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Goldberg, Jonah.
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Conservatism -- United States.
Patriotism -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
Democracy -- United States.
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Goldberg, Jonah.
Conservatism -- United States.
Patriotism -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
Democracy -- United States.
MARC Display
Suicide
of the
West
:
how
the
rebirth
of
tribalism
,
populism
,
nationalism
, and
identity
politics
is
destroying
American
democracy
/ Jonah Goldberg.
by
Goldberg, Jonah.
Crown Forum, 2018.
Call #:
320.520973 G618s
Subjects
Conservatism -- United States.
Patriotism -- United States.
National characteristics,
American
.
Democracy
-- United States.
ISBN:
9781101904930 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
453 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-435) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Stumbling upon a miracle -- Human nature: Our inner tribesman -- Corrupting the miracle: When human nature strikes back -- The State: A myth agreed upon -- The birth of capitalism: A glorious accident -- The eternal battle: Reason versus the search for meaning -- The
American
miracle: They put it in writing -- The elites: Aristocrats unchained -- The progressive era: The birth of the living constitution and the death of liberty -- The administrative state: The shadow government --
Tribalism
today:
Nationalism
,
populism
, and
identity
politics
-- Pop culture
politics
: Godzilla, rock & roll, and the romantic spirit -- The family's losing war against barbarism -- The Trumpian era: The perils of
populism
-- Things fall apart: The
American
experiment at risk -- Conclusion: Decline is a choice.
Summary:
"Running water. Electricity. Antibiotics. Dentistry. Air conditioning.
Democracy
. The rule of law. Such things are not only remarkably new inventions in human history, they are all alien to humanity's natural habitat. Here is what is natural: poverty, hunger, violence, tribal hatred, and an early death. If the Garden of Eden existed, it was a slum. Only once in the last 250,000 years did humans lift themselves out of their natural environment of poverty. It happened in eighteenth-century England, and it was an accident. If
democracy
, individualism, and the free market were humankind's destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, it was the miracle of human history. As Americans, we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the Miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution, but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society... In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. At a moment when authoritarianism,
tribalism
,
identity
politics
,
nationalism
, and cults of personality are rotting our
democracy
from within, Jonah Goldberg exposes the
West
's suicidal tendencies on both sides of the ideological aisle. For the
West
to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past - or back to the muck we will go."--Page [2-3] of cover.
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