Clear Bright Future

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A passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of Postcapitalism

How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway?
In Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defence of the human being, our universal rights and freedoms and our power to change the world around us. Ranging from economics to Big Data, from neuroscience to the culture wars, he draws from his on-the-ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in Washington, as well as his own childhood in an English mining community, to show how the notion of humanity has become eroded as never before.
In this book Paul Mason argues that we are still capable — through language, innovation and…

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Александр Черепановshared an impression8 months ago
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Александр Черепановhas quoted2 months ago
Once people subliminally bought the idea that neoliberalism was the final form of capitalism and that history had ‘ended’, popular culture entered a loop-cycle in which the idea of progress evaporated. Until around 1989 it had been normal to see new bands rejecting old styles and inventing new ones; cool kids suddenly appearing in clothes they’d improvised, making everyone else look old. Now everything became a montage of everything else. The cultural critic Mark Fisher summed up the feeling: ‘Everyday life has sped up but culture has slowed down.’
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Александр Черепановhas quoted8 months ago
By contrast twenty-first-century capitalism is so complex that, even by taking individual or small-scale actions, we can have big effects
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Александр Черепановhas quoted8 months ago
The force that will have to resist fascism this time around is simply the atomized mass of people around you.
It includes everybody with an interest in reversing the commercialization of daily life, everybody sick of being coerced and ‘nudged’ into artificially competitive behaviour, everybody with a material interest in saving the planet from climate change, every woman who does not want to become the target of violent misogyny, every member of an ethnic minority who does not want to be depicted as an alien threat in the tabloid media.
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