[GET] The Mess We're In: How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It

[StillStanding]

A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Disillusioned voters are turning to political outsiders and increasingly rejecting the liberal economic solutions of out-of-touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we are turning our backs on experts, evidence and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery and war of the 1930s.

How did it all go so wrong? The Mess We're In explains how a perfect storm of historical developments has left us fearing that a Dark Age is fast approaching. How the triumphant economic philosophy of neoliberalism has failed us and provoked a backlash that is sweeping it aside. How the internet is rewiring our economies, our media, our culture and even our own brains. How politics has become a hollowed-out industry of self-interest rather than a public service. And how, together, they've unleashed a wave of anger and fear that has engulfed the world.

But don't panic, says Bernard Keane: things are also better than they seem to be. In this fascinating, entertaining and occasionally maddening book, he points to how we can fix things - and also how Australia can lead the way.

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[mthomas]

"Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery and war of the 1930s."

Causes back then: Socialism (aka: Nazism and Fascism), Imperialism (Japan) and Communism

Causes today: Socialism, Communism and a not new but reinvigorated with oil money...Islam

+5 Reps! and Thanks for share.

[hicks123]

Excellent share SS. On a related note if "con" is the opposite "pro", what is the opposite of progress?

[Nancy857]

(09-18-2018 06:05 AM)hicks123 Wrote:  Excellent share SS. On a related note if "con" is the opposite "pro", what is the opposite of progress?

Regressive

[rex55]

(09-18-2018 08:29 AM)Nancy857 Wrote:  

(09-18-2018 06:05 AM)hicks123 Wrote:  Excellent share SS. On a related note if "con" is the opposite "pro", what is the opposite of progress?

Regressive

Nancy, I think that was a rhetorical question that hicks 123 posted. It was a play on words, the answer of course is Congress!

[Nancy857]

(09-18-2018 01:06 PM)rex55 Wrote:  Nancy, I think that was a rhetorical question that hicks 123 posted. It was a play on words, the answer of course is Congress!

And then there's that, too. ;)

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