Thursday 27 September 2007

John Cusack Has Bad Posture

I enjoy John Cusack whenever I see him as "John Cusack"... Admittedly, I enjoy him as characters in his movies as well. But John Cusack as John Cusack is intelligent, witty, and charmingly slouchy without the distraction and farce of scripted romantic comedy.

Today, on Huffington Post, John Cusack as John Cusack introduced me to the new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism through a 17 minute discussion with the author, Naomi Klein. The book examines how policy and history have been shaped by disaster and society's reactionary behavior and subsequent (blind?) allowance of extreme action and diversionary tactics by the government. Before the interview was even half over, I had already added the book to my list to check out as soon as I get to the States. By the end of the interview, I was wishing that John Cusack as John Cusack would sit on uncomfortable bar stools with me and talk social policy. Really, we could talk about how to make pretzels or the history of shoelaces and I'd be happy.

Check out the interview here: My Interview with Naomi Klein.

Post: I got an added boost to my already antsy desire to read Shock Doctrine when I read a "blurb" by one of my favorite authors, Arundhati Roy that calls the book "Brilliant, Brave, & Terrifying" on Naomi Klein's website. There is also a short film about the book on the website.

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