Here are some exerpts from my book, "The World's Gone Stupid."
The Table of Contents is as follows:
Chapter 1: The Bubble-Wrap Childhood
Chapter 2: Brainwashed, Not Educated
Chapter 3: The Death of Play
Chapter 4: The $300,000 Kindergarten
Chapter 5: The Infinite Dopamine Slot Machine
Chapter 6: Press "0" to Enter the Void
Chapter 7: The Expertise Paradox Chapter
Chapter 8: The Death of Common Sense
Chapter 9: Algorithms, Echo Chambers, and the Outrage Machine
Chapter 10: The Corporate Survival Uniform
Chapter 11: The Three-Day Workweek
Chapter 12: Modern Highlights of America
Chapter 13: The $1.7 Trillion Diploma
Chapter 14: How the Smartphone Made Us Stupid
Chapter 15: Politics and the End of Freedom
Chapter 16: Socialism. And Why It Doesn't Work
Chapter 17: The Secret of Life
EXCERPTS:
"I have spent many years living. I have lived through the threat of nuclear war, cultural revolutions, economic shifts, and technological booms. My career spans Wall Street money market sales and trading, VP of sales and marketing for a London-based international firm and worldwide marketing in the high-end fashion industry. In my career in finance the main job was to understand and deal with numbers. In my career in sales and marketing, the main job was to understand human nature—what moves people, what drives them, and how they make choices. I learned to read the room of the real world. And to observe trends, good trends and bad trends.
If we want to fix the collective brain fog that has settled over our society, we have to look honestly at how we got here. It did not happen overnight. It is the result of a perfect storm brewing across three pillars of our daily lives: how we raise our children, how we educate our minds, and how we consume information through the screens in our pockets. On a broader basis, social, political, and financial areas.
This book is an analysis of how we
lost our way—and more importantly, a practical guide on how we can find our
way, reclaim our minds, help one another, and return to sanity.
The book may be applicable worldwide but I have chosen to focus on America, as I know and understand this country the most. I grew up in rural Upstate New York, spent 20 years in New York City (Manhattan) and the remainder of my life in Los Angeles. I have driven across the United States. I have travelled to Europe. I am now using my financial, social and political observations to write this book."
Excerpts from Chapter 1:
At age 10, I had responsibilities. One of my childhood chores was to shovel the driveway and front walk at 7 AM on winter mornings. Sometimes the snow was 2-3 feet high. The temperature was below freezing (32 F) and often below zero. Another of my chores was to mow the lawn in summer, when the temperature (and the humidity) was in the high 90’s. And I also had to do my school homework.
What would have happened if I refused these given responsibilities? If I ignored doing the shoveling, the mowing, and my schoolwork? I would not have gotten an allowance. Without my allowance, I could not have purchased my comics and candy.
At age 16, I had to learn to drive in ice and snow, you learn to do it right or you could die. As a child, living in the real world, the world of nature, I learned. I learned my strengths, my weaknesses, and my limits.
The World's Gone Stupid. Who's to Blame and How To Fix it
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