Riding Dead Horses: Why We Keep Doing Things That Don't Work - A Dark Humor Satire of Politics, Religion, and Human Dysfunction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798265247124)

Why do humans keep doing the same stupid things...even after centuries of failure?

From pharaohs to presidents, bishops to CEOs, our species has perfected the art of Riding Dead Horses - repeating the same failed experiments and expecting different results. As Einstein warned, that's the definition of insanity. Yet we cling to our dysfunctions, dress them up in fresh slogans, and sell them as progress.

Riding Dead Horses is a dark humor satire of politics and religion, psychology, and culture - a brutally funny, painfully accurate field guide to the broken systems, blind traditions, and boneheaded habits we just can't seem to bury.

We worship wealth as if billionaires were saints. We bomb nations in the name of peace. We churn out obedient test-takers while calling it education. We bury leaders in paperwork and call it "efficiency." Every generation inherits the same stinking corral of organizational dysfunction and proudly saddles up again.

With biting satire, sharp insights from the psychology of dysfunction, and case studies drawn from history and today's headlines, David Chard exposes the ridiculous rituals and habits that keep us stuck. You'll meet:

• The War Horse - proof that bombs never bring peace, but always guarantee another war.

• The Democracy Donkey - dragged through gerrymandering, voter suppression, and reality-TV elections.

• The Bureaucracy Mule - drowning in forms and acronyms on its slow march to nowhere.

• The Inner Critic Colt - the classic voice of self-sabotage psychology, whispering lies in your head while you keep grooming it as if it will ever be useful.

This isn't just entertainment - it's a survival manual. Because until we recognize the Dead Horses we've been riding, we're doomed to keep mounting them, digging the same holes deeper, and calling it destiny.

Darkly satirical, wickedly insightful, and uncomfortably true, Riding Dead Horses is a funny philosophy book for anyone ready to laugh, groan, and - just maybe - finally dismount.