Age of Bewilderment
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You just voided your health insurance. Also Google sold information about what makes you salivate during TV commercials to Amazon and you will soon be getting a lot of tempting coupons for those cholesterol-bomb onion rings your doctor warned you against. At some point you will begin to feel like what Silicon Valley already considers you to be: But when Google does it, we mostly just shrug.
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All previous predictions of increased automation causing mass unemployment proved false, after all. And Harari himself offers some soothing chapters about the future in which he, for instance, plays down the threat of terrorism.
Strangeness, he says, is the new normal. Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.
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This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. Bollas argues that this trend has culminated in the current rise of psychophobia; a fear of the mind and a rejection of depth psychologies that has paved the way for what he sees as hate based solutions to world problems, such as the victory of Trump in America and Brexit in the United Kingdom.
He maintains that, if we are to counter the threat to democracy posed by these changes and refind a more balanced concept of the self within society, we must put psychological insight at the heart of a new kind of analysis of culture and society. This remarkable, thought-provoking book will appeal to anyone interested in politics, social policy and cultural studies, and in the gaining of insight into the ongoing challenges faced by the Western democracies and the global community. Our customers have not yet reviewed this title.
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Be the first add your own review for this title. Sign in to My Account. Artificial intelligence is racing so far beyond human capabilities, while filling in crucial gaps such as the ability to read and react correctly to human emotions, that cognitive workers could become as redundant as a farm worker cutting grain with scythes. How will people occupy their time when a huge class has nothing to do all day?
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What happens when restless masses of unemployed natives collide with restless masses of unemployed foreigners? Keep in mind that wealth disparities are only going to go up, regardless of how popular Bernie and the Sandersistas should become.
Instead of spending their money mostly on status symbols and real estate, the rich will be able to exploit medical advances to build themselves superior bodies and genius minds that will vastly widen the gap with the middle class. Given that human happiness is linked to how well you think you measure up to others, the indisputably higher quality of life in the plutocracy is bound to spark social unrest.
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Think Occupy Wall Street, only this time with more bullets and fewer tweets. With Soviet Communism defeated, liberal free-market democracy was the undisputed winning political system, and it would be only a matter of time before Honduras and North Korea became the next Denmark and Iowa. Or, when the government takes over health care, we are simply required to wear them.