Deepak Malhotra

This was another Saturday lend from Zach, as I saw it just three books down from [b:The Pearl|5308|The Pearl|John Steinbeck|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1437234939s/5308.jpg|195832] on the office bookshelf, and I thought it was another book that Zach talked about as we pulled the canoe back towards the dock. Something-something-cheese moving. However, he was talking about it's predecessor and kick-off point, the book [b:Who Ate My Cheese?|3302365|Who Ate My Cheese?|John W. Nichols|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347689673s/3302365.jpg|3339179], which he didn't happen to have a copy of. I think I've got the gist of that book through the context provided by this one, but my curiosity and inability to work with incomplete knowledge demands that I have to find a copy and read it for the sake of closure.

I give it two stars because it's so simple and didn't suggest any ideas I wasn't already thoroughly aware of and because the more we play with this rat-maze metaphor the more it falls apart. On the other hand, I totally agree that we need to remove "the maze from the mouse" and it's something I strive to do as much as I can. But god, I am depressingly complicit in so many of these structures I don't believe in and want to escape, and it seems to me that the author is too. And I'm reminded of a refrain from my critical theory prof wherein often the more we think we are outside an ideology, the more firmly we're ingrained in it.… (mehr)