Upside Down: How We Can Avoid Becoming the United States of China

by Dan Meyer

“We the People” have had it pretty good since WWII. Our prosperity has resulted in our collective apathy toward the corrupt progression of what once were servants of the People into life-long “career politicians” in Washington, D.C. who have become our elite political ruling class.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Today in our United States we have an all-powerful central government enabled by a subservient media propelling our nation toward the living hell described in George Orwell’s 1984 where truth cannot be found—where freedom does not exist.

Upside Down clearly defines the immediate action “We the People” can and must take to restore what used to be our government of, by, and for the people. If we choose to continue to sit on the sidelines and not get involved, we will transition from apathy to dependence and out of that dependence will come the bondage from which we rose 239 years ago.

280 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2016

About the author

Dan Meyer grew up bullied, a child of ridicule, who vowed to one day do real magic and change the world.

Today, Meyer is known as the world’s leading expert on sword swallowing as president of the Sword Swallowers Association International, founder of World Sword Swallower’s Day, author of "To The Hilt: A Sword Swallower's History of Sword Swallowing", and winner of the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard for award-winning medical research on sword swallowing published in the British Medical Journal.

As a performer, Meyer has been called the “world’s top sword swallower” by Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not! for his 40 world records and death-defying stunts featured in Ripley’s cartoons, books, and museums, seen by 800 million viewers on over 100 TV shows, on 15 Got Talents, including the finals of America’s Got Talent and Golden Buzzer winner on Sweden’s Talang, and live in 60 countries around the world.

A global TEDx speaker, Meyer enjoys writing, speaking and inspiring audiences to cut through fear and do the impossible in their lives. His viral TED Talk on sword swallowing, “Cutting through Fear,” is now the #1 most translated TED Talk in the world. Dan lives in Mesa, Arizona.