THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, California Bookwatch, Jan ‘08
THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
California Bookwatch: January 2008
The Mental Environment
Bob Gebelein
The author of RE-EDUCATING MYSELF returns with another hard-hitting survey of how to design a ‘new civilization’: this one focusing on the underlying cultural lies… THE MENTAL ENVIRONMENT (MOSTLY ABOUT MIND POLLUTION) pinpoints inaccuracies, failures of social systems and mental warfare that has created such inaccuracies. …THE MENTAL ENVIRONMENT analyzes underlying patterns of deception and is a fine pick for any library catering to the scholarly layman reader of sociology and cultural affairs.
[I edited out references to advertising, politics, and TV culture here as causes of the lies, because my book goes much deeper than that, into the fundamental social influences of family, peers, religion, and education, and all the books that have ever been read. But unfortunately, people like Noam Chomsky and AdBusters got there first, defining “the mental environment” and “mind pollution” in terms of television and advertising. Their definition is not complete. Why do Democrats believe Democrat propaganda and Republicans believe Republican propaganda? Obviously the answer goes much deeper than the propaganda itself, and my book answers those questions. — Bob Gebelein]