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Vanessa Solomon | 2 comments Please could the following book be added to Goodreads?

*Title: What's Wrong?
Making Sense of Nonsense

* Author(s) name(s) Geoffrey Gibson, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
* ISBN 9781743798928
* Publisher Hardie Grant Books
* Publication date 06 July 2022
* Format Paperback
* Page count 184
* Description

Around the world, people have witnessed a decline in thinking and language. 'Social media' has maimed language and manners; it has brought us the violent madness of conspiracy. Twisted media are infected.

In Australia, our schools have not kept up. People ignorant of both logic and grammar are unleashed on us. Judges are weighed down by paper and anxiety. We sacked the civil service and trashed the Westminster system. Politicians are mired in jingles, spreadsheets and photo ops; the two main parties are spent and adrift.

Nations, including ours, have lost their vision, and people their faith. In 2016, the decline became the fall, when two spoiled brats exploited those lesions on our public life and lured the gullible into fiction.

This book is the joint response of a poet and a lawyer- a guide on how to think and how to write. With analyses of 'truth' and 'bullshit', there are chapters on grammar, style and professional writing. This is a book for people who want to think straight and write clearly, regardless of their academic record.

You don't need a ticket to use this book, but if you do have one, you will be better off than many people who make it through tertiary. And we face bigger problems in this country than snobbery.


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David Raz (davidraz) | 12797 comments Done:
What's Wrong? Making Sense of Nonsense by Geoffrey Gibson


message 3: by Vanessa (new)

Vanessa Solomon | 2 comments David wrote: "Done:
What's Wrong? Making Sense of Nonsense by Geoffrey Gibson"

THANK YOU!! Much appreciated :)


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