BOOK REVIEW

You Are Being Lied To:
The Disinformation Guide To Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes & Cultural Myths
by Russ Kick (Editor)

Review by Joan d’Arc

 

You certainly are being lied to. Russ Kick has distorted and whitewashed the contributions of women in radical discourse by promoting the cultural myth that all historical revisionists are men! This is not a review of the contents of this book, but of its Table of Contents: this hefty volume is overstuffed with the dissident political views of people with names like Howard, Jim, Dan, Greg, Rob, Kenn, Michael, Noam, David, Russell, Alex, Richard, and so on. It's always the same sweaty male huddle. Come on boys. Knock it off.

This is a prime example of what I have been complaining about for years: the men's club of conspiracy theory still won't give women a foot in the door! In 400 pages, there are at most two essays by women and one interview with a woman. This isn't shocking until you realize there are 64 essays in this massive collection, including a foreword and two appendices. For someone who has been collecting free stuff as long as Russ Kick has, this isn't a good "human rights" track record.

Earth to Russ Kick: women are humans too!

The kick is, Kick has been receiving free copies of Paranoia magazine for years; he should be able to contact the women we have gone out of our way to highlight. I recommend that readers read Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts to gain the much deserved insights of 18 women conspiracy writers on the fringe. Maybe these guys need to get off their Rogers and read it too. And stop running a male-dominated conspiracy racket.

This book aims to be "the first in a planned series of Disinformation Guides." Let's hope the next books will not be so disinforming. Don't get paranoid Kick, but the other half of the planet is watching your every move.

Oh, and don't miss the Rave Reviews on the back cover of You Are Being Lied To:

Midwest Chump Review: "An amazing, candid, and documented compilation of paranoid men making each other sweaty."

San Francisco Gay Bardian: "A beautiful new coffee-table book. Perhaps these guys should get out their tools and put legs on it since there are no 'legs' in it!"

Philadelphia Weekly: "The writing is penetrating to the male ego, and whitewashes the history of the cultural and academic achievements of women."

Publishers Whitewash: "Taken as a whole, this anthology is an instruction manual in how to ignore half the planet's input!"

Midwest Chump Review (at it again!): "To cut through the lies and manipulation of daily life - while the bitch is at home cooking."

Dazed & Confused as Hell: "It's less radical than some extremist conspiracy theory books, so don't read any radical extremist conspiracy theory books!"

Book Nonsense Nose Pickers: "You are being lied to. Right, you are being lied to. The authors offer this tome as a coercive. The book is shifty." P