Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save The World by Andrew Breitbart The single best and most powerful contribution this book will make on any reader is Chapter 6: Breakthrough. Breakthrough is the history lesson that almost nobody is aware of but which everybody should get. It maps the founding roots of progressivism, social justice, postmodernism, and critical theory, the pervasive impact all of these cultural factors are now having in western democracies, and how they ultimately all relate to, and fundamentally stem from, Marxism. Overviewing Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as part of the history provides an additional, invaluable insight into the tactics of these movements as the raw, visible, and enabling feature of the ethos and strategy embodied by the above philosophical ideologies. These ideas are not new, but have been developing, incubating in, and indoctrinating western populations for a century. Even if you’re sympathetic to these ideologies understanding their root should grant you a new and more knowledgeable perspective. Much of the rest of the book tracks key events and transitions in Breitbart’s life, from University binge drinking and liberalism to conservatism and libertarianism. These transitions are narrated through the major stories and events that shaped his life and career and which are told in a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat manner that conveys the stakes, risks, and euphoria that surrounded the actors, events, and powerful influence at hand. It is of course a different lens, a different counter-narrative, to the one that many have been lead to believe as the only version of the truth. Not many people know that he didn’t just help launch Breitbart.com but The Huffington Post, which these days stand in stark contrast to one another. The overarching theme throughout the whole book is a righteous and indignant critique of the media, the fourth estate, that he refers to as the Complex. Most of the Complex is a pervasive self-reinforc...