The Chicken Little Agenda is
loosely organized around seventy columns in the Thrawn
Rickle series the author originally wrote in response to his sense that
the general public was just not getting it: The guy at the corner gas station,
the Idaho lumberjack, the small town school bus driver, and—for that
matter—newspaper editors and college professors, were systematically being
misled by a Chicken Little mentality that insisted the sky was falling every
time the word radiation appeared in print, whenever global warming or the ozone
layer was mentioned, or whenever an act of terrorism took place. The original
columns were published in various newspapers and periodicals in the Northwest
and Southern California during the late 1980s and early 1990s, although much of
it has appeared either updated or as new material within the last two and a half
years. Although politically pertinent at the time of its publication, the
original material is timeless, as pertinent and fresh today as when written. The
current material is, of course, as timely as today’s and tomorrow’s
headlines.
The author’s
eclectic
interests and broad experience have ideally prepared him to drop Chicken
Little on the spin doctors who terrify the general public with their dire
predictions of immanent disaster. We may no longer huddle in our backyard bomb
shelters like our parents during the 1950s, but we spend millions of personal
dollars “protecting” ourselves from a vast entourage of things we sincerely
believe will harm us (after all, Carl Sagan said…), and we spend billions in
tax dollars solving “problems” that exist primarily in the minds of
agenda-driven, self-appointed experts who have managed to convince themselves
and us that that acorn was a precursor to the fall of heaven itself.
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