📱 eBook en inglés WHY NOTHING WORKS

From cults to crime to porno parlors—this book is about a lot of things that are new and strange in America today.

This book is about cults, crime, and shoddy goods, and the shrinking dollar. Its about porno parlors, and sex shops, and men kissing in the streets. Its about daughters shaking up, women on the rampage, marriages postponed, divorces on the rise, and no one having kids. Its about old ladies getting mugged and raped, people shoved in front of trains, and shoot-outs at gas pumps. And letters that take weeks to get delivered, waiters who throw food at you, rude sales help, and computers that bill you for things you never bought. Its about broken benches, waterless fountains, cracked windows, dirty toilets, crater-filled roads, graffiti-covered buildings, slashed paintings, toppled statues, stolen books. Its about shoelaces that break in a week, bulbs that keep burning out, pens that wont write, cars that rust, stamps that dont stick, stitches that dont hold, buttons that pop off, zippers that jam, planes that lose their engines, reactors that leak, dams that burst, roofs that collapse... Its about astrologers, shamans, exorcists, witches, and angels in space suits... Its about a lot of other things that are new and strange in America today.

—from the Introduction