Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of Clear Bright Potential by Paul Mason, read by Finlay Robertson.

Our world order is under pressure as nothing you’ve seen prior. From fresh authoritarian regimes in america, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media marketing awash with intolerance, stuff look collection to fall apart just like abruptly as the Soviet Union do some thirty years back. How do we get here, and what do we do right now?

Within this searching new exploration of our crisis, Paul about Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being Mason argues that at its heart lies an attack on the idea of humanity itself. As the free-market system reduced us to two-dimensional customers, genetics offers stripped us of our belief in human beings as agencies of change. And now the dystopian causes from the authoritarian correct are pressing the globe towards a pre-modern knowledge of the individual: one that aims to demolish the very idea of general human privileges, and create a fresh world where we are biologically destined to form hierarchies predicated on ethnicity and gender, also to obey the needs of spiritual conformity.

If these forces aren’t stopped, Mason warns, we will relive something even worse than the 1930s. In response, he needs a radical defence from the individual: a reinvention of humanism; a re-assertion of the universality of human rights; and challenging for a society where biologically identified hierarchies are abolished. We have the power to assume and design an improved system. We should, Mason concludes, reach deep into the history and connection with resistance to become our own saviours.