Dear Dr. Kublalsingh,
Last week I bought your recently published book Global Village or Global Empire at a
bookstore in Chaguanas. After having read it, I am writing to ask you to please
give me back my money. I know what you must be saying. “Why should someone be
entitled to a refund after reading the book?” Well Dr. Kublalsingh, I believe I
was duped into buying your book.
I know you’re not
supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I foolishly assumed that a book
alluding to be about global economics and politics; would be about global economics and
politics. Imagine my disappointment when I realized that it was nothing more
than the ramblings of a clearly deluded halfwit.
Global Village or Global Empire, a collection of 25 of your newspaper
articles, is nothing more than a collection of, junk history, hackneyed
conspiracy theories and socialist propaganda. A great example of the kind of
moronic nonsense that pervades this book can be found in your article titled
“The Leadership Revolution”.
In it you praise the psychopathic founder of North Korea, Kim
ll Sung saying, “The modern Democratic
Republic of North Korea is a product of very clear leadership. Of a very clear
set of revolutionary principles”. You go on to describe North Korea as
somehow being a self-reliant country that wants for nothing.
Dr. Kublalsingh the
fact that you seem unaware that North Korea is little more than a concentration
camp pretending to be a country is telling. Kim Kardashian writing a book on
theoretical physics would not write anything as demonstrably false or insane as
your analysis of North Korea, or indeed anything else in this book. Wayne, North
Korea is a brutal totalitarian regime where mass starvation and crippling
poverty is the order of the day and where a person,
say, protesting the construction of a highway, would be shot on sight.
I strongly recommend
you read a real book called “Why Nations Fail” by Darron Acemoglu and James
Robinson. I use the words “real book” in that unlike your books, the authors
here actually use facts, references, and supporting evidence to make their
claims. According to Acemoglu and Robinson, South Korea, despite sharing a
similar geographical location with North Korea has become one of the richest
countries in the world precisely because it rejected the socialist ideology
found in North Korea.
South Korea is an open
democracy where free market economics has generated prosperity and rewarded
innovation. In short, western style
institutions, free market economics and liberal democracy-everything you rail
against in Global Village or Global
Empire -are exactly the ingredients that are needed for a prosperous and
free society.
Of course what collection of crackpot socialist ideas would
be complete without a slobbering tribute to brutal autocrat Fidel Castro? Its
seems incredible to me that in the same book where you praise the power of the
internet saying “The discovery of cyberspace …offers enormous
possibility of resistance to the mania of individual leaders“,
that you also praise Fidel Castro, describing him as an “ intellectual
giant of the 21st century”.
You are apparently unaware that Fidel Castro denies Cubans
the full use of the internet. Like all media in Cuba it is censored. Gee I
wonder why? Maybe because the internet “offers enormous possibility of
resistance to the mania of individual leaders“, you think? But such is the level of non-thinking that is
displayed all over your book.
Not content with
mangling political and economic facts, your book also attempts to distort
scientific ones. For example in your article that has nothing to do with
discussing the scientific revolution, which for some reason is entitled, “The
Scientific Revolution”, you appear to mix mysticism with science. In a string
of bizarre sentences you write nonsense like “If it is argued that the temple
is an abstraction or the spirit, or peace and purity; so is mathematics”. And “The entire universe is a celestial city
and the planet is a celestial village.” None of this makes any sense unless of
course you were in some kind of drug induced hallucinatory rant. In which case,
I get it.
So in conclusion Dr Kublalsingh because, I think there is
more historical and scientific accuracy in Game of Thrones than in your book, I
would like to get my money back please. Please have a cash payment in the
amount of $95.75 delivered to The Trinidad Express in my name. I have to warn you
Dr. Kublalsingh I am prepared to go on a hunger strike to get back my money. I
have access to sunlight and Tulsi leaves; therefore you know my hunger strike
could last for months.
Respectfully
Darryn Boodan
2 comments:
Wayz!!!! LOL
Brilliantly written. Too bad most Trinidadians would not even take the time to read such a thought provoking piece. They are too busy following the inane plot of some flaccid ZTV offering or the EPL.
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