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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They long to end democracy. There are three organizations in the United State that have all, in recent years, signaled and even said outright that Democracy's day is done in the United States - and each is poised to replace it. These groups include the Grand Old Party - US Republicans, who have declared for almost two decades now their desire to install a 'permanent majority'; the Christian Nationalists, Evangelicals who have believed since the mid-Seventies that the United States should be a theocracy, not a democracy, with their own people in charge; and the oligarchy, a network of ultra-wealthy citizens - the top 1% of the top 1% - who have labored for decades to supplant the New Deal framework of the United States with a neoliberal one more favorable to their interests. This series of short books presents overviews of all three of these groups - who they are, what they're about, and how they intend to go about implementing their own visions of American governance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Much of the discussion of freedom in the previous two volumes in this series focused on the human past and was, to some degree, abstract - though modern events did make appearances. In this volume, the focus is primarily on the present - this third decade of the 21st century, when anti-democratic forces are rising not only in the Unites States but around the free world. Specific events and situations will be more frequently referenced this time around, but won't be dwelt upon: this series is ultimately about ideas, and to the extent that real-world issues are discussed, it will be in the service of clarifying and developing those ideas. Freedom is under attack. What does that mean How is freedom eroded and discarded, historically and in the current moment And who, exactly, is attacking it There are forces both within America and without going after freedom and democracy full-force, and the specifics of their efforts will be examined and analyzed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Three great forces rule the world: Stupidity, Fear, and Greed,' Albert Einstein told us - and it's easy to see he nailed it.>The first of these, stupidity, enables the others: if not for personal and institutional stupidity, the greedy couldn't leverage the fear that allow the greedy to do the harm they do. Stupidity - and functional stupidity, in particular - is a serious problem in the world, not just today but throughout history. This short read summarizes that history, explores the nature of stupidity, and seeks to explain how it gets out of control.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Three great forces rule the world: Stupidity, Fear, and Greed,' Albert Einstein told us - and it's easy to see he nailed it.>The second of these, fear, is a natural feature of the human mind - and a valuable survival time, in our Paleolithic past. Today, however, it is the weapon most often wielded by those with the insatiable desire to control others. It is the>This short read surveys fear's role in humankind's development from our distant origins to the present day, taking note of how it works, how it is repurposed - and what can be done to lessen its grip on us. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I recently wrote a series of five short-read books on the subject of freedom in the United States - its history, its nature, its requirements, its challenges, and its opponents. In my social media space, I posted about parts of it - and a post drew a response that sent me back to my keyboard. The response came from Trenton Bennett, an old friend and colleague whose intelligence, insights, and values I've come to trust over the years. In a single post, he made an argument that extended my own, adding elements that I'd neglected. The more I thought about the points he was making, the more I realized they were essential to the discussion I was trying to initiate with the books. Trenton's points amounted to this: yes, freedom is a complex thing; yes, it's on the ropes in America and throughout the Western World; and yes, the attack on freedom is a determined, strategic assault by players who have been at it a good long while. But, he pointed out, there is a very specific infrastructure now surrounding this struggle, one that freedom's opponents - let's just come right out with it and say those who profit from inequality - have labored long to construct around both the debate and the machinery of government required to change anything. That machinery is secured by a number of long-standing memes and assumptions cultivated in the minds of the electorate over decades. Inspired, I realized I had one more short book to write.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They long to end democracy. There are three organizations in the United State that have all, in recent years, signaled and even said outright that Democracy's day is done in the United States - and each is poised to replace it. These groups include the Grand Old Party - US Republicans, who have declared for almost two decades now their desire to install a 'permanent majority'; the Christian Nationalists, Evangelicals who have believed since the mid-Seventies that the United States should be a theocracy, not a democracy, with their own people in charge; and the oligarchy, a network of ultra-wealthy citizens - the top 1% of the top 1% - who have labored for decades to supplant the New Deal framework of the United States with a neoliberal one more favorable to their interests. This series of short books presents overviews of all three of these groups - who they are, what they're about, and how they intend to go about implementing their own visions of American governance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They long to end democracy. There are three organizations in the United State that have all, in recent years, signaled and even said outright that Democracy's day is done in the United States - and each is poised to replace it. These groups include the Grand Old Party - US Republicans, who have declared for almost two decades now their desire to install a 'permanent majority'; the Christian Nationalists, Evangelicals who have believed since the mid-Seventies that the United States should be a theocracy, not a democracy, with their own people in charge; and the oligarchy, a network of ultra-wealthy citizens - the top 1% of the top 1% - who have labored for decades to supplant the New Deal framework of the United States with a neoliberal one more favorable to their interests. This series of short books presents overviews of all three of these groups - who they are, what they're about, and how they intend to go about implementing their own visions of American governance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Star Trek is the gift that never stops giving, and as Discovery has wrapped and Season 3 of Strange New Worlds approaches, it is with pleasure that I offer up another round of essays and articles and puzzles. As with the previous volumes, there are excerpts from Star Trek and Humanism and To Summon the Future and Trek Thought Experiments; there are also bits from the Space: 1999 book To Everything That Might Have Been, and some content about AI from The Pod Bay Doors, Vol. II. But the fresh content is hopefully the centerpiece, including an essay on The Next Generation's time travel foibles; a look at Geordi's simulation of Leah Brahms as the first digital girlfriend; a comparison of the Enterprise and Moonbase Alpha as socialist societies; a visit to the Trek Fleet Museum; a look at Trek in print; and a tribute to the contributions of Dorothy Fontana.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I fell in love with the essay form because I fell in love with authors who were masters of it - and snuck it to me through a side door. Those authors were Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison. As a boy, I loved their fiction, and only learned after I was well-immersed that they were as prolific with essays as they were with short stories. I promptly started buying their essay collections - Of Time and Space and Other Things, and Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed are excellent exemplars - and added that form to my long-term agenda. As I was becoming a journalist, I discovered Russell Baker, soon followed by Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson and a dozen other masters of the form. And in my years as a journalist, I invested great energy in it myself. This collection represents, I hope, my best. I've done many such collections before, and this one is as random as any of them, but I've taken care to omit the frivolous and incidental: this batch is intended to present the best I've managed to date. I hope it lives up to that intention.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Democracy. It's messy, it's uncomfortable - but it's better than the alternatives, as Winston Churchill famously assured us. And it is certainly better than Authoritarianism. The idea of a self-governing society, where all are considered equal, is humankind's dream. It's one of the things that makes The West Wing so attractive to its tens of millions of fans. The Bartlet Administration's vision for America is practically utopian - based on the conviction that the best government is one in which no one - no one! - gets left behind. And especially now, as the opening decades of the 21st century have experienced an uncomfortable rise in Authoritarianism - not just in the United States, but in Europe and South America as well. It doesn't look promising. This book suggests that we can look to The West Wing, not only for inspiration, but for conviction and a call to action.…