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In every element of postindustrial world - the way we eat, the way we connect and entertain, the way we work, the way we court fans and increase children, instruct and govern - technology and affluence now let us reach our goals with a quickness and efficiency unimaginable even a generation ago. However the effect, Paul Roberts warns, is not absolutely all dairy, honey, and yellow metal. Companies now reflexively boost short-term gain at the expense of long-term success. Politicians hotel with ever-greater quickness to nasty marketing campaign methods, and can depend on their damaging promises to spread prior to the facts catch up with them. Consumers engage in serial over-indulgence in a self-tailored bubble. And the costs are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environmental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing, gnawing dissatisfaction. Over 30 years back, Christopher Lasch printed his landmark e book, The Culture of Narcissism, which struck a chord and became a runaway best vendor. Lasch's evaluation was largely ethnic, however the real story is definitely an financial one, and the conditions that resulted in increasing selfishness and the breakdown of world have only got worse. Paul Robert digs right down to the economic roots of the situation, shows how it has metastisized to have an effect on every element of our lives and our capacity to navigate the near future. In clear, cogent prose that mixes illuminating evaluation and lively reporting, Roberts not only says the fascinating report of the way the impulse society had become, but shows how, perhaps, a healthier society may be possible.
