The smallest minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics
A Volscian Commission -- The Road to Smurfdom -- The Pond Moves the Scum, Not the Other Way 'Round -- Streitbare Demokratie -- The Disciplinary Corporation -- The Lonely Mob -- Cage Matches -- Antidiscourse: High-Frequency Trading in the Status Market -- Shouting 'Fire' in a Crowded F...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Regnery Gateway, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A Volscian Commission -- The Road to Smurfdom -- The Pond Moves the Scum, Not the Other Way 'Round -- Streitbare Demokratie -- The Disciplinary Corporation -- The Lonely Mob -- Cage Matches -- Antidiscourse: High-Frequency Trading in the Status Market -- Shouting 'Fire' in a Crowded Feedback Loop -- Of the Devil's Party -- Jeffrey and Me -- Afterword: The Emerging American Police State "Reader beware: Kevin D. Williamson—the lively, literary firebrand from National Review who was too hot for The Atlantic to handle—comes to bury democracy, not to praise it. With electrifying honesty and spirit, Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the "beast with many heads" that haunts social media and what currently passes for real life. It’s destroying our capacity for individualism and dragging us down "the Road to Smurfdom, the place where the deracinated demos of the Twitter age finds itself feeling small and blue." The Smallest Minority is by no means a memoir, though Williamson does reflect on that "tawdry little episode" with The Atlantic in which he became all-too-intimately acquainted with mob outrage and the forces of tribalism. Rather, this book is a dizzying tour through a world you’ll be horrified to recognize as your own. With biting appraisals of social media ("an economy of Willy Lomans," political hustlers ("that certain kind of man or woman…who will kiss the collective ass of the mob"), journalists ("a contemptible union of neediness and arrogance") and identity politics ("identity is more accessible than policy, which requires effort"), The Smallest Minority is a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves." -- provided by publisher Williamson takes a flamethrower to mob politics, the "beast with many heads" that haunts social media and is destroying our capacity for individualism. Himself at times a victim of mob outrage and the forces of tribalism, Williamson provides a defiant, funny, and terrifyingly insightful book about what we human beings have done to ourselves. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 242 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781621579687 978-1-62157-968-7 |