DUMBING DOWN
A collection of essays edited and introduced by Ivo
Mosley.
320 pp. ISBN 978-0907845652
Published by Imprint Academic, April 2000.
In DUMBING DOWN, a diverse group of people
explore the implications of the world-wide shedding of
cultures in the old sense, and the ascendancy of a global
mono-culture in the new.
From the Introduction:
Never before in human history has so much cleverness
been used to such stupid ends... In the face of an
uncertain and alarming future, people fight off gloom and stupefaction by withdrawing
into trivia and addictions to money, drugs, power... Dumbing Down is a phenomenon
observable in almost all walks of life; politics, culture, civil administration, the media,
science, education.
Contributing Essays/Interviews: Tam Dalyell, Michael Oakeshott, Redmond Mullin,
Michael Johnson, Dominic Hobson, Ravi Shankar, Philip Rieff, Robert Brustein, Anne
Glyn-Jones, Roger Deakin, Mark Ryan, Adam Boulton, Oliver O’Donovan, Laura
Gascoigne, David Lee, Peter Randall-Page, Bill Hare, Michael Polanyi, Claire Fox,
Andrew Williams, Joan Leach, Shaun Mosley, John Ziman, Jaron Lanier, Walter J.
Freeman, Helen Oppenheimer, Nicholas Mosley, C.D. Darlington, Demelza Spargo.
Praise in the press for DUMBING DOWN:
'If there is hope at all, it lies in the existence of books like this' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the
Daily Mail.
'The lively intelligence of the essays cannot and must not be dismissed… to be read and
enjoyed by all' Chris Woodhead, the Sunday Telegraph.
'An entertaining and informative read' - Septimus Waugh, Literary Review.
'Well-selected and serious' Contemporary Review.
'Bold, straight-talking polemic; Dumbing Down tackles the necessary questions of our
time' - Marina Warner;
'At last! A guide to the moronic inferno!' Laurence Coupe, PN Review.
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