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Re: Machtgeil
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Geschrieben von Albert (Link) am
Montag, 17. März 2008, 08:41
Deine Sicht der Dinge wird von der intellektuellen Schicht der USA durchaus geteilt. Wir können den Niedergang einer einst erfolgreichen Nation beobachten. Möglich wird das durch eine mediengestützte (/-verursachte?) Verblödung der breiten Masse. Es gibt aktuell dazu ein Buch (Februar 2008) von Susan Jacoby: "The Age of American Unreason". ISBN 978-0-375-42374-1, Pantheon Books N.Y. 2008.
Der Klappentext:
COMBINING HISTORICAL analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.
Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment - from television to the Web - and cites this toxic dependency as the major element distinguishing our current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion.
At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned, tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what the flight from reason has cost us as individuals and as a nation.
Lesenswert!
Beste Grüße
Albert
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