It's a book I wish everyone in North America...hell, in the world...would read, Bobert. I realize your dyslexia would make it a chore for you to wade through it, but boy is it ever a stunning and horrifying look at what's been going on in the world since the end of WWII...starting with CIA-financed shock treatments on medical patients at McGill University in Canada...moving then to the CIA-backed coup in Iran that brought down a democracy shortly after WWII and replaced it with the Shah's brutal police state...moving from there to several CIA-backed coups that replaced several key democracies in Latin America with police states which "disappeared" tens of thousands of people and tortured hundreds of thousands. In all these emerging democracies the coups had the effect of basically wiping out the middle class, exterminating anyone with a "leftist" mindset, enriching a tiny corporate and governing elite, and impoverishing the rest of the public....all in the name of "freedom"! It was the antithesis of freedom.

And it moves on from there to the present day. Naomi Klein is a Canadian author. She investigated very thoroughly before writing. Her book is one of the scariest things you'll ever read. If it had happened here, Bobert, like it already did in Iran, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and other unfortunate places, you and I would already be dead, because we're liberal-minded musicians with somewhat "leftist" views and progressive opinions about society. So far it hasn't happened here. Let's hope to hell it doesn't.