Trump and a Post-Truth World

Name: Trump and a Post-Truth World
Brand: Shambhala
SKU: 9781611805611-G
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By Ken Wilber

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A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation-by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times. The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia-and most visibly, the U.S., with the election of Donald Trump-nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies? In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope. He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women's rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the concern for oppression in all its forms. This is all evolutionarily healthy. But what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, "politically correct," insistent on an egalitarianism that is itself paradoxically hierarchical, and that looks down on "deplorables." Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: "Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere you are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad." It is only when members of society's leading edge can heal themselves that a new, Integral evolutionary force can emerge to move us beyond the social and political turmoil of our current time to offer genuine leadership toward greater wholeness.

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Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

160

Release Date:

2017-08-08

Publication Date:

2017-08-08

Publisher:

Shambhala

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1611805619

ISBN13:

9781611805611

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

202 g

Height:

136 cm

Width:

213 cm

Thickness:

15 cm

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