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“Professor Jacek Dabala’s short polemic, A Pre-Collapse Cure for Stupidity, serves as a straightforward, blunt instrument intended to jar us out of our collective stupor in the face of catastrophe. Squarely taking on critical, timely issues such as climate change, democracy, populism, and the state of journalism, Dabala deploys a provocative, untimely language intended to persuasively argue that our present world is the outcome of a mass stupefaction of our own making. Professor Richard Baxstrom, University of Edinburgh “Do we need an informed public and knowledgeable narrators making sense of things at a time of great complexity and uncertainty? We do. But as Jacek Dabala points out in his engaging new book, the globe is facing endangered democracies, empowered politicians drawn to totalitarianism and journalists lacking the skills to respond. Chief among Dabala’s necessary conclusions: We need better education teaching “the meaning and real value of democracy and freedom.” And we need it now. Before it’s too late.” Professor Steven Beschloss, Arizona State University “Born of frustration and an awareness of impending climate disaster, in this short book Jacek Dabala sets out his sense of the whole problem. Dabala reveals a vicious and self-reinforcing cycle of propaganda and stupidity built of short-sighted, selfserving or outright malevolent voices in politics and the media.” Professor Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California “In these provocative and timely essays, Jacek Dabala issues a clarion call to educators, journalists, and politicians to address the major crises facing the world today by ending the “circle of stupidity” that perpetuates bad governance and misinformation with devastating consequences.” Professor Diana Owen, Georgetown University