What characterizes our time? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panic attacks, moral confusion, and an epidemic of nonsense. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World Francis Wheen brilliantly describes the rise of superstition, relativism, and emotional hysteria. He covers topics such as Middle Eastern fundamentalism, lotteries, astrology, mysticism, poststructuralism, and the Third Way.
Wheen shows how Enlightenment values are increasingly giving way to nonsense. This is particularly evident in the United States, the country that is supposed to embody these values.
This book is a sharp and often humorous analysis of the absurdity of our time. A call to think more and believe less.
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