Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that
crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell--while we're
laughing like fiends. A book like this one.
"Your Call Is Important to Us" is a manifesto for anyone who's sick and tired of
the twenty-first century's tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author
Laura Penny dissects--no, disembowels--the culture of globalized, super-sized,
consumerized b.s.
Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the
"corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux
foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and
nothing: not Wal-Mart, where