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A LOOK BACK TO
SEE AHEAD (2007): Dr. Fisher argues
that early twenty-first century
America is not unlike the 1970s when young people
were forced to participate in an unpopular war;
when political upheaval was in the air; when
corrupt politicians who lied and deceived the
electorate reached a crescendo with Watergate;
when drugs were ruining lives; when morality
took a holiday; when new forms of bigotry and
hatred were hatching; when the automotive industry
was in sharp decline, while foreign automakers
were eating our lunch; when an energy crisis
rocked the land with OPEC's oil embargo; when
a paranoid president hunkered down and became
a law unto himself; when Congress stayed the
same, missed the changes, wouldn't face them,
and left the future up for grabs. Sound familiar?
Well, it should because today we are stuck in
the 1970s, and haven't found a way to be unstuck.
Dr. Fisher brings these facts to the fore and
lays down some guidelines for dealing with this
by looking back to where we've been to see why
we are stuck where we are. He cuts through the
psychobabble to show that talent is not enough
to find happiness; nor is a winning personality
with its many masks enough to ensure success.
Each of us must find emotional balance in an
irrational world because as he puts it, "the
heart can get us into a lot more trouble than
the head." The world as it was some thirty
years ago is shown with people chasing safety
while not moving forward at all. He asks, "Has
it or we changed? If not, why not?" This
book breaks through our cool façade, canned
rhetoric, and mania for being insiders with such
chapters as the "wisdom of insecurity" and "movement
to sense from nonsense." Dr. Fisher chides
the reader to give up the obsession with the
future and find fulfillment in the present. He
shatters the big lie that science holds the key
to our wellness, as it is not immune to the same
disease. Only we can unlock that door. The book
is an invitation to do just that.
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