Trump and a Post-Truth World
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZZVPWTK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is all evolutionarily healthy; 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. with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. 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
He is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. Ken Wilber is the founder of Integral Institute and the cofounder of Integral Life. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Integral Meditation, A Theory of Everything, Integral Spirituality, No Boundary, Grace and Grit,
“Ken Wilber examines Donald Trump’s election and provides a brilliant Big Picture explanation that is unique in its breadth, depth, and analysis of deeper cultural dynamics that others have overlooked but that we all need to now recognize.”—Roger Walsh MD, PhD, University of California