The War Against Progress

I heard Herb Mayer speak on Challenges to Western Civilization on Kerba Jan4 ,was impressed read his book and feel it is prophetic what he saw in his book we are experiencing. I will want to read his next book .

The rumblings of a political earthquake are becoming audible. By the early 1980's this upheaval will have destroyed our country's present political landscape and created a new one that will dominate U.S. politics for the remainder of this century. On one side will be all those individuals and groups who argue that the U.S. has gone as far as it can safely go - that we are running out of resources; that we are running out of room; that economic growth and technological innovation have become too messy and too risky to tolerate; that we are entering an era of limits in which our traditional emphasis on creating more wealth must give way to an emphasis on re-distributing whatever wealth already exists. On the other side will be all those individual and groups who argue that the only things we are running out of are confidence in ourselves and faith in our free-enterprise system; that the risks of pushing forward are not nearly as frightening as the risks of trying to stand still; that the solutions to all our country's problems lie in the creation of more wealth, not in government programs to re-distribute existing wealth by taking money away from those who earn it. In this timely and persuasive book. FORTUNE associate editor Herbert E. Meyer outlines the conflict that even now is raging between advocates of these opposing philosophies. And he paints a chilling picture of the fate that awaits us all should the enemies of progress emerge victorious. --- from book's dustjacket