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thomas_edmund 's review for:
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa
So I've read books on the horrors of social media, and read books about the horrors of fascism, however I've haven't yet read anything that slapped the two topics together and made me wake up to just how dangerous a dystopia we're living through right now.
I realize it can all seem like a melodramatic exaggeration, but I challenge anyone to read this book and not feel the same. Technically this book is more of a biography of Nobel Prize winning Ressa and her Pilipino Media organsiation - but in many ways its an explanation of the benign and mundane slide into authoritarianism that is happening all around the world.
Ressa is refreshingly and inspirationally honest in this book. While often terse and to the point, its also super scary to see what Ressa has been up against in her efforts, from the aloof neglect of Mark Zuckerburg to the braggadocios politics of Strongmen dictators - Ressa isn't afraid (or more accurately overcomes her fear) of being vulnerable in service to the truth.
While this review has been somewhat gloomy, Ressa does offer hope, both in her own role-modelling and also offering very real advice against fascist misinformation etc etc. Highly recommended!
I realize it can all seem like a melodramatic exaggeration, but I challenge anyone to read this book and not feel the same. Technically this book is more of a biography of Nobel Prize winning Ressa and her Pilipino Media organsiation - but in many ways its an explanation of the benign and mundane slide into authoritarianism that is happening all around the world.
Ressa is refreshingly and inspirationally honest in this book. While often terse and to the point, its also super scary to see what Ressa has been up against in her efforts, from the aloof neglect of Mark Zuckerburg to the braggadocios politics of Strongmen dictators - Ressa isn't afraid (or more accurately overcomes her fear) of being vulnerable in service to the truth.
While this review has been somewhat gloomy, Ressa does offer hope, both in her own role-modelling and also offering very real advice against fascist misinformation etc etc. Highly recommended!