No Way! A Human History of Opposing almost Everything

One of the most common behavioural models is opposition. This book takes you on a journey to good old days when it was ok to yearn for the good old times. Everywhere, at all times people have been horrified about the young folks, about new customs, ideas, novelties and fashionable phenomena. This book introduces items that are acceptable today although they used to be fiercely opposed to. The book is opposed to different world views, philosophical pondering, science, inventions, creativity, everyday needs and fi nally, opposition itself. The basic idea is that during different periods, conceptions have changed of what is acceptable and what is not and these conceptions will change in the future, too. This journey into the history of human conservativeness is a fun and educational excursion; it paves the way to being able to accept dissent and especially, it teaches you the skill of being wrong.

In the introduction the author reassures us that it is human to defend our old customs.

The first opposition (chapter) is aimed at those who try to reorganize our world view.

In the second opposition we learn that you can tell a philosopher from being in exile and a classic from burned-out pages.

The third opposition is aimed at creative people who all too freely break the freedom of expression and the limits of appropriateness.

The fourth opposition is about changing habits and fashionable phenomena.

The fifth opposition is aimed at opposing itself.

Afterwise thoughts: Leave the generation gap and learn to accept opposition. The epilogue leaves us with a beautiful message: we need both the overly excited young and the tired criticizers