UNCOMMON SENSE - The State is Out of Date [Mass Market Paperback]

Gregory K. Sams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1998

Uncommon Sense will rock the boat for some, and launch it for others as it applies the sound and simple principles of chaos theory to the workings of our society. It dramatically shows just why it is that so many of us have so little faith in the confidence tricks of the ruling state. Uncommon Sense shows us the real price we pay for maintaining rulers in power, and how powerful we actually are as society. Real order is drawn from society's own unplanned chaos not by trying to manage it with a big stick. Imagine if the British government had thought music as important as the food we eat - and then regulated it for the past few decades - like they did for beef, yum, yum! Uncommon Sense reachees the parts of your brain the state would like undisturbed. Read on and receive a reality check!

For Gregory Sams, author of Uncommon Sense, the issue is not who is in power, how they got there, what they want to do or why. It is not a question of whether politicians are corrupt or not or whether they meditate. It does now matter whether the structure of the state is old and decayed or fresh and vigorous. At issue is whether or not the underlying principles of the state, however and by whomever it is run, can ever bring us peace and harmony. Force is a poor means of promoting positive change. We can survive without this growing menace to our species. Uncommon Sense takes a fresh look at the validity and virtue of this seldon considered option.

This thought provoking and humorous work dares to question the validity and value of today's nation state, whether democratic or totalitarian, First World or Third. Though it may not be obvious that more regulation creates more disorder, the evidence points this way, and the discoveries of new science "Chaos Theory" appear to prove it. Complex societies have far more aptitude to manage themselves than do force a pre-conceived order upon them. Uncommon Sense points out just how well this process is working already.

"Lots of good sense - seen nothing I disagree with!" Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi visionary

"It's like a breath of fresh air - this is a very important book." Stuart Editor Dream Creation Magazine

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About the Author

Gregory Sams pioneered the introduction of natural foods to the United Kingdom by opening SEED macrobiotic restaurant in 1967 at the age of 18, Ceres grain store in the Portobello Road two years later and Harmony Foods (now Whole Earth Foods) soon after, as well as being closely involved with Harmony Magazine and Seed, The Journal of Organic Living. He conceived and launched the original Vegeburger in 1982, developed it for 6 years, then moved out of food into fractals, founding Strange Attrations, the world's only shop dedicated to chaos theory (London 1990). Since then he has gone on to produce and license fractal images worldwide to clothing fabrics. He has had a rich experience of the counter culture becoming mainstream and is well placed to present this refreshingly acerbic, humorous, and optimistic study of the current state we are in.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: CHAOS WORKS; 3 edition (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 095313010X
• ISBN-13: 978-0953130108
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,175,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy extra copies and give them to your best friends!, October 13, 1998

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This review is from: UNCOMMON SENSE - The State is Out of Date (Mass Market Paperback)

This book offers a unique insight into the overworkings of the "system", and sheds a unique perspective on how things "ought" to be, despite how they are. Given the authors' propensity to immerse himself in the middle of controversy, for example, protesting some of the brain-damaged decisions of the British Government, one might expect a heavy-handed moral tome. Instead, Gregory gently attempts to analyze the reasons why things happen, and offers alternatives that even we as mere mortals can employ in an attempt to bring on change by our individual and collective efforts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The subtitle says it all: "The State is out of date!" True., January 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: UNCOMMON SENSE - The State is Out of Date (Mass Market Paperback)

How many books do you pick up and read in one can't-put-it-down" sitting? This book describes tomorrow's anarchism for the everyday, progressive, planet-minded citizen. Refreshing. Honest. Direct. UNCOMMON SENSE makes a helluva lot of sense! If this book speaks for you, you'll give this book as gifts to friends and relatives. I did. I said "refreshing" because Sams breaks old-tired-ways of looking at our social system and offers some paradigms that I am sure will become the norm when humanity evolves to ... to ... its next level of organization ... which will be a much simpler, more human organization. High school juniors and seniors will love this book ... if we could only apprise them of its existence. READ THIS BOOK. It'll change your world-view ... or give your current outlook some new ways to talk about it.