New reading and thinking books 1-6

Have you had enough of politicians rhetoric or of the failure of tired institutions to keep up with our rapidly changing world Then meet the young new thinkers of Ireland as they share their vision for the future Here twenty one of our leading creative thinkers and problem solvers rip up the rule book and start again presenting a new vision for Ireland They cover a diverse range of topics that affect all our lives from Art to Diaspora Religion to Research and of course Banking These are tomorrow s leaders The future is bright Some essays propose extreme ideas imagining democratically run companies three day working weeks a Google bank and safer roads bereft of signs or markings while others put forward very possible ways in which Ireland can become a global leader in areas in which we already excel In most instances contributors have looked to the past the psyche and make up of Irish life to inform their vision of the future In others they have referenced current successes This is a book about being Irish about being resilient and as surprising as it may sound about overcoming current hardships and standing as a model for other countries to follow New Thinking New IrelandLoathed this quite frankly a smugly self satisfied collation of Ireland s self appointed brightest and best waxing lyrical on how to better our post crash fate all from perspectives that vary from the naive and inane to verging on the outright sociopathic That none of the book s twenty one essays deigns to discuss class is telling this is less a collection of radical ideas than a plea for a polished up status quo delivered by expensively educated insiders deceptively dressed up as a representative youth It is startlingly hegemonic in its contributors right wing political thought rendering the promise of new thinking nothing shy of fraudulent in the context of 2013 Ireland To its credit I will say is one nice idea on better utilising worms for the composting of organic material I ve got a book for them 0717158543