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Dancing at Armageddon - Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times (Hardcover, New)
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Dancing at Armageddon - Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times (Hardcover, New)
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"Survivalists". The word conjures dark images: a little-travelled
rural road, surly sleeveless extras from the film "Deliverance",
shotguns cradled in their arms, a snarling Doberman on a rusty
chain guarding a fortified shelter. We don't think to look for
survivalists among movie executives or engineers, physicians or
other professionals. But we should, as Richard G. Mitchell, Jr.
shows in "Dancing at Armageddon". Mitchell takes us inside a
movement that is increasingly occupying the national consciousness,
into a compelling, hidden world, far more connected to the chaos of
modern life than its caricature as a freakish antigovernment
activity would suggest. Mitchell spent a dozen years among
survivalists at public conferences, private meetings, and
clandestine training camps across America. And yes, he did learn
how to garrote an enemy. But more importantly, he found at work in
survivalism a profound and meaningful critique of contemporary
industrial society, a society in which the real evil is not
repressive government but the far more insidious influence of a
"Planet Microsoft" mentality with its abundance of empty choices.
Survivalists, Mitchell shows us, are seeking resistance, not
struggling against it; they are looking for ways to define
themselves and test their talents in a society that is becoming
devitalized and formless. "Dancing at Armageddon" is packed with
firsthand stories of underground commerce, revolutionary plots,
gunplay and other survivalist action, real and imagined.
Fascinating and compulsively readable, it offers not only a rare
view inside the movement but, through the movement, a unique
understanding of contemporary culture.
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