Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind - Softcover

Parfrey, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0922915229 ISBN 13: 9780922915224

Publisher: Feral House,U.S., 1995

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Read it and weep!
Interestingly, a fellow who posted on a militia newsgroup tried to expose Cult Rapture as being in league with the illuminati to try to make the patriot/militia types look bad. The article in question was the piece, "How to Frame a Patriot."

If this poster actually read the article, he would have discovered that it deconstructed the way Time magazine piece used its supposed "objective" style to make a Patriot group look exceptionally dangerous and evil. So, in essence, the piece demonstrated how mainstream news articles bypass their beholden idea of "objectivity," and are able to construct the article in a way as to suggest that anyone who contradicts the mainstream ethic is perfectly dangerous.

Not many books I know of have gone so far as to deconstruct the banal, mainstream style for the way it imputes psychosis on those who disagree with the mainstream ethic.

The stories in Cult Rapture range from weird sex cults to con men like Walter Keane, the man behind the promotion of the big-eyed waif paintings at the expense of his wife, Margaret, the actual artist.

Then there's the disease of the ultimate fan, and the undying allegiance of the confused to nonsensical ufo cults, and the final interview of a rock cretin who killed himself rather than killing others.

The world is so entirely chockablock full of government fibs and psychotic personalities, that I'll never find myself stumped by a subject to explore.

In Fall, '99, Apocalypse Culture II, a book that promises to be even more despairing, nihilistic and forbidden than the original, will appear in Fall, '99. Keep an eye out!

The neurotic interest in psychosis is upon us. Read it and weep.

"Adam Parfrey is the caustic chronicler of America's Wrong Stuff, and Cult Rapture is his chainsaw tour through the neuroses of the millennium. From cults and conspiracies to isolated loons, from fakes and grifters to the painfully sincere and the seriously terrifying, Parfrey lucidly explores a sampling of the nation's rarely acknowledged subcultures. This is America as only Parfrey can reveal it." - Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

The Gods Must be Crazy: The Latter Days of UNARIUS From Russia, With Love: The Business of Mail-Order Brides The Devil and Andrea Dworkin The Girlfriend Who Last Saw Elvis Alive Fan Club Will Somebody Please Find a Mate for this Nice, Well-Mannered, Aryan Psycho-Killer? The Sex Economy of Nazi Germany The Endangered Freak Please May I Touch Your Scar?: Queasy Hours Among I CAN, a Cult of Sex-Obsessed Cripples Citizen Keane: The Sordid Saga of the Weepy Waifs God, Christ, Satan or Con?: Westerners Worship a Hindu Godman Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment G. G. Goes to Heaven Riding the Downardian Nightmare Project Monarch Guns, Gold, Groceries, Guts 'n' Gritz SWAT in Theme Park Land How to Frame a Patriot Linda Thompson's War Finding Our Way out of Oklahoma

Edition details

• Publisher: Feral House,U.S.
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922915229
• ISBN 13: 9780922915224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 371