Big Babies
Or: Why Can't We Just Grow Up?
Have you ever had the feeling that, in some hard to define way, we are throwing away two and a half millennia of Western civilization, bit by bit, as our culture becomes more and more infantile? That day by day we grow more and more focused on the quick fix, the ticking-off, the expedient lie, the jingle, the spin, the catchy slogan, the obsession with safety, the horror of risk, the terror of complexity, the preoccupation with surface, the apportioning of blame, instant gratification? Have you ever wondered what happened to grown-ups? Michael Bywater turns his penetrating eye on the state of Western culture, from politics and the media to sh…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84708-753-9
- EAN: 9781847087539
- Produktnummer: 35943989
- Verlag: Granta Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Michael Bywater is a writer and broadcaster and wrote for many years the 'Lost Worlds' column for the Independent on Sunday. He is the author of several books, including Lost Worlds and Big Babies, both published by Granta Books.
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