Bøger af John Bassett Mccleary

The continued existence of every man, woman, child and family pet balances on what I am writing here and how it is received. In this book my audience is literally everybody in America and accordingly. the whole world. Many of the things I discuss in this book have never been heard of before, and most of the other issues herein are still unsolved today, even though they have been explored, explained and in essence solved by hundreds of the most brilliant people throughout the ages. Cocky, greedy, arrogant, hotdoggers are all heading for a painful fall. Your ego lifts you higher and higher, and then one day your are bested in some way, and you discover you are only just normal. But normal is very good! You can become anything you want as a normal person; just use the common sense that is all round you and in most every person. Do the right things, be helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, and not greedy, bigoted or selfish. Change yourself before your social sins come back to haunt you. By the way, sex is not a sin. Killing, stealing (greed) and bearing false witness (lying) are mortal sins. Idolizing someone because they are rich, rebellious or powerful is a mistake on numerous levels. Often, rich people are not rich because they are doing something right, but because they are doing something wrong. Rebellious people are often rebelling against society's restrictions, which have been put in place to protect everybody, including them. And many powerful people are egocentric, slightly clinically insane, or consumed with power. Everybody considers themselves to be the center of the universe, but only the arrogant make a big deal out of it. A small number of people are creating all of the problems in this world, and the solution is for all the rest of us to take a 180-degree turn and say to them, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the Hippie Dictionary entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "Ceasar Chavez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a grip," and "are you for real?" will remind you of how revolutionary those 20 years were. Although the hippie era spans two decades beginning with the approval of the birth control pill in 1960 and ending with the death of John Lennon in 1980, it wasn't all about sex, drugs, and rock'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs-beliefs that are just as timely as ever. So kick back and trip out on the new entries as well as the old, and discover why some are dubbing the sixties and seventies "the intellectual renaissance of the 20th century.