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Downsizing the U.S.A.

Downsizing the U.S.A.

Naylor, Thomas H.
Willimon, Will

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $33.99

ISBN10: 0802843301
ISBN13: 9780802843302
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: Jul 24 1997
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
In this trenchant analysis of American society, Thomas H. Naylor and William H. Willimon take an unabashed stance against the belief that bigger is better and warn that size and technological complexity are not risk free. There is a grave price to be paid for our uncritical affirmation of bigness, universal solutions to problems, dehumanizing uniformity, and standardized mass production.

Naylor and Willimon argue that our government, our cities, our corporations, our schools, our churches, our military, and our social welfare system are all too big, too powerful, too intrusive, too insular, and too unresponsive to the needs of individual citizens and small local communities. They propose specific strategies for decentralizing and downsizing virtually every major institution in America, including America itself. The authors audaciously call for the peaceful dissolution of the United States through secession and provide a thoughtful game plan for achieving this controversial objective.

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