Maharg Ydobon

Split P Soup: Juvenility (Book #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Young clients at the Babbling Brook Listening Center describe their struggles of childhood, growing up weird, living in poverty, living in luxury, living in the turmoil of the 1960s and early 1970s, and facing the eternal challenges of interacting with other weird humans.

There are good, bad, and ugly things in the real world, and even more so in the weird worlds inside of human minds.

Some would caution, "you should only show the good..." and others would counter, "it's the bad and ugly that make best-sellers..."

Journalism is supposed to show and tell things as they are. But, the scariest, weirdest, and most horrible stuff always get the top headlines, making the world seem considerably less civil and much scarier than it really is.

Millions of people can peaceably enjoy a day, but it will be the few dozen that cause a ruckus, or a big fire, or one multiple-murder, or a few cases of food poisoning, or a sensational arrest, or a war somewhere, that get the headlines.

This book is not journalism, though the author has worked as a journalist, investigative reporter, and managing editor. He has also spent time as a law clerk, property manager, construction worker, business consultant, and entrepreneur of small businesses, while sidelining as a political activist, campaign consultant, and a bunch of other things. He has packed his resume with 100 years of experience into a 65 year lifespan by working multiple projects at the same time.

Many of the incidents and attitudes in this book are things that have been witnessed by, investigated, or told to the author over the years. Others are a mixture of things from various people, sources, and knowledge bases, including his undergraduate work and independent studies in psychology, sociology, and special education. Others are just figments of the author's active imagination.

This book isn't meant to be sensational horror and dread, nor is it sugar-coated to be all sweet and smarmy. The purpose is to look at various aspects of humanity and the human condition, including the workings of the human mind, and the conjunctures of human relations.

How people cope with their circumstances is both interesting and informative. Understanding coping mechanisms is one of the main focuses of this work.
The human mind, the human condition, and human relationships are very rich sources for scientific research, analysis, and wonderment. It often isn't difficult for a forensic scientist to discover exactly what was done. What is much more difficult is to figure out WHY. For that you must get into the mind.

For many years the author has been listening to people talk about things that were done. Many of them give the "who, what, when, where, and how" fairly easily. But the more important question of "why" is often left out, lied about, or just trivialized.
Doctor Ydobon asks "why" fairly often, during the interviews. But, the doctor's questions are not part of the manuscript. The statements of the interviewees are the subject matter.

So, this book is not a story. It doesn't follow a pattern of storytelling where there is a beginning, plot, intrigue, and finale. Instead, it has all of those ingrained. But, they are weaved throughout using the interview process, like a documentary might do, going into the thinking of the many people involved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Maharg Ydobon
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005231552
• Artikelnr.: 72377216

Autorenporträt

Bio Info for Maharg Ydobon Age = Old; birthdate lost in ancient history and political disruptions. Maybe he was born soon after WW2 somewhere in a now dislocated jurisdiction, possibly Europe or South America or somewhere else. But, it seems he must have been in elementary school in the early 1960s. He claims to have been in anti-war and civil rights protests during the Nixon years. Ethnicity = Other; has ties to various ethnicities and claims allegiance to none of them. Claims to have come from "the old world", and that most of the Ydobon family didn't choose to come to this backwater planet... (Maybe there will be something of this vein in future books?) Language = Spanglish (border mixture of Spanish & English) and BuHdobyan (huh?), but his first language is "ba-baba-baby-talk..." Family = Multiple members of extended family, many of whom are now deceased. Favorite Auntie just passed away in her late eighties. Mama died at the same age a few years ago. Some brothers are still in contact, and through them are many nephews and nieces. Heck, life goes on and you lose some and gain some and it all comes out "even steven" - except when it doesn't. Work = Various Jobs & Businesses. "The first regular job I remember was walking bean fields in the brutal heat and humidity of the Mississippi River Valley, hoeing out all of the weeds while being careful to protect the plants. Yeah, I made a whopping 65 cents an hour for that menial labor. "Over the years there have been many jobs and businesses. Gradually the pay got better as did the amount of control I had over my life. "Recently a client told me my rates were way too low for the market, and that I should increase my base rate (for just showing up and not doing any real work) to more than double. I considered that absurd, but increased my hourly rate (including work) by about 20 percent. "Reality Check! My rates haven't really gone up that much. Our economy is in such a mess that our dollars are becoming worthless, and you have to get a lot more of them to buy the basic stuff that most people need. That's called 'transitory inflation', and has been going on for hundreds of years... "So, somebody's $100 per hour rate now is maybe equivalent to a wage of $10 an hour back when I was growing up. Okay, that was a living wage for a seasoned technician. You could support a family on that if you were frugal....