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Mental Immunity
- Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
- De: Andy Norman
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
stonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy thinking hijacks minds and incites mob violence. Toxic partisanship is cleaving nations, and climate denial has pushed our planet to the brink. Meanwhile, American Nazis march openly in the streets, and Flat Earth theory is back. What the heck is going on? Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too political
- De IK en 05-20-21
- Mental Immunity
- Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
- De: Andy Norman
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
I really enjoyed this book!
Revisado: 07-19-21
This was a great listen. The narration is a bit stodgy and disengaged, but I got used to him after a couple chapters. I always prefer when the author narrates their own book. They know which parts to emphasize, and (as another commenter noted) which parts need a full stop.
There are several reviews that say the book is biased against the American political right wing. But in the publisher's notes, Harper Audio tells us up front which ideas are examined in the book:
Covid denial
Anti-vaxxers
Conspiracy theories
Climate change denial
A return of Nazism
A return of flat earth theory
It just so happens the above listed ideas exist 98% of the time in the minds of political Conservatives. The book is about why people believe things that are contrary to logic or evidence and the truth is, these ARE bad ideas - because they are contrary to logic and evidence. The truth is, the American political right wing IS more infected with bad ideas than the left is. That doesn't mean there are NO bad ideas on the left; there certainly are. Just not enough to write a whole book about.
I appreciate the fact that the author does NOT launch into a false equivalence exercise where he tries to "drum up" some bad ideas on the left just to make people feel like he's making an evenly-weighted argument. Such an exercise would lack scientific integrity. Science should observe and report. Not 'observe, report and make an evenly-weighted argument so that people feel comfortable about what they already tell themselves'. There's too much of that going on in the media, and also that isn't the point of empirical research.
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Dead Lake
- De: Darcy Coates
- Narrado por: Nicky Phillips
- Duración: 2 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 590
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 512
Sam is excited to spend a week at her uncle's remote lake cabin. It's a chance for her to focus on her art without distractions: no neighbors, no phone, and a small radio as her only contact with the outside world. But there's something deeply unnatural lingering in the lake. The radio's news reports talk about disappearances on a nearby hiking trail. The car won't start. And Sam starts to believe she's being stalked when she catches glimpses of a tall, strange man standing at the end of her dock.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book but not my cup of tea
- De Roni en 03-20-18
- Dead Lake
- De: Darcy Coates
- Narrado por: Nicky Phillips
Main character was boring
Revisado: 03-11-20
Didn't get invested in the main character at all. She wasn't complex at all and not enough backstory. She kept making bad decisions so I eventually didn't care what happened to her. Good thing the book was short.
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