Mess We're In

How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, International
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Author: Bernard Keane ISBN: 9781760636692
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication: July 25, 2018
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Language: English
Author: Bernard Keane
ISBN: 9781760636692
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication: July 25, 2018
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Language: English

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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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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