The 2020s: A Decade of Cognitive Dissonance

First, a thank you to all the people who have purchased the just released paperback version of my latest book. Clearly many people are realizing that they are in various states of cognitive dissonance. It is the state we will be in for much of this decade.

Second, this is the first of several columns that will largely be excerpts from the book. Below is the Introduction. Hopefully it might prompt you to take a deeper look into why we will be experiencing more cognitive dissonance than ever before in our lives.

Introduction

“The 2020s is and will be the most disruptive and transformative decade in history. There is no major part of society, culture, business, economics, politics and civilization overall that will not be disrupted and changed in this decade. In fact, it is these next ten years that can and may well set the direction of civilization for the rest of the century.

This is the second book of a series that will look at the major trends, forces, and disruptions of this decade. This book provides an understanding of what will be an almost constant state of change. There is no going back.

On many fundamental levels what we are entering is a completion of the Shift Age, the transition from the historical reality humanity has experience up to 2000 to the new…