This is not a cut and dry political analysis or a journalistic tirade against the centre - as the title might suggest | de tout le monde, quoi! You are not the hot, red phlegmon of feverish ears, but a cold, pale-bordered abscess dripping from its source in some deep cavity! Deneault sees centrist movements and ideas about finding common ground as damaging in some respects - they disengage people through professionalizing words and phrases, forcing research staff to write x amount of papers per year, rather than encouraging innovative and intelligent content |
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There was no Reichstag fire | - Gustave Flaubert Mediocracy : The Politics of the Extreme Centre by Alain Deneult, is a book about the idea of the middle ground, and how it may be ruining our systems of education, government, economy and culture |
Instead, this book is more on why the ideas of professionalization, workflow, productivity, deadline culture, mass media and education reform are all damaging to the quality and competence of ideas that are being generated by society.
8As mentioned, his section on the education sector is illuminating and comes across with authority that comes with familiarity and wisdom | No mutiny on the Aurora |
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No storming of the Bastille |
Politicians seek middle ground in big tent politics while suppressing the reformist sides of their parties, whether right or left.