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Ladataan... Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2005; vuoden 2005 painos)Tekijä: Laura Penny
TeostiedotYour Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit (tekijä: Laura Penny) (2005)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Based on the title, I was expecting this to be a book about bad, insincere business language. It actually turns out to be mostly an extended rant against GW Bush, corporations, and other such American folly. To me it read a bit like a collection of impassioned blog postings. You know the style: "and another thing, you know who sucks..."If you're looking for a good book that actually is about the meaningless gibberish that has invaded our language, I recommend Death Sentences instead. näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
This book is a manifesto for anyone who's sick and tired of the twenty-first century's tidal wave of crapulence. Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the "corporate bafflegab," scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, not Bush's White House, and not the vast pharmaceutical industry. Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as "the best-kept secret in outsourcing") and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge. Finally, she demonstrates how our "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.--From publisher description. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,” to Big Pharma, with its “gateway prescription drugs.” With vinegar and wit, she shows us how this smorgasbord of phoniness alienates us from one another, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid. ( )