Good Reading - Win 1/5 copies of Angertainment by Ed Coper

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We were promised a global village; we got a gladiatorial arena. Social media is no longer a tool for connection but a viral outrage machine that harvests and monetises our worst impulses.

As a result, we are being driven apart: politics is becoming more extreme, young women are following dangerous health advice and young men are adopting the sexist attitudes of their grandpas. Most troubling: it has spawned a new class of power – those who know how to game the outrage economy to change how you vote, what you buy, and who you hate.
Social media outrage is an entire industry. Rage-bait – the 2025 Word of the Year - isn’t just an internet annoyance, it has become the supreme vehicle for building political and cultural capital. Angertainment is the tale of how people manipulate and weaponise our viral anger to change our world for the worse.

In this high-stakes, highly entertaining journey through our new reality, Ed Coper unmasks the architects of this new power – from manosphere gurus to political demagogues and corporate giants – who have realised that in the attention economy, your anger is the only currency that matters.

Darkly funny and terrifyingly urgent, Angertainment provides a chilling look at how the fusion of anger and entertainment has upended everything from the family dinner table to the halls of government.

What was the 2025 Word of the Year? ANSWER: Rage-Bait.

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1. Entry is open to all residents of Australia and New Zealand from 29 July 2026 to 30 July 2026. 2. Employees and the immediate families of the promoter and agencies associated with this promotion are ineligible. 3. The judge’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. 4. The first correct entries drawn from the competition in July 2026 will win the book. 5. The promoter accepts no responsibility for late, lost or misdirected mail. 6. The winners of the prize will be notified by email in July 2026.