The Cameron Delusion

Abstract

Conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. By the time it has become conventional, it has ceased to be wisdom and become cant. Its smug cousin, received opinion, is just as bad. This is not really opinion at all, but the safe adoption of whatever is modish and popular. The aim of this book is to defy these two enemies of thought and reason. They are powerful in our conformist media, and our conformist media are powerful in the state, persuading millions to think that the ideas and beliefs of others are their own, engineering consent to chosen schemes, denying that consent to ideas they do not favour.