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GROUPTHINK - CHRISTOPHER BOOKER TASCHENBUCH

In Groupthink  his final book  the late  eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher
Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the
world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory 
and to the writings of George Orwell from whose 'newspeak' the word was adapted  Booker sheds
new light on the remarkable - and worrying - effects of 'groupthink'  and its influence on our
society. Booker defines the three rules of groupthink: the adoption of a common view or belief
not based on objective reality  the establishment of a consensus of right-minded people  an 'in
group'  and the need to treat the views of anyone who questions the belief as wholly
unacceptable. He shows how various interest groups  journalists and even governments in the
twenty-first century have subscribed to this way of thinking  with deeply disturbing results.
As Booker shows  such behaviour has led to a culture of fear  heralded by countless examples
throughout history  from Revolutionary Russia to Napoleonic France and Hitler's Germany. In the
present moment it has caused countless errors in judgement and the division of society into
highly polarised  oppositional factions. From the behaviour of the controversial Rhodes Must
Fall movement to the sacking of James Damore of Google  society's attitudes towards gender
equality  the Iraq war and the 'European Dream'  careers and lives have been lost as those in
the 'in-group' police society with their new form of puritanism. As Booker argues  only by
examining its underlying causes can we understand the sinister power of groupthink which
permeates all aspects of our lives.

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