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In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity-endorsed cults, Mayan Armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of New Age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories. Here, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to legitimate threats.--From publisher description. Read more...
Abstract: In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity-endorsed cults, Mayan Armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of New Age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories. Here, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to legitimate threats.--From publisher description
Abstract: In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity-endorsed cults, Mayan Armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of New Age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories. Here, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to legitimate threats.--From publisher description
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PRAISE FOR THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
With ferocious courage, Melanie Phillips challenges a series of myths and irrationalities that have achieved canonical status in the contemporary world. If civilization depends on the ability to give dissenting voices a hearing, then The World Turned Upside Down may well be one of the most important tests of Western civilization in our time.
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
Melanie Phillips has written a fascinating book that is both urgent and important, provocative and deep. Its almost a guide of the perplexed for our time.
William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard
One is disturbed each day by verifiably untrue statements touted as incontrovertible facts about hot-button issues. With cold, perceptive, exhaustive and persistent passion, Melanie Phillips dissects the phenomenon among disparate movements, to reach disturbing but compelling conclusions about the erosion of modern liberal society by ideologies whose surprising interconnections are meticulously identified. One can only hope that her book will penetrate the information cocoon into which many of our intelligentsia have sealed themselves.
Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT
A trenchant sequel to George Orwells Politics and the English Language. Melanie Phillips courageously flushes out todays equivalents of Orwells targetsthose who with indignant self-righteousness suppress free debate and liberty itself.
R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence (19931995)
Her book is an immensely accomplished piece of writing. How the West can be got out of the hole she has described it as being in will, one hopes, form the subject of its sequel.
David Conway, The Jewish Chronicle Online
The World Turned Upside Down is a courageous expos of many of the myths and fallacies which are being imposed on us and which our society has absorbed....This cri de coeur is a stunning and thought-provoking book that should be read by all who seek to understand the sources of the malaise of this generation in Western society.
Isi Leibler, The Jersusalem Post Online
Ms. Phillips lives up to her reputation for tackling political and social issues in this attempt to create an overarching thesis for why we have seen such absurdities as climate change fraud, political correctness run amok, unbalanced portrayals bordering on propaganda regarding Islam and Israel, and the war in Iraq. This is a challenge that Phillips meets head-on and masters.
Ed Lasky, American Thinker
Phillips has done her part in sounding the alarm, detailing the war we are in, and highlighting the many battlefronts this war is waging on. She has done her service admirably. It is hoped that readers of this important book will now do theirs.
Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch
As far as any writer can be, she is at the forefront of the battle for good, and in writing this book she has made a powerful contribution to that battle. By helping make sense of where things have gone wrong, she takes the reader a significant step closer to helping us back to the correct path.
Chas Newkey-Burden, OyVaGoy.com
Agree or disagree, Ms. Phillips argues her case in strong, vital prose with intensity and high intelligence. She deserves a wide and respectful hearing.
John R. Coyne Jr., The Washington Times
... Phillipss book shines with her intellectual integrity.
Mark Silinksy, Middle East Quarterly
Phillips is the inheritor of an identifiable and admirable tradition of robust writing on the broad right of politicsboth her approach and her conclusions would be embraced, by example, by William F. Buckley Jr., who said (using liberals in the American sense) that liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. That is precisely the problem with Britains cultural discourse today, and it is precisely what Phillips skewers so gratifyingly and so well.
Alex Deane, CityAM.com
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power will appeal both to religious and political science libraries, offering keys to understanding conspiracy theories, cults, and the loss of religious belief in the West. Ideology and prejudice have replaced spiritualityand this book ties political trends and world encounters with the falsehoods and propaganda that cause instability in the West.
Midwest Book Review
For Maya Mabel and Libby Sarah,
in the hope that they inherit a more rational world.
in the hope that they inherit a more rational world.
FOREWORD
DAVID MAMET
A lmost all Victorian novels feature the stock Jew. But what do the British know of the Jews? Shylock was written when Britain was Judenrein, and Shakespeare no more met a Venetian Jew than he had met a Moor. But the prejudice was there, and the stock Jew was as expected a set piece in their literature (then and now) as the amusing colored man or woman was in American cinema up to and through the 1960s. See Dickenss Fagin and Trollopes Mr. Kneefit, Melmotte, et cetera. Even the noted Jews of George Eliots Daniel Deronda are cut-and-paste figures drawn, if in good will, in stunning ignorance. The stock Jew exists still today not only in British drama and popular fiction, but in the journalism proffered daily as news.
The British, historically, find the Arabs just wonderful. See The Talisman, Sir Walter Scotts novel of King Richard and Saladin, and more recently, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, which is a paean (indeed a convincing and moving one) to the Bedouinand, coincidentally, to sadomasochism.
An astute observer might detect this love of self-flagellation in Britains postwar cultural suicide. Their Archbishop of Canterbury, for instance, proclaimed in 2008 that it was probably inevitable that Britain would one day accept for all its citizens some measure of Sharia law. So much for the Magna Carta.
In a fit of absentmindedness, our British cousins helped create the Jewish State. They thought, no doubt, that it would serve as a good counterbalance to the French in Syria after the League of Nations finished carving the roast.
But, lo, the Jewish State wanted not vassaldom but self-determination and accepted at face value President Wilsons insistence at Versailles on universal self-determination. The continued exercise of this self-determination by the sovereign State of Israel has of late been an irritation to those in Britain and throughout the West who are piqued, as usual, at the necessity of moral choice.
The choice here is between defending Western civilization and defaulting into some inchoate one-worldism that a more honest if less pleasant assessment would name Islamic theocracy. The existence of Israel makes the choice clear, so the affronted liberal West turns against Israel and, so, against the Jews, returning us to our handy and historic function as Designated Criminal.
Much has been made in the supposedly neutral Western press of the disproportionate representation of Jews among the neoconservatives. The media, with this critique, are firing off a preemptive challenge to the neocons. Unfortunately, this is par for the course: the Jews, now as in the past, and always, are liable to be accused of split allegiance, that is, of treason.
It is not only in John 8 or in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that Jews are indicted per se, but also in forums and publications worldwide and constantly, the Israel Lobby handily replacing the worldwide Jewish conspiracy as the purportedly more rational term.
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