{"product_id":"mess-were-in-how-our-politics-went-to-hell-and-dragged-us-with-it-9781760632502","title":"Mess We're in: How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It","description":"A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Disillusioned voters are turning to political outsiders and increasingly rejecting the liberal economic solutions of out-of-touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we are turning our backs on experts, evidence, and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery, and war of the 1930s. How did it all go so wrong? \u003ci\u003eThe Mess We're In\u003c\/i\u003e explains how a perfect storm of historical developments has left us fearing that a Dark Age is fast approaching. How the triumphant economic philosophy of neoliberalism has failed us and provoked a backlash that is sweeping it aside. How the internet is rewiring our economies, our media, our culture, and even our own brains. How politics has become a hollowed-out industry of self-interest rather than a public service. And how, together, they've unleashed a wave of anger and fear that has engulfed the world. But don't panic, says Bernard Keane: things are also better than they seem to be. In this fascinating, entertaining, and occasionally maddening book, he points to how we can fix things--and also how Australia can lead the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760632502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Bernard Keane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507572961461,"sku":"9781760632502","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_68c89d29-416d-4f25-86b7-bde23b8cf895.jpg?v=1778565878","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mess-were-in-how-our-politics-went-to-hell-and-dragged-us-with-it-9781760632502","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}