Book Tip No. 38 (2019): Rolf Dobelli: The Art of Digital Life

Munich 2019.

Those who know the older Dobelli books (e.g. “The Art of Good Life”, see review) will also be excited about the new booklet. The author’s joy in concise formulation and provocative exaggeration is immediately noticeable when reading the new work. But is it worth taking this volume in hand? Are there new considerations?

Dobelli vigorously opposes the world of news manufacturers and their business model. He argues that news is irrelevant, that it distracts, that it affects one’s own well-being and that it paints a completely inaccurate picture of the world. And they promote terrorism, because without news terrorism makes no sense at all.

He’s right. Read the new Dobelli. Cancel your newspaper and your online newsletters. Reduce your online news feed. Instead, read books. The good ones twice.

Dr. Hans-Christian Riekhof