Once you get into the flow, which was indeed not easy for a latent conspiracy sceptic like me, this is irresistible to put down. Especially the first 20 pages had me going through a rough time making sense of this clustered-information-writing and weird mix of spiritual/intellectual approach. But after a while I really got into it.
"Do you know where the power lies? Do you know who pulls the strings? It starts and it ends with you." - that's what Rancid sing in their hymn Olympia W.A. summarizing the content pretty well. Dettelbacher's book is an instruction to take responsibility for the planet. But this doesn't end at watching your ecological footprint by not throwing cigarette stubs on the streets or even quitting smoking altogether - it basically makes you in charge for the entire course of history. Yes, you rule the world, more so if you know about the impact small groups of people you interact with can exert. Theories underline this frame thoroughly. Nevertheless, skip them if you please, and read this book like a newspaper or encyclopedia, article by article, heading to the examples section and back to hypothesis. Still, noone will regret spending all necessary time to investigate every single page and even diving into a couple of the rich bundles of resources (often web based) weaved into the text.
He makes us start questioning the official timeline, seeing the upside-down rhetoric of modern world (e.g. war = peace keeping) and going back to speaking the real words, considering taking sci-fi as disclosure (sometimes they want to tell us the truth!), just removing our pink shaded glasses... 'So, take the red pill and wake yourself up' (p181).
All humanity is like a giant corpse, which unfortunately got 'cancer' over the last couple of centuries. The one thing rotten in our organism is understanding, communicating and living the truth. Governments, elitist groups and leaders of all kinds feed on our misbeliefs. And this is eventually going to explode.
This book is not life-changing, because those that ain't ready are definitely going to put it down after three chapters at the most. But if you are, this is the time of wikileaks, financial crisis and other chaos, so read it now, not in 2013. Get some insight into contemporary workflow of science - politics - philosophy - religion and back again. You will enjoy the author's talent to comment on deadly serious matter with a sense of humor, constantly creating new vocabulary and cheerfully playing with our internalized norms. Take it literally: when (re)volution comes, you will have read its manual!
