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The Decadent Society - America Before and After the Pandemic (Paperback)
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The Decadent Society - America Before and After the Pandemic (Paperback)
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From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad
Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful
society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public
failure and private despair. The era of the coronavirus has tested
America, and our leaders and institutions have conspicuously
failed. That failure shouldn't be surprising: Beneath social-media
frenzy and reality-television politics, our era's deep truths are
elite incompetence, cultural exhaustion, and the flight from
reality into fantasy. Casting a cold eye on these trends, The
Decadent Society explains what happens when a powerful society
ceases advancing-how the combination of wealth and technological
proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemate, and
demographic decline creates a unique civilizational crisis. Ranging
from the futility of our ideological debates to the repetitions of
our pop culture, from the decline of sex and childbearing to the
escapism of drug use, Ross Douthat argues that our age is defined
by disappointment-by the feeling that all the frontiers are closed,
that the paths forward lead only to the grave. Correcting both
optimism and despair, Douthat provides an enlightening explanation
of how we got here, how long our frustrations might last, and how,
in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.
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