The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump - Michiko Kakutani Audiobook
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason
We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases.
How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends—originating on both the right and the left—that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant.
With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times.
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| Creation Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:27:19 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 01. The Decline and Fall of Reason.mp3 14.48 MBs | |
| 00. Introduction.mp3 6.29 MBs | |
| 02. The New Culture Wars.mp3 11.88 MBs | |
| 03. “Moi” and the Rise of Subjectivity.mp3 10.81 MBs | |
| 04. The Vanishing of Reality.mp3 7.74 MBs | |
| 05. The Co-Opting of Language.mp3 9.68 MBs | |
| 06. Filters, Silos, and Tribes.mp3 8.56 MBs | |
| 07. Attention Deficit.mp3 10.04 MBs | |
| 08. “The Firehose of Falsehood” - Propaganda and Fake News.mp3 9.77 MBs | |
| 09. The Schadenfreude of the Trolls.mp3 8.78 MBs | |
| 10. Epilogue.mp3 5.78 MBs | |
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
July 20th, 2018
Thank you! A great literary critic. I’ve been anxious to see what she would write about and I’m interested to see her critique on American reason.
July 24th, 2018
Thanks for the upload
July 26th, 2018
Os Guinness, A Time For Truth: Highly recommended!
October 16th, 2020
I have not read it, but that Os GUinness book does look interesting. Seems to follow many of the many points of this book, and given its publication date just proves what is mentioned above. This didnt start with Trump, not by a long shot. He is just the foremost and recent example of the problem. The inevitable result of our continuing declean from reason. Cant help but wonder if thats why Jiminy likes the Guinness book, its over 15 years old and talks about Clintons (Bill) lies, instead of the Trumpsters. The message is the same tho, as one amazon reviewer put it: “the problem is the self. When self delegates truth to itself and self only, that is humanity’s ultimate and only problem. It cannot start within us, but from outside from above.” The very idea of ‘your truth’ , or that you can determine it, is bogus. That just reconfirms your on personal biases, and dismisses objective facts. I highly recommend an article by Rushkoff on the first debate that explains alot of why Trump does lie and attack reality so much and how it has to do with his occult magical belief system he has had since he was a child. Which isnt conspiracy btw, its known history not only not disputed by Trump, but he is very proud of his magical thinking religion. https://gen.medium.com/why-you-dont-have-to-feel-too-sick-about-what-happened-last-night-f1664b08ad75
March 8th, 2023
Thanks a lot as always, sartre100.
Please seed.
March 9th, 2023
Please someone seed please. Thank you.
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