One for the humor/irony file: I just came across this review for Brave New World on Amazon.com:
Reviewer: A reader from Elmwood Park, Illinois United States
While cultural pundits try to convince you that some literature is better than ther literature, the truth is that all art is relative to individial tastes. Thus, it doesn’t take any [...]
After each full day of skiing during the last week, I recovered my body by exercising my mind notably by reading The Ominous Parallels. Here is the review I submitted to Amazon.com afterwards:As a Jew, I have watched, read, and visited countless accounts of the Holocaust but not one of them correctly [...]
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.-- Ludwig Von Mises
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