abramelin Posted November 5, 2009 Found this free (abridged) e-book earlier today and started reading.... ...stopped reading and realized this has to be shared.  Description: This indispensable guide to the next twenty years of global turmoil and transformation weaves the full spectrum of disciplines--history, political economy, ecology, energy, marketing, investing, health, and the psychology of happiness-- into a uniquely comprehensive understanding that offers every thinking person practical principles for not just surviving but prospering in the difficult decades ahead.  Table of Contents  Introduction  1. An Overview  2. Contexts and Causes  3. Toward an Integrated Understanding  4. Complacency and Fatalism  5. The Art of Survival, Taoism & the Warring States  6. The Remnant, the Pareto Principle and You  7. Ontological Forces and Analytic Tools  8. The Politics of Experience  9. Simulacrum and the Politics of Experience  10. Legitimizing the Illegitimate  11. The Forces Behind Cycles of History  12. Squeezing the Middle Class  13. When Belief in the System Fades  14. The End of (Paying) Work  15. Interlocking Traps  16. The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism  17. Models of Transformation  18. The Structure of Happiness   http://www.oftwominds.com/survivalplus.html  Live long and prosper//john Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
