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A book that vigorously defends heroin users and sex workers? In You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos Robert Arthur does that and more to demonstrate that taboos are not relics of primitive societies. America has its own ridiculous phobias and beliefs that cause tedium, suffering, and death. The government and the media use these taboos to lie and mislead. It is not a conspiracy, but by pushing panic for votes and viewers they thwart our pursuit of happiness.
You Will Die exposes the fallacies and the history behind our taboos on excrement, sex, drugs, and death. Arthur uses racy readability and rigorous documentation to raze sacred shrines of political correctness on the left and of conventional wisdom on the right. From the proper way to defecate to how to reach nirvana, anticipate the unexpected. It is not simply a novel exploration of sex and drugs, but also of individuality, liberty, and the meaning of life. You Will Die gives readers a new way of seeing their world and allows them to make a more informed choice about living an authentic life.
Winner of the 2008 Montaigne Medal awarded for most thought-provoking independent book.
“… ya gotta fight back against the Sarah Palin ‘idiot herd’ with something.”
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“… one of my favorite books …”
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“This book is a MUST READ! I loved it.”
Dr. Mark Benn, Psychologist, Colorado State University
- Sales Rank: #336168 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-12-14
- Released on: 2012-12-14
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"As Arthur shows in this frequently fascinating survey of things left unsaid, the consequences of refusing to acknowledge basic realities of life go beyond silly censorship." -Reason Magazine
"Points such as the fact that most prostitutes are not drug addicts and that many actually enjoy their work, or the argument that the reason illegal drugs are so deadly is because they're illegal, won't sit well with those firmly entrenched in their beliefs, but Arthur's richly researched and readable treatise will give those open to other positions plenty to think about in this heavily annotated volume." -Publisher's Weekly
"Taboos negatively affect the latent assumptions on which Americans carry out their lives, and have transformed the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness into the pursuit of health, safety and the avoidance of death." -Alternet
"In a sense, You Will Die is two books in one; it is written in a pleasant, conversational style and presents fascinating, often obscure facts in such a way as to make it a great pleasure read, but is both exhaustively researched and so extensively footnoted that it will make an important addition to my reference library." -The Honest Courtesan
"We think we understand our society’s taboos, I certainly thought I did. But reading Robert Arthur’s fascinating, powerful book showed me how little I knew about the subject. You Will Die challenged me in the way that really good books do." -Chester Brown, Graphic Novelist, author of Paying For It
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Why taboos lead to corruption and human misery
By Dennis Littrell
I read this book a few years ago when Arthur self-published it (copyright 2007) and distributed it with covers made from breakfast cereal boxes! This latest edition from Feral House is your usual paperback and is effectively the same book as the one from 2007.
However, in addition to a more attractive cover and overall design, there are three significant differences.
One, the amateurish drawings are gone. Too bad. They added to the quirky, kinky experience of reading the book. I definitely miss them!
Two, the hundreds of footnotes are now endnotes at the conclusion of each chapter instead at the bottom of the relevant page. That's the contemporary practice, but I'm not sure it's an improvement especially when many of the notes contain additional information not just a reference. It's annoying having to flip back and forth between the page you are reading and the end of the chapter in order to read an addition comment.
Three, there's a new chapter, the fourteenth entitled "The End: Death," near the start of which there is this striking sentence: "The guillotine is tender in comparison to the innate cruelty of pathogens and predators."
True, and this is the kind of observation that would seem to give the lie to a benevolent creator of the universe.
However this fourteenth chapter is actually not so much about death as it is about how to live life. Arthur makes the point that a conscious awareness of death can help us to better appreciate being alive which will allow us to get more out of life. He talks about "flow" remarking that "Flow can occur whenever someone is using skills to achieve a challenging and clear goal" and that "When in flow the action is being undertaken for the sake of the action itself. Ulterior motives like money, recognition, or winning are forgotten." (p. 374) This idea is similar to karma yoga found in Hinduism's "Bhagavad Gita."
Arthur recommends the destruction of the ego (if you can manage it! I might observe). He writes that this "process is aided by visualizing yourself in the third person" so that "personal failures and setbacks are seen as trivial" as if one is in a play. He adds the very Buddhist-like observation that "Beneath this final layer is the full awareness that links you to all people, all life, and the cosmos. Your separateness from the universe is a deceit of the ego, a deceit that ends when the ego is vanquished by either death or enlightenment. Like a drop of spray returning to the ocean, when the ego dissolves completely nirvana is reached." (p. 375)
I would say that Arthur's long study of human taboos may have led him to something like enlightenment! At any rate there is a tone in this last chapter that seems to me to be the culmination of what he has learned about life and about himself.
Now, here is my review of the cereal box edition. Most of what I wrote still applies:
This is a sensational book, and I mean that in the widest sense of the word "sensational." It's explosive and amazingly informative. You will not be able to read this book without being amazed--amazed at the hypocrisy of human beings, amazed at the history of human hypocrisy and corruption, amazed at the corruption currently extant in this once great nation, and amazed at the lies you have been, and are being told, by just about everybody in any position of power or influence. This is a book that combines the racy readability of the tabloid style with the rigorous research and documentation of a PhD dissertation.
