Description: On Decline : Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year Is the Worst One Ever, Paperback by Potter, Andrew, ISBN 1771963948, ISBN-13 9781771963947, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021
What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together?
The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to wonder: what if The End isn’t one big event, but a long series of smaller ones?
In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—reason, logic, science, evidence—has run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?
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Book Title: On Decline : Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year Is the Worst One Ever
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Biblioasis
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Essays
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Philosophy, Social Science
Item Weight: 3.9 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Andrew Potter
Book Series: Field Notes Ser.
Item Width: 4.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
