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A Generation of Sociopaths
- How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
- Narrado por: Wayne Pyle
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.
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Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts - acting, in other words, as sociopaths - the boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible - and when, not coincidentally, boomers will be dying off.
Gibney, whose 2011 essay "What Happened to the Future?" transfixed the investment world, argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the boomers accountable and begin restoring America. Distilling deep research into a witty, colorful indictment of the boomers and an urgent defense of the once-unquestioned value of society, A Generation of Sociopaths is poised to become one of the most controversial books of the year.
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The United States is currently home to six generations of people. They have had vastly different life experiences and thus, one assumes, they must have vastly diverging beliefs and behaviors. But what are those differences, what causes them, and how deep do they actually run? Professor of psychology Jean Twenge does a deep dive into a treasure trove of long-running, government-funded surveys and databases to answer some questions.
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Superbly organized and written!
- De Wayne en 04-30-23
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The Death of Expertise
- The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
- De: Tom Nichols
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People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.
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Disappointing
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Confessions of a Sociopath
- A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
- De: M. E. Thomas
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As M. E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent - even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence.... Who are we? We are highly successful, non-criminal sociopaths and we comprise 4% of the American population (that's 1 in 25 people!).
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Not a sociopath!
- De Liesel Fischer en 09-25-15
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Before the Storm
- Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
- De: Rick Perlstein
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Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly written, Before the Storm is an essential book about the 1960s.
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Ok for Conservatives
- De Chris Corsini en 07-15-19
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Generation Me
- Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before
- De: Jean M. Twenge PhD
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In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls "Generation Me" - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Dr. Twenge reveals how profoundly different today's young adults are - and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole.
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I mostly agree
- De David Hill en 05-25-20
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The Psychopath Whisperer
- The Science of Those Without Conscience
- De: Kent A. Kiehl
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
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We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies - from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan. As Dr. Kent Kiehl shows, psychopaths can be identified by a checklist of symptoms that includes pathological lying; lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse; grandiose sense of self-worth; manipulation; and failure to accept one’s actions. But why do psychopaths behave the way they do? Is it the result of their environment - how they were raised - or is there a genetic component to their lack of conscience?
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An autobiography with splatter of neuropsychology.
- De DORIS H. en 08-16-14
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- America and the World in the Free Market Era
- De: Gary Gerstle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
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To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades.
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Cursory, unoriginal, class-blind
- De A Reviewer en 10-24-22
De: Gary Gerstle
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The Burnout Generation
- De: Anne Helen Petersen
- Narrado por: Anne Helen Petersen
- Duración: 1 h y 47 m
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In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the internet on fire with her viral BuzzFeed essay diagnosing “millennial burnout” - a chronic state of stress and exhaustion that’s become a “base temperature” for young people today. Now, she continues this generation-defining conversation in a brand-new format, interviewing millennials around the country about their own deeply personal experiences with burnout, and the culture that creates it.
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Needs less emoting, more courageous questioning
- De Michael H en 10-07-19
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Our Own Worst Enemy
- The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
- De: Tom Nichols
- Narrado por: Tom Nichols
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble - but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and antidemocratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of the deprivations of globalization or the malign decisions of elites. Rather, he places the blame for the rise of illiberalism on the people themselves.
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Interesting but shallow
- De Anonymous User en 09-11-21
De: Tom Nichols
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- De: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
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Pros and Cons of "Why Nations Fail"
- De Joshua Kim en 05-01-12
De: Daron Acemoglu, y otros
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The Least of Us
- De: Sam Quinones
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.
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Top tier journalism and 100% honest
- De Anonymous User en 11-24-21
De: Sam Quinones
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It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
- De: Senator Bernie Sanders, John Nichols
- Narrado por: Senator Bernie Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.
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A true and unbiased understanding of politics today
- De Sassy monster en 02-21-23
De: Senator Bernie Sanders, y otros
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- GRYHS
- 08-28-17
there's an idea there... but!
This is a curious case. Yet another person finds that something is utterly wrong with our socity, but what is it?
Well a quick detour is in order. Upon my first reading of DSM V I developed a bit of a hobby of armchair psychiatry, deploying newfound knowledge everywhere with reckless abandon. As fun as such exercise is, it is hardly scientific; but to try to do it on a scale of population cohorts, as tempting as it is, I'm sure, is sheer lunacy. Especially given how much DSM V emphasise the individual patient difference.
And thus is the main flaw of the book, the author tries to cram his arguments to fit the description of a mental disorder. A metaphor gone too far takes over the narrative. Yet, if that flaw can be put aside, and that takes quite an effort, mind you, many gems can be found in this book.
There is however a great irony here, since the DSM V was in fact a rather questionable tome written in no small part by pharmaceutical industry it is surprising that the author does not make any reference to altering the water supply. On the other hand, I find the whole thing rather questionable since if he ignored all the flaws of DSM V while trying to cram the content of the book into a diagnostic model prescribed by it, one can't stop and wonder about the quality of the rest of the evidence.
