Alienated America

Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse

De: Timothy P. Carney

Narrado por: Charles Constant

Alienated America has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Very detailed data analysis

This is an unbiased assessment of the different parts American society with fair-minded comparison to history and constructive suggestions to make this country more universally thrive again.

Roadmap to MAGA

Carney describes the institutions that made America great and how in the 60’s the elite left started to tear them down. As Charles Murray pointed out our elite adopted these values and institutions while destroying them for the lower classes. We thus have 2 societies. Carney does a great job in describing this process. He then describes how America can be rebuilt from the bottom up. It is an easy and fun read. Well documented. It is worth everyone’s time to read.

Everyone Must Read

This is one of the most entertaining, insightful and interesting books I have encountered in the last decade. It is based not on conjecture but on careful analysis and pain-staking research and interviews. Through this, it brings us face to face with the deepest challenges facing our culture, the challenge of love grown cold and alienation in substantial portions of our country. What’s more, it proposes difficult yet attainable solutions that those, on the right and left, minded to see a more civil and flourishing society can and should devote themselves to. I leave it feeling reminded, hopeful, and pressed to devote myself to the love of my neighbor. Thank you Timothy Carney (and Charles Constant).

Better than expected!

A full rundown on what is wrong in American society - in a nutshell, we’ve lost our community and the institutions that bound us together. Now, the hyper-individualist attitude combined with consumerism, and enabled by technology addictive technology has us living in a time of isolation and loneliness. Small (and often wealthy) communities with common culture are going strong while the rest of America creeps toward the precipice of final destruction.

A good companion to Murray's Coming Apart

Mr. Carney is making the podcast rounds to hawk his book. What I heard in those interviews was a story about America's social ties coming apart, like in Charles Murray's Coming Apart. What I got was a bit of that as well as a dose of "why did Trump win in 2016," which I had 0, negative zero interest in.
Despite the intrusion of Trump as a topic, the book was very interesting to listen to and gave me and my spouse (for the parts I shared) something to think and talk about. I'm sure there are a zillion reviews about what is in the book, so I'll keep mine simple. It is a good social studies book about social capital and its importance. In my own studies, I do local history and note the change in my own ethnic community and its downward spiral in some areas due to the loss of organizational and church involvement. It also made me think about work in a different way and why a universal basic income is foolhardy.