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Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt
Shit Magnet One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt Author:Jim Goad Jim Goads brief career as an underground celebrity has been studded with controversy, from an obscenity trial over a much-reviled rape issue of his online magazine, to a White House shooting in which the perpetrator quoted Goads writing, to a two-and-a-half-year stint in prison for assault. Shit Magnet is his manifesto, w... more »ritten while he was incarcerated. The books theme is guilt how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is historys propulsive force. Preferring the role of shit magnet to pity sponge, he explores the disabling effects of guilt; uncovers sinister forces behind fashionable stances on race, gender, and criminal justice; and offers his own life as an example of how evil can be imprinted on a person from an early age. Goad is the former publisher of the legendary zine Answer Me! and the author of The Redneck Manifesto.« less