{"product_id":"confidence-men-1","title":"Confidence Men","description":"Why do millions of Americans support a system that is making them poorer, sicker, and less\nsecure every day? If modern capitalism routinely exploits working people, then why do so many\nflock to its most reactionary defenders in personalities like Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, and\nAndrew Tate? Or, as the philosopher Baruch Spinoza asked, why do we fight for slavery as if it\nwere our salvation? Confidence Men: The Duping of the American Mind provides a compelling\nanswer to those questions.\n\n\nMere journalistic accounts of these hucksters have pointed out their many lies and inaccuracies,\ntheir personal failings and rank hypocrisy. Confidence Men does something different. Instead of\ntreating these sensational figures as individual bad actors, it identifies a common philosophy\nthat animates them all. Each of them are, in their own ways, irrationalists – believing in the\npower of a strong will to overcome ordinary reality (and ordinary people). Objective facts,\nnature, and even “human nature” melt away before the creative genius or the mystical hero.\nToday’s “confidence men” are the cheerleaders of hierarchy and domination, where the\nsupreme value is one of unhinged belief in oneself. As against reactionary forms of self-help,\nConfidence Men proposes a rationalist alternative – neither wishing our problems away, nor\n“manifesting” success – but instead, understanding the world so that we can change it for the\nbetter.","brand":"Watkins Media Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55774473683288,"sku":"9781914420665","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781914420665.jpg?v=1779516072","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/confidence-men-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}