Crowd Culture: An Examination of the American Way of Life

by Bernard Iddings Bell

Book Overview

In Crowd Culture, a remarkably prescient work originally published in 1952 (before the words dumbing down had ever been uttered), Bell excoriated the complacent and conformist egalitarian ethos that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882926609
• ISBN13: 9781882926602
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Crowd culture - the way we are

This book is a misnomer: It is not just an American way but an element of human life as a social animal. Still this is an excellent book showing these factors in American public life.

Bell diagnosis The Decline

This perhaps the best book ever written about the pathologies of American culture. Virtually ever deviant and transgressive behavior is discussed in this book and how it will tend to prevail. Wrong becomes Right. We are living his future right now.The book is organized into four chapters, discussing the culture, education, religion and the rebels. The rebels, in this case, are those that stand up for Right and try to turn the tide against the rising culture of vulgarity, moral lazziness and confident ignorance. He concludes on a hopeful note, one that if he wrote today, he might not be able to maintain.

Bell was a insightful prophet of America's moral decline.

Again, I say, Bell was an insightful prophet of America's moral decay. Yeah, there are the elitists who think the citizens are enlightened when we succumb to needless TV violence and vulgarity and nudity. Our educational system is graduating numb skulls after being indoctrinated with liberal, non-American ideas. Isn't it weird that these elitists, like Al Gore, send their kids to private schools. And these elitists, who are mostly anti-gun, often hire armed body guards. Makes one wonder.