The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom

by David Kupelian

Book Overview

DAVID KUPELIAN'S CULTURE-WAR BESTSELLER IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK Millions of Americans today accept ideas and behaviors that would have horrified all previous generations. Why? Why have thousands of years of Judeo-Christian moral standards suddenly been abandoned? What's behind today's divorce epidemic? Why is public prayer being criminalized? Why are 3,000 innocent unborn children aborted daily? In this widely acclaimed expos , veteran journalist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581824599
• ISBN13: 9781581824599
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: WND Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The marketing of Evil

This book went to an inmate on Death Row at Arizona State Prison. He requested this book specificly. He did tell me it was EXCELLENT!

Outstanding, must read

When I heard about the OSU college professor feeling unsafe and personally threatened by the prospect of someone reading The Marketing of Evil, curiosity got the better of me. Judging by the reviews here, the book obviously has some learned, thoughtful, and articulate readership. I was moved enough myself by the book to try and add my two cents worth. First, I'm very impressed with how well written and edited the book is. Most non-fiction that is any good might make a worthwhile point every few pages. With this book, it's more like every couple of sentences. It's short and easy reading, but fully packed. And not one of the topics raised is a puff piece. Each is big, really big, and poignant to today's society. The author discusses ten issues, one per chapter, and I expect any one of them dropped among a random group of people could start a heated argument in about 15 seconds. You can't do a "search inside the book" so here's the 10 topics/chapters: Gay rights Myth of church-state separation Selling of sex The 60's generation Destruction of marriage Sexual revolution based on fraudulent science Hijacking of American school system World of illusion created by press Selling of unrestricted abortion Role of Christianity in America Like I said, heavy-duty stuff. And the author addresses each topic head-on without sarcasm, hyperbole, or sensationalism. He is also very consistent to his theme, i.e., how the radical elements within our society have successfully, and with intent, marketed their particular view to the rest of us. To those that doubt the author's premise, all I can say is I was in college in the 60s and the evidence presented seems right on target to me. And if you don't believe it, then read the admissions of the very people doing the marketing in question. Do some fact checking. Read some of the source material. It is eye popping, depressing, and maybe even scary. The book is not up lifting, nor intended to be. Reading it is like turning on a bright light in a smelly flophouse. We had a good idea the roaches were in there, but we'd rather let someone else deal with it. (Unfortunately, there's no one else living here but us). It seems the book's first chapter, gay rights, gets most of the attention from detractors. None of the other chapters are any less weighty or volatile. It's not a book about the evil of gay rights, it's a book about successful marketing. There is much irony here for both the left and the right. The radical left, the avowed enemies of Wal-Mart, capitalism, Christianity, traditional morality, etc. make use of the very tools of the society they condemn, and very much to their personal profit. Meanwhile, those on the right have allowed themselves to be sucked into the moral abyss by the very same tools they hold in such high regard. Nothing to be proud of. It's terribly sobering and thought provoking. That the book might be recommended reading for an incoming freshmen class is the height of sanity to me, definitel

This is a very important book

I want to encourage any seeker of the truth to read this book. It is a very important source for navigating and understanding the headwaters of moral decline in North America. David Kupelian has researched, interviewed movement founders and now publishes the facts around the falsehoods that started the sexual revolution, the evisceration of marriage, the fake abortion data that got the ball rolling to change our nations laws, the fraud around the hijacking of the constitution regarding separation of church and state and more. He also educates and prepares the reader to use the filters needed to decipher the perpetual lies of the mainstream media. A clarion wake up call to those who still care about freedom and the core battle between good and evil.

