About the Author

About the Author

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I was born and raised just outside of Philadelphia. I attended Marple-Newtown High School, Muhlenberg College, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and then a splendid residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center. I entered dental practice and started gleaning lessons from many people, including numerous and diverse patients over the years. At the same time, I marvelled at the power governments, corporations and the media have over our lives, and at the way they shape our world. I wondered—are we powerless in the face of humanity’s great creations? Are we at their mercy? And an even more important question arose—is it morally defensible to treat human beings as interchangeable, anonymous, disposable cogs in an industrial, government or military machine?

And then one day, all the things I had learned led me to two powerful conclusions:

The Status Quo exists for a perfectly good reason—to be smashed to bits at rather frequent intervals.

The best way to fight a vast, anonymous and often brutal system is through connection, personal engagement and ... simply being human.

And then I started writing.

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rickwilson210@gmail.com