Key insights from
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
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15 minute read
Published Sep 17, 2019
What you'll learn
British cultural commentator and editor for The Spectator argues that amidst a series of swift and turbulent cultural changes, Western societies have landed on new, quickly fabricated narratives that have swiftly been adopted by the masses and become difficult to discuss in a civil, productive way.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Most analyses of our cultural problems stop at politics and don’t touch the underlying narratives that animate us.
- 2 In the absence of a unifying narrative, culture is finding meaning in diversity and division.
- 3 We are so busy denouncing bigots that we forget how quickly and dramatically things have improved for gays in just the past decade.
- 4 Men’s confusion over what women want is understandable.
- 5 Whiteness studies are not progress—they make skin color, rather than the content of one’s character, the basis of assessment once again.
- 6 The extremist fringes of woke culture don’t have to get the final word.
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