Contents
Chapter One: Changes Occurring in the Fractionalized World of Today
Edge of a Frightening and Unknown World
Changing World—Change, Flexibility, and Adaptability
Changing World: Beginning or End?
Actions in Our Shrinking World
The Opportunity for Opportunists—the Lure of the Radical or Extremist
Opportunity for the Opportunist—Filling the Void
Extremism and Radicalism in Society or Government
Opportunity for the Opportunist—Belief in Superiority, Desire for Past Glory, or Simple Greed
Opportunity for the Opportunist—Compliancy Empowers
Opportunity for the Opportunist—Divisions
Communication for Survival in Our New World
Chapter Two: Action, Apathy, and Consequences
Apathy and Reluctance—More Dangerous than Opposition
Accepting Responsibility for Others
Choices We Offer—And our Responsibility for Creating Options
Choices We Offer—Results and Consequences
Isolationism or Globalization: Kick in Head or Kick in the Groin?
Favoritism—In the Swing of the Pendulum, the Middle is Lost
Isolationism for Cultural Preservation
Globalization and Global Collaboration—There is No Going Back
Globalization is Happening Now
Our Duty and Failure to Government
Our Duty to Replacement of Leadership
Our Duty to Leadership—Creation of Leadership
Our Duty to Follow the Majority and Requirement to Defy it When Necessary
Government—Today versus Tomorrow
Freedom—Our Personal Obligation
Protecting and Supporting Beliefs
Living by our Beliefs, Values, and Ideals
Beliefs, Values, and Ideals—The Action of Challenge
Beliefs, Values, and Ideals—Strengthened through Challenge
The Need of Society for the Individual
Result of a Loss of the Individual in Society
The Importance of the Preservation of Individuality in Society
Growth of the Outcast as a Community
Everyone Contributes or Makes an Honest Effort
Helping Others Find their Potential for Contributing
Our Failure in Preserving the Ability to Contribute
Chapter Four: The Future of Ourselves and Society
Education Is an Investment, Not an Expense
Children and Future Generations
The Human Potential and the Future of the Species
Chapter Five: Balance the Equation
Imbalance Leading to Extremism
Ensuring that our Lifestyle and Quality of Life Survives into the Future
Education for Balance in the Future
The Imbalance of the Pyramid of Wealth for the Individual Globally
Wealth: Bringing Bigotry or Opportunity?
Retaining the Conveniences, Pleasures, and Quality of Life into Tomorrow
Balancing the Economy and the Environment for a Future
Balancing the Environment for an Economic Future
The Depletion of the Environmental Principal
Rewarding and Enforcing Environmental Responsibility
Environmental Interconnection, Stability, and Future
Chapter Six: Ourselves and Society
Understanding Ourselves within Society—Power Within
Understanding Ourselves within Society—Our Actions
Understanding Ourselves within Society—Examination
Understanding Ourselves within Society—Reflection
Protecting the Naïveté within Ourselves
Introduction to Exostentialism
Exostentialism Changing and Affecting Ourselves and Society
Freedom, Freewill, Choices, and Options for the Exostentialist