Ideas that are employed to legitimize and make us consent to
authority and its hierarchies also disempower us, leaving us
anxious, depressed, and discontent. They are constantly hammered
into us by the media, by our friends and family, and by
institutions. They also come to us by way of films, motivational
speakers, business gurus, as well as in the actions we take in our
everyday lives and in the experiences of who we are. In The Ruling
Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable, Ari Ofengenden
examines many of these ideas, such as the entrepreneurial-self, the
utility-oriented economic man, technological progress, virtues and
values, as well as family values, God, nation and race. Ofengenden
provides a deft analysis, on the one hand, of the beliefs we hold,
the ideas behind them that make us consent to the social order, and
how we often fool ourselves into believing these ideas; on the
other hand, the author proffers a way to combat these ideas, to
live without them and develop alternatives.
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