I'm right and you're an idiot : the toxic state of public discourse and how to clean it up /
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Author / Creator: | Hoggan, James, 1946- author. |
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Edition: | Second edition. |
Imprint: | Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2019] ©2019 |
Description: | xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963170 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: A Beginner's Mind
- Part I. The Polluted Public Square
- Section A. Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds
- 1. Like Ships in the Night
- 2. The Advocacy Trap
- 3. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
- 4. Morality Binds and Blinds
- 5. Why We Want to Be Misled
- Section B. A Failure to Communicate
- 6. Facts Are Not Enough
- 7. Matters of Concern
- Section C. Duped and How
- 8. The Self-regulating Psychopath
- 9. Steve Bannon's Full-service Propaganda Machine with research
- 10. Foreign-funded Radicals
- 11. Assault on Democracy
- 12. Silencing the Voices of Others
- 13. Gaslighting Blurs Our Reality
- 14. Summary: The Polluted Public Square
- Part II. Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish
- Section D. Leaning into the Future
- 15. Power and Love
- 16. No Fish? No Fish Sticks
- 17. Listen Deeply
- Section E. The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative
- 18. What Are They Thinking?
- 19. The Myth of Apathy
- 20. Psychic Numbing
- 21. Sometimes David Wins
- Section F. From the Heart
- 22. The Golden Rule
- 23. Tending Our Inner Ecology
- 24. Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish
- 25. We Need Warmheartedness with the 14th Dalai Lama
- Epilogue: Hope, Compassion, and Courage
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- About New Society Publishers