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Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generation—from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America's founding regarded as grossly self-destructive—in a word, evil.
In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, Kupelian peels back the veil of marketing-induced deception to reveal exactly when, where, how, and especially why Americans bought into the lies that now threaten the future of the country.
For example, few of us realize that the widely revered father of the "sexual revolution" has been irrefutably exposed as a full-fledged sexual psychopath who encouraged pedophilia. Or that giant corporations voraciously competing for America's $150 billion teen market routinely infiltrate young people's social groups to find out how better to lead children into ever more debauched forms of "authentic self-expression."
Likewise, most of us mistakenly believe the "abortion rights" and "gay rights" movements were spontaneous, grassroots uprisings of neglected or persecuted minorities wanting to breathe free. Few people realize America was actually "sold" on abortion thanks to an audacious public relations campaign that relied on fantastic lies and fabrications. Or that the "gay rights" movement—which transformed America's former view of homosexuals as self-destructive human beings into their current status as victims and cultural heroes—faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers.
No quarter is given in this riveting, insightful exploration of how lies, both subtle and outrageous, are packaged as truth. From the federal government to the public school system to the news media to the hidden creators of "youth culture," nothing is exempt from the thousand-watt spotlight of Kupelian's journalistic inquiry.
In the end,
The Marketing of Evil is an up-close, modern-day look at what is traditionally known as "tempation"—the art and science of making evil look good.
Customer Reviews:
Worldview Wakup Call.......2007-09-28
As a Christian going through "The Truth Project", which is a study in developing a Christian worldview, this book is very relevant to my study. We have been sold a bill of goods by the world, and this book is very powerful in helping to identify these lies.
If you want to gain a better understanding of these destructive worldviews that lead to moral and spiritual decay, you need to add this book to your reading list.
Eye-Opening Must-Read.......2007-09-13
Regardless of your politics or religious beliefs this book is a must-read. Even if you disagree with the author, it provides insights into the conservative point-of-view, which is something valuable for everyone.
Kupelian surveys the scourges of our culture and explores their roots. I am well educated and informed on many issues. I tend to dig deeper than the average media consumer. I was brought up in a liberal Christian home and I seek information from the left, the right and everywhere in between. Then I form my own opinion. I must say I learned a lot from his book. It is an eye-opener.
As a father, I connected with his exploration of youth culture exploitation. As a husband, his writing on divorce resonated. Having once been a fetus myself, I'm pro-life, yet his expose of the pro-abortion left was stunning. As one who cherishes our constitution, his probing chapter on the subject was informative. As a professional marketer, I found his entire premise, of The (media) Matrix, sobering.
Of course one can debate various finer points Kupelian makes. That is one of the book's best aspects. It is thought-provoking. Read it, think about it, and debate it. I'm convinced you will be affected.
The truth the media won't tell me.......2007-08-06
When our only viewpoint of society comes from a media that has its own agenda, we are carried along on that agenda. It's time we knew the TRUTH behind the myths of modern times such as gay "rights." Is the phrase, "separation of church and state" even in the Constitution? What really goes on in our schools? Do the majority of Americans really approve abortion on demand? Why would there be a "plan" to destroy marriage? Why are people so easily duped? David Kupelian tells us the truth behind the myths, and I urge anyone who really wants to know "the rest of the story" to read this book.
worthwhile read, but some shortcomings.......2007-07-22
Overall a good effort in identifying to Americans how their thoughts have been manipulated on many issues. Other reviewers have previously covered these issues in some detail.
Where the book does fall short in its search for truth, (important for Kupelian), is objectively looking at 9/11, the creation of Israel, the ownership of American major media and the role that the masonic orders have played in influencing the topics that he covers.
Please remember one very important thing: presidents that belong to a masonic order are NOT Christian !
God or No God - Religion or No Religion.......2007-06-28
We all know there are some things that are just wrong.
The media is exposed for what it truly is in this book. How could we, in America, have succumbed to such deception? We fell for all of this marketing madness hook, line, and sinker. The only good news in this whole book is that WE CAN STILL CHANGE THINGS!
I applaud Kupelian for writing such truths in a dramatic and unapologetic way. The world needs to read this book. Killing babies is wrong! Selling sex to children is wrong! Being a "bug chaser" is wrong! Allowing the government to brainwash our children is wrong!
If you want to know the truth about America you must read this book. I could not put this book down. My eyes are opened.
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Fallen Freedom: Kant on Radical Evil and Moral Regeneration
Jr, Gordon E. Michalson
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This work offers a clear exposition of evil and moral regeneration as they appear in Kant's late work Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone. Michalson examines a doctrine of "radical evil" which he sees as strongly resembling the Christian doctrine of original sin. In the author's view, Kant compromises his position as a result of this throwback to the Christian tradition, which is at odds with some of the basic tenets of the Enlightenment. Kant is thus seen to be deeply ambivalent in the philosophy he puts forward when he talks about divine action, on the one hand, and human autonomy, on the other.
