Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture [Paperback]

Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internetwhere most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting themhas contributed to the rampant spread of intellectual arrogance. In this culture, we have come to think that we have nothing to learn from one another; we are rewarded for emotional outrage over reflective thought; and we glorify a defensive rejection of those different from us.Winner National Council of Teachers of English - George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public LanguageUS