When Monkeys Fly: Finding Wisdom in an Age of Foolishness - Softcover

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“When Monkeys Fly is a book of reason for turbulent times.”

If it feels like a tornado of foolishness is swirling all around you, you’re not alone. You’re being swept-up by the foolish winds of our vacuous media, politicians, and popular culture. Clearly, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

When Monkeys Fly celebrates the lost art of common sense by challenging you to contemplate both wise and unwise ideas, behaviors, and beliefs via bite-sized essays that use clever analogies, crisp facts, and wit to make their points.

But this is not a political book. Instead, it coaxes readers to move beyond reactive, entrenched positions to examine the foundations and logic of various viewpoints, including their own.

To that end, the book organizes its concise insights around 10 wise habits- the kind that Dorothy adopted to both keep her sanity and find her way home. Even amidst our modern tornado of foolishness, we can do the same:

1. Think and Speak for Yourself
Liberty of conscience VS Submission to cancel culture

2. Choose Freedom Over Comfort
Independence VS Serene serfdom

3. Own Your Outcomes
Self-responsibility VS The victim mindset

4. Be Skeptical
Questioning VS Doting acceptance of authority

5. Confront Fashionable Nonsense
Calling out the ridiculous VS Woke indoctrination

6. Put Away Childish Things
Shedding youthful notions VS Chronic naïveté

7. Treasure Individuals
Celebrating individuality VS Identity politics

8. Live Consciously
Paying attention to the real VS Screen-numbed diversion

9. Seek Meaning
Pursuit of purpose VS Lazy nihilism

10. Embrace Adversity
Growing through challenge VS Learned helplessness

When Monkeys Fly illustrates the difference between wisdom and foolishness with a blend of satire and imaginative analogies ranging from medieval torture to the zombie apocalypse. Along the road, you are also guided by the words of some pretty wise monkeys like: Mark Twain, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edmund Burke, Viktor Frankl, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Werner Heisenberg, GK Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Richard Feynman, Ernest Hemmingway, Charles Krauthammer, George Orwell, Thomas Sowell, Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Groucho Marx, and 50 others.

If you've lived a lot of life, you've probably discovered and adopted many similar habits. This book will reinforce your wisdom and offer analogies and information to help you pass that wisdom along to others.

If you are earlier in your journey, here is a head start on the wisdom that can help you fend off the fashionable foolishness spinning all around and move past echo chambers to engage in more meaningful dialogue.

So put on your ruby red slippers and let a wise flying monkey be your guide. Like Dorothy, you might just rediscover core principles to help you overcome today’s tornado of foolishness.

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