Get Real

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Get Real

How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions

Popular culture Globalization Consumerism Political ideologies and movements Corruption in politics, government and society Political economy Economic systems and structures Public relations Multinationals

Author: Eliane Glaser

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Language: English

Published by: Fourth Estate

Published on: 1st March 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 397 Kb

ISBN: 9780007460069


It’s time to radically alter the way we perceive the world.

It’s time to get real. Multinational oil corporations trumpet their green credentials. Shadowy billionaires orchestrate ‘grassroots’ political movements. Public-spending cuts target the poor, but supposedly ‘give power to the people’. To Eliane Glaser, these are all signs of the maddeningly surreal gap between appearance and reality in modern life. We are living in a looking-glass world in which reality is spun and crude vested interests are cloaked in seductive disguises.

Get Real

is a passionate and entertaining guide to decoding the delusions we live by. Busting the jargon and unravelling the spin, it reveals the secrets behind modern life that we were never supposed to know.

‘A quite brilliant reality check. Angry, erudite and accessible. I loved it’ Dame Jenni Murray

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