Arthur is effective because he writes extremely well and because he has great energy in his expression. His style is straightforward. The pages practically turn themselves. The secret to this kind of writing is a lot of simple declarative sentences packed with interesting facts. He footnotes just about everything. There are hundreds of footnotes, and I found myself reading them because some of them contained not just the source but some additional and very interesting addenda (that of course he might have kept on the page!). This brings me to the weaknesses in the book: (1) My book cover is made of the cardboard from a Rice Krispies cereal box! (Arthur binds his own books.) (2) While Arthur's self-editing is almost as good as his writing, which is first rate, the proofreading is...well, not good. There are plenty of typos, footnote numbers amiss, and some needless repetition and miss wording. (3) The extensive "artwork" is an acquired taste. Initially I found it crude and amateurish. After a couple hundred pages I still found it crude but with some redeeming functionality since it wonderfully augments the trashy aspects of the subject matter. (4) The title, "You Will Die" applies to Arthur's second volume, as yet unfinished, with the meaning that one of the most pervasive human taboos pertains to the fact of death.
To quote from Arthur's Website: "The thesis of this book is that taboos are a burden on society .... [T]abooed topics lack open discussion and accurate information. Without these two tools, irrational views cannot be changed. By protecting irrational views taboos hinder progress towards greater happiness."
Arthur begins with the taboo about picking your nose and all the mendacity associated with mucus, urine and excrement. He devotes several page-turning chapters to sexual hypocrisy, and ends with a very fine delineation of the fraudulent and debilitating "war on drugs." There are five appendices, one a scandalous expose on "Great Philanderers" including some juicy stuff on our ex-presidents. I particularly enjoyed the dirt on Ronnie Reagan, but you might find the stuff on Bill Clinton more to your taste. Incidentally, Arthur does a nice job of explaining why some people like George W. Bush have changed their tune with time: "Older people are led to believe that they control their behavior better because they are wiser, and wisdom can be taught to youth. However, this is a hypocritical stance regarding sex because they now have a lower sex drive, and a lower sex drive cannot be taught to youth." (p. 309)
What Arthur does especially well is not only explain the various taboos and the attendant governmental blunders, corruptions and stupidities, but why the taboos and corruption continue to exist and how they developed in a historical sense, and who benefits. He shows how the war on drugs has become a full employment program for law enforcement, the judiciary, and most government agencies as well as serving to keep the trade profitable for the people that supply and sell the drugs. In other words, how wonderfully well our government and the drug cartels work hand-in-hand! With this information we can see that the "war on drugs" is like the perpetual wars of Orwell's "1984": a fraudulent business that serves to further empower the government and is therefore unlikely to ever end.
From my point of view, one of the worst aspects of the war on drugs (at least from a Constitutional perspective) comes from the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1984 which allows "law enforcement to confiscate any property or money they believe to be tainted by drugs" on mere suspicion. "The burden is then on the owner to institute expensive legal proceedings to prove the property is clean." (p. 466) Arthur rightly likens this to practices rampant during the Spanish Inquisition when inquisitors seized the property of the accused.
Another consequence of the war on drugs is to make drugs more potent. "With the danger of arrest," Arthur writes, "it is important to make something concealable for possession, use, and transportation." He adds, "Potent forms of a drug carry less risk because they weigh less than milder forms" since "punishments are based on quantities with larger weights receiving more severe penalties." (p. 347)
Ironically, it is the war on drugs itself that has made doing drugs dangerous. Arthur shows that most of the deaths associated with drug use are the result of criminalization. Overdoses would seldom occur if drugs were legal and regulated, not to mention that drug dealers would not be shooting people in turf wars. Furthermore, terrorists would have to find another way to finance their terrorism, since a large percentage of their funding comes from the illegal drug trade.
Robert Arthur has been a public defender and an inner city school teacher. He is eloquent, compassionate and fired with the kind of energy that we need to fight against the corruption around us. I hope that a major book publisher recognizes the enormous value in this book, both in a humanitarian sense and commercially, and gives Arthur a royalty contract to manufacture and distribute the book on a large scale so that it might reach a wider readership. Tip: buy a copy now. It might be a collector's item when a more professionally packaged product comes out.
--Dennis Littrell, author of "The World Is Not as We Think It Is"
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Handful of Men
By C. Ballinger
Great book, particularly the material related to U.S. drug policy (and drug attitudes in general). I've long been a typically bitter user unable to comprehend the anti-drug situation here, but the latter 2/3 of this book give a great overall history and analysis. It's sickening to realize that not only our current drug laws, but even our basic attitudes towards drug use have been molded by a mere handful of racist opportunists who managed to carve out a ridiculous amount of influence for themselves in American government (Hoover, Anslinger, a few others mentioned in the text). It's all based in lies, in violent aversion to actual research and statistics, and it's grotesque to step back and realize the influence that they had, but even more so, the influence they STILL have, like residual cancer particles moving on thru the generations.
Another nice bonus is the revelation (which should just be obvious, but wasn't to me) that Requiem for a Dream is the modern heir to Reefer Madness-level idiocy. The fact that so many of us completely missed this shows how perniciously we've been influenced.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Fun book to read
By Shawn Pearson
I liked reading this book. Lots of information I didn't know...and probably some things I was still okay not to know. LOL! If you are super religious, overly judgmental, or set in your ways, you probably find this book irritating. However, if you love learning about the quirks of our society and how ridiculously hypocritical it is...then this is the book for you. He helps point out how logic is not used in making many of the decisions and laws we have built for ourselves.
Robert covers so many taboo topics, I read all of the chapters except for all of the chapters on drugs, but the part about boogers at the beginning was hilarious. The information about how we as a society view sex was really good although it jumped around a bit. These chapters were somewhat formatted like "Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire"...Robert did a good job of talking about a few things that the other book missed.
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