Publisher's Synopsis
In The 14 Plagues of Modern Conformity...and how assholes battle them, TR Perri exposes the modern iteration of the longstanding war between individuals and conformity. His ability to identify the well-hidden elements of conformity sets him apart as an intellectual.
This timely book addresses:
- How relativism enabled Brock Turner to receive a 3 month sentence
for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster.
- The statistical increase in people who believe that personal offense is
an arrestable, or at least a fineable, matter.
- How student activists have become emboldened to use domestic
terrorism tactics.
- Why the Catholic Church only moved child rapist John Geoghan
from parish to parish instead of defrocking him, amidst a host of
allegations starting back in the 1960's.
Separately, the plagues are simple, irrational devices, but in aggregate
they hoodwink a culture into reducing humankind into two groups:
those who conform and therefore "get it," and those who "don't." Assholes
refuse to conform and are placed in the latter group, but they may not
be the monolithic villains they're made out to be. In this unrelenting
exposure of modern mores, Perri reveals a special type of asshole--the
positive asshole--and how they may be just what humankind needs to
finally abandon conformity, willingly.
