Interesting and Insightful

Booker's incomplete final book is sadly not on a par with his best works owing to the terminal illness he suffered while painstakingly writing it, but 'Groupthiink' remains a useful introduction to one of Britain's finest and most insightful commentators of recent decades.

In its own right it serves as an interesting critique of modern political correctness and bien pensant sacred cows.

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Groupthink: the new Politically correct puritans

I voted for an independent UK.
Am in fear of political Islam.
Am witnessing the de nationalisation of the West by globalists.
This book explains how the masses can be controlled and cajoled.

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Just brilliant

I knew nothing about this subject before I read this book..
Now, I completely understand it and what is going on around me.
Brilliant! Just brilliant!

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A mixed bag

I chose this book because I knew I would disagree with him, I wanted him to change my mind, also I wanted to genuinely listen to the author of The Seven Basic Plots. I got a few nuggets here and there, the final epilogue from Nick Booker makes the book worthwhile. C. Booker was an excellent chap. However. The chapter on Evolution essentially belongs to 1979, the chapter on Climate Change to 1989, but the treatment of the 1950s was better and quite insightful, a pity his chapter on Brexit was not published as he died too soon.

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I probably wasted a credit

This book started out and continued really well, as I hate woke and am concerned about the path society is taking. After reading all of Douglas Murray's books I wanted to know more about how CRT took a hold, and I am hopeful the general public will not be silent for much longer, and I am already seeing woke being turned against. When I got to the chapter on Climate Change, I started to feel a little concerned because I'm pretty sure 'the science' is incontovertible when it comes to global warming (although I don't think we're all about to die just yet, and the UK is only responsible for 1% of greenhouse gasses apparently, so why the rush to net zero?).
What concerned me most was the questioning of Darwin and his theory of evolution (which is only a theory by name - look up the scientific definition of 'theory'). I don't take things at face value and have read a fair few books on evolution, as I was also puzzled by the compound eye, but it turns out that if you take into account the passage of 'deep time', stuff can come into being. I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but Darwin has been, and still is being tested and has so far stood up to scrutiny. So I went from 'this guy's great', to 'this guy's maybe a bit dubious'. I guess that means I'm not susceptible to Group Think! Haraaah!

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Okey boomer

This book presents itself as a thoughtful and balanced critique but ultimately ends up being an assortment of very bias views.

The book started with a few points that made me think wow this author is giving major boomer vibes and then I had to stop and return the book when they started to suggest that hate crimes don't exist.

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Old man moans

An old man strings together a range of right wing prejudices. As insightful as someone standing in a pub moaning about today's world.

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homophobic and transphobic. climate change denial

This book is very much based on bias of the author. it not a study on group think but more a study on one person trying to bend science and phycology to fit the authors native. it pretends to be a study on group think while not remaining nuterial on subjects. it a attack on left written by a dye in wool British right wing Tory from Eastbourne. nothing is balanced or thought out but mearly a thinly disguised long form right wing daily Telegraph article written by a person who used write for the right wing newspaper. the man so out of touch using the most extreme examples to strawman his case why if your not white British Christian male then your a victim of group think. total policial agenda no sense...

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How we went nuts

Booker traces the earliest sources of the mental cancer that is political correctness. IThe book is virtually a template for the unprecedented act of cultural suicide the West is inflicting on itself.

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I really tried, it's just a really long rant

Even when giving examples of governments engaging on group think it gets a bit repetitive and tiresome, but ok.
Then he gets into what he really wants to say by portraying everything he doesn't like (men not being straight, super masculine and providers and women the exact opposite, etc etc) as a big problem. And implying it's as bad as the church during the inquisition or Islam extremism.
As with the government examples at the beginning, he doesn't try to bring any insights or get deep into any of the "problems". He just goes from example to example of things that are scandalous and he hates and comparing the before times and today.
it's just a long superficial rant with the depth that normally accompanies anger. Even when not agreeing wit him I was willing to keep listening to him to learn something but I gave up. it's just tiring and annoying.

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