The Mess We're In : How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It.

Cover -- Also by the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: SYMPTOMS OF CHAOS: A THEMATIC HISTORY OF 2016-2018 -- The death of trust -- Fake populists -- Fake news and denialism -- Xenophobia and bigotry -- Taking back control -- Employment and economics -- Alienating the customers -- War on the young -- Political failures -- Malcolm Turnbull and the politics of disappointment -- Rootin' for Putin -- Political killing -- The decline of civility -- Revolt of the white men -- Diagnosis -- PART 2: NEOLIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- What is it? -- The success of neoliberalism -- All things being unequal: neoliberalism and inequality -- In theory: complexity and concentration -- Swiss cheese or, Towards a competitive index of competitiveness indices -- The robots are taking our jerbs -- Individualism, identity and the neoliberal economics of self -- W(h)ither the Left -- Biographical note: accidental death of a neoliberal -- Conclusion -- PART 3: (UN)GOVERNMENT -- The party's over -- Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation -- Things fall apart: the corporations cannot hold -- Learned helplessness and its lessons -- The bureaucrats -- Biographical note: Canberra, so white -- Neoliberal tragedy: how Reform was ignored to death -- Abbott, Trump and the role of conventions in government -- The war on scrutiny -- Terrorism and why it will never be defeated -- Conclusion: interactions with neoliberalism -- ENTR'ACTE THE AGES OF UNREASON -- PART 4: THE INTERNET-WEAPON OF MASS DISRUPTION -- No biggie, but the internet is changing your brain right now -- Joining imagined communities -- Dead set on disruption -- Disintermediating the media -- Surveillance -- Biographical note: disillusion, delusion and intrusion -- Conclusion: perfect storm -- PART 5: REPAIRING THE PRECARIOUS CRUST.

Solutions -- Vade in pace -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Crikey correspondent Bernard Keane explains capitalism, identity and Why Everything Is Awful.

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