you've got a problem
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About the Author
The author has lived a colourful life with service in the Air Force.
He then became a qualified accountant, a financial director and
later a fully qualified counsellor.
His first love has always been books and he eventually became an
antiquarian book dealer. This book is the result of his
comprehensive reading.
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To Margaret
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Copyright © Robert Muddiman (2015)
The right of Robert Muddiman to be identified as author of this
work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and
78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the
publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims
for damages.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British
Library.
ISBN 978 1 84963 978 1
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2015)
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
25 Canada Square
Canary WharfLondon
E14 5LB
Printed and bound in Great Britain
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Contents
1 Man & Man in Society 13
2 The Self & Your Attitude 26
3 The World & Your Attitude 37
4 Synopsis 57
5 Appendices – A – P 58
6 Select Bibliography 59
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YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM
WELL ACTUALLY, YOU’VE GOT TWO – YOUR
ATTITUDE TO YOURSELF AND YOUR ATTITUDE TO
THE OUTSIDE WORLD
Each attitude will necessarily be affected by the other
and by all the sub-attitudes you may also have.
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Karl Popper “I think that the main task of philosophy is to
speculate critically about the universe and our place in it.”
Freud “The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does notrest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly
repeated rebuffs, it is successful. This is one of the few points
about which one may be optimistic about mankind.”
Russell “There is no rational ground for despair; the means forhappiness of the human race exists, and it is only necessary
that the human race should choose to use them.”
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1
M a n & M a n i n S o c i e t y
We, man, have now come to that point in
biological history, where we are responsible
for our own evolution.
(Abraham Maslow)
All humans share the same sort of problems. How should welive? What can we do to make ourselves happier? How can we
best train and educate ourselves? What should our attitude be
to our family, our neighbours, our fellow citizens and theoutside world? What do we think is happening in the outside
world? And how do we think this is going to affect us now and
in the future? And what do we think should be happening inthe outside world?
To try to answer all these problems, it is best that we try tounderstand ourselves first (who we are, how we got here, and
in fact, where are we?), and then the outside world (what sortof world, environment or culture are we living in?).
Outline
a)
Society And Belonging
b) Cooperationc) Humanness And Evolution
d)
Culturee) Cultural Adaptation (See Appendix A1 For “The Cultural
Environment”)
f)
Social Exclusiong)
Capitalism
h) The Market Society