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Trump and a Post-Truth World

By Ken Wilber

By Ken Wilber

By Ken Wilber

By Ken Wilber

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    About Trump and a Post-Truth World

    A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation — by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times.

    The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia—and most visibly, the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?
     
    In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope.  He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women’s rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the concern for oppression in all its forms. This is all evolutionarily healthy; what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, “politically correct,” insistent on an egalitarianism that is itself paradoxically hierarchical, and that looks down on “deplorables.” Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: “Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad.”

    It is only when members of society’s leading edge can heal themselves that a new, Integral evolutionary force can emerge to move us beyond the social and political turmoil of our current time to offer genuine leadership toward greater wholeness.

    About Trump and a Post-Truth World

    A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation — by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times.

    The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia—and most visibly, the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?
     
    In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope.  He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women’s rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the concern for oppression in all its forms. This is all evolutionarily healthy; what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, “politically correct,” insistent on an egalitarianism that is itself paradoxically hierarchical, and that looks down on “deplorables.” Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: “Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad.”

    It is only when members of society’s leading edge can heal themselves that a new, Integral evolutionary force can emerge to move us beyond the social and political turmoil of our current time to offer genuine leadership toward greater wholeness.

    Also by Ken Wilber

    Grace and Grit
    The Integral Vision
    The Religion of Tomorrow
    Integral Buddhism
    A Brief History of Everything (20th Anniversary Edition)
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    Also by Ken Wilber

    Grace and Grit
    The Integral Vision
    The Religion of Tomorrow
    Integral Buddhism
    A Brief History of Everything (20th Anniversary Edition)
    See all books by Ken Wilber

    Product Details

    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Shambhala
    Aug 08, 2017 | 160 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9781611805611

    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Shambhala
    Aug 08, 2017 | 176 Pages | ISBN 9780834840904

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    “Ken Wilber examines Donald Trump’s election and provides a brilliant Big Picture explanation that is unique in its breadth, depth, and analysis of deeper cultural dynamics that others have overlooked but that we all need to now recognize.”—Roger Walsh MD, PhD, University of California

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