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A review by karthikm_86
Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
4.0
"To defeat the Death Eaters, you need to know the Dark Arts."
“Should sins of history be borne by the present?”
Reading this book was essential for me, in the sense that I was unable to understand the attraction behind Trump nor the reasoning of his supporters.
Using deft penmanship, Milo hands the Dark Arts gold medal to the leftists, instead of usual suspects like conservatives, republicans, gay-bashers, Islamophobes, and quickly concludes that leftists are themselves to blame for their current predicament. And make no mistake about it, liberal, leftist ideologues are under direct attacks more than ever today. But who is to be blamed/praised for the current situation?
This book vehemently strives to establish one theory - the Left got complacent after 8 years of a unprecedented scholarly yet cool black presidency, and that is when things took a drastic downturn. College societies started to ban even the little deviations from student groups which would have been celebrated by the Beat generation. And more and more, feminists strove to drive out all males from all spheres, often on perceived slights (US colleges rape scandal, Gamergate).
Suppression of facts, be it under Hitler-ites or Jew-ite mediapersons, is suffocating and moreover, hinders in development of a mature control system. And I too felt that going by Yuval's theory of data-ism, the world where this kidn of hindrance occurs eventually gives way to one where the flow is less hindered - irrespective of a conservative or a leftist or a trumpist's bent.
And let’s face it, I don't recall any probing, scathing reviews of Obama's presidency. He was elected to make a change and we kept fawning over the man and his statuesque First Lady, not the president at whom the buck stops. Blame it on the republican congress or the white evangelical majority which preferred the status quo, Obama always said he personally wanted to achieve much much more than what he did. But his erudite aura ended up as the main attraction for his followers, including me.
I do whole-'heatedly' agree that Trump trolled his way to the White House. However, his message carries the heat signature of his core constituency (ever increasing everyday) and is more often than not dead-accurate. Thirty years of leftist culture has resulted in positive reception of anti-establishment hysteria. But on a personal note, all signs till now prove that others run the Trump brain trust, not Trump. And there are no signs he can deal with a crisis in a detached, logical manner.
It is the over-educated but overly-underwhelmed media which constantly fail to adapt to his tactics. The real fun, however, lies when the media people wake up and actively discourse to find a way to de-mystify Donald Trump.
All the above 'good' points were derived from Milo's book.
Coming back to the book, unless you have been living under a rock, Milo's arguments seem bleak in a majority of the places. Yes - free speech can include calling out Leslie Jones as a black dude, denouncing BLM, rabid feminists, Media Matters but provocation without purpose serves only that - no purpose. In other words, we are talking about anarchy where-in we swing verbal clubs at each other, to see who can withstand the most beating. And then crown him/her as the king of the wastelands.
Side-note: to take credit for one's own good looks is akin to boasting about a lottery win, no personal achievement whatsoever.
To read this book is a sound move, and will also let you know how much grossness you can handle, before snapping it shut.
“Should sins of history be borne by the present?”
Reading this book was essential for me, in the sense that I was unable to understand the attraction behind Trump nor the reasoning of his supporters.
Using deft penmanship, Milo hands the Dark Arts gold medal to the leftists, instead of usual suspects like conservatives, republicans, gay-bashers, Islamophobes, and quickly concludes that leftists are themselves to blame for their current predicament. And make no mistake about it, liberal, leftist ideologues are under direct attacks more than ever today. But who is to be blamed/praised for the current situation?
This book vehemently strives to establish one theory - the Left got complacent after 8 years of a unprecedented scholarly yet cool black presidency, and that is when things took a drastic downturn. College societies started to ban even the little deviations from student groups which would have been celebrated by the Beat generation. And more and more, feminists strove to drive out all males from all spheres, often on perceived slights (US colleges rape scandal, Gamergate).
Suppression of facts, be it under Hitler-ites or Jew-ite mediapersons, is suffocating and moreover, hinders in development of a mature control system. And I too felt that going by Yuval's theory of data-ism, the world where this kidn of hindrance occurs eventually gives way to one where the flow is less hindered - irrespective of a conservative or a leftist or a trumpist's bent.
And let’s face it, I don't recall any probing, scathing reviews of Obama's presidency. He was elected to make a change and we kept fawning over the man and his statuesque First Lady, not the president at whom the buck stops. Blame it on the republican congress or the white evangelical majority which preferred the status quo, Obama always said he personally wanted to achieve much much more than what he did. But his erudite aura ended up as the main attraction for his followers, including me.
I do whole-'heatedly' agree that Trump trolled his way to the White House. However, his message carries the heat signature of his core constituency (ever increasing everyday) and is more often than not dead-accurate. Thirty years of leftist culture has resulted in positive reception of anti-establishment hysteria. But on a personal note, all signs till now prove that others run the Trump brain trust, not Trump. And there are no signs he can deal with a crisis in a detached, logical manner.
It is the over-educated but overly-underwhelmed media which constantly fail to adapt to his tactics. The real fun, however, lies when the media people wake up and actively discourse to find a way to de-mystify Donald Trump.
All the above 'good' points were derived from Milo's book.
Coming back to the book, unless you have been living under a rock, Milo's arguments seem bleak in a majority of the places. Yes - free speech can include calling out Leslie Jones as a black dude, denouncing BLM, rabid feminists, Media Matters but provocation without purpose serves only that - no purpose. In other words, we are talking about anarchy where-in we swing verbal clubs at each other, to see who can withstand the most beating. And then crown him/her as the king of the wastelands.
Side-note: to take credit for one's own good looks is akin to boasting about a lottery win, no personal achievement whatsoever.
To read this book is a sound move, and will also let you know how much grossness you can handle, before snapping it shut.