Mediocracy

Mediocracy: the book

Mediocracy is a new book which takes a satirical look at modern culture – by Fabian Tassano, the author of The Power of Life or Death.

Frederick Forsyth: “Mediocracy is a marvellous counterblast against the psychobabble of academia”. what does mediocracy mean?

‘Mediocracy’ is a satirical analysis of the mediocrity prevalent in contemporary high culture. ‘Mediocracy’ punctures the phony pretensions of postmodernism, academia, philosophy and contemporary art. With entries ranging from ‘elitism’, to ‘free market’, ‘liberty’, ‘free speech’ and ‘individualism’, ‘Mediocracy’ is an irreverent lexicon for a dishonest age. Readers who enjoy such writers as Theodore Dalrymple, Peter Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Ayn Rand, Charles Murray, Chris Woodhead, Harold Bloom, Roger Kimball or Ann Coulter will appreciate ‘Mediocracy’. It will also appeal to libertarians, cultural conservatives and anyone else fed up with jargon, gobbledygook, dumbing down and political correctness.

mediocracy

n. 1 the rule of the mediocre

2 the triumph of style over substance

The emperor has no clothes …

Why do some areas of culture seem to be dumbing down, while others are increasingly incomprehensible? Why is so much emphasis given to presentation, while the underlying substance often seems muddled or vacuous? Fabian Tassano argues these things are symptoms of ‘mediocracy’, a new model of society in which content is sacrificed in favour of appearance and ideological correctness.

Mediocracy takes a satirical tour of contemporary culture, revealing how our arts and universities suffer from the same diseases as our politics — dishonesty and pretentiousness. Tassano shows how egalitarianism and postmodernism have debased concepts such as ‘philosophy’ and ‘creativity’ to the point of parody.

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