Introduction—We don’t know what we are doing
1. ‘I’m worth it’: L’Oréal and the fade-resistant rise of liberal individualism
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2. Suffer the little children: Enlightenment and denialism
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3. Look who’s talking: Why uttering our ‘identity’ makes us Stupid babies
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4. ‘Nudge them all—God will know his own’: Soft, hard and extreme paternalism
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5. The inflexible Safe Space: The injurious yoga class of the mind
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6. National stupidity: How the War on Terror is killing and impoverishing us
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Entr’acte—From Dallas with Love to Moonfaker: The lost films of Stanley Kubrick
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7. Reason and unreason: How we’ve all gone Stupid-mad in an age of absolute sanity
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8. Political arithmetic, or, Slack hacks lack facts when flacks stack the stats
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9. Postmodern nausea: Derrida, vomit and the rise of relativity
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10. Hyperreality, authenticity and the fucking up of public debate
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11. Conspicuous compassion: On consuming Kony
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Conclusion—Final words: Towards a taxonomy of Stupid, and other wankery