The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success - Ross Douthat Audiobook
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From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our age in human history, so superficially turbulent, is actually defined by stagnation, repetition, deadlocks, and decay
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of “sustainable decadence,” a civilizational malaise that could endure for longer than we think.
Ranging from the chaos of Trump-era Washington to the gridlock of the European Union, from our empty cradles to our increasingly-lonely pathways through middle and old age, from the lost promise of the Space Age and the early internet to today’s earthbound surveillance state, from the recycling of Baby Boomer pop culture to the Brave New World we’re making with drugs and virtual reality escapes, Douthat provides an enlightening diagnosis of the modern condition—how we got here, how long our malaise might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 1/5
April 28th, 2020
“Douthat provides an enlightening diagnosis of the modern condition—how we got here, how long our malaise might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.”
I become an expert on modern society too after a few beers.
May 6th, 2020
Anyone else having trouble with this audiobook? It skips past the end of each file to the beginning of the next one, missing out a few seconds each time, and sometimes, it feels like it skips full sections - it sort of takes up again in a new spot that feels unrelated to the previous few seconds. It is a single file so there’s no way to really listen to it without these problems. Aside from that, a really interesting listen.
May 6th, 2020
Yeah, this file has some gaps. It’s supposed to be 8:13 long, but is only 7:41. I’ve only listened to the first two chapters and I’ve heard a couple of big skips, like a few paragraphs worth of missing audio. Bummer. Been waiting for this one.
November 7th, 2020
There’s a new version of this book here: https://politicalaudio.org/audio-books/the-decadent-society-how-we-became-a-victim-of-our-own-success-ross-douthat/
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