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- Zimvadur
- 11-28-19
boomer bad, future gens good
this book is fantastic.
listen to it
listen to it again
listen to it a 3rd time and start a revolution.
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- Jessica
- 07-25-21
Good until the end and then it went wrong
The author is correct in his psychological assessment of boomers as sociopaths. However, he shows his own sociopathic tendencies of being part of the 1% (he is very wealthy) when he tries to provide suggestions about how we can course correct policies. He puts too much emphasis on people needing to save money for retirement while ignoring the fact that decades of stagnant low wages not keeping up with the increasing cost of living and economic recessions have left many millions of people unable to save. One cannot budget themself out of poverty; they need to be paid more and the boomer led companies have made sure to keep wages low and costs high. The author also asserts that corporations do pay taxes but that a lower rate would help them stay in the US. Given when this book was written, the author still had data to show him that the largest, richest companies like GE, Amazon, the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and many others pay literally zero dollars in taxes. That allots for billions of dollars they are not paying back into society. The taxes of the rich do not subsidize the taxes of the poor. Why does the author think that people who can barely make ends meet should be paying really anything in taxes comes off as out of touch and cruel. Also, he says the defense and military have been “starved.” I’m not sure how he can assert this when the military budget is the only thing that gets increased funding every single year. He fails to mention that reallocating just 1-2% of the military budget would provide enough funding for the entitlement programs and other human infrastructure we need to catch up to other modern countries of the world. The vast majority of Americans pay more than they should be in taxes; it’s the ultra-rich and corporations who are cheating society, and yes, those companies are led by boomers. The rich are not subsidizing the rest of the population. What a false assertion! Also, the attacks on Bernie Sanders seem a bit unwarranted and more personal or self serving. I thought this book was goof until the last couple chapters. I’m unashamedly returning this book though. The author doesn’t need my money and I don’t appreciate his misleading readers at the end with what solutions he offers.
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- Christopher Bonham
- 05-22-22
He's not wrong.
This is a brutally honest read and one that was long overdue. Just having watched their actions and words while in power for the entirety of my life demonstrates that almost the entire Baby Boomer generation royally blew it for the rest of us who will have to live with the aftereffects of their sociopathic behavior for decades, provided our species even makes it that long given that Boomers deliberately ignored the onslaught seen by human induced climate change. At some point, soon rather than later, there has to be a reckoning with that generation - they, just as the author posits, really did screw the US with their selfish, ignorant, sociopathic, entitled behavior. And they're forcing younger generations, nearly all of whom didn't deserve the broken world the Baby Boomers happily leave us with as they slowly pass on, to pay the collective costs regardless of what we say or do.
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- Ira S. Saposnik
- 05-28-17
Give the people what they want is their fault?
If you could sum up A Generation of Sociopaths in three words, what would they be?
Government sold out the future for immediate power
Who was your favorite character and why?
Colonel sanders when he was only a corporal
What does Wayne Pyle bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
better voice than Gomer
If you could give A Generation of Sociopaths a new subtitle, what would it be?
our government always wrong
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- Mr.
- 10-29-19
a generation of degenerates
historically this is an accurate breakdown of the sociopathy involved in Boomer tax formula and generational distribution of wealth away from helping the poor and maintaining Society to helping themselves. I would actually say that his path Ford proposed is not nearly Progressive enough like taxing billionaires who are currently paying nothing you know no taxes whatsoever.
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- Shane A. Conti
- 02-24-18
A must read for everyone but Boomers
This book makes the convincing case that boomers need to be dealt with immediately. If you are under the age of 60 you need to vote immediately for anyone not 60 or older. It's that simple.
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- Frank Daugherty
- 05-14-18
Awesome Work!
It is a little over the top as as far as blaming everything on baby boomers, however, facts are facts. Though I don't think it was necessarily organized or with intent as much as a lack of checks and balances. Or maybe better stated what happens to anything when someone that did not stuggle takes over.
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- jen
- 03-03-23
Very insightful
Gives us insight into how the Boomers destroyed America for future generations and blame it on everyone else.
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- Shane Timothy Clune
- 10-07-21
Interesting concept, conflates cause and effect
Does a lot of work describing an observable phenomenon (the toxic effect of one particular generation on American culture and politics), but does so in a strange way. The DSM V criteria for diagnosing sociopathy isn't suited to diagnosing entire populations, and it's particularly difficult to diagnose someone with a personality disorder when they themselves don't think anything is wrong.
The writer isn't a psychologist or a psychiatrist, so that detail is of little importance. instead, the writer is a venture capitalist so presumably there's no need to actually know what one is talking about.
But, that isn't really the problem with this book. If it were just that, it would still be an interesting, if flawed, rhetorical concept.
The problem is 1) reifying generational politics (i.e. making generations a coherent thing) and 2) ignoring the material conditions which create the culture of a given moment.
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