Overview
Winner of the Charles H. Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Richard G. Mitchell Jr. spent more than a dozen years among survivalists at public conferences, private meetings, and clandestine training camps across America. He takes us inside a compelling, hidden world more connected to the chaos of modern life many of us experience than the label "separatist" suggests. In survivalism Mitchell found a profound and meaningful critique of contemporary industrial society, a subculture in which the real evil is not repressive government but the far more insidious influence of a "Planet Microsoft" mentality with its abundance of empty choices. Survivalists, Mitchell shows us, are seeking resistance, not struggling against it; they are looking for ways to define themselves and test their talents in a society that is becoming devitalized and formless.
- | Author: Richard G., Jr. Mitchell
- | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 275 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0226532461
- | ISBN-13: 9780226532462
