Human Society: The Fundamental Workings

Full title: Human Society; The Fundamental Workings 
Author: The New Society Project. (A dozen names appended)
Published: Freedom Press 2019
Format: E-book, hardcover
Content: A deep dive followup to On the Building Blocks of Social Interaction The authors take the building blocks and made something with them.
In various examples the authors take society apart and demonstrate how Human society works at the core. It also shows how it fails to work when certain principles are ignored or shoved aside for various reasons, mainly for the gain of personal power and wealth. A full dozen examples are given six each of society working, and six of it not. Each example is taken apart using the principles of the social inch and put back together for a greater understanding.
Four examples are from Kentari, two from Greyhawke. All are very Human.
The book makes very plain that Human society is being spoken of. It loudly states that no assumptions are being made about anyone. Aliens are Alien.
==Reaction==
The book is a toe breaker, it has the gripping writing and page turning plot of the scholarly paper that it is. Unless you have a solid scholarly approach it is a difficult book to read. Not your standard arm chair amusement. It was never intended as such.
The Old School witch doctors as expected panned the book, most without ever picking it up (lest they strain their academically honed physical bodies). The Evil Social Inch and the further eroding of their radical agenda. It was not aimed at them, unless thrown.
The serious comment is coming slowly as it should with new sociologists studying, checking sources, and then making comment in letters as dull as the book itself. 
The average person is barely aware of the book and if they picked it up would be nodding off by the end of the Forward*. There will not be a book tour, shilling on Helenanna or anything like that. So it is mostly under the public radar. 
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*It is not that people are stupid, but academic writing can be dry as flash fried sawdust, and if you do not understand the cant, dense to the point of a permanently furrowed brow. So says the dilettante that reads Nature for fun. An eight page article can be slow and difficult going, but doable. A 1600 page book? Not so much. "Smart" comes in flavors. Not everyone has the same interests, or the same smart. 
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