| If this concept is interesting to you, then by all means | Thanks to Between the Lines and NetGalley who provided me with a free e-ARC in exchange of a honest review |
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| You are not gangrene, you are atrophy! Deneault sees centrist movements and ideas about finding common ground as damaging in some respects - they disengage people through professionalizing words and phrases, forcing research staff to write x amount of papers per year, rather than encouraging innovative and intelligent content | Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot |
No storming of the Bastille.
| It could have been a little disorienting for the reader without the short introduction from the translator | - Gustave Flaubert Mediocracy : The Politics of the Extreme Centre by Alain Deneult, is a book about the idea of the middle ground, and how it may be ruining our systems of education, government, economy and culture |
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| This is not a cut and dry political analysis or a journalistic tirade against the centre - as the title might suggest | Instead, this book is more on why the ideas of professionalization, workflow, productivity, deadline culture, mass media and education reform are all damaging to the quality and competence of ideas that are being generated by society |
There was no Reichstag fire.