Comments on "The World is Flat"

In his recent book, The World is Flat, New York Time columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman emphasizes the need for equality, hope, optimism, connection, respect, overcoming egocentricity, and improving the entire world. He proposes economic and educational strategies for individual, small business, corporate, and governmental change. He even recognizes the feeling of humiliation to be at the root of many terrorist acts. Although he comes quite close to ideas and values that Adler articulated more than seventy-five years ago, he draws an unfortunate blank when claiming that a deeper understanding of human nature and how to change individuals is still a mystery. It appears that he has never read the works of Alfred Adler.