Why Bother?

Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land

By: Sam Smith

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Paperback | 10 January 2002

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151 Pages

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In a materialist culture where the safest defense is apathy, ignorance, or surrender, Sam Smith offers a gleam of hope. Drawing from sources ranging from philosophy and anthropology to the Internet and rock zines, from Kierkegaard to Humphrey Bogart to Rage Against the Machine, the veteran journalist confronts despair and alienation and suggests an alternative path of integrity, passion, and personal rebellion.

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"The task is to bear knowledge without it destroying ourselves, to challenge the wrong without ending up on its casualty list." - Sam Smith "Prepare to be motivated... He makes you pause between paragraphs in order to mull over the captivating morsels he is placing in your imagination." - Ralph Nader "A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain-spoken and filled with common sense." - Jay Waljasper, Utne Reader

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