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On Decline - Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever (Paperback)
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On Decline - Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever (Paperback)
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A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really
was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David
Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot
worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels
and Nice, the Brexit vote-and the election of Donald Trump. The
end-of-year wraps declared 2016 "the worst ... ever." Four even
more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had
devolved into a tired social media cliche. But when COVID-19 hit,
journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to
wonder: what if The End isn't one big event, but a long series of
smaller ones? In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems
and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it's not
great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific
innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The
devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by
social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various
failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19
pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its
virtues-reason, logic, science, evidence-has run its course, how
and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?
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