Reviews
The third part is great, his insight into the Regan administration as theatrics is dead-on and applies to Trump even more. More applicable and relevant in 2016 than in the mid-1980s. The final chapter should be skipped because it's continental postmodernist babble. Overall a persuasive take on American society from the Postmodernist continental perspective, and yet he wasn't able to reach escape velocity of the constraints of his own methodology.
Some fun bits in the beginning, but gets exceedingly tedious as it drags on. A few good lines throughout.
Highlights
Carrying out any kind of programme produces the same sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.
p. 21