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Left for Dead... A Digital Manifesto

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When I began reading this book I wanted to slap the author. By the time I was finished I wanted to hug and kiss him, and slap Hillary, Jesse, and Dick Gephardt Instead. As a pro choice, pro environment, pro free speech civil libertarian, I had always toed the line for the "liberal" Democratic Party. However, the irrefutable, fact-based (and often terrifying) arguments laid out in this book, expose the ugly truth that the once altruistic party of FDR and JFK has been hijacked by a mob of anachronistic left-wing extremists. A MUST READ FOR ALL CLASSICAL LIBERALS!

sause lays a foundation for an entire civilization. not only does he lay a foundation, he clearly outlines the infrastructure necessary to surviving your educational and media influenced perceptions of reality. (don't believe you're influenced? take a look at the products in your house...)

without being didactic, or uttering predictable rhetorical spasms usually employed by both sides of the political spectrum, sause uses concrete points of fact to express the cultural devices used to shape our culture. he masterfully articulates the scope of our human history, the paradigm shifts and identifies the relevant events and their direct influence on both our nation and the world at large.

the aesthetic beauty of sause's work rests in two areas: his accessible language that expresses the heart of anyone who loves individualism and the arts and humanity. the other side of his beautiful work reveals the deep, mulitiple dimensions of our existence in the digital framework rapidly encroaching (dictating really) upon our very lives and relationships. by bringing emotionally charged realism based on personal experience together with psychologically sound intellectualism, sause introduces several universal truths back into their proper light: that the artist is the ultimate capitalist and more importantly, that intellectually honest artists are the most likely candidates to lead this culture when the autonomy enabled by the digital age becomes our civilizations standard mode of existense.

he acknowledges the difficulty facing our current system when it comes to dispelling the media fed myths of "social and moral equivelancy". but, as he says in his sample chapter at [paraphrased] "[he] is not your typical country club conservative" in fact, it is true, you will have a difficult time identifying where his political leanings are - except where he presents them. But, his focus is so apparently apolitical that you become enraptured in the truth of the topics he discusses as they relate to your own inner thoughts and wonderings. it is a manifesto, but one that calls you to face the reality of the world we live in, and the very different one in which we are about to live.

sause's work is truly a gift to his generation, his country, his industry, and ultimately to himself; for he brought his heart's artistic expressions together with his mind's intellectual honesty, thus enhancing himself and his ability to understand the world in which we now live.

this book is not about politics, it's not about technology, it's not about revolution -- it's about you and the things you love and hold most dear - your life and those you love.

until you read the pages of this manifesto and marvel the at the pearls of thoughts decorating this man's work, you can never claim you know what's really going on...

get it and read it anyway you can, before you're left for dead!

This is the first non-fiction book I've read in a long time that I placed in the "can't put it down" category. In a nutshell, it was incredible, well-written, eye-opening, educational, and gutsy. I am sure that the book will really irritate a lot of leftists (I can hear the elisists on college campuses wailing as I write this), but the truth always hurts. I read the book after Sept. 11, 2001, and appreciated it even more. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!

"Left for Dead" is one of the most compelling books I've read to date. It's hard-hitting but thoughtful and honest at the same time; Sause has a way of weaving poignant anecdotes into points he makes that make what he's saying so very clear to the reader. His observations are often from a pop culture point of view, giving them a certain "street cred" that many authors - particularly academics - tend to lack. The notion of the Information Age leaving the Left devastated in its wake is not one that has been fully or even well-explored until now; Sause delivers a powerful case for why this will come to pass in time. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in politics and the Information Age.

Why is it that men like Roger sause can see unvarnished reality for what it is while others, perhaps more credentialed from an academic point of view, engage in a continued adherence to a belief system that ignores critical analysis? Is this a genetic trait that resides in a particular lobe of the brain? The one where the ability to formulate proportionate judgements resides? With any luck the genetic decoding currently underway in the biogenetic community will shed light on this anomaly, but at the moment we are just left to wonder.

Roger sause has written the most interesting book I've read since Balint Vazsonyi's "America's 30-Year War: Who's Winning". Whereas Vazsonyi comes to his criticisms of the Marxist ideology that permeates so many American institutions today, from the perspective of an immigrant who lived under its Totalitarian boot heel, Sause comes at it with the viewpoint of an Eric Hoffer'ish, street-wise Los Angeles musician. His language and prose are diametrically opposed to that of the poseur academic and many times more communicative. He has done his homework and his take on the big picture is "on the money". In unalloyed terminology he assails the fog of the socialistic ideology that has been foisted on this country's social policy by "progressive charlatan's". Rarely will you read such detailed historical reference written with such an enlightened information age perspicacity. This guy is exceptional as in "really good."

Sause recounts how a high school teacher, an advocate of Marx with an anti-American slant, inculcated his political theories into Sause's personal worldview. This political and social policy assumption model was further reinforced thru Sause's living environment in the Los Angeles arts community, a hot bed of far Left radical thinking. Hollywood is a place where conservative views translate into "no work" so almost everyone in the arts is a reflexive, knee-jerk Leftist. For further confirmation of this read anything written by David Horowitz, a neo-conservative who lives and publishes there.

