Trump and a Post-Truth World

✍ Scribed by Wilber, Ken

• Book ID: 109985384
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 360 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781611805611

✦ Synopsis

A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation -- by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times.
The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia--and most visibly, the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump--nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?

In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope. He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women's rights, the...