Jack’s witty and engaging story telling style kept everyone enthralled. In relating the facts and stories in his well researched book Jack uses the metaphor of cultural “plates” clashing, just as the earth’s plates clash and cause earthquakes along the many fault lines throughout California. While the earthquakes can cause physical damage, the results of the cultural clashes have consequences that have changed the culture of California into a dysfunctional disaster. The subtitle of the book, “Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why he Rest of Us Should be Shaking” relate how those clashes have reverberated across the nation, changing culture and traditions that have effected us all. Jack’s profiles of notorious figures in recent history tell the story of those cultural shifts which the media and Californians have cast a blind eye to the obvious, or ABETTO. The disintegration of the family and fatherless ness with the help of no fault divorce, secular scams and humanism replaced traditional religious belief, and hard core environmentalism are a few of the issues Jack addresses and illustrates the consequences.

One only has to substitute America for California in the title, and the results would be the same. We have all been shaken. Are we engaging in ABETTO?