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    The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
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    The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time

    By Brooke Gladstone

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    About this ebook

    The award-winning host of WNYC’s On the Media explores disinformation in the age of Trump, with a look toward what we can do about it.

    From her front-row view of today’s events, journalist Brooke Gladstone shares her insights on what she calls our ever-growing “trouble with reality.” As Gladstone shows us, reality was never what we thought it was. There is always a bubble, people are always subjective, and we are all prey to stereotypes. That makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. But then came Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors.

    For them, as she Gladstone says, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, Gladstone dissects this authoritarian strategy and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not.

    Thankfully, Gladstone also offers hope. There is a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And if history is a guide, there is also the inevitable reckoning. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781523502622
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    • 4/5
      Saw this slender little book on the featured table at the store and just couldn't resist it. Especially as it name-checked Philip K. Dick on the flap. Gladstone is clearly my kind of people. Which is confirmed over and over again as she quotes Le Guin, and then George Lakoff. So, basically I'm pretty much exactly her core audience.Which is a good thing, because this little tract gives little space to identify a problem, its causes, and a possible solution. Those not already on board may find these arguments unconvincing. But for me, each page was assimilated directly into my brain, no resistance.While I would have loved more concrete suggestions in the end, those given were entirely in keeping with the more philosophical tone of this tract. Very happy to have picked it up.
    • 5/5
      With a title like this you should be weary of finding an all encompassing answer. You’ll enjoy the ride, the diversions and the opening up of more boxes. This book will give you confidence that you’re on to something and hopefully spark your journey for reality testing.
    • 4/5
      3.5 A few weeks back I read [book:Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History|35171984], which traced our history of gullibility far into the past. I receive The Strand non fiction book box, and this was one of the books in that box. Proved to be a complimentary read to Fantasyland, coming from a slightly different direction. Why do so many of us have trouble with reality?A small book, with slot of big thoughts, and some relatable information. Explains how we are reluctant to let anything nor anyone interfere with our opinions or thoughts, when we are positive we are right. Explains how lies told by politicians, and he who shall remain unnamed, become our new reality. Who can we believe? Is it fake news or fact? I know I'm not the only one who wonders why this person is still allowed to tweet, when his tweets are often devastating and often cause a huge backlash. It appears his tweets may serve another diversion, this too is gone over in this book. As I said, much information is gone over in this little book. There is much more, but you should try to read this, it does provide much food for thought.