How to remodel your thoughts

A guide on how to be politically incorrect

By Josef Joffe, Dirk Maxeiner, Michael Miersch
and Henryk M. Broder

Piper Verlag
München 2007
ISBN 978-3-492-05016-6
180 pages,
14,90 euros

Summary

How to remodel your thoughts is a small encyclopedia about the clichés and stereotypical phrases employed by politicians and media types when making sense of what is going on in the world. Is does not take a dictator or thought police to establish “newspeak” or “doublethink in a liberal democracy. This kind of conformism creates itself or more precisely: it is the product of a larger and ever-changing class of people that could be called the political or the chattering class. In a mostly satirical, but sometimes serious manner, How to remodel your thoughts dissects all the phrases and clichés that shape and deform our thoughts, from ‘animal rights’ to ‘zionsim’.

Reviews

"An intellectual cure against the dumbing down caused by political correctness."
Bonner General-Anzeiger

"The book titled How to remodel your thoughts argues against the interpretative authority of do-gooders and bleeding heart liberals and their manipulation of concepts and ideas."
Focus

"This book is a gem. Read it. Smile."
Geffrey Gedmin in Die Welt

"A comprehensive and disconcerting yet amusing collection."
Novo Argumente

"Time and again our authors manage to focus a flash of insight, illuminating the real issue, while enlightening the readers."
NZZ am Sonntag