- Hit piece disguised as review. Archived Message
Posted by Raskolnikov
on April 24, 2019, 11:28 am
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https://www.dumptheguardian.com/books/2019/apr/24/white-by-bret-easton-ellis-review-sound-fury-and-insignificance Interesting hit-piece (thinly) disguised as a review of a book that appears to be critical of the current idpol/social media/free speech by the "Culture Editor" of the New Statesman. They've only had five things published in the fraud in six years so they seem to have decided that this attack is too good not to get some space. As far as I can see there's no actual mention of the arguments he makes in the essays, just relentless scorn. I thought this excerpt shows the writer up for being pretty clueless: Ellis tries to lend these out-of-touch pronouncements an air of rebellion by lazily labelling everything he dislikes as “corporate”. The press is “highly corporate”, Hillary Clinton a human representative of “the Corporation”. When he recalls Simon & Schuster dropping him just before the publication of American Psycho they are referred to as “conglomerate-owned”. Is any of that untrue? The press is not "highly corporate"? Clinton wasn't a shill for corporations/Wall St./hideous regimes/anyone that will pay? The whole thing smacks of "Burn the heretic, never mind what they say". Actually makes me want to read it now  |
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