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A Look Back To See Ahead: Our Chronic Culture Viewed From the 1970's
A Look Back To See Ahead Our Chronic Culture Viewed From the 1970's Author:James, R. Fisher Jr. In A LOOK BACK TO SEE AHEAD, Dr. Fisher argues twenty-first century America is not unlike the 1970s: (1) when young people were forced to participate in an unpopular war; (2) when political upheaval was in the air; (3) when corrupt politicians who lied and deceived the electorate reached a crescendo with Watergate; (4) when drugs were ruining li... more »ves; (5) when morality took a holiday; (6) when new forms of bigotry and hatred were hatching; (7) when the automotive industry was in sharp decline, while foreign automakers were eating Detroit's lunch; (8) when an energy crisis rocked the land with OPEC's oil embargo; (9) when a paranoid president hunkered down and became a law unto himself; and (10) when Congress stayed the same, missed the changes, and left the future up for grabs. Sound familiar? It should. We are stuck in the 1970s, and haven't found a way to become unstuck. Dr. Fisher claims the "American Century" ended during this period as Japan, South East Asia and Europe made significant inroads into US industrial and commercial markets. He brings these facts to the fore and lays out guidelines for "Looking Back To See Ahead." In doing so, he cuts through the rhetoric to show what we must do NOW! He claims people today, like in the 1970s, are running faster and faster in place. He asks, "Has it or have we changed? If not, why not?" He sees Americans obsessed with the future at the expense of the present, and shatters the big lie that science can ensure wellness, whatever the behavior. The book is a challenge for the reader to take charge and become unstuck.« less