Full title: More Money than Brains - Why School Sucks, College is Crap and Idiots Think They're Right
A great, albeit depressing, read. One of those books that hits the nail smack on the head. She has done the scholarly research on many of the social and institutional shifts that I shake my head over and discuss when I can find someone else who is interested.
One of the great things about the book is that it cuts across partisan political lines. She talks about how both the left and the right, both the new media and the old, both the young and the not so young, both industry and your average Joe Blow have all contributed to create the new Idiocracy, as she calls it.
This book ties in with the message in the documentaries by Adam Curtis that I have been watching: All Watched Over by Loving Machines, and others.
Lots of great quotes.
Some great creative names for social trends and deformed social institutions.
Her writing style is also quite witty in general.
Tellingly, she offers no solution, no grand way out.
A book you should own.
Also a great source for further reading.
Reread January 2019
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