
I picked this up a week or two ago and have been pretty much absorbed by it since.
Good points: Tom Baugh has many good insights into what is going on in the world and expressing ideas in ways that are easily understood.
I would recommend reading this book despite what some reviewers are saying about it(propaganda etc) and make up your own mind on it. I did and I am quite happy with it.
Bad Points: There is a lot of information in it and pointers to more information along the way. This isn't bad unto itself, I am an information junkie. What makes it bad will be dependent upon your point of view. In my case, it showed me how far behind I really am in certain areas.(this is also a positive since now I know that, and can start correcting it.)
Tom shows, with proof, just how diseased our society really is; How it is a common affliction that recurs in every society throughout time.
He doesn't really have a solution for curing the problem. I note that his 'cure' really isn't that at all but a foundation for rebuilding after the fall. This is all well and fine as I think many are starting to realize that the only solution is complete change. As much as that is a disappointing thought, I am starting to believe its a fact.
Fact of the matter, this book made me even more angry. Not at the book, or its writer. More at the society that I was raised in. That may seem harsh but that is how I perceive it. I realized that I was short changed in the education department long before I really started learning. I never really had good grades(average for the most part) and was continuously bored with the regimen. The only time my grades improved were when I was in a course that challenged me. Of course hindsight is 20/20 and I leave no one to blame for it: I am now taking the steps to 'catch up' to where I feel I should be in the curve. This is something that I have wanted to do for some time now. Now I have incentive to get off my duff and do it.
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Sounds like something I should add to my wish list on Amazon. Alas, the list grows longer, as I add to it but only buy one or two things a month to shorten it.
Ditto.
Partly why I put the list up there on the blog. Maybe my family can help out that way and not bug me about 'what do you want this year?' LOL
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