
Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Joualism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America)
by: Richard Landes (Author)
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: 2022-11-22
Language: English
Print Length: 550 pages
ISBN-10: 164469994X
ISBN-13: 9781644699942
Book Description
Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westeers to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century. These misinterpretations in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, contributed fundamentally to the ever-worsening moral and empirical disorientations of our information elites (joualists, academics, pundits). So while joualists reported Palestinian war propaganda as news (lethal joualism), they were also reporting Jihadi war propaganda as news (own-goal war joualism). These radical disorientations have created our current dilemma of pervasive information distrust, deep splits within the voting public in most democracies, the politicization of science, and the inability of Weste elites to defend their civilization, and instead, to stand down before an invasion.