Word: neophilia
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That Was. With all the eye-rolling horror of an ex-sinner, Booker, 32, looks back on the English scene of the past 15 years or so as a case history in the "collective psychosis" of Neophilia. If the reader can make allowance for the author's own hysterical anti-hysteria, Booker's survey makes a fascinating study of what he regards as a national epidemic of self-deception...
What was best in the dream-the idealism of the Ban the Bomb movement, a general exuberant impulse toward freedom-finally went mad. For this, perhaps too conveniently, Booker mainly blames the communicators-the fad-conscious journalists, the telly talkers, the trendy film makers-who turned Neophilia into an industry...
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