Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

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From threats related to global warming, to wars and rumors of wars, to pandemics, and the seeming loss of integrity; or, at least, the loss of even pretending to care about integrity. This time, what will it take for our nation to keep up with the fast and violent changes to our new world? Wanted to try the book after reading the articles of author on medium, but the publisher ruined the entire experience and money! Adrift (2022) argues that the United States is flailing, despite all its success and global dominance since World War II.

There’s an overall decline in friendship – more with men but also with women -in this new hyper connected age. And yes, his proposals are also generally self-evident: we need to revamp the tax structure; reduce government lobbying; revise our penal system and impose genuine deterrent penalties on companies that hurt the public (my favorite quote is "as Mark Zuckerberg continues to smear lipstick on the cancer that is Facebook"); make finding a solution to climate change the technology priority for the next few decades, etc. For example, this is how Galloway phrases his thesis in the introduction: "We’ve gotten closest to realizing our ideals when we’ve balanced ruthless capitalism with the ballast of a strong middle class.Men’s share of college enrollment has dropped from 60% in 1970 to 40% in 2021 creating a path to broke and lonely males. As we examine and reflect on the charts, we must pay special attention to the weakest spots, like…the dangers related to the disconnected American men. I'm sometimes criticized for focusing on the problems of tech or business or society, and not proposing solutions.

There's a section in the book on fake news, and another on lack of trust in media, and statements like that fit here.I always include a few pages of Quotes and Excerpts from the book—the “best of” Randy’s highlighted Passages.