Not yet published, 15th March 2021 - pre order here.
If you think you are living in an era of post-truth, you likely are. If
something sounds like magical thinking, it is. Nationalism makes no
country great; it often leads to war, genocide, terror, destroyed
economies and the turning of cities into rubble.
Technology will
not get us to paradise. It has made us more unequal than ever, polluted
democracy, heightened job risk (displacement), created ever more
billionaires, continued the rapid pace of the destruction of the planet,
and transformed us from citizens into consumers, often with our active
support. The free market is not free; too often it isn't even a market
(because we live in an age of monopoly).
The road to serfdom is
paved by demagogues, not the state; the state and its institutions are
all we have. Trust expertise. Truth does not come from he who shouts the
loudest.
You are approaching a one-party-state when facts are
relativized, science is denied, experts are mocked and threatened,
alternative facts are embraced, minorities are criminalized, and lying
is normalized. Farewell to Democracy? reminds us that we have been here
before. It tells us that we can avoid a repetition of the past, but we
must first know what that past was (and is).
Farewell to
Democracy? insists that nothing is inevitable. That we are not
powerless. That we have institutions to help protect us, which we must
protect in turn.
It shows us what happens when we speak truth to
power. It details the strength of mass protest. It pulls back the veil
on Post-Truth.
It urges all of us to bear witness and to "show up."
Farewell to Democracy? : Lessons Past and Present - Jack Luzkow
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