Attain The Untied States Of America: Polarization, Fracturing, And Our Future Rendered By Juan Enriquez Delivered In Leaflet

now even more prescient, I had three major problems with this book,

. The format is so precious that it draws attention to itself and away from the material, as if the author knows the material is too thin and manipulated to stand on its own.
The jumbled format also helps to disguise the fact that some of his boldest assertions of "fact"for example that human beings are evolved from various prehuman marker speciesare unsupported by evidence in either text or notes.


. The falsehoods he deploys in his argument are too glaring to be anything but intentional, He derides the unrepresentativeness of the US Senate by pointing out that "million AfricanAmericans are represented by one senator", while "eight white senators, . . represent.million" people in the upper midwest, Senators represent states, not people, as very explicitly stated by the Constitution, and as an educated person he must know that, He can only be distorting the facts to prove a point,

. The repeated assertion that he is not advocating the "untying" dissolution of various countries, particularly the US, at the same time he manipulates his data seeabove to make untying seem inevitable.
He protests far too much Continuing with my goal ofto read one nonfiction book a month, 'Untied States of America' was interesting and unsettling, Published in, some of the observations about the housing bubble were spooky,

Not written in a traditional narrative style, the book is a series of statistics and observations presented in different sized fonts with changing alignment, I found this arrangement graphically interesting and it helped make the book a quicker read for me, but no doubt some readers will find it irritating,

I'm glad I read it, and will retain some of the observations and comparisons the author makes, by I doubt I ever return to it.
Eh. Mostly a lot of facts, and not very well organized, He had some good things to say, but I think he could've found a more coherent way to present them, I hate reading nonfiction, but I loved this book and its format, I may reread it now as the election looms, I enjoyed the premise of this book of America breaking up into different parts and what would happen, A very interesting approach to presenting an argument, it's not as literary as it is visual, Lots of graphs, charts, and statistical data, Can a country be like a marriage that has run out of cash and steam, resulting in the inevitable frank discussions about just who is pulling his or her own weight Eventually, even those who love each other sometimes conclude they cannot stay together.


Juan Enriquezs unique insights into the financial, political, and cultural issues we face will provoke shock and surprise and lead you to ask the question no one has yet put on the table: Could “becoming untied” ever happen here Its a question made especially relevant when we are faced with such unpromising facts as:

At no other time have we had the unwelcome convergence in which the three key sectors of business, government, and consumers are so tapped out due to debt

that each lacks the financial wherewithal to come to the rescue of the others.


Most assets are not being used for productive purposes but for speculation, resulting in people lacking incentives to create real wealth, focusing instead on buying, selling, and flipping real estate.


As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in thes, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stemcell research.


When the enemy was outsidefor example, the threat perceived when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and people feared America would lose the brain racewe rallied.
Now the enemy is within, and we polarize, Defaming the legitimacy of people on the “other” side becomes the currency of the day, where people in blue states are seen as godless liberal elitists and those in red states are seen as, well, rednecks.


Citizenship, Enriquez says, is like buying into a national brand, If the brand promises one thing and delivers another, could it then have the same fate as a tired product on a supermarket shelf, eroding, losing support, even disappearing Countries, even one as powerful and successful as America, live on fault lines.
When a fault line splits, its near impossible to put things back together again, What America will look like in fifty years depends on what we do today to act on the issues raised in The Untied States of America,


Also available as an eBook


From the Hardcover edition, The premise of this book, that America may break up into smaller parts or get new states at some point in the future, is convincing, and perhaps seems more probable now than when it was written prereal estate crash, preObama.
It mainly argues this by showing that many other countries have broken up recently and enumerating some of the serious difficulties America is having with Native American relations, immigrant relations, red state vs.
blue state stuff, etc.

However, the book reads like a series of factoids, and every sentence is in a different font, size, or alignment than the previous sentence, so it tends to read like this:

BIG GIANT FACT

tiny little fact

Medium sized fact

so as you can see.
. .

ANOTHER BIG GIANT FACT

The books was more or less a list of statistics with very little actual argument going on, Plus, it was poorly structured, For example, the chapter on Europe was mostly about Canada, As I sometimes do, I just grabbed this book off a shelf in the library I liked the cover and the word play to find out at home if it's worth my time.
Initially, I wanted to bring it straight back, unread, as I found the formatting like reading all the different posts on face book for hours, . . except, after a while I got it there was coherence to it, and the points being made are really interesting, namely, that countries and nations evolve and change, and what possible future scenarios for the whole North and Central Amerikan continent could look like.
A bit of humor, a lot of information, a thought provoking text, Three and a half, What the hell, make it four, sitelink comtheu Juan Enríquez Cabot is a Mexican American academic, businessman, speaker and best selling author, .