Mental Immunity

Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

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<p><strong>Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?</strong></p><p>Astonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy thinking hijacks minds and incites mob violence. Toxic partisanship is cleaving nations, and climate denial has pushed our planet to the brink. Meanwhile, American <em>Nazis</em> march openly in the streets, and <em>Flat Earth</em> theory is back. <em>What the heck is going on?</em> Why is all this happening, and why now? More important, what can we do about it?</p><p>In <em>Mental Immunity</em>, Andy Norman shows that these phenomena share a root cause. We live in a time when the so-called ?right to your opinion? is thought to trump our responsibilities. The resulting ethos effectively compromises mental immune systems, allowing ?mind parasites? to overrun them. Conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, garden-variety bad ideas: these are all species of mind parasite, and each of them employs clever strategies to circumvent mental immune systems. In fact, some of them compromise <em>cultural</em> immune systems ? the things societies do to prevent bad ideas from spreading. Norman shows why all of this is more than mere analogy: minds and cultures <em>really do</em> have immune systems, and they <em>really can</em> break down. Fortunately, they can also be built up: strengthened against ideological corruption. He calls for a rigorous science of mental immune health ? what he calls ?cognitive immunology? ? and explains how it could revolutionize our capacity for critical thinking.</p><p>Hailed as ?a feast for thought,? <em>Mental Immunity</em> melds cutting-edge work in science and philosophy into an ?astonishingly enlightening and productive? solution to the signature problem of our age. A practic

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063002999

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

201 x 136 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins Publishers Inc