CHAPTERS

PREFACE INTRODUCTION The bounty of Earth and modern technology offer a secure and enriching life for all humankind. Here's how. Chapter 1   REALITY AND SCIENCE, objectively, naturally There's something the matter with mind. Some call this epistemology, or cognitive science. Elaborating sections include Prehend, Ax, Duck.... Chapter 2   PROCESS MODEL, a simple theory of complex systems. A meta-scientific approach to value and health - a tool. Sections detail Memes, Language.... Chapter 3   PSYCHOLOGY, we all live in a yellow submarine. Applying the process model to mind, in detail. Sections: Ego trips, Lies, Sex, Drugs, Happiness.... Chapter 4   SOCIOLOGY, organic vs abstract social life. Value and health from evolutionary times to now. Sections on Community, Gridlock, Sustainable Luxury .... Chapter 5   POLITICS, management of society. Evaluation and Diagnosis of political process. Sections Libertyville, Clerks, Hugs, Hogs.... Chapter 6   IDEOLOGY, private and public worldviews. Objective look at subjectivity - psychocultural analysis. Sections on personal and public, static and dynamic.... Chapter 7   ECONOMICS, money and value. A nice fit for the E and D charts. Sections on GINI, Hand Of God, Global, NEP, Investment.... Chapter 8   CULTURE, sustainence and enrichment. Applied anthropology, but not so passive. MAC & BigMAC. Sections include Law, Style, Omnicide, Neoteny, Myths.... Chapter 9   EDUCATION, the tolerated disaster. Institutionalized pathology, minor and major alleviations. Sections Tragedy of Literacy, BBJ school, Stupidification.... Chapter 10   RELIGION, personal and social values, objectively. Attending the problems of mental and social dissociations. Sections on Tibet, America....

ESSAYS

• AX, Theory as Tool - Escaping the Trap of Truth
• BRIEF MYSTERY OF TIME, Mind or Matter? Dilemmas of Reality and Mind
• DUCK, A Model in the Mind - Pity the Child
• BIRD, Name the Bird
• LANGUAGE as a Complex System
• MEMES, Tyrannical Elements of Meaning
• PREHEND, Essential Process of Reality
• TRAIN OF THOUGHT - TOOT, TOOT, Mental Mechanisms
• CARTOGRAPHY OF LIES, Myths of Meaning
• GOLDEN MEAN, Midas' Curse
• DRUGS, Mapping Mental States
• OBJECTIVE SEX, The Last Word...
• VALENTINE, Desperately Seeking ... Something
• HAPPINESS, Objective and Subjective - Easy Way
• NOTAM, Notes On The Anthropology of Medicine
• OVER 65, A New Role for the Elders
• HIRISE, Cities are Obsolete
• GRIDLOCK, the Solution is Simple
• WARD PROGRAM, Cure Urban Alienation
• SUSTAINABLE LUXURY, a Good Life for All
• LIBERTYVILLE, Luxury for the Poor
• HUGS, Historical Myth of the Human Condition
• OOPS, A Brief Psychohistory of Mankind - Why We're Rich
• ICE, Internalization of the Corporate Ethic - Abandonment of Humanity
• WARRIOR ETHIC, WE, A Myth of Origins
• CLERKS GONE MAD, CGMs, ICEy Adjustments to MOM's Management
• QUANTIFICATION OF DEMOCRACY, Making Meaning from Mania
• FOCUS GROUPS, FOGS, Group Think, absence of mind
• LETS PARTY, A Manifestation of Democracy
• JELLY AND JAM, Mechanisms of Media Menace
• TV VIOLENCE, A Class-based Psychoanalysis of TV
• PROGRESS AND PROBABILITIES, Progressive vs Conservative
• E-101, Economics for Those Who Missed It
• SUSTAINABILITY, It's Easy
• HAND OF GOD, HOG, Malicious Metaphysics of Free Enterprise
• WORK, D-A Analysis of Jobs and Work
• GLOBAL EXPANDING ECONOMY, GEE, Humanity's Triumph?
• PROGRESSIVE STAGNATION, Best of All Possible Worlds, or Worst
• ENHANCEMENT OF INVESTMENT, There's Money to be Made
• PROLIFERATION OF DETERRENCE, POD, New Nukes in Old Battles
• TWENTY FIRST CENTURY, Prospects and Priorities
• NEW ECONOMIC POLICY, NEP, Easy Transition
• STYLE, a Subconscious of Culture
• ART, Beyond Analysis, but not Psychoanalysis
• ETHICS OF THE LUMPEN BOURGEOISIE, ELBY, How We Live
• PASTIMES, Objective Analysis of Subjective Choices
• NOTES ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LAW, NOTATL, Truncated disclosures
• CULTURE OF OMNICIDE, COO, Our Plunge to THE END
• CULTURAL NEOTENY, CUNY, Roots of Our Helplessness
• CULTURE OF THE GHOSTS, COGs, Triumph of the Abstract Life
• DARUSA INC, Let's Help Japan
• PERVASIVE PSYCHOTIC MYTHS, PPMs, You Gotta Believe It!
• BBJ SCHOOL, A Simplistic Image to Temper the Traumatized
• TRAGEDY OF LITERACY, TOL, "Literacy Invites Passivity, Education Compels It."
• STUPIDITY AND PROGRESS, SAP, A Poor Excuse
• TIBET, New Roof for an Old World
• BUDDHISM FOR THE BOURGEOISIE, The Growth Movement
• AMERICA, The Future of Democracy
• GREEN TONES
• RECESSION, Best of All Possible Worlds
• CRISIS = OPPORTUNITY, Origins and imperatives
• MELTDOWN, Causes and Cures
• WORLD'S PEOPLE, Already Healing
• HOW American Culture Got Sick and How to Fix It
• HOMES, Solving the Real Estate Crisis
• GARDENS, Quick and Easy Cultural Shift
• FUTURE LIES AHEAD, Brief View of Truths and Lies
• FAMILY in Decline - How age segregation dominates modern culture and degrades humanity
• EDUCATION ?, An Objective Approach
• SCHOOL REFORM, A quasi-religious challenge
• HOME TEAM, a DEMO project making poor homes for poor people
• ECOBURB, Do It Now!
• THE GOOD LIFE, "Let no crisis go to waste." Rahm Emanuel
• REACTIONARY, our dominant stance ?
• ASCENSION OF INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT, AIM
• MANAGEMENT OF SOCIETY, Increasingly invisible
• OBAMA HOPES, Now Under Temporary Suspension OH, NUTS
• YES, WE CAN, Convert to sustainable cultures
• PRISON REFORM, another Modest Proposal
• POLI SCI, Helpful hints
• ADAM & EVE, Origin of consciousness
• GLOSSARY, A Treasury of Acronyms, TAs