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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Francis Wheen
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| #1272876 in Books | 2005-07-06 | 2005-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.63 x.75 x5.50l,.88 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Insights into the predicament of our era: The Rise of the Irrational|By Customer|Geoff Cohn
Extraordinary clarity and depth. And humour. Wheen wields humour as a weapon. An analysis of the self-destructive urges of a world which has accepted political correctness, accorded status to gurus who are out of their depth in a puddle, elevates mediocrity, accords status t||"[A] very well-written rant against all the baloney that people seem increasingly to believe." -- The Boston Globe
"[S]avagely amusing...this angry, energetic, disappointed, witty, learned book is entertainingly contentious." --
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 Enlightenm...
You easily download any file type for your device.How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions | Francis Wheen. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.