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John W. McAlister

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    The author’s 40 year working career has been in Computer Engineering rather than a writing career per se. Starting out years ago at IBM with an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering left plenty of room for technical growth as well as communication skills; so, during 24 years with the company, the equivalent of higher degrees in engineering (including programming and creative writing courses) were achieved through outside courses, internal training and experience.

    During this period, various technical positions were held starting as a Customer Engineer and later moving into Test Engineering management where a big part of the job was writing test plans and proposals and, of course, evaluating the results. So writing has been a big part of the author’s professional life. Joining the original Personal Computer development team in nearby Boca Raton, Florida back in 1979 also seemed to give expression to a bit of revolutionary blood as well - in a sense, this book is a continuation of that tradition.

    The only external publishing that can be pointed to (besides winning 1st place in a high school essay contest on the role of the FBI in protecting democracy) is a physics paper published in 1992 in a globally recognized physics journal; to download a free copy of the paper published in the May/June 1992 issue of the Galilean Electrodynamics physics journal (GE), click the link below. The problem addressed was a possible questionable feature of the foundations of the General theory of relativity called the Equivalence Principle. The paper describes a physical experiment whose results are incompatible with a cornerstone of the General Relativity theory - it has never been refuted. A more detailed description of the technical issues involved is also included in the ‘About the Author’ section at the end of the book. Prior to grappling with the physical theory, Erich Fromm's work on human nature and social philosophy had become this writer’s most passionate avocation for many years. Particularly impressing was his adamant opposition to social relativism. It now seems almost certain that a subliminal desire to understand the origins of the social phenomena provided the impetus for the scientific curiosity years later. So, the social distortion side of relativity will be one of the primary focuses in the book. In a nutshell, we believe (along with many other thinkers, including Einstein himself) that the physical relativity theory has been erroneously morphed into social relativism – an extremely dangerous full-blown philosophical mindset.

    In addition to physics, the author had 2 other passionate avocations: psychology and ethical philosophy. This book combines all of these interests that have congealed into a coherent set of ethical concepts, especially since 9/11/2001. This horrendous cataclysm, had the effect of changing a strong desire to, in some measure, help ameliorate the debilitating cultural war in this country into an absolute passion to try to do so.

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