{"product_id":"your-call-is-important-to-us-the-truth-about-bullshit-9781400081035","title":"Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere  a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hellwhile were laughing like fiends. A book like this one.  Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone whos sick and tired of the twenty-first centurys tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners  author Laura Penny dissectsno  disembowelsthe culture of globalized  super-sized  consumerized b.s.  Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda  Penny skewers the corporate bafflegab  scripted  question-proof political events  toxic faux foodstuffs  and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart  where every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you; not Bushs White House  with its wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry  with its gateway prescription drugs.  Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as the best-kept secret in outsourcing) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally  with devastating precision  she demonstrates how our all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse  breeds apathy  and makes us just plain stupid.  Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. Its an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure.  Laura Penny on Bullshit:  There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin.  The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit  and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap  plastic bullshit.  Your call is important to us has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some companys dough. Like most bullshit  the more times you hear it  the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly  with many visuals  in mass quantities  with no questions from the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666174468149,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400081033","price":33.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400081035.jpg?v=1782421814","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/your-call-is-important-to-us-the-truth-about-bullshit-9781400081035","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}