circumstances and got the heck away from the confused culture we are marinated in every waking hour.He spends his days traveling from country to country, island to island, with not much more than he can carry on his back.
By now you're thinking he's a nut, that he can't cope.Major publishers will not touch his work.He is refused any publicity by the major media conglomerates.So Zubaty is considered not "Disney worthy" and people have attempted to elbow him from the status of, well, being known.
Rich says it best on the book:

"You can't judge a book by lookin' at the cover...
And you sure can't trust reviewers you don't even know!
So flip open to any page and read any sentence.
Yes, NOW!"

Quite a bold statement when most authors just want a flashy cover.So I took his challenge.He's right.You can start on any page, any paragraph, and just read and read.I would classify Zubaty as a social Galileo of our times- he knows the score but people refuse to listen.They refuse to listen because he tells the truth in its dirty, raw, and sobering form.It's too much reality for those who haven't been tested in life.
I spend my days making good money designing tools and parts on the computer.Zubaty calls me a "manhole", a man who spends his days in front of the computer all day, worried about money and toys.And the nut was right.And I like him for his honesty. And I keep reading.
Zubaty goes on to explain that corporations are no longer treating people as people and instead as "units".No new news here, but he keeps going and going, paddling his way further and further from political correctedness, ending up in a place where you are free to think for yourself without worrying about offending anyone.He speaks of a village girl who goes to town every day to try to get a loan approved.She gets her family involved.She lies to her friends.She forges papers.Zubaty hones in with laser-like precision to the observation she's acting like a greedy dimwit who is taken over by American idealism.She wants the money but has no use for it.And then there's Joe the fisherman.
You can decide to not like Zubaty, but I don't think he minds as he's sipping coconut milk or fishing for the families who let him in.Read the book.You'll understand.

Product Description
Are corporations cults? Do they control our behavior, thoughts, information and emotions? Zubaty makes a pretty good case for that. Should the legal status of corporate ?persons? be challenged as a religious violation ? a gross infringement of the supposed boundary between church and state? He makes a pretty good case for that. Have we done a good job of keeping religion out of government but a miserable job of keeping government out of religion? He makes a pretty good case for that. Is Darwinism a science? Or a religion? You?ll get vertigo over his take on that.

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