Why should I buy all this?
Well that's a good question, and the answer is that you shouldn't. You shouldn't "buy" anything anyone hands you until you've looked into the matter yourself and formed an opinion based on your own personal experience. But, by the same token, automatic denial of something without the proper interval of investigation and consideration is, well, stupid.
The best way for anyone to communicate ideas is simply to offer them, without trying to shove them down everyone else's throat. I am a firm believer that you never convince anyone of anything; all I'm doing is taking all this stuff, these ideas and concepts that I've either developed on my own or adopted from other sources, and I'm putting it out there for your perusal. Why? I'm doing it in the hope that it might give you a new perspective and perhaps encourage you to view things more with the Eye of the Philosopher. (We've all got this eye, but most of us have had it shut so long that we've forgotten we even had one--it's all sticky around the edge and hard to open at first, but that's what this little book is for, so keep reading...)
The paradox involved in writing a book of this kind is that if you are hip to the things I'm telling you, you don't need to read it, and if you aren't, you probably won't, so even writing it would appear to be something of a waste of time. But it is precisely those human endeavors which seem like the biggest wastes of time that wind up sustaining us more than all of those "practical" things that people always tell us we should be doing (like getting a "good job" and making "lots of money").