Minority Rule Adventures in the Culture War Ash Sarkar Blackwell's Signed edition

I submitted the manuscript for Minority Rule, Donald Trump won the presidential election. But I think that it goes some way to explaining how and why a man like him has come to power again. He's the product of a media industry which thrives on outrage, a political system which has been designed to fragment the power of ordinary people, a liberal establishment which thought that language policing was an adequate substitute for real equality.

For the longest time, this book existed as little more than a series of nervous breakdowns across several Google Docs. But with time (and a lot of helpful nudging from my editors), I realised that I was trying to answer a very simple question - how are the global super rich getting away with making everything worse for everybody else?

Minority Rule is about the interlocking systems of media, politics, and economics which all work to keep the majority class divided while we're robbed blind by elites. It's about how everyone, on both the left and the right, got sucked into being obsessed with individual identity - and how the culture war is a deliberate project of making sure that we are prevented from identifying our shared interests. If you want to know why you feel like powerful people have little interest in making your life better, I wrote this book for you. - Ash Sarkar