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Intro
Preface
A Note on Style and Criteria
A Note on Sources and Their Uses
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Audience
1.2 The Turmoil We Are in
1.3 The Yellow Brick Road
1.4 Uniqueness of This Book
1.5 Presentation Method
1.6 The United States as a Paradigm
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction?
2.1 About This Chapter
2.1.1 Scope
2.1.2 Rationale for Method
2.1.3 Rationale for Categories
2.1.4 Sourcing
2.2 The Categories
2.2.1 Individual
2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity
2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics
2.2.1.3 Health
Health Care Overall
Mental Health
Substance Abuse
Nutritional Compromise
2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge
2.2.1.5 Work
Losing Oneself at Work
Types and Conditions of Work Environments
2.2.2 Society
2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay
Income Stratification: The Consequences
And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society?
General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution
A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety
2.2.2.2 Infrastructure
2.2.3 Environment: Natural
2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming
2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion
2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It
2.2.4 Environment: Artificial
2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals
2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology
2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities
2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences
2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality
Documentation
Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science
Information Quality, Peer Review, and ``Fake News ́́
2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions
2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity
2.2.4.8 Overpopulation
2.3 Other Problems
2.4 The Prison Planet
2.5 Summary of Problem Areas
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 3: Responses to Social Problems
3.1 Power
3.2 From Zero to Infinity in a Hierarchy
3.3 Archies, Ocracies and Isms
3.4 Philosophical Isms
3.4.1 Libertarianism
3.4.2 Authoritarianism
3.4.3 Totalitarianism
3.4.4 Statism
3.4.5 Nationalism
3.4.6 Populism
3.5 Structural ``Isms ́́
3.5.1 Capitalism
3.5.2 Fascism
3.5.3 National Socialism
3.5.4 Americanism
3.5.5 Socialism
3.6 Hierarchal Types
3.6.1 Anarchy
3.6.2 Democracy
3.6.3 Liberal Democracy
3.6.4 Republic
3.6.5 Oligarchy
3.6.6 Plutocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.7 Aristocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.8 Meritocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.9 Monarchy: From Wiktionary
3.6.10 Theocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.11 Autocracy: From Wiktionary
3.7 Toward the Etiology
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 4: How these Conditions Came to be
4.1 Alas, the Isms and Ocracies dont́ Function
4.2 Some History of the Problems and the Responses
Preface
A Note on Style and Criteria
A Note on Sources and Their Uses
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Audience
1.2 The Turmoil We Are in
1.3 The Yellow Brick Road
1.4 Uniqueness of This Book
1.5 Presentation Method
1.6 The United States as a Paradigm
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction?
2.1 About This Chapter
2.1.1 Scope
2.1.2 Rationale for Method
2.1.3 Rationale for Categories
2.1.4 Sourcing
2.2 The Categories
2.2.1 Individual
2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity
2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics
2.2.1.3 Health
Health Care Overall
Mental Health
Substance Abuse
Nutritional Compromise
2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge
2.2.1.5 Work
Losing Oneself at Work
Types and Conditions of Work Environments
2.2.2 Society
2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay
Income Stratification: The Consequences
And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society?
General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution
A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety
2.2.2.2 Infrastructure
2.2.3 Environment: Natural
2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming
2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion
2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It
2.2.4 Environment: Artificial
2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals
2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology
2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities
2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences
2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality
Documentation
Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science
Information Quality, Peer Review, and ``Fake News ́́
2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions
2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity
2.2.4.8 Overpopulation
2.3 Other Problems
2.4 The Prison Planet
2.5 Summary of Problem Areas
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 3: Responses to Social Problems
3.1 Power
3.2 From Zero to Infinity in a Hierarchy
3.3 Archies, Ocracies and Isms
3.4 Philosophical Isms
3.4.1 Libertarianism
3.4.2 Authoritarianism
3.4.3 Totalitarianism
3.4.4 Statism
3.4.5 Nationalism
3.4.6 Populism
3.5 Structural ``Isms ́́
3.5.1 Capitalism
3.5.2 Fascism
3.5.3 National Socialism
3.5.4 Americanism
3.5.5 Socialism
3.6 Hierarchal Types
3.6.1 Anarchy
3.6.2 Democracy
3.6.3 Liberal Democracy
3.6.4 Republic
3.6.5 Oligarchy
3.6.6 Plutocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.7 Aristocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.8 Meritocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.9 Monarchy: From Wiktionary
3.6.10 Theocracy: From Wiktionary
3.6.11 Autocracy: From Wiktionary
3.7 Toward the Etiology
References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022)
Chapter 4: How these Conditions Came to be
4.1 Alas, the Isms and Ocracies dont́ Function
4.2 Some History of the Problems and the Responses