基本信息·出版社：Granta Books ·页码：256 页 ·出版日期：2007年07月 ·ISBN：1862079528 ·条形码：9781862079526 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种：英语 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Granta Books
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2007年07月
·ISBN：1862079528
·条形码：9781862079526
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Have you ever had the feeling that, in some hard to define way, we are throwing away two and a half millennia of Western civilization, bit by bit, as our culture becomes more and more infantile? That day by day we grow more and more focused on the quick fix, the ticking-off, the expedient lie, the jingle, the spin, the catchy slogan, the obsession with safety, the horror of risk, the terror of complexity, the preoccupation with surface, the apportioning of blame, the instant gratification? Have you ever wondered what happened to grown-ups? Michael Bywater turns his penetrating eye on the state of Western culture, from politics and the media to show business and science, and concludes we are all Big Babies now. With enormous brio, he argues that the Baby-Boom generation is now running the show, and its own commitment to perpetual infantility is reflected in its unstoppable drive to infantilize the rest of us. Ranging from the White House to Buckingham Palace, from MTV to the BBC, from mission statements to Viagra spam, Bywater examines advertising, music, politics, the health industry, education, religion, fashion, sport and publishing, and makes a fierce and often hilarious case that, in almost every area of our lives, we are inexorably becoming ...Big Babies.
作者简介 Michael Bywater is a writer and broadcaster, and wrote for many years the Lost Worlds column for the Independent on Sunday. He has written three books, including Lost Worlds.
编辑推荐 Review 'I suspect this book might change our world' Euan Ferguson, Observer * 'The funniest man in England' Literary Review * 'Bywater's hilarious social commentary highlights our loss of ability to manage our own lives' New Statesman
Christopher Fowler "Raises serious social issues while cracking plenty of willy
jokes"
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Daily Mail "A polemical, often side-splitting rant which highlights, most
brilliantly, the creeping infantilism and dumbing down of Western culture"
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sunday Times "A wildly overstated and, therefore, immensely enjoyable tirade"
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Financial Times "Bywater gives the bars of our playpen a good, satiric shake:
readers... have nothing to lose but their dummies"
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Guardian "Funny...thought-provoking and amusing"
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
