The Doubter's Companion
The Herald Sun (Melbourne), 3 February 1996
This book, subtitled "A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense" is the kind of book that people pick up and elevate to cult status. In a few years time, citizens will be living their lives following Saul's precepts, and his lines will be freely plagiarised by newspaper columnists. He defends local customs against the steamroller of unfettered individualism and internationalist monetarist economics, and defends them with a sharp wit. BUSINESS SCHOOLS: "Acting schools which train experts in abstract management methods to pretend they are capitalists." ORGASM: "For those who do not see themselves as having replaced God, it is a workmanlike replacement for a religious experience." And here he is on state-run gambling: "From the moment a government encourages its citizenry to finance the state by gambling, which means by idle dreaming instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis." Sound familiar?
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