Leave the Rat Race to the Rats - Couverture souple

Phillips, Mr Michael Irving

 
9780961051617: Leave the Rat Race to the Rats

Synopsis

(Includes the entire e-book "Leave the Rat Race to Rats" trilogy of: 1. Leave the Rat Race to the Rats 2. Tackling Crime and Policing in the Ghetto with Goodwillism. 3. Overcoming Political Impotence in the Ghetto with Goodwillism) America boasts about its grand quality of life while the ghettos wallow in despair and neglect. The residents of these poor black ghettoes must put up with conditions such as inferior education, slave wage jobs, high unemployment, no health insurance, high crime rate , unjust hostile policing and political impotency. “Leave the Rat Race to the Rats”, is a blueprint for transforming the dismal American ghettos by abandoning the rat race culture for the goodwillism of the goodwill revolution. Our rat race culture pits people against each other in a competition to get as much money, materials, and power as they can. Greed, selfishness, ruthlessness and avarice are assets in the rat race. Kindness, sincerity, compassion are liabilities. The rat race culture has corrupted our values and our institutions. The winners of the rat race are highly respected. Losers are despised. If there are 10 participants in any race, there is only one winner, but nine losers. Similarly, the rat race creates lots of losers. This is unacceptable. In our society, the worst losers are poor people in the ghettos, poor black people. Unfortunately, most people think the rat race is compulsory. But, we do have a choice. Simply dropping out is not really a solution. We need to choose a real alternative to the rat race. The Goodwill Revolution is that alternative. The goodwill revolution encompasses a comprehensive set of principles which reinforces and mobilizes the inherent goodness of mankind as the key to true happiness. In the goodwill revolution, kindness, compassion, and honesty are valuable assets. Greed, selfishness, ruthlessness are liabilities. So the book is about rejecting the rat race and adopting the goodwill revolution to fix the prevailing problems in our society with the focus on fixing the ghetto as a model. The poor black people in the ghetto are in crisis and need urgent care. Their jobs, education and living conditions all suck. But, the goodwill revolution can change all that.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Irving Phillips was born in Jamaica. He left home for Howard University, Washington DC where he received MA (Education) and BS Chemistry) degrees. “Leave the Rat Race to the Rats” is a sequel to his previous book, “Boycott Money And Save Your Soul – Launching the Goodwill Revolution”. The first book launched the Goodwill Revolution, while this one applies it. Previous work includes “Poems for Husbands and Other Underdogs”, compilation and publishing poetry books “Bitten by Bonzo” and “Living in Constant Spring”. However, most recent years have been spent in a one-man production of Hot Calaloo, a newsletter about Caribbean news and views. From April 1992 to December 1999 it was published monthly and was transferred to the web at hotcalaloo.com since then.

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