/lit/ - Literature

>>12860023
Not really no, it's very obvious that it's a purely political move because they think it's offensive to jews.

Nobody has offered any kind of critique of CoC that amounts to more than calling MacDonald an anti-semite. In truth I think the theory side of CoC has a number of flaws (though the observational description of jewish activities remains irrefutable), but 99% of people simply have a knee-jerk reaction and dismiss it off hand the moment they read the tagline, without ever actually reading it and explaining WHY they disagree or don't like it.

In my opinion CoC is the best example of a litmus test for the idea of the subject/author being irrelevant to the content itself. The content is sourced, rational and descriptive and then seeks to devise a theory from the observations made therein. Regardless of what you think of jews or MacDonald or your political views this remains a scholarly work. MacDonald is not some neo-nazi skinhead. His work is not hateful no overly passionate; in fact it often comes across as a little too detached. The only reason it is not widely regarded as a scholarly work is because of the subject matter.

That old Voltaire quote about how if you want to know who rules your society then find out who you can't criticise holds very true for CoC.

Thankfully based BookDepository still sells it. No idea why anyone would use Amazon for books when BD exists desu.

To the lad asking what the underlying idea in Echopraxia was, I think it was trying to discuss determinism. Or rather, the idea that there's always something else with a greater level of control over situations than you currently have (which is a sort of pseudo-deterministic view of things). Each character/faction thought they had things under control but were always proved wrong in the end. Bruks, the Bichamerals, Moore, that pilot woman, Valerie etc. all think they've got a handle on things and one by one they're proved wrong and pay the price, up until right at the end with Valerie and Bruks/Portia where Valerie is over confident in her ability to control things and Portia kills her.

In the end Rorschach is the one really in control, but given that he isn't 'conscious' in our sense of the word you can look at him as the embodiment of the deterministic will of the universe. Hell, if Watts wasn't such a reddit-tier atheist you could even interpret Rorschach as analogous to the will of God - being able to manipulate events completely despite no physical presence (other side of the solar system).