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The most remarkable aspect of this book is the bluntness with which Gore describes the lying, criminality, manipulation and skullduggery of the Bush administration. To those who have been exposed to a view of our government beneath the public relations veil there will be no revelations., but the fact that these observations are coming from a viable, perhaps the most viable presidential candidate is significant. It will surely have an affect on the perspective of many people. My favorite line in the book, serves as a good example of how “out there” Gore is. The line appears when he is talking about the Bush activities just prior to the attacks of September 11th. He describes a seeming willful disregard of information and failure of action, and then says that he doesn’t mean to imply that the administration was in any way complicit. “Of course not!”, says Gore. This description is couched in a critique of the sad state of what Gore terms the “conversation of democracy”. Our sources of information are so corrupted that the citizenry can no longer participate effectively in the sustenance of representative democracy. The ostensible point of Gore’s book is that the internet is the last hope of the survival of representative democracy in our country. It is the last medium of communication that allows for the free flow of ideas, and if we allow the communication conglomerates to put their tiered internet access scheme into place, we might as well hang it up.

2020-08-23 16:21