Good. Though the format especailly after the first section is of question and answer composed of interviews Chomsky had given in teh 1990s.Reading it I understood a bit better how things are now, how we got here, why things are so bad,and why they arent getting better.We need a total shift, cultural/economic/political and that will not happen as we dont see the big picture but pick at little things within it. Like a doctor treating symptoms but never the underlying cause of an illness. You may help a little or for a while, but in the end it is just superficial.We hear words and think we knwo what they mean..that jobs means emplyment opportunities for people, not profit opportunities for corporations.We think we have a democracy becasue we get to go vote during election cycles, but we are kept out of teh process of policy making. But because the words are used we think it is okay, that we have a voice and it is heard. Though if enough of us move in mass and it benefits the corporations who do make public policy to give in to us or allow that change then change is made, even if limited.And so much more about so many things, so many practices this nation we live in has engaged in and still does.Very eye opening and well a bit disturbing. But change cannot be made unless one knows the truth. 5 stars not for style, because it is a series of recorded interviews and as such can get a bit choppy, but for content. Corporations control government. And if you doubt this he can prove it to you a thousand different ways. That, and a U.S. government controlled by major corporations routinely undermines not communist states, not socialist states, but states with legitimate democracies. Why? Because as he demonstrates in the book a country with a legitimate democracy is a danger to corporations. A coporation wants a 3rd world country to manufacture in. Why? Low wages, no belief of entitlement to civil rights or fair wages or unions or anything else. The major corporations in America are trying to turn us into a 3rd world country. Why? Because it maximizes profits. Not profits for the country, or growth, or anything remotely resembling the common good. But for profits to shareholders. I really wish I had read this book a year or so ago because now, with the upcoming elections, I honestly don't know what to do. I see both candidates as speakers for corporate America.
What do You think about How The World Works (2011)?
Mr Chomsky is hands down one of the greatest thinkers alive. Worth reading.
—linda
