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Title: Another wake-up call
Review: This is yet another example of a cry for help. A plethora of short polemics like this one have been released lately from the heavyweights of dissent; this being the most literate and urgent of the bunch (Nat Hentoff, Gore Vidal, etc.). Lapham urges his readers to remember history and the slowly creeping, barely noticeable, descent into tyranny that occurs from a slothful and deliberately dumbed-down population who are given their daily dose of fear from the mouths of the corporatist state. This apathetic population (he includes himself and other well-meaning but soft malcontents) tends to retreat to the stands to watch the barbarians clash, rather than exercise their duty to directly participate in our liberal democratic republic. He stops just short of recommending outright armed revolt -- maybe it's the twisted flag on the book's cover that keeps him from that final recommendation. Thomas Paine might not have faltered.