Sause involves the reader in his personal odyssey as he relates how the street riots in south central L.A., the ostensible result of the Rodney King verdict, caused him to re-examine his pop-Marxist political views of society. To say that only emotional trauma changes behavior would be too trite in his case. The surge of his intellectual curiosity, brought on by the above crisis is Da Vinci-like with a nod too the considerable differences between soft science intellectuals and intellectuals adept at symbolic logic. Needless to say, I found Sause's insights and his ability to tie-in historical reference astounding.

The culmination of this book resides in Sause's negatively critical view of our government's inadequacy as a provider of free education and health care. He profiles its sorry record of outcomes while linking its out of control costs. He predicts that the 3rd wave information revolution will bury the anachronistic 2nd wave industrial model from which America's Marxist inspired social policy is derived. His insights are profound, easily understood and convincing.

This book should be a primer for any course on American history. An academic could quibble with some of the material, but Sause gets it remarkably right. He covers all the Left-leaning shibboleths and all the flawed premise's on which they are based. He brings to light the truth about the religious-Left's influence on the media, race dialogue, health care, education, the environment, feminism, the family, private property, the military, welfare policy and foreign policy. He overlays this in concordance with his views of Alvin Toffler's prognostications as elucidated in his book "The Third Wave". This is all the more remarkable when you consider that Sause is a community college dropout. But, let me tell you, Sause is one very bright guy (remember that Bill gates dropped out of college too!). His credentials are that he is a professional musician who lists a four-year stint as a keyboardist for Kenny G amongst his other considerable credits. It makes one wonder about the value of credentials? Again I ask the question, why is he able to see the world so clearly while so many esteemed academicians cannot?

Buy this book, send copies to your friends, give it to your neighbors; the backlash against socialist totalitarian tyranny is nigh, and Sause is in the forefront. Quite obviously they really ticked him off.

When I first bought this book, I did so merely because David Horowitz recommended it. After reading it, however, I was astounded with the amount of information packed within this easily read book.

I read this book just before I started college, and I am thankful that I did; it introduced me to ideas that most college professors scoff at and started me on a journey that I have continued ever since.

It is an excellent introduction to some of the basic history of the left-wing establishment and its failures. Discusses America's future and how it lies with the right-wing. Also, a very good introduction to Alvin Toffler's extraordinarily influential theories of the "Third Wave" of social and technological revolution.

Buy this book, especially if you are new to politics!

Brilliant, whether Sause discusses the past, the present or the future. Most of the political books that I've read recently simply tell me what I already know and believe. This book is an eye opener and the opinions and facts explode off the page. I can't say enough about this book. Twenty years from now, this book will be remembered for it's prescience.
Refreshing, that the author speaks from a hip, yet intelligent and honest point of view. I am very lucky for finding this book. It has made me a better person. Hard to believe and maybe corny, but it's the truth. And no, I've never met Roger Sause.

Sause realizes that truth is simply another subjective term among Leftist agitators. And, no matter how persuasively he shatters Leftist explanations concerning racism and poverty, his political opponents will deny the implications of their own moral abandonment. For it is the total abdication of responsibility that largely explains the difference between prosperity and pathology - between the skills necessary for success and the sins responsible for criminal behavior.

Sause envisions an America that is technologically agile and politically relevant. He wants to harness the Internet's freedom alongside an individual summons for greatness. He describes a world that will soon arrive, providing consumers with extensive choices and citizens with numerous liberties.

Sause's dream will, indeed, become a welcome political reality. But Leftist critics will temporarily forestall the Information Age's principal benefits with accusatory language and inflammatory complaints about racism or sexism. These tactics, though inherently counterproductive, also signify the Left's final political breath - a last gasp before the dawn of a new political paradigm.

Thus, Roger Sause is the Information Age's version of Paul Revere. He is a man with a warning (that the Left is intellectually irrelevant), containing a fundamentally positive message (that freedom and individual choice will govern the twenty-first century). He is a political sage, aware that the Left is dead.

The bags under my eyes are finally going away. It didn't seem to matter how tired I was, this book just wouldn't leave my hands. Sause has certainly done his homework. If you are looking for an accurate and honest appraisal of today's society -Where its been, where it is and where its going, this is it. This book should be mandatory reading for every high school teacher and student.

This is an incredible work, part personal epiphany and part futurist's vision.

Sause starts off by relating his musician roots and trendy Leftist worldview and how it was disrupted by, of all things, the 1993 L.A. riots. Witnessing various racial extortionists and big government advocates selling their agenda of more social programs and higher taxes like snake oil, made him rethink everything he thought he believed in.

Ultimately he comes to the conclusion that we are in the beginning throes of the Digital revolution, one that will eventually sweep away the Industrial revolution just as surely as the Industrial revolution swept away humanity's agrarian way of life.

In Sause's view, this coming Digital revolution will change our economy, our family structure and, of course, our style of government. None of this will be welcomed, especially by those at the top of the Industrial food chain, but welcome or not, it's coming as sure as summer.

This is not only an extremely well written book, but an eye opening one as well. A must read for anyone who wants to get a handle on the reasons behind all the social, political and economic upheavals of the past thirty years and an idea on where we might be heading.

A positively awe inspiring book.