Abstract
Taking Dan Brown’s latest novel Originas a thought-provoking heuristic device, this essay discusses the many facets of ultraconservatives’ anti-intellectualism (from their stances on evolution and climate change, and also their conspiracy theories). Brown’s novel particularly details the cultural tension between progressives and conservatives, depicting a very real far-right and how they respond to a hopeful and diverse youth (while exploring how political perception, fake news, and public information in the virtual era affect politics). The essay concludes that by raging war at science and deliberately making policies against progress, conservatives are at war against rationality itself, by defaming reason and allowing fascistic-authoritarianism to shape politics when, at the age of information, we should be moving to a more open, democratic, and post-capitalist world.
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Miranda, Lucas
(2019)
"Ultraconservatives in a Contentious Cusp between Past and Future: A Review of Dan Brown’s novel "Origin","
Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
DOI: 10.25148/CRCP.7.1.008321
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol7/iss1/5