"Neutrality" is not neutral--it's collaboration! says author David Kupelian

"Marketing is the application of the knowledge of human psychology to the task of persuasion." (p.99)--author David Kupelian. This is a great book that points out a lot of things to consider for conservatives and Christians to better understand our sinful culture and how our society got so bad in the last half century. "A well-known Bible verse says, 'Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!' (Isaiah 5:20). Indeed, this book is about how evil is packaged and perfumed to look good--and good to appear evil. I read and listen a lot to Christian conservatives in their books and on the radio, so a lot of this is review for me, but it is a great place to start if you are just now getting interested in turning around our culture. But there are also plenty of little details that I found enlightening, even though I already have been exposed to the larger topics. For example, I did not know that AIDS was originally called 'Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease' (GRID), until homosexuals pressured the medical community to switch the name to AIDS (p.20), to take the onus off of sodomy. Even the medical community is susceptible to the negative influence of immoral pressure groups, which in turn effects our culture. David Kupelian has a good chapter on the judicial activist, athiest LIE of Separation of Church & State. He writes how this untrue concept has been used to turn America into a de facto atheistic, secular state! "You rarely hear the actual wording of the First Amendment anymore. But "separation of church and state" is one of those phrases that roll off the tongues of judges and journalists so easily and so often that most of us assume it's in the Constitution." (p.55) "...in making any reference to God or biblical principles off-limits for those we've entrusted with this nation's government and charting its future course, do you realize what we are doing? We are deluding ourselves into believing there is some neutral ground between good and evil, and that this is where the government is supposed to be." "When Jews are being gassed and cremated down the street, 'neutrality' is not neutral--it's collaboration." (p.58) Kupelian makes a good observation about how the 1960's selfish, self-obsessed "liberation" movements negatively rotted our culture. "A generation later, the various 'liberation' movements--sexual liberation, women's liberation, gay liberation, and so on--have blossomed into rampant infidelity, divorce and family breakdown, gender confusion, AIDS, abortion, and other mammoth problems." (p.89) Kupelian points out how virtually all of our society's current ills can be traced back to the disregard and distate towards traditional family values, most notably the en vogue concept of fathers being unnecessary. Then the government steps in to pick up the slack of broken, fatherless homes, and the population becomes depen

Signs of the times. Required reading. Excellent.

Although primarily directed towards an American audience, this excellent book is no less relevant to the rest of the Western world and the international community as a whole. This extremely well written and penetrating book investigates a plethora of issues, including how today's society has purportedly abandoned what are described as old fashioned notions of "right and wrong" in favour of "consensuality". A way of life where two people can do whatever they want, no matter how "abominable" it may seem, as long as they don't "hurt" anyone else. It being emphasised within the book that, by casting aside such principles, society has arrived at such a "deluded state" that individuals have no clear basis for determining if they are "hurting" another person or not. Heartfelt concern emanates through the text as individuals are described as adopting a lifestyle and attitude that denies the existence of God and His laws and which treads underfoot the Judeo-Christian values upon which our society is cited as being based upon. The study analyses how abortion has allegedly been portrayed as a "choice", a "personal decision" arrived at between a woman and her Doctor, with little or no attention being given to the morality surrounding the issue or the welfare of the unborn child. Although this is not what I would essentially describe as a Christian/religious book, one of the questions asked herein is - "Is there a God ?". This issue is then addressed by further questioning whether man has an "immortal soul" and if our prime responsibility in this life is to be obedient and faithful to God and His laws. The battle of world views and many of today's most contentious issues receive appropriate attention. Same sex marriages, paedophilia and the legalisation of homosexuality are among the many issues discussed. Promiscuity is itself cited as being portrayed as just another element of "freedom". The reader is taken on a journey which reveals how values of fairness, generosity and tolerance have persuaded society and individuals to embrace virtually any type of behaviour or belief - no matter how obviously insane - where such are rationalized so they sound reasonable. Even where lies, both subtle and outrageous, are packaged as truth. However, it can be seen from the text that such "tolerance" is not reciprocated towards those who adhere to Judeo-Christian values, where such individuals are cited as being "bigots" etc.. The book maintains that marriage is a "divine institution" between a man and a woman, something cited as being created by and provided for by God, emphasising that marriage embodies commitment, caring, unselfishness, restraint, planning, sacrifice, affection and endless patience, with sex itself being a precious part of such a relationship. Instead such standards are shown to be frowned upon with "easy divorce" and abortion on demand demonstrated as being on the increase. The role of the media in all these issues is also addressed. One