Everytime history repeats itself the price goes up.
Month: July 2012
Review: Max Brooks – World War Z
I finished WWZ and as much fun it (mostly) was while reading the more appalled I am by how reactionary and racist it is beneath all the action.
The obvious point is of course the Redeker plan to „sacrifice“ part of humanity so others can survive. At least it’s not only people who are somehow more „worthy“ than others who are allowed to live (that would have been too fascist even for this kind of militant garbage). Note that this plan has been thought up by an (at least white) South-African (though admittedly it is taken up world-wide, including the US). The idea is just so disgusting and inhumane that I think it could happen in reality.
Then there’s the glaring American patriotism: Sure they „almost“ get their asses kicked at Yonkers, but only „almost“ while all the others seem to bloodily loose their battles most of the time. And it’s of course the fucking AMERICAN president who makes this speech how they have to take back earth to get everyone’s spirit up.* And how the Americans take back their „house“, they just have one ultra-efficient line of well-equipped soldiers roll once straight over America and erase the zombies in a total war of glory, while Russians struggle with weapons from WW2 and the French are too stupid to take their time (and both therefore get their soldiers infected all the time).
And what is this bullshit paragraph about the queen being all heroic and a role-model for her people, refusing to go to a safe place and staying at Windsor instead? What is this royalism, are you crazy, Mr. Brooks? Role-models, my arse.
FYI: Lovecraft was a fucking racist
And by that I mean a real racist as fucked up as it gets not the (also disgusting) „As everybody back then he didn’t like people of color“ but the stinking, disgusting, completly deluded kind of racist.
Next time I’ll be home, I’ll throw the two Lovecraft books I own into the bin. I’m not going to resell them, I’m going to make sure no one ever reads that kind of crap.
Oh and before I forget: Robert „Conan“ E. Howard was also a mindless sexist, racist scumbag (via).
I can’t believe that they’re both featured in this Penguin Classics-series, the latter without ever touching his crazed views on woman and race in the preface. Not a single word!