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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions Book

A savagely witty account of the last quarter century when despite a great leap forward in technology there has been a huge regressive collapse in our ability to think straightso that everything has begun to stop making senseRead More

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    A big bestseller in the UK and right on about the U.S.: Francis Wheen's delightful "assault on all things irrational, inexplicable, dumb-headed and phony" (The Financial Times)

    What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the U.S.A. In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

  • 158648348X
  • 9781586483487
  • Francis Wheen
  • 15 June 2005
  • PublicAffairs,U.S.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
  • New edition
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