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Reclaiming Values: For the 21st Century

Reclaiming Values: For the 21st Century

Ernst, Marcel

Paperback

Anthropology

ISBN13: 9798849374727
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reclaiming Values is a revision of my 2017 book, Values for the 21st Century. Since then, a number of developments and incidents have made the topic even more relevant. This turn of events has prompted me to revise or update the original arguments and incorporate recent developments. The resurgence of populism, driven by social media, has been a dominant force. Right-wing preachers and politicians have used simplistic arguments to capitalize on people's fears and prejudices. In some cases, the strategy entailed pandering to citizens' lowest instincts, stoking xenophobia, sexism and racism.

While the media focused on the excesses of former US president Trump, the worst case probably occurred in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte openly encouraged people to take the law into their own hands, giving residents license to kill drug dealers and users. Some of these new authoritarians have used their popularity to amass near-dictatorial powers, including Erdogan in Turkey and Putin in Russia. Unfortunately, the divide-and-conquer approach has been quite successful politically. As a result, liberal values experienced severe setbacks in the 2010s.

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