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Mad as Hell: Why Everything is Getting Crazier
This is a short book about madness – the madness of the world. Every person, every city, every nation, every continent and the planet Earth itself is steadily going insane. What are the causes? Can anything be done? Can the process be arrested and even reversed?This book concentrates on the United Kingdom as one of the most deranged countries in this Mad World, but a host of other nations would have served just as well.The major causes of insanity 1) religion 2) nationalism 3) corporations 4) capitalism 5) the family.It’s time to put the world on the psychiatrist’s couch and listen to its tale of fear, alienation, angst, inauthenticity, disenchantment, over-expectation, constant disappointment and thwarted dreams. Never has so much been promised to the ordinary man and woman and so little delivered.
80 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 22, 2010
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January 4, 2022
Overall a good read
I wouldn't say that there is something new that is being told in the book compared to dozens of other books in the series. However, the topic is indeed important but the author(s) cannot expect flowers to bloom faster than they should. Everything in life has its natural course, the "right" moment of awakening and in the grand cosmic design, no Tony Blaire or James Cameron or Queen Elizabeth, can hold any longer a soul that must wake up. The world will turn around and upside down and everything will guide that soul to wake up one way or another. In many cases, the powers at be, are dialectically necessary for the souls to wake up.
Although the book speaks about the UK, it is valid for all nations. Humanity is one and faces the same trials and tribulations no matter where geographically located only slightly different shades of the situation.
Personally, I think there wouldn't be a loss of ideas that have already been rehashed and distributed in other books, if this book was either not published or shortened. Nonetheless, I appreciate the effort, message and dedication of time to rehash important manners.
I wouldn't say that there is something new that is being told in the book compared to dozens of other books in the series. However, the topic is indeed important but the author(s) cannot expect flowers to bloom faster than they should. Everything in life has its natural course, the "right" moment of awakening and in the grand cosmic design, no Tony Blaire or James Cameron or Queen Elizabeth, can hold any longer a soul that must wake up. The world will turn around and upside down and everything will guide that soul to wake up one way or another. In many cases, the powers at be, are dialectically necessary for the souls to wake up.
Although the book speaks about the UK, it is valid for all nations. Humanity is one and faces the same trials and tribulations no matter where geographically located only slightly different shades of the situation.
Personally, I think there wouldn't be a loss of ideas that have already been rehashed and distributed in other books, if this book was either not published or shortened. Nonetheless, I appreciate the effort, message and dedication of time to rehash important manners.
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