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The Madness of Crowds
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- Letto da: Douglas Murray
- Durata: 11 ore e 56 min
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Bloomsbury presents The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray, read by Douglas Murray.
The Sunday Times best seller
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Now updated with a new afterword by the author, The Madness of Crowds examines the rise of woke culture and identity politics as the great derangement of our times
Are we living through the great derangement of our times?
In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of ‘wokeness’, the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.
One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society - from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women - Murray’s penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
"Simply brilliant. Reading it to the end, I felt as though I’d just drawn my first full breath in years. At a moment of collective madness, there is nothing more refreshing - or, indeed, provocative - than sanity. (Sam Harris, author of five New York Times best sellers and host of the Making Sense podcast)
"Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today." (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
"[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone." (Richard Dawkins)
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Generale5 out of 5 stars
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- RBS
- 03/12/2019
This book destroys WOKE MADNESS. Read it today.
I laughed more listening to this book than I have during many comedy shows. Frankly, Murray shows the Intersectional, Woke, blah-blah, academic-term-here movement to BE the comedy show. Social Justice Warriors should be questioned - they won't have facts - and then laughed at. The only way to reverse the madness.
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- Wayne
- 10/02/2020
Rebutting on SJW craziness!
Douglas Murray does a great job of taking on and destroying the madness of social justice warriors in THE MADNESS OF CROWDS. The final summarizing chapters are especially strong. Murray does a nice job of narrating his audio book.
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- Murray
- 25/02/2020
Fun but weak
Having interesting insights on the one side, on the other side it verges on conspiracy thinking when speaking of Marxism or the "left". The audiobook was fun to listen to, however, it lacks depth, rigor and accuracy.
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- Justin J. Norman
- 26/09/2019
An Urgent Read for Our Over-woke Times
An excellent and thoughtful critique of the pitfalls of social justice theory, identity politics, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Over the course of a decade, I've spent a lot of time in groups that would easily be described as "social justice groups", and I've experienced firsthand the sliding of these groups into unreasonableness and counterproductive behavior over the last few years. Douglas brings much-needed clarity to some of the most controversial social and political ideas of our time. I strongly recommend my fellow lefties give this a read and give Murray's analysis careful consideration. His performance on the audiobook is wonderful and entertaining.
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- Christian C.
- 13/04/2020
Some light of hope in a fog of madness
The book is excellent. The content is logical, well written and shocking at times. The reader does an excellent job and fit the tone of the book. I learned about many frightening events that resemble the beginning of terrible moments of history. I used to be on the left side of politics, now I am gradually moving towards the center. I am glade I listened to this book and I am pretty sure I will listen to it again many more times.
It is refreshing and comforting to see someone courageous, intelligent and articulated enough to tackle the viper's nest that is identity politics. Murray knows what he is talking about and proves with many examples and facts the absurdity of almost any politics based on gender, race or sexual orientation. Some people will say that Murray is just showing one side of the medal, but we know about the other side, it's every where and every day in all the media. Why wast time explaining what is so omnipresent in our everyday life. Also, nobody will ever grudge a lawyer for not defending the other side.
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- Nexus X Humectress
- 07/12/2019
Eloquent Explication
If you get one book this year, this is the one. Tells how social justice is antisocial and fosters injustice.
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- Karl K.
- 01/06/2020
This is a very hateful book
This book does not give real insight. I got partway through it and deleted it. Instead of explaining things in an objective point of view it was more into rebellion and why groups hate each other. Goes into the speed at which society is speeding up their ability to hate people groups and other select Subsets. If you want to book that gives you reasons to clearly hate people this book is for you. I would never have this book in my house. I am looking for reasons to cut through hatred and heal.
Thank you for your time, I hope you found this review helpful.
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- C. Streetzel
- 12/04/2020
Highly recommend
This book is a fantastic summary of the ideas that are causing Western Culture to spiral out of control. I have started buying hard copies of this book for close friends and family. I extended my thanks to the author.
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- Nikolay Schitov
- 19/09/2019
Foucauldian hell
This is a mad journey into Foucauldian-Marxist utopia that became reality. Brilliantly written book gives pleasure and concern in the same time.
