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Our country is not doing well. In the last several years, intense negative emotions such as hate, fear, resentment, and distrust have dominated the headline news. Toss in problems from pandemics and politicians fighting over scientific facts and we have a divided, often dysfunctional society. This makes effective action to combat global warming, job loss, economic stagnation, virus outbreaks, and other threats next to impossible.

To reverse this negative and dangerous trend, we will need a social revolution. People don't necessarily need to love their neighbor, but they should at least respect their neighbors through simple acts of consideration, kindness, and even compassion.

When someone receives respect and compassion, life can change dramatically in an instant – for both the recipient and the sender. Caring can spread quickly and be just as contagious as a disease, but in a good way. Ultimately, this spreading of kindness can create a society that can act and work together for the common good.

The USA should become the United States of Affiliation, not Antipathy. This needed social revolution may take time to counteract the negative forces omnipresent today, but that's the reason for this book. This book is my way to help the process along and make the world a better place for everybody.

Inside, you'll read about people I personally know or have heard about from the people closest to me. Many of these people are famous and household names, like President Joe Biden, whom I first met when he visited my company for a pre-election fundraiser. These are troubled times, and Biden seems to understand that coming together can accomplish things that disunity will impede or make impossible. It is too soon to know if he has the magic to do this.

Others I write about are like Larry Ellison of Oracle fame, who bought my software company where I worked as an Oracle executive for a time. His domain was not as large as Biden's, but he built a powerful and lasting company. Some have referred to Ellison as a modern-day Genghis Kahn, but he has certainly done very well for his children financially.

Part of this story includes Nobel Prize winners as part of this story, along with many ordinary people whose stories deserve to be told because they all showed kindness. Their caring provides plenty of evidence that you don't have to be a bastard to succeed. In fact, being a nice person can actually enhance your chances of success.

Kindness and caring only needs to start with one person, and it can spread to many others, one person at a time, crossing international borders and leaping across entire continents and oceans. Caring and kindness can spark the next revolution, because in the end, we are all our brother's keepers. We just need to learn that compassion is never a weakness but a strength, and the best way to learn how to change the world is to see how others have done it first.