America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned
into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry,
where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How
did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture,
our leaders—and each other? In this refreshingly judgmental book,
David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth
revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who,
by and large, “can’t run their own universities or scholarly
fields, but are very sure they can run you.” These imperial
academics have deployed their students into the top echelon of
professions once monopolized by staid and steady WASPs. In this simple
way, they have installed themselves as the new designated drivers of
American culture. Imperial academics live in a world of theory; they
preach disdain for mere facts and for old-fashioned fact-based
judgments like true or false. Schoolchildren are routinely taught
theories about history instead of actual history—they learn, for
example, that all nations are equally nice except for America, which
is nearly always nasty. With academic experts to do our thinking for
us, we’ve politely shut up and let second-raters take the wheel. In
fact, we have handed the keys to the star pupil and teacher’s pet of
the post-religious globalist intellectuals, whose election to the
presidency of the United States constituted the ultimate global group
hug. How do we finally face the truth and get back into the driver’s
seat? America-Lite ends with a one-point plan.
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781594037092
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Encounter Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter