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Sto caricando le informazioni... Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine (2009)di Glenn Beck
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Glenn Becks Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine 🍒🍒🍒 By Glenn Beck 2009 My biggest problem with this book, was not Glenn Becks smug ideas or beliefs.....it was not how he defines "Common Sense"....... The biggest problem for me was the actual writing.He continually resorts to cliches, and rhetoric. Another problem for me were his opinions seem to alter and change, even flip flop on issues throughout the book. I do agree....we do need a change. I'm not sure this book will inspire one.... The Thomas Paine essay saved this book. Worth reading, but not a huge fan myself. I picked this up to try to listen to Glenn Beck from a neutral point of view to find the things I agree with and disagree with. I was surprised how many things I agreed with him on. However, his method to sway others to his point of view are abrasive, harsh, antagonizing and polarizing to the point that I was wishing that I didn't share his views.
Beck is not a politician. He's an entertainer, in this case a writer indulging in a mischievous satire narrated by his energetic counterpart "Glenn Beck." È ispirato a
#1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense. In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems. One such American, Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America's future--and, ultimately, her freedom. Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine's powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In terms of contents, I had mixed reactions. On the one hand, Beck is right about many of the things he points out as problems. That is to say, things like government corruption, the cult of the expert, and the rotten nature of political parties and incumbency are all problems. And he's definitely right when he calls out politicians and bureaucrats for talking down to people and obscuring issues by saying they're too complicated or need to be handled by experts.
However, there are two major issues with the contents of the book. First, the premise that issues like global warming, the global economy and the US government can all function and be fixed by "common sense" is problematic. One of the things I admire about Beck is his repeated affirmation of his audience's ability to understand and change the world around them as common people - but his definition of what common sense means results in oversimplification of genuinely complex issues with oversimplified answers that, conveniently, are all in line with his brand of conservative thought. So for example, his answer to the federal budget deficit is - well, you wouldn't spend money you don't have, so we need to slash spending and run the government like you run a household. Problem is, the federal government (and the global economy) doesn't run like a household. ( )