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"About the author John Spencer has a background in philosophy, literature and history and has comprehensively explored the world around him through his blog posts. www.creativityandpower.com and www.cassandradoom.com His work has been published in a number of countries including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Zimbabwe. John has a keen interest in our world including geo-politics and other issues that affect us all. He has had much multicultural experience due to marriage, teaching, travel and years of living in the Philippines and other parts of Asia, has taught English in Australian high schools and overseas, has taught elementary school, and has driven taxis in Sydney and on the Gold Coast As well as his first novel, ""Brownout - 666 or the real meaning of the swastika"" John has written a book about the worst kind of grief, the loss of a child. This nonfiction work is titled, ""Waiting for a Miracle - Life in the Dead Zone."" His formal education includes an honours degree in Philosophy and majors in English Literature and History along with a Dip.Ed."
Vera's Review of From Brexit to Brazil via Hong Kong, China, Russia and the USA When I read this interesting and informative book the first thing that struck me was the author's passion. John Spencer has obviously taken a lot of trouble to learn about our world and cares deeply about it. When I was much younger I lived in my own carefree bubble. The world's problems were nothing to do with me. It was if they didn't even exist. I just didn't notice them and I certainly took no interest in politics. In more recent times I began to study Social Work and began to see what was happening around me. When I read Spencer's collection of essays, the issues that face humanity came flooding back. Probably the main thing I learned from this fascinating work was that an event or policy that occurs in one part of our world has repercussions and ramifications in many others. Everything is so interconnected that we simply cannot escape from what surrounds us no matter how much we may wish to. From Brexit to Brazil, from Xi Jinping to Donald Trump, everything will affect us and our children's future and we had better try to deal with it. *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Laurence O'Bryan @LPOBryan Jan 10, 2020 One of my favourite essays was 'Be Afraid of the Future' which looked at our current and future leaders, who rarely have the interest of their people, being more concerned with their own power and egos. The author as well as enumerating the problems does offer some possible solutions and that is reason enough for reading this work. If you have an enquiring mind and care about the future you should read this book.