Customer Reviews:
The history of the term 'radical evil'.......2003-03-09
Much discussion of the Holocaust, perhaps influenced in part by Hannah Arendt, invokes the phrase 'radical evil'. But the term springing from Kant, in his Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, speaks what seems a different almost technical language of the will, in the context of the critique of practical reason. There the surface complexity of the lore of Kant's distinction of Wille and Wilkur seem to obscure the analyis, although Kant, too out of fashion, and bespeaks the question with underhanded profundity. One needs perhaps to get the knack of noting, if not understanding, the implications of these abstractions blind before the noumenal dragon's lair--of what do we speak, if of the 'will'??! As Arendt seems to suggest, Kant was not quite letting on.
This work is an invaluable history and compendium to any discussion of 'radical evil', and of the passage of the them via Kant through Hegel and Schelling to Nietzsche and Freud, concluding with the post-Holocaust thinkers Levinas, Johas, Arendt. This history should be better known in an age when the discussion is either positivistic discussion of the next robot advance in value free science or some mythical strain from the spiritual Hollywoods of too long ago. After Kant, 'at war with himself'(the point is debatable),the author critiques Hegel's great system with the sure fate of this question in a tighly conceived teleology, and then the surprisingly refreshing views of the less well known Schelling. It is hard to take the analysis of the inscrutable beyond these seminal sources (in my view,I find Nietzsche less profound that his reputation would suggest), but the remaining discussions are compelling none the less as the question explodes from its airy quality in the context of the twentieth century. Very fine study, although one might have thought Marx/anti-Marx a pole of this history. The question of 'radical evil' in relation to Hannah Arendt is also considered in the author's Hannah Arendt and the Jewish question.
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Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents' generationfrom easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today's Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.
The Marketing of Evil reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America's founding regarded as grossly self-destructivein a word, evil.
In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, Kupelian peels back the veil of marketing-induced deception to reveal exactly when, where, how, and especially why Americans bought into the lies that now threaten the future of the country.
Customer Reviews:
Condensed Evil ~ For Those Who Just Can't Get Enough.......2006-06-07
After four exhaustive books chronicling the history of the Devil and the concept of evil from antiquity to the present day apparently Jeffrey Burton Russell just hadn't gotten enough and had to go back to the well one more time and provide a single volume overview of his four previous book about the Devil. Ahh...... how telling. I guess the old adage is true concerning over fascination with the "Prince of Darkness." Dr. Russell, it's time to move on before it's too late.
'The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History' is a good read, particularily if you don't want to wade your way through the other four books. Consider this a little "Condensed Evil" to go!
Excellent Introduction to the History and Myth of the Devil.......2002-11-20
Jeffrey B. Russell's "Prince of Darkness" is an excellent introduction to the complex history and mythology surrounding one of the most famous entities to grace the stage of religion and history, a being known by many names: Beelzebub, the Archfiend, Old Scratch, Lucifer, and Satan. It serves essentially as an overview of his series of four books on the Devil at each stage of history from ancient to modern times.
Russell traces the Satan myth from its earliest primitive conceptual origins in Summerian and Babylonian myth and its influence on ancient Judaism and Zoroastrianism. He shows that there are really only four religions throughout all of history that have had a concept of a singular entity that is the total personification of pure and radical evil, these being anicent Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. Each has its own rich and complex history and diabology, but it has been Christianity that has had the most complex and influential.
The book then continues with an analysis of the miriad of influences within Christianity on the evolving concept, role, and image of the Devil, from the early Christian tradtions as developed by Origen, Justin Martyr, St Anthony, and St. Augustine to the various Christian heretical sects, such as the Gnostics, Cathars, and Waldensians. It then traces the rise of the Devil to prominence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and his role in the rise of the witchcraze of the 16th and 17th centuries. At this time, there was such an obsession with the concept of Satan and his minions that a complex demonology grew up around him, created by theologians, clerics, jurists, and crackpots. As time passed, the fearful influence of the Devil waned as belief in spirits and demons passed into the realm of superstition and Satan was reduced to little more than an advertising ploy and horror movie cliche. As it was with Christianity, so it is in the secular world as well: Satan Sells.
