Zombies, Lilliputians and Sadists: The Power of the Living Dead and the Future of Australia

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 In this brilliant and original interpretation of contemporary Australian society, the iconoclastic writer, Boris Frankel, not only subverts conventional notions of this society, but also offers a host of alternative policy suggestions. He criticizes Australia’s outdated and short-sighted Left and Right social and political movers and shakers and shines a bright and unflattering light on Australia’s major political and social institutions including a devastating critique of Australia’s educational system. Zombies’ ideas and frameworks are stuck in a bygone era – they are politically and culturally marginalized, the walking dead. Lilliputians are more influential and extol new technology and a raft of policies that they see as cutting edge. They see the ideas championed by zombies as obsolete but are oblivious to how their own ideas are short-sighted and small-minded. Sadists in sharp contrast to zombies are powerful.

• 336 p. : 23 cm. #290124
• Bibliography: p. 319-327.
• Power (Social Sciences) — Australia
• Political culture — Australia
• Australia — Social conditions
• Australia — Politics and government