24 April 2007

richard dawkins fights the lonely fight.

Certain items on amazon's topseller list caught my attenti on today. it's fun to discover themes on amazon, like a found poetry sort of thing. But what the list currently offers is not found poetry so much as found decade's worth of shit to be worked over in psychotherapy for richard dawkins.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
by J. K. Rowling

2. Little Green Book of Getting Your Way: How to Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, and Sell Your Point of View to Others
by Jeffrey Gitomer

4. The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne

9. Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success
by Russell Simmons
12. Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude: How to Find, Build and Keep a YES! Attitude for a Lifetime of SUCCESS
by Jeffrey Gitomer

13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) (Deluxe Edition)
by J. K. Rowling

17. The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
by Lynne McTaggart

18. Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't
by Michael Losier

20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling

21/ The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins


poor dawkins. he knows perfectly well that he overshoots the conclusions of evolutionary theory by about 100 yards; he's briefly interesting in the way he does it; but he knows goddam well he's set himself up for the hand-wringing and the anger and the gay-sex-on-south park episodes. And grabbing your ankles for harry, along with whoever's momentarily suckling at oprah's golden tit (cormac mccarthy), those are givens of circumstance. but still, he has standards for himself, expectations. and this list has to be just demoralizing. doesn't it? harry takes him behind the shed no less than 3 times; and oprah's grasp has, via the bleeding loudness of the secret¸ constricted the public's attention such that they're reading 6 books with the exact same thesis (think happy while you shop!) before they even think to pay money for his poor little bumper sticker disguised as a book. i mean, russell simmons, for fuck's sake.