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thought-provoking

Revisado: 05-25-20

reality as a shared delusion explained (or, better, discussed). the lessons here, if accepted,will reduce anxiety.

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the importance of dads

Revisado: 01-22-19

equal parts evolutionary bio, evolutionary psych, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and other sciences this layperson missed. thoroughly researched and well-told story of dad's important role in the family and, thus, society. expertly written and perfectly narrated audio edition.

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so good

Revisado: 01-19-19

best line: "I don't get it but I don't really need to get it because it's gonna happen either way"

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essential sense-making of modern elections

Revisado: 01-06-19

I absolutely suggest that you read/listen to Martin Gurri's recently revised "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium". The Audible edition was expertly narrated and my chosen consumption method.

Although its scope includes in-depth analysis of slightly earlier democratic negations as well as other world political events before those, the Revolt of The Public was written before the 2016 election and may as well have predicted its outcome. It's since been updated and confirms my grave suspicion about the public's reaction to Trump's election & presidency in that it says much more about the U.S. electorate as participants in a fledgling democracy than the President and his nihilistic behavior.

In Gurri's revised post-2016 conclusion when pondering the usefulness of debating whether democracy can be returned to its pre-2011 status quo, Gurri fatefully asks of the modern public, "How are legitimate elites selected in a Democratic society?" He then later expands "[Trump] is the visible effect, not the cause, of the public's surly and mutinous mood...The right level of analysis on Trump isn't Trump at all, but the public that endowed him with a radical direction and temper and the decadent institutions that proved too weak to stand in his way. The U.S. public, like the public everywhere is engaged in a long migration away from the structures of representative democracy to more sectarian arrangements. The public craves meaning and identity. From its perspective, late modern society, including government, exist to frustrate this desire. Caught in the collision between extraordinary personal expectations and feeble but intrusive political institutions, the nation-state, here and elsewhere is splintering into socio-political shards that grow less intelligible to one another by the moment."

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fantastic history of today's American economy

Revisado: 11-27-18

graduating college before the turn of the century in the midst of the internet revolution that would become a bubble, then surviving another bubble/bust and crisis, while now preparing for another bust I am a father and recovering libertarian whose finally found with this accessible and plain-worded work a single source documenting how my collegiate indoctrination with the maximize shareholder wealth business ethic was merely a symptom of a trend toward corporate governance that is vastly more interested in financial well-being rather than happiness and community.

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read BEFORE 2020 elections! please.

Revisado: 11-23-18

apply postman's words and thoughts to today's media and infotainment era and you'll see that we learn nothing and are heading nowhere.

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historical introductions of major world religions

Revisado: 04-14-17

the time period covered in this masterwork begins with the establishment of Christianity as a tool of the nation state and then expands to the birth of islam and the spread of Buddhism all while detailing the countless changes in power in both eastern and western civilization.

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wow. get this.

Revisado: 12-09-16

I laughed as hard as you'd expect during a Chris rock monologue, yet was left asking unanswerable questions about how this country will ever "get over" race or itself long enough to just be happy.

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