The Peripatetic Philosopher reports some confusion with my book, Near Journey's End:

AS WITH MOST OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY, THE PRESENT IS ALWAYS A SURPRISE 

We Americans, in my experience, react beautifully to crisis while failing miserably to anticipate trends which seemly are always beyond the pale of our optimistic mindset. We have the aplomb of always being the measure of the crisis no matter how imposing or cataclysmic. It has put our nation, and by extension, the world in some jeopardy because the world now mimics America to a greater or lesser degree, as democratic capitalistic enterprise is the principal game in town. 

Paradoxically, that applies equally to our so-called "enemies," such as Russia and China as to our so-called "allies," such as France, Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

We have arrived at this unwitting juncture and unanticipated circumstance the result of two great wars (WWI and WWII) as our capitalistic democracy is being followed liberally (France, Germany, Japan and Great Britain) or illiberally (Russia, China and Singapore) across the globe, often demonstrating our inevitable capacity for excess.

Should you simply go to Amazon.com, and type in NEAR JOURNEY'S END, then tap on the cover, it will allow you a "Look Inside" the content of this book. If you do no more than read this, you will get a sense of the book. Then if you read the book, you will see there is a segment on "The Way Out" of our dilemma.

In the "Afterword," I write:

When you write a book, you are opening yourself to reveal something inside that you might feel you have no business communicating although it burns in your heart to say. That is because you don’t know if anyone else experiences what you have experienced, or worries about the same things that cross your mind when you’re trying to fall asleep.

There is a bit of arrogance with a book such as this. First of all, I’m not a trained scholar but a peripatetic philosopher, reader and researcher, a person who has worked at all levels of society from a sacker at an A & P Supermarket as a boy, as a laborer in a chemical plant for five summers to pay my way through university, then as a chemist and chemical sales engineer, industrial psychologist and executive for two Fortune 500 corporations rising to a global executive in both, working in South America, Europe and South Africa, as well as across the United States.

JRF



NEAR JOURNEY'S END: CAN THE PLANET EARTH SURVIVE SELF-INDULGENT MAN?

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