Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation By Walter Mosley Summary

Cost and Worth (Rough 2)
How much does it cost? How much is it worth? These are two questions that sound similar, but have totally different meanings. How much is an apple worth in the market versus how much a customer pays for it? Is the price fair due to the amount of resources it took to bring it to the market, or has its price been inflated beyond comprehension? How much is a television worth to its owner? How much is a person worth to their country? These are the kinds of questions (among many others) that Walter Mosley, author of the essay Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation, aims to help answer. In his essay one can find Mosley’s that Mosley argue about the value of goods and people; however, even Mosley seems to be unaware that one cannot put a price on everything.
It is a series of steps that give some insight to what Mosley believes to be problems of modern America society, and gives some general suggestions that can point towards solutions. He makes arguments on many different aspects of politics as well as public life in general, and makes quite a bit of sense in doing so. On the other hand, there are some chapters (or steps as they are commonly to as) that, overall, hurt Mosley’s credibility rather than helping it. Chapters ten and eleven are such examples. These chapters are titled, “Understanding Cost” and “Understanding Your Worth” respectively. In these chapters Mosley explains his thinking about how Americans need to understand the cost and value of American products, as well as the American Individual, so that they might be able to fight back against the Joes (normal people in America with money). Yet, while Mosley mainly uses logic to explain his arguments, there seems to be some reasoning that has escaped Mosley’s