Enter the Babylon System: Book Review

                                                                                         

                                                                Jim Pagiamtzis Review:

                        Tremendous book that goes into the history of guns and the impact they have made in society.  Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce share history and stories of gun in the movies. gangs and the impact on how society looks a guns.

 They interview all types of people in the industry and the more you read the intrigue will build chapter by chapter you will learn thing that may make you angry on how this industry operates worldwide.

          Even in our own backyard of Ontario we are part of the problem as we have a major gun manufacturer that makes and sells guns all over the world!

                    Truly a remarkable book that will give more information and knowledge as the responsibility falls with many individuals that has brought the rise of guns in our society and the problems it has caused and not easity solved

                                                                           10 out of 10 stars

 

                                                                     About book

   A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation.

The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of firearms in Canadian crime. Were these songs artful accounts of a terrible truth, or a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce have interviewed many of the major players in the hip-hop world. As publishers of an award-winning magazine of urban culture, they’d watched rap music become a scapegoat for society’s much older and widely spread fascination with guns. What follows is their international adventure to deconstruct modern gun culture in all its manifestations. Bascunan and Pearce seek out hip-hop artists, illegal gun runners, firearms aficionados and manufacturers, museum curators, academics, politicians, video-game creators, activists, victims of gun violence and the family and friends left behind.

Somewhere between Fast Food Nation, No Logo and a Michael Moore documentary, featuring sly sidebar material and original artwork, Enter the Babylon System is part outrageous journalistic pursuit and part passionate cri de coeur for sanity in the face of a society’s obsession. Learn more buy book

Bascunan/Pearce-Enter the Babylon System-author interview  Interview with the both Authors