{"product_id":"mess-were-in-bernard-keane-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernard Keane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1760632503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781760632502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Bernard Keane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519316013311,"sku":"9781760632502","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a45c05ef-a368-4902-9d92-a24bc3255108.jpg?v=1778737245","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mess-were-in-bernard-keane-9781760632502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}