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If You Can Read This
If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers | Jack Bowen
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A PICTURE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS BUT A FEW CHOICE WORDS CAN SPEAK VOLUMES! If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Arent More People Happy? Bottled Water Is for Suckers Clones Are People Too At Least the War on the Environment Is Going Well Dont Believe Everything You Think The Revolution Will Be Tweeted Long before blogs, tweets, and sound bites, people were telling the world how they felt in brief, blunt bursts of information plastered on the backs of their cars. Whether theyre political or religious, passionate or proud, controversial or corny, these brightly colored, boldly lettered mini manifestos are declarations of who we are, where we stand, and what wed rather be doing. But as bestselling author and noted philosopher Jack Bowen reveals, theres much more to the pop-culture phenomenon of bumper stickers than rolling one-liners and drive-by propagandano less, in fact, than a wise, funny, poignant, contentious, and truthful discourse on the human condition. Mixing pop culture with the ideas of historically prominent philosophers and scientists, If You Can Read This exposes the deeper wisdom couched behind these slogansor, as need be, exposes where they have gone wrong. If you brake for big ideas, nows the time.
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This is what I can best describe as a “cute” and funny little intro to philosophical ideas for the uninitiated. Because of the format -little sections expanding on an erudite quip or a snarky zinger- the author sometimes leaves out really important premises or objections to various arguments, but I suppose that was baked into the plan for this book. It‘s a good little book for light reading at the hotel bar like I was doing in Halifax recently.