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Review title: Yes, Moralizing Condescention
Product review: I love Alan Watts. I thought "The Way of Zen" was the best book on Zen, Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism that I ever read. "The Book", however, was a major letdown. Although he has a few nice points and metaphors this book is basically a rant against a stereotyped 50's America.He goes on interminably about how everything is known only in terms of its opposite (what it is not), that everything is relative then states there is only one "IT" in the Universe, the Ego is the root of unhappiness and this is THE way to look at things.What if I'm happy with being a self-centered ...? Basically, "The Book" is a thinly veiled hindu/buddhist derived metaphysics and ethics without the religion.I also agree with the other "Moralizing Condescention" reviewer who said this philosophy is very burgeois and one should read Dr. Watts descriptions of Buddhism (like "the way of zen") rather than his preaching of buddhism
