On 02/02/2017 10:21 AM, Claudia Steimann wrote:
I am just reading that book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23809961-psychopathic-cultures-and-toxic-... Psychopathic cultures and toxic empires By Will Black and it describes really good what turns states like Turkey or US into something evil - also describes the same effects within companies.
Does anybody here got other must reads on society or politics?
For a start, "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" by Neil Postman. Libcom.org used to have a copy online but they apparently had to remove it. The last chapter 'Who was right? Orwell or Huxley?' was turned into a cartoon meme: https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/george-orwell-vs-aldous-hu... (Vertical strip 950x7583) ...but the rest of the book describes in quite readable detail how people get dumbed down by media. Rr