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"Gregory Sams' The State is Out of Date is a book of immense importance that also happens to be immensely readable. Get it now, read it now. You'll be amazed, impressed, persuaded, infuriated and filled with hope for a future that awaits us if only we are prepared to make the right choices. The State IS out of date. We all know it. Now here's the proof and the route map that gets us out of this mess." -Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods--Reviews

"This is a humorous and at times brutally honest overview on many of the problems and divisions that we presently endure through our political and cultural divide." -Robert Steven Thomas, author of Intelligent Intervention--Reviews

"Gregory Sams is a prophet of conscience sorely needed at this time to help us swing our compass and set us on the road to sanity once again. Look at the chapter titles - and you'll know the sharpness and aptness of his sword." -Lanny Cotler, film writer and director--Reviews

"There is SO much in the book that is food for thought, debate and inward digestion as there was in Sun of God, and I find myself quoting it regularly!"! ?DJ Tristan Cooke--Reviews

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As disillusioned citizens across the planet take to the streets, do you wonder if the world's nation states will ever get it right? Will they ever assemble and enforce enough rules and regulations to bring peace and harmony to humanity?

Does anyone really think that politics is working--aside from those in power and behind it? What if living together in peace and harmony is a more natural condition than that we experience in today's conflict-driven culture? We are community animals with built-in empathy, good at organizing things and helping each other out. The most essential and reliable features of our culture arose without top-down planning by a state that has one basic objective--to stay in power. We have enjoyed enduring civilizations in the past governed wholly from the bottom-up, without need of a shepherd and sheepdogs. We can do it again - and are more connected than ever before.

Much of our world is already well governed, from the bottom up, and we struggle to find anything of lasting value in it that arose from the state. Where the state steps into our affairs, the lost freedom to choose breaks feedback loops that effortlessly weave us together. Evolution is diverted - and we get things to complain about.

The State Is Out Of Date reassures us that politics is not even the primary game in town, though it sometimes may seem like the only one. It is a book for all those who wonder why politics isn't working and what would.