On July 4, 2021 my first non-fiction sociological book was published:

DOOMERISM & “Me First!” BABY BOOMERS

HOW ONE MISGUIDED GENERATION DESTABILIZED

OUR SOCIETY’S FOUNDATION,

AND WHAT “WE THE [EVERYDAY] PEOPLE”

MUST DO ABOUT IT

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The advertiser’s sales pitch:
An innovative, deeply researched portrayal of power in society, this “comes along once in a lifetime, from out of the blue” first book by Jeffersonian Jeff, a poet and patriotic navy veteran, presses us to preserve our republic’s democracy. He lays out an argument to the American people that we need to hear now. With a bit of “tough love”, and a dose of encouragement, he seeks to wake us up from a deep unconscious cultural slumber. This numb zone we’ve fallen into by way of a slow drift into unproven polemics and maniacal material consumerism is a bad spell. Like a sickness within, causing hatred and tribalism, confusing our gut feelings, it’s eating away at our sense of what it means to be “American”. Jeff gives us a gentle intellectual “kick in the ribs” to arouse our failing body politic, to get up, and to rise to a higher standard. He motivates us to revive a constitutionally allied way of life.

Jeff takes readers through three deliberate sections: Power, Doomerism, and Remedy. While each section could stand alone as its own book, this “3 in 1” combination of historical, cultural geographic, and sociological scholarship pulls together a unifying theory that explains how we got into such a mess, and what we must do to escape – to cure the sickness, remove the worms rotting out our core values. Lyrically written with a musical cadence, its “3 books in 1” yields a compelling argument every citizen should be open to, to heal our wounds, to exorcise the spell of doomerism from society. We must resume our manifest destiny to become an exemplar republic of the best in human civilization, a representative democracy with liberty and justice for all. Or we all will fall down into the depravity of doomerism, which brings forth villainous tyranny and doom for future generations.

Jeff provides several analytical tools to help us navigate the remedy to recover from doomerism. If we use these to negotiate our differences and seek to understand one another, and our society, we might yet bond as one American people. Like a good neighbor, he helps us come to the table for the necessary crucial conversations. We need to do this for our country’s solvency, for liberty, liberty, liberty – for you, for me, for “we the people”.

With inspiring words, he calls on us to look past our egos, to be brave, and to transfer authority from the present dominant boomer generation into younger generations who will carry America into the future. It is time we pass the baton. He encourages us on how to do this. If we empower the best and brightest among us – those between the ages of 25 to 40 who are civically minded and team players – to assume positions of authority within society, we have a chance to prolong America. It will take all of us to be committed to the survival of our republic, democracy, and liberty to do this. This age bracket is that of the founders and of geniuses when they make their greatest discoveries. We are biologically most creative in these years. We need such capable creative minds to help us find solutions to our societal, and species’ survival, problems. We need to get them into the positions from within they can work on our most vexing problems, together, not in opposition. We face an especially dystopian emerging, distractingly, disturbing, and decision-making automation-enabled digital age. Our children’s and grandchildren’s livelihoods depend upon us making this adjustment of who is put in charge. We must begin to repeatedly change the shifts of bridge controllers and watchstanders at the helm of our good ship’s enterprise.

(Sorry, boomers, but the time has come to retire. You had your chance. Look at where you brought us. You tried to follow your course. But, your course is now off course. We do not want to crash our hull on the flawed rocks of doomerism. We need you to let go of the wheel, and hand it over to our upcoming brighter bulbs. It will be alright. Let go of the levers of power. We need you to do this to save democracy. Don’t worry, you will be fine.)

Reflecting on the revolution of 1776, comparing it to the last 30 years, Jeff offers a unique perspective on how culture, power, and the dynamics of American society are not driving us toward our best opportunities to make a more perfect union. He invites us to recall our pledges of allegiance, to ask ourselves: “What happened with me? Have I given up? Have I quit on living up to the American ideals?”

“Doomerism” is an engagingly intriguing read – to reflect inwardly – to detect forgotten truth – to engage us in a rediscovering a belief in our Constitution. It motivates us to once again pursue its preamble’s goals and objectives. We must come together in unity against the concentrators of power if we are to successfully face the uncertain future of algorithmic automating technologies that are going to make decisions for us through computerized computations and communications.

In “Doomerism”, Jeff is candid about the moral and demographic challenges we confront. He is forthright about how we all are responsible for our predicament, our debt, and how we must work to live up to the American ideals. We must hold these dear as an American People as the common ground and unifying aspect of our society. If we are to survive the damage done by doomerism, we must understand power in society. We must understand the risks to our republic, and to democracy, our culture. We must understand liberty. Read this book for the diagnosis and prognosis of what you can do to help fix American society.

Note:

1. While the image above implies an eReader is available, sadly due to circumstances beyond the publisher’s control, the Kindle version is no longer available due to a hacker attack that fooled Amazon and due to their trust in computer algorithms and the inaccessibility for human interface, the Kindle has been sabotaged. The publisher can do nothing about it. Beware Machine Learning! It creates Kafkaesque conditions for humanity. The publisher currently lacks the resources to prepare a different version for other eReaders than the Kindle. ↩︎