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America Uncensored - A Nation in Search of Its Soul

by Michael A. Nichols

553 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-2468; ISBN 1-4120-1990-7; US$39.00, C$45.95, EUR32.95, £22.50

Do you really think that those strange things happening to you are someone's idea of a joke? America Uncensored will reveal that your experiences are no joke.

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About the Book What if you discovered that the institutions you revere are facades for treachery and subversion? What if you found that the occupants of those bastions of Americanism were secretly and systematically restructuring the American society and its culture? What would you do? America Uncensored - A Nation in Search of its Soul by M. A. Nichols is a story about the trials and tribulations of a boy growing up in modern America. The discoveries of Tony Todd, the main character, and his two closest friends, Dallas Austin and Gavin Habbishaw, put them in direct conflict with a hidden power whose source is unknown. While opposing this apparently evil force, the three comrades not only discover that a secret elite society rules modern America, they discover much about themselves and each other. Dallas is the love of Tony's life. In following Dallas to a Fellowship at the Council On Political Studies. Tony's curiosity about the doings at COPS puts him and his friends in harms way. After being forcefully reminded that 'curiousity killed the cat,' Tony and friends bravely orchestrate an organized opposition to the machinations of their concealed antagonist. As the three 'counter-revolutionaries' carry out their plan to neutralize the effects that their adversary has on America, they continue to stumble in the dark. At critical moments, however, they seem to get help from an unseen hand. In the end, all is revealed, at least to the reader. America Uncensored - A Nation in Search of its Soul is a dark comedy. Many of the characters' experiences originate with the author, where only the context has been chanaged. Others come from research. Imagination provides the remainder. Authoritative references for arguments presented in this book are given their proper due when quoted or closely paraphrased. These citations are via the characters and assume their proper role within the context of the story.

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About the Author The author, Michael A. Nichols, is a man of diverse interests. Educated and trained in electronics, business, pyshchology and history, he began his civilian career after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1960. Initially engaged on the Atlas Missile activation program, he worked briefly on the Minuteman Missile program before moving to Northern California late in 1963 where he went to work for Pacific Bell. Finally retiring from a management position with AT&T in 1989, Mr. Nichols has since performed contract engineering work for several different companies in the telecommunication industry. Now semi-retired, Mr. Nichols alternates his time between work and recreational activities in the northwestern United States. His outdoor ventures include recreational gold prospecting, camping, boating, fishing and hunting.

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Excerpt

Scene 2 - Hockaday School for Girls

    Shane Shanley looks worried as Dallas Austin rushes away in tears. The traditional bounds of their teacher-student relationship had been crossed over a year ago, when Dallas was a Junior at Hockaday School for girls in Dallas.
    What he feels is fear, Shanley finally acknowledges to himself. Dallas isn't the first student that Shane has had an affair with at the school. Nevertheless, this time things are different. Dallas Austin's family is different. Not that most of the girls at Hockaday do not come from wealthy families.
    At first, Shane looked at Dallas as just another social obligation to another member of the 'brave new world.' Girls of Dallas' age frequently direct their pubescent ardor toward their male instructors, especially ones as handsome and erudite as this teacher of Western Civilization. Far from discouraging such liaisons, today's mores dictate that to rebuff a young person in his or her first sexual escapade is cavalier, and potentially damaging to the student's self-esteem. Modern psychological principles demand that low self-esteem be countered by situationally ethical practices.
    Morality, as practiced by the modern, is no longer a condition of absolutes, particularly to those who embrace the new-world culture. Whether an act is right or wrong is no longer dependent on mutually exclusive--or absolute--pairs of opposites. The act must now be put into its situational context. For the socially advanced, right and wrong behaviors are now absolutes only within the context of the situation in which those behaviors occur. This, then, makes right and wrong behavior between different contextual situations a relative condition rather than an absolute condition. In this neoteric and stealthy way of changing the nature of right and wrong--of good and evil--from mutually-exclusive absolutes to complementary relatives, the sophisticated have accomplished moral-relativism.
    Situational ethics is a novel concept. Like other aspects of the moral revolution, which began in the United States in the 1960s, situational ethics turns traditional values on their head. The vice of old is the virtue of today and the virtue of old is the vice of today. The immorality of yesterday is the morality of today.
    What enabled this? It is because we live in a world of pairs of opposites. Some pairs of opposites, such as good and evil, are traditionally defined as absolutes--mutually exclusive pairs that cannot be reconciled. Other pairs of opposites, such as pain and pleasure, are traditionally defined as relative--complementary pairs that reside at opposite ends of the same continuum, and must be reconciled.
    When the 'flower children' of the late 1960s decided to rebel en masse, it was intended that the rebellion be against war, specifically the Vietnam War. They realized, at least some did, that war was a manifestation of the power motive. They also realized that the alternative to power as a psychic driver--the force that animates us-- was sex, and so began the slogan, 'make love, not war.'
    Unfortunately, the revolution caused by this emphasis on sex extended to all aspects of the existing culture. All of the values associated with the traditional culture were challenged. Because the existing culture was one generally intended to promote goodness, the only alternative available to the 'revolutionaries' was to change to a culture that promoted evil behavior. Good and evil, being an absolute pair of opposites, left no other alternatives. What was originally intended to be a psychological shift from power--and all of power's expression forms, including war--to sex, instead became a moral revolution from good to evil. However, those involved in the revolution did not wish to be known, and to think of themselves, as ethically immoral or evil. Hence, the invention of situational ethics.
    Situational ethics not only provides these 'revolutionaries' an escape from traditional reality, it also gives them a means of selfacceptance and self-esteem. Sadly, it also provides a rationale to justify virtually any behavior, because no standards of conduct exist against which to judge or be judged. One's behavior is subject only to acceptance by one's immediate associates. If one associates with sexual perverts, then sexual perversion is acceptable--and situationally ethical. Those who doubt this should ask the wife-swappers, or those who engage in sex with others of the same sex. They see no moral or ethical conflict in these behaviors. If one associates with cheats and liars, then cheating and lying is situationally ethical. Choose your own poison. Whatever one does is all right as long as one's associates accept it. If it isn't illegal, then anything goes. In reality, even breaking the law is not now considered immoral by many. It is frowned upon only if one is caught.
    This new moral relativism is progressively corrupting the American society, and transforming America's culture and institutions into new forms of institutionalized depravity. Within the institutions established by the new culture, sex is no longer a matter of personal and private choice. Uninhibited sexual activity, both heterosexual and homosexual, has become the involuntary requirement for membership. Volunteerism is a form of participation scoffed at by those in this new-world order. Their members are selected from involuntary draftees. Once selected, draftees are subjected to any form of terror required to secure their loyalty. Drugs and brainwashing are frequently used to accomplish compliance and conformity.
    However, Shane's present fear stems from the conflict that still exists between the traditional American culture, and the brave-newworld culture of which he is a part. Shane Shanley now understands two things. In the first place, Dallas was reared by strongly traditional parents, parents whose values Dallas has adopted. Secondly, Dallas' father is a man to be feared.
    Shanley didn't become informed of these things until it was too late. He naturally assumed that Dallas, having been subjected to the revolutionary forces now at work in America, had been converted to new-world values. He was wrong--dead wrong.
    Shane smiles wryly at this thought. Knowing that he is in trouble--serious trouble--Shane resumes his countenance of worry. At least he won't have to see Dallas on campus any longer, he realizes with some relief. Dallas has graduated from Hockaday, and commencement exercises are over. Dallas is slated to begin college next Fall at Harvard.

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