The Abusing of America
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
GOVERNMENT
Debacles of Economic Lawlessness
Accumulating Debt
Out-of-Control Mismanagement
Social Services
Burning the Candle At Both Ends
The Homeless
The Two-Party System
Chapter 2
INDUSTRY
Government and Big Business Are Synonymous
Shifting Facades of Corporations
Cost/Benefit Psychology
Molding the Employee and Consumer
Consumer Advertising
Crunching the Workforce
Re-engineering
Chapter 3
EGO, GREED & SOCIETY
Wealth As A Measuring Stick
The Inner Emptiness of Self
Advertising and Society
Two Sides to Success
The Individual In the Information Age
Chapter 4
INDIVIDUAL ABUSES
Reasons Why We Abuse
Alcohol Abuse
Animal Abuse
Child Abuse
Communication Abuse
Drug Abuse
Elder Abuse
Relationship Abuse
Spousal/Sexual Abuse
Suicide
Work Abuse
Chapter 5
HEALTH CARE
Managed Care
Physicians
Hospitals
Mental Health
Drug Companies
The Future of Health Care
Realizations and Suggestions
Chapter 6
GUNS AND CRIME
The Effect of Gun Controls
The Second Amendment
Crime and Dysfunctional Families
Violence and Television
Children and Guns
Societal Costs of Guns and Crime
What Can Be Done To Lessen The Danger?
Chapter 7
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Scientific “Progress” vs. the Laws of Nature
The Relevance of the Geochemical Cycles of Life
Examples of Man’s Abuse of Nature
Consequences of Adverse Environmental Change
Playing Environmental Politics
Chapter 8
THE OVERPOPULATION EFFECT
Increasing Populations vs. Limited Resources
Proliferation of Old and New Diseases
The Biggest Paradox of All
Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Our Lost Sense of Who We Are
Choices And Priorities Determine Our Destiny
APPENDIX
NOTATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Formats
Book Details
About the Book
THE ABUSING OF AMERICA presents an extremely insightful and compelling look at how our whole modern, American way of life, ultimately and detrimentally, affects us all. It is a portrayal of how the implementation of many individual and collective goals and priorities, can often result in being counterproductive to ourselves and others in society. Individual and societal abuses continue because we have a tendency to patch up symptoms, rather than eradicate root causes. While the book is a serious and factual examination of what causes the abusiveness found in our society, it also illuminates 20 different paradoxes that perpetuate the continuation of such abuses. Nonetheless, the author finds the capability to appropriately make use of his satirical wit to lampoon the purveyors who present obstacles that negatively affect our ability to overcome abuses. It all makes for an interesting and thought-provoking read.
About the Author
Mr. Diamond graduated in political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He went to Graduate School in Psychology at the University of Southern California. He was an educator for five years, and then he spent a decade in the advertising and marketing fields. He is on a never-ending search to discover signs of intelligent life (or at least some common sense) among the decision makers within the societies, governments and industries of the world.