An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in
the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis
Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about
books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next
twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist
politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose
ambition was to reassert 'Victorian values'. In Iran, the
fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to
restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago.
Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a
premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we
had now reached the End of History. What colonised the space
recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults,
quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic
of mumbo-jumbo. Modernity was challenged by a gruesome alliance of
pre-modernists and post-modernists, medieval theocrats and New Age
mystics. It was as if the Enlightenment had never happened. Francis
Wheen, winner of the George Orwell prize, evokes the key
personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana
and Deepak Chopra, Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer -
while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism
and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO
scares to dotcom mania, his hilarious and gloriously impassioned
polemic describes a period in the world's history when everything
began to stop making sense.
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Just Mumbo-Jumbo
Mon, 3 Sep 2018 | Review
by: Prof. dr. Ewert Kleynhans
This book is just a lot of Just Mumbo-Jumbo.
I wasted my time reading it.
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