Post by Glenda Gustin on May 11, 2023 2:36:52 GMT
The Red Herring Effect
Paul James Sisler II
2021
Disclaimer: I learned about this book, and read it, after it was given to me as a Christmas present by a co-worker. I will always be grateful.
Note: Although this book was published in 2021, well after the emergence of Covid-19 and all its after-effects and the lessons learned (or not learned) from it, I am guessing most or all of the book was written well BEFORE 2021 and therefore well BEFORE Covid-19 and all its after-effects and the lessons learned (or not learned) from it. There is a quote from a document dated July 18, 2020 so the book was written at least before then. If this author had written this book a little later, or if he writes a second part, I imagine there might be some major differences contained in these later writings. Of course many people believe Covid-19 is ‘only the beginning’ and similar events will follow and so that being the case, the author may very well yet get his chance to revisit some of the issues, and some of his conclusions. So, for that matter, will we all, I guess.
The very last page of the book, which is not numbered but would be page 438, is ‘about the author’ and may I recommend that you read this page FIRST before any other.
From the author: “The Red Herring Effect promotes critical thinking. It presents step-by-step strategies to reduce or abolish the problems plaguing our nation…to open the eyes of the politically divided people instead of creating propaganda designed to divide.”
The book is a soft cover, being a convenient size to hold for reading and the print is also a decent size and easy on the eyes. There are 436 pages, of which four pages are a list of case law, 13 pages are a bibliography, one section of the book is about the Constitution, a next section is about the Constitutional amendments, and all the book describes how these documents have affected American citizens in the past, and could be put to better use for the future.
He explains what ‘bourgeoisie’ and ‘proletariet’ actually mean which I had never known before. What I HAD been aware of before were the many definitions of ‘socialism’ and through all my long years this has not changed: ask a hundred people what socialism means to them and you will get one hundred five meanings. But he says: “The common denominator in all forms of socialism is how those in power take from those not in power and the distribution of what is taken. If the people are receiving the proper care by those who take, then it may be a good form of socialism.”
HUH?!@?
We’ve been hearing this since the dawn of time, and by no one who had anyone’s best interests at heart but their own. It’s been said mainly by rulers of men and by men over women. “You are going to do this this way, and you are going to like it.” And where are all those powerful persons now? GONE. Where are all the people? GONE. And the countries they formed? GONE.
And this is why we have sayings such as “Give them and inch and they’ll take a mile (originally an ‘ell’)” leading to something called Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia ) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens slowly through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.( American scientist Jared Diamond in 2005).
Adrian Rogers said sometime this century: “Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely" by British politician Lord Acton, although it had been said before that.
Ecclesiastes chapter 2: When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
I won’t go too much into detail about the author’s support of the single-payer healthcare system other than to remind everyone of the results of the covid pandemic where certain people advocated cutoff of Medicare and many other services to fragile people if they didn’t ‘get the jab’. It didn’t succeed. This time. But they’ll try again. And many people right now today as I write this are being denied needed healthcare because of refusing ‘the jab’.
Enjoy the book. I did. I thought and I wrote and I talked just like the author said he wanted.
I conclude this review with one last quote from the author: “No other country has our Constitution. No other country has our diversity. No other country has our ability to rise above.”
Thank you, Mr. Sisler.
theredherringeffect.com/
Paul James Sisler II
2021
Disclaimer: I learned about this book, and read it, after it was given to me as a Christmas present by a co-worker. I will always be grateful.
Note: Although this book was published in 2021, well after the emergence of Covid-19 and all its after-effects and the lessons learned (or not learned) from it, I am guessing most or all of the book was written well BEFORE 2021 and therefore well BEFORE Covid-19 and all its after-effects and the lessons learned (or not learned) from it. There is a quote from a document dated July 18, 2020 so the book was written at least before then. If this author had written this book a little later, or if he writes a second part, I imagine there might be some major differences contained in these later writings. Of course many people believe Covid-19 is ‘only the beginning’ and similar events will follow and so that being the case, the author may very well yet get his chance to revisit some of the issues, and some of his conclusions. So, for that matter, will we all, I guess.
The very last page of the book, which is not numbered but would be page 438, is ‘about the author’ and may I recommend that you read this page FIRST before any other.
From the author: “The Red Herring Effect promotes critical thinking. It presents step-by-step strategies to reduce or abolish the problems plaguing our nation…to open the eyes of the politically divided people instead of creating propaganda designed to divide.”
The book is a soft cover, being a convenient size to hold for reading and the print is also a decent size and easy on the eyes. There are 436 pages, of which four pages are a list of case law, 13 pages are a bibliography, one section of the book is about the Constitution, a next section is about the Constitutional amendments, and all the book describes how these documents have affected American citizens in the past, and could be put to better use for the future.
He explains what ‘bourgeoisie’ and ‘proletariet’ actually mean which I had never known before. What I HAD been aware of before were the many definitions of ‘socialism’ and through all my long years this has not changed: ask a hundred people what socialism means to them and you will get one hundred five meanings. But he says: “The common denominator in all forms of socialism is how those in power take from those not in power and the distribution of what is taken. If the people are receiving the proper care by those who take, then it may be a good form of socialism.”
HUH?!@?
We’ve been hearing this since the dawn of time, and by no one who had anyone’s best interests at heart but their own. It’s been said mainly by rulers of men and by men over women. “You are going to do this this way, and you are going to like it.” And where are all those powerful persons now? GONE. Where are all the people? GONE. And the countries they formed? GONE.
And this is why we have sayings such as “Give them and inch and they’ll take a mile (originally an ‘ell’)” leading to something called Creeping normality (also called gradualism, or landscape amnesia ) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens slowly through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.( American scientist Jared Diamond in 2005).
Adrian Rogers said sometime this century: “Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely" by British politician Lord Acton, although it had been said before that.
Ecclesiastes chapter 2: When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil.
I won’t go too much into detail about the author’s support of the single-payer healthcare system other than to remind everyone of the results of the covid pandemic where certain people advocated cutoff of Medicare and many other services to fragile people if they didn’t ‘get the jab’. It didn’t succeed. This time. But they’ll try again. And many people right now today as I write this are being denied needed healthcare because of refusing ‘the jab’.
Enjoy the book. I did. I thought and I wrote and I talked just like the author said he wanted.
I conclude this review with one last quote from the author: “No other country has our Constitution. No other country has our diversity. No other country has our ability to rise above.”
Thank you, Mr. Sisler.
theredherringeffect.com/