This may be one of the most important books you will ever read. It identifies,defines, describes, analyzes, and suggests actions to take toward a highlypervasive social phenomenon that social scientists should have recognizedat least a century ago. Somehow the social scientific community has alwaysoverlooked this phenomenon, even though it affects, if not envelops, a largemajority of people in modern society. This phenomenon is likely one of the leading causes of frustration, stress,fatigue, disappointment, disillusionment, depression, unhappiness, anger,quarrels, road rage, violence, substance abuse, domestic abuse, neurosis,and perhaps even suicides in modern civilization. This is the phenomenon of?afriations?. Don?t try to look that term up in any source other than this text. It?s a termthe author had to coin for this concept which has yet to be academicallyidentified. Yet afriats are probably the most complained about topic ofconversation, and for tens of millions of Americans, they cause some ofour most dreaded problems. With the simple understanding of afriations, and a basic knowledge of howto interact with afriats, we can avoid much of the stress and grief causedby afriations.