Understanding Ourselves and Our Societies

About the Book

This book proposes concepts of habits, awareness, customs and social awareness to better understand ourselves and our societies. Though we are perfect in nearly everything, certain rigidities allow us to develop bad habits so we fall short of our capabilities and expectations. But awareness allows us to improve our habits for greater happiness and effectiveness. Similarly, customs or shared habits make our societies nearly perfect but develop rigidities leading to depressions, wars, dictatorships and social failures. Social awareness with democracy and free enterprise can develop and maintain better customs to improve our societies. We and our societies can be better.

About the Author

My early life was confused by parental divorces and eleven different grade and high schools, so I taught myself how to multiply and write. The 1930s depression and World War II showed me that social sciences didn’t have all the answers, so I used the G.I. bill to get ten years of college graduate work in Political Science, Sociology and economics to find better answers. I worked as an economist and statistician as well as evening work teaching and consulting. My two wives passed away but gave me four wonderful kids. Hobbies are swimming, gardening and cave digging.