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- Paul D. Everts
- 10/04/2020
Wish We Would Use This With High School Students
Wow!! Mr. Murray does a great job sharing his views on the "evil" of crowds. Sure. There are plenty of examples of good with crowds. Yet, we need to teach our children to recognize when a crowd goes too far. Unless, of course, the student loses his / her ability to be the individual. We want students to recognize the evil of crowds before they choose to be in a crowd. I am grateful for Mr. Murray's courage. Thank you!
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- MR CHRIS BOWIE
- 01/11/2019
Congratulations Douglas, a masterpiece.
This is required reading/listening for anyone interested in society, politics, or the media.
Douglas nails the hypocrisy of the SJW's in today's confused world, and asks very challenging and thought provoking questions of the listener. His section on the lack of forgiveness for example has been something I have been thinking on for days - he is absolutely right and has made me consider problems I had not thought about before. At turns through this, I have been angered by some of the historical abuses that Douglas documents, through to heartened that Douglas has raised these important topics in such a thorough, diligent and rational way, without excessive emotion nor rancour.
I also applaud Douglas's vocal performance. His nuanced delivery of irony is a remarkable picture of understatement, and all the more delicious for it. Furthermore, he has perfected the cadence of his speech: slow enough to allow the listener to properly consider and digest the sentence, without being so slow as to be boring.
I would urge anyone sitting on the fence about buying this to dive in and be prepared to be both angered and enlightened.
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- Tamar P.
- 05/03/2020
A right wing polemic
Racism and sexism don't exist apparently, it's a wild fantasy of the "victims". It'd be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.
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- martin
- 24/10/2019
A breath of fresh air
I hope Douglas’ compassionate honestly allows people to start having the conversations they are having in private, in public.
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- James Bear
- 26/10/2019
Impressions
Voice mpressions by Douglas Murray of both Nicki Minaj and Renée Zellwegger are top drawer!
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- Kindle Customer
- 26/10/2019
Essential listening
Thanks Douglas, it was sobering to find out just how mad the world is becoming and why.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25/10/2019
Everyone should read
I have never said this about a book: should be required reading. The best book on this topic
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- Judy Corstjens
- 25/11/2019
An angel rushes in where fools fear to tread
Douglas Murray picks up dozens of half-formulated thoughts and ill-defined objections strewn around my brain, puts them into neat piles and labels them for me. Two examples: in the 1970s my grandmother told me she was a feminist and explained what this meant. I immediately agreed that I was a feminist too. Later I sensed that I was no longer a feminist and felt vague unease wrt my late grandma. But Douglas explains that I simply alighted the feminist train once it reached a place that gave me the opportunities, the freedom and respect that I needed to live a happy and fulfilled life. The feminist train then (to use DM’s analogy) picked up speed and steamed on to other destinations and obsessions that had nothing to do with the aspirations of my Grandma.
Forgiveness. I’ve always somewhat taken the view that ‘forgiveness is for wimps’. Not being a religious person I don’t think anyone has ever presented me the logical case for forgiveness. DM put this right. We are forced to live in action. We do not always understand all the consequences of our actions, we may also act rashly or emotionally, but we can never undo an action. This implies that unless we want to be paralysed into inaction we must have the possibility of forgiveness to release us from regretted actions. As in business dealings we need contract law to bind us, but we also need bankruptcy laws to release us and forgive debts if things do go badly wrong. Hmm, I may have been rather harsh to a few people.
Narration. Douglas has a terribly posh voice, but I love it. Every perfectly articulated syllable.
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- E. Gray
- 20/09/2019
Fabulous listen!
Always love Douglas Murray’s writing - this book is as witty and fascinating as ever. Murray glides over the landmine topics of our time with the ease and grace of a swan. The clarity with which Murray thinks and speaks is exceptional and this book is an absolute *must-read* for all free thinking people.
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- Claire G
- 26/02/2020
Fine if you don't like women. At all.
I could hear the misogyny in every word he spat out. The fake nipples, wtf?
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- Anonymous User
- 20/09/2019
Excellent
An excellent book, a rare sensible analysis of an increasingly mad world. I highly recommend.
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