The Quiet Collapse: What happened to “We the People” When Congress Prioritized Capital (The Quiet Collapse Series, Band 1) - Couverture souple

Barrett, Thom

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ISBN 13 : 9798997716400

Editeur : Living Life Press, 2026

Synopsis

When the bonds that once held us together quietly unravel, what becomes of the “we” that gives meaning to our communities, our nation, and even our lives?

The systems we depend on — our democracy, our institutions, our shared trust, are not failing by accident. Over the past fifty years, the institutions built to serve citizens were systematically converted into instruments that serve capital. Congress, federal agencies, regulatory bodies, the courts: the architecture was redesigned with patience, funding, and a fifty-year plan documented in plain sight. Citizens didn't ask for it. They didn't share the profits. But they paid for all of it, every time.

The Quiet Collapse is a prosecutorial examination of how this happened, and why it matters for every generation that follows. Thom Barrett brings thirty years of audit and governance experience to a question most books only gesture at: not who is to blame, but how the system was structurally redesigned so that serving capital became the path of least resistance, and serving the citizen carried a cost.

The arc is documented across ten chapters: constitutional drift opened the door, executive power walked through it, political machinery locked it behind them, and the absence of stewardship let it all run unchecked. The pattern repeats across every industry that touches human life, energy, healthcare, housing, retirement, education, and criminal justice. The mechanism is always the same. The citizen is always at the extraction and rescue ends, and absent from every decision in between.

This is not a manifesto. It is not a partisan argument. It is a civic reflection, a structured, sourced, audit-grade reckoning with fifty years of institutional drift, and a call to look clearly, question deeply, and act as the stakeholders this republic was built to serve.

Thom Barrett is a former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, a cancer survivor, an adventurer, and the founder of Operation Citizen, the civic accountability platform at quietcollapse.net. The Quiet Collapse is his seventh book.

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Thom Barrett is an adventurer, a cancer survivor, and a storyteller. A former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he spent thirty years building the systems institutions use to prove they are doing what they claim, the frameworks of audit and accountability. The Quiet Collapse turns that discipline on the republic itself, which is why a book this unsparing carries the authority it does.Now retired to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Thom writes, crafts bespoke furniture by hand, gives time to Habitat for Humanity, and founded the Citizens' League and Operation Citizen, besides the Quiet Collapse civic platform that lets citizens audit their own representatives.Beyond Cape Cod, his heart beats for discovery: the ice of both poles, the terrains of North and South America, the Australian outback, the waters of the Northwest Passage, and the rugged Scottish islands, the Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, where the question that became this book first surfaced.For ten years, Thom has lived with cancer, now stage IV. He mentors other men facing the same diagnosis and is building a residential retreat for them on Cape Cod. He meets it with the same determination he brings to every expedition.The urgency in these pages is not rhetorical. It belongs to someone who intends the work to outlast him.He is the author of seven books: Living While Dying, Chasing My Northern Lights, Embracing the Cold, The Strength of Surrender, The Edge of Now, Gerry, A Man I Respect, and The Quiet Collapse.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Living Life Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798997716400
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 304
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