Hole

"What's the difference between a looter and a forager? What's the difference between a religion and a cult? It's all in the marketing." "Carla Bonte has money and power, and powerful people by her side. Carla Bonte wants voodoo to be a national religion, a successful, influential religion, and so she puts the many companies she controls to the task. Carla Bonte doesn't realize she's making a new voodoo, a hyper-voodoo, a religion based on Haitian faith tradition but married to advanced technology and marketed through the machinery of a multinational corporation." "The American consciousness only knows voodoo through its portrayal in television and film. People are sold things through the preconceptions sold to them previously, so hyper-voodoo becomes a religion that wheedles belief out of exploitative cliche." "The Hole: Consumer Culture is a science fiction horror story about the buying of selling of race in America, the simultaneous worship and degradation of African Americans in popular culture, and the bloody terror of boundaries being tom down."--BOOK JACKET.Duffy, Damian is the author of 'Hole', published 2008 under ISBN 9780977868926 and ISBN 0977868923.