How does a society absorbed in short-term self-interest, group think, moral confusion, and the cowboy problem change itself?
In a coffee shop, my friend Dave asked about title of the book I was editing.
When I told him, his eyes opened wide and he smiled.
"What does that mean to you?" I asked.
"Lenin was a revolutionary, a visionary " he answered, "but you're proposing a different way to do that."
"That's it," I exclaimed. "You're the person I'm writing this for. You get it "
He thought a moment and summed up the book: "You take us on a psychological walking tour...

How does a society absorbed in short-term self-interest, group think, moral confusion, and the cowboy problem change itself?
In a coffee shop, my friend Dave asked about title of the book I was editing.
When I told him, his eyes opened wide and he smiled.
"What does that mean to you?" I asked.
"Lenin was a revolutionary, a visionary " he answered, "but you're proposing a different way to do that."
"That's it," I exclaimed. "You're the person I'm writing this for. You get it "
He thought a moment and summed up the book: "You take us on a psychological walking tour...

Tragic fate pursues Isidore Ducasse from his childhood. At the age of two, he witnesses the suicide of Celestine, his mother, on Christmas Eve 1847. At the age of eighteen, holding a baccalaureate and with some of his unfinished Songs in hand he takes on the pseudonym "Count of Lautreamont" and enters the literary world of Paris and Brussels. Rejected by publishers, the young writer abandons his studies and takes on a life of luxury at his father's expense. The Franco-Prussian War breaks out. Decadence overtakes his guardian, leaving him practically penniless in South America. At the age of...