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The Madness of Crowds

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The Madness of Crowds

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Bloomsbury presents The Madness of Crowds written and read by Douglas Murray.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Updated with a new afterword by the author

'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson

'[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' – Richard Dawkins

Are we living through the great derangement of our times?

In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of ‘wokeness’, the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.

One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray’s penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.

©2019 Douglas Murray (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Conservatism & Liberalism Ideologies & Doctrines Politics & Government Thought-Provoking Liberalism Social justice Discrimination Middle east Identity Politics
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This a brilliant torch of honesty and logic against the enveloping darkness of the prejudice and intolerance of identity politics.

An excellent analytical review

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just as in his previous book, Murray nails why madness is not only mad, but damned destructive

Brilliant stuff...

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I never review the author prior to reading his book and perhaps I should have.... while comprehensive in his analysis of identity politics - this is more the Rush Limbaugh treatise of don’t blame the white guy. In fact I will use excerpts from this for a long time in trainings and Pd to demonstrate what it sounds like when white supremacy is offended.

When a hit dog hollers....

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Hilarious, informative, and exactly on point, in this book Murray writes what most believe but few will say; that the politics of identity is utterly counterproductive to education, science, politics, and basic human decency.
In this new secular religion’s coerced conformity lays its greatest threat, but Murray, seemingly immune to this intimidation, brilliantly lays bare the endless faults and hypocrisies of the all pervasive “woke” cultural narrative and the effects are devastating.

Astonishing Intellect, Immune to Coercion, Best voice there is.

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The only thing that could improve Douglas Murray's content is to have Douglas Murray read it to you. The importance of his work resides in its simplicity. Treat others as you wish to be treated, assume everyone deserves equal respect, stop trying to combat discrimination with your own breed of discrimination. Seems like basic stuff, unfortunately it is not and the mistakes we are allowing will be to our collective detriment.

The full, excellent Douglas Murray experience

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Douglas Murray hits the nail on the head (again)! I’m sure he’ll make many (more) enemies with this book than he did with “The Strange Death of Europe” but the book NEEDED to be written and he had the Chutzpah to pull it off.

Love Douglas!!!

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This book is an amazingly well reasoned, and bluntly states openly many obvious observations about our current society that are incendiary to say in our current culture. It's like a child pointing at the emperor with no clothes on asking why is that man naked? I found myself gasping at the author's courage to state out loud many things I've seen accelerating in our culture since the onset of social media. I also turned down the volume multiple times out of fear someone else would hear them and accuse me of listening to hate speech.

I didn't rate it 5 stars because the author regularly makes use of extreme cases to prove his point. I get it, that is the best way to prove a point about certain behaviors, show them in their most extreme form. But, it also leaves open the door for people to dismiss the point because "these aren't representative examples." If you read the very few negative reviews of the book you see they follow this form as a way of dismissing or minimizing the entire book.

Finally, and this has little to do with this book unfortunately, I highly doubt the observations and suggestions in this book will ever take root. They're too based on logic and rational thinking. And, as we know, people (and especially crowds) are not logical and rational. So, only time will wash away the current phenomenon, like it did McCarthyism and witch hunting. I just hope we don't all suffer too much getting to that time.

Amazingly well reasoned

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Love the author's voice, tonality, timbre and British accent, and great to listen to him reading his own material.

spot on.

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Easily one of the best and most important books I have read this year. Regardless of where you stand on the issues discussed it lifts up important questions to be asked, explains why those questions are uncomfortable to its opponents. Highly relevant to the age we live in and the future we are creating.

An important book everyone should listen to

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In my humble estimation, Douglas Murray is a superb writer on the highest level. He is also a superb speaker and reader. His book, The Madness of Crowds, is by far the most informative work that I have ever read. I am not exaggerating. The book absolutely terrified me and set me on edge if not depressed me. No, Murray is not depressing. I found him delightful. It is the sad truths that he carefully and pains-takingly presents with the precision of a brain surgeon that informed me that the world of humankind is going to see things get much worse before they get better. I see now what is happening to our culture, and it is clear that although Dr Martin Luther King's vision of the world had come closer to reality than ever, identity politics has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. I do not think it will be humanly possible to regain the ground won towards racial equality of just yesterday in any of the tomorrows remaining in my life.
Why the Bravest Man Alive? Anyone would have expected Murray's book to result in death threats and bodily harm, if not actual arrest for what cancel culture would certainly lie about as being hate speach of the worst kind. How this has not happened, I cannot explain, but I am grateful.
To the contrary (spoiler alert!), Murray's answer for all of this and a meaningful life is to love: the most honorable kind of agape love.

Douglas Murray: Possibly the Bravest Man Alive!

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