In my opinion, a book that hits A LOT of things "right on the head." Probably not limited to American culture/condition, but it ties a lot of things together. I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but an example would be someone micromanaging someone else's life in the workplace (where a lot of people functionally live) having similar effects to being in prison or growing up in that kind of home environment. It's just a different manner of expression (like instead of shanking someone they'll GENERALLY wreck someone's life in more job-related ways or at least wield occupational resources in brutalizing fashion). They take out their problems on other people with the resources they have at hand in the most "deniable" way possible, or one that's just seen as their decision regardless of the circumstances.
Constantly walking on eggshells & wondering when someone's going to sadistically fire you & act like they feel "real bad" about it is a much more severe problem if you're not likely to find another job & might just get randomly locked-up (with all that this situation might consist of & escalate into). The fact that reality doesn't play much of a role in people's assessments or decisions makes it all the more likely that things will go off in a severe way. Despite all the "fancy talk," of course. Properties don't change by designation, just like if a doctor poisoned someone with a needle- it's still murder. That's true of other things, too. Noticeably, a lot of these other things are "disqualified problems." It's as if aspects of the situation are not a factor in its assessment & the argument basically amounts to "What HAPPENS is NOT what OCCURS." It actually is, though.
These specific things were not referenced directly in the book, but it's an example of the subject matter without quoting too much of the book & also adding a bit to things at the same time. I DO feel that it could have been longer, but then that's mostly true because there is SO much more than can be referenced- not because the author watered things down at all. It's a book somewhat on the "psychological currents" of the culture in this country & the general situation when it appears. In that, the author did very well in my opinion.
The only complaint I can really think to make were that there were some typos (only a few), but they don't get in the way of understanding the points being made. Clarity is fine, it's just simple errors in the proof-reading (interestingly, an example of the bureaucratic insanity being mentioned in this book would be like giving a child a failing grade for errors like that, declaring it a sign of a mental disorder, sneakily threatening to have that child put in a foster home & the parents arrested for child abuse though negligence if they didn't but their child on pills that are DEEMED safe by experts while FUNCTIONALLY not being that way at all, and then the police are called in to basically act rabid & blame the victim- all a "public service," rendered by people that are "only doing their jobs," paid for by the "beneficiaries" that are "lucky" they don't live in a country where the same things happen with less veneer & pageantry).
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