sumatranelectricchair 's review for:

The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti

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Read this on my phone like 2 years ago but found a copy for a quarter recently so figured I’d reread. First time around I remember being really fascinated and excited by Parenti’s refutation of cultural relativism, now I’m interested in the last section comparing the New Age movement to free market culture bc of the shared hyper individualism inherent to both ideologies. Which, like. In the age of Goop, duh but this was published in 2006 so I think Western alternative culture probably looked a little different than it does now. Maybe the successor of the yogis of the 2000s that Parenti writes about isn’t Gwyneth Paltrow but people like that Bronze Age pervert guy. Idk.