INTRODUCTION

This section contains a description of a society in which I would like to live, and in which I would like to have brought up my children. My friends have called it “Gottlieb’s World,” not to ridicule it, but because they know of no one else idealistic enough to envision such a world. I call this society “America,” for if there is one people logically situated to change their existing political system to something like the one I have imagined, it is the American people.

Fictional America is not a Utopia, because it’s inhabited by people who do the same foolish, and often stupid, things people do. But it’s a fairer and friendlier society than any Earth society I know of, one that nurtures all of its citizens so that in return they may nurture it.

As a concept, America is practical and possible, if the people want it, and if they possess the will to do what must be done. But it is only one man's vision, a basis upon which to build the better world of which we all dream.

The disk should have been a chronological presentation of the information, and this section should have been at the end. However, knowing how natural it is for people to go to the back of the book to see how a story ends, it was placed first in the hope your curiosity would be aroused and prompt you to read all of the document.