Russell's introduction gives an excellent overview to a fascinating and complex subject and hopefully will lead to an even more in-depth investigation of the most feared being in history, that Father of Lies and Seducer of All the World called the Devil and Satan.
a good history.......2002-09-04
I just finished reading this book. Overall, I recommend it, although I think the author makes a much better historian than philosopher. Fortunately, he spends most of the book being a historian. The book covers the beginnings of a Devil concept in Zoroastrianism up to modern beliefs about the Devil. Naturally, there are surveys of Milton, Dante, and Faustian motifs. The author admits that his book is Christian-centric, which I can accept for the historical parts of the book. But I think he took a wrong turn in the last few, more philosophical, chapters where he dismisses modern materialism and skepticism of the existence of Satan.
Please allow him to introduce himself...........2000-02-16
An amazing, fascinating, intellectually stimulating book on a subject too often the province of cranks, fanatics, or frauds--the Devil himself. Russell, a California history professor, has written several volumes on Lucifer, and this is the most far-ranging. An in-depth study that traces the history of the Devil from his shadowy origins in the desert wastes of the Middle East and of course even further back, in Africa; follows him through Judaism and early Christianity to the Middle Ages, up through the Reformation and Age of Enlightenment, right through to the Holocaust and the post-modern world. Russell explores theology, folklore, literature, and history to piece together this ultimate symbol of evil. From early church writers such as Origen and Tertullian to Milton and Dante, to Baudelaire, de Sade, Dostoevski and Flannery O'Connor, Russell looks at the ways in which the Devil has been personified for different ages. Highly readable, packed with accurate and well-researched information, this should appeal to anyone with an interest in comparative religions, mythology, or history. This really is perhaps the definitive book on the figure of the Devil, although I would also recommend Paul Carus' "The Devil and the Idea of Evil," Alice Turner's "The History of Hell" and Homer Smith's "Man and His Gods."
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Using numerous illustrations from everyday life as well as the social sciences, Peter examines the kinds of evil--both personal and societal--that we all confront on a daily basis.
Customer Reviews:
Read like a PhD dissertation.......2007-07-19
This book is more of a description of evil with the chapters being devoted to describing different types of evil in the world. I kept waiting for something more than "evil exists and it is bad." For a more practicle book on evil look towards M. Scott Peck People of the Lie. For an intellectual or emotional look at evil, check out C.S. Lewis. He wrote two great books on pain and evil.
Peters put a face on evil.......2000-05-02
Using 7 classic categories of sin, Peters presents a riveting autopsy on the growing body of evidence that sin and evil are nothing to mess with. To the surprise of many "enlightened" modern people, sin is not dead. Left unconfessed and unforgiven, sin can grow cancerously until it destroys not only its own body, but others as well.
Peters' scholarship and theology is of the highest integrity. He also has the rare gift of putting flesh on his ideas--he speaks clearly, directly, and in language we can grasp.
The categories of evil may seem "outmoded", but Peters exegetes them in a way that seems alarmingly contemporary. In progression from least to greatest, Peters offers the following classic forms of sin leading to "radical evil":
1)Anxiety; 2) Unfaith; 3) Pride; 4) Concupiscence; 5)Self-justification; 6) Cruelty; 7) Blasphemy.
Number 7, "Blasphemy", may seem over-reactive, but Peters makes his case about the seriousness that blasphemy, finally, is the most treacherous of all evils. (His description of "concupiscence" is one that moderns should especially know!)
This book never got the attention it deserves. Peters has written a theological work that may well be unparalled in the field of books on "Sin and Evil."
Thanks, Ted.
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In this provocative book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a first-hand analysis of the Argentine experience of the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino, who played a key role in the transition and in the shaping of human rights policies in Argentina, examines the impact of war crimes trials there and considers their potential to strengthen a new democratic government.
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Devastating!.......1999-05-05
Carlos Nino, the leading Latin-American public philosopher of the century, was also a statesman and a brave patriot. This book reflects his experience, personal contribution and analysis in relation to the unprecedented policy of truth and justice of former argentine President Alfonsin.
It's a great study about genocidy and justice.......1999-02-10
Carlos Nino, who passed away in 1993 is one of the authors who studied more the subject of how to trial the people who commited the most horrible violations of human rights. It's undeniable the best in the subject.
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In The Social Authority of Reason, Philip J. Rossi, SJ argues that the current cultural milieu of globalization is strikingly reflective of the human condition appraised by Kant, in which mutual social interaction for human good is hamstrung by our contentious "unsociable sociability." He situates the paradoxical nature of contemporary society—its opportunities for deepening the bonds of our common human mutuality along with its potential for enlarging the fissures that arise from our human differences—in the context of Kant's notion of radical evil. As a corrective, Rossi proposes that we draw upon the social character of Kant's critique of reason, which offers a communal trajectory for human moral effort and action. This trajectory still has power to open the path to what Kant called "the highest political good"—lasting peace among nations.
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