Title: poorly reasoned diatribe
Product review: This book is neither well written nor well reasoned. The author identifies five societal trends that she believes will cause a new "dark age." Her arguments supporting this position are all rambling and unconvincing or unrelated or incoherent (or all three). It seems that after identifying the problem the author ran out of new ideas (or arguments) and was, therefore, forced to rehash her past attacks on modern urban planning and suburbanism. Most of the reviews that award this book three stars or more are rating what they wished the author wrote as opposed to what she actually wrote. If you are interested in a coming cultural collapse, there are many books that provide well reasoned discussions. See Our Culture, What's Left of It [Dalrymple]; Civility [Carter]; Home Economics [Berry]; Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed [Diamond] (cited extensively in this book).
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