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HomeShop at BookSurgeBiography & AutobiographyCowardly New World: The Cause & Cure for Our Societal Problems |
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Haven't read, but about the author section has me worried... Jul 31, 2009
By Frank Ramirez
"book lover"
This book is on my wish list, and I was just looking at the authors biography supplied by amazon.com. I have not read this book, but am deeply concerned with a few sentences in the biography. It states, that the author has realized a basic societal problem and than it goes on to suggest that he thinks we can evolve to a state to change into a different system. My concern, lays not in objecting to this-by and large, our society is sick-but isn't this too grand an idea? I mean, if powerful elites do have this Western societies under control, isn't this book just a little bit too over the top?
Second, the biography suggests, that the author is interested in establishing colonies in the vast reaches of outer-space. I find this to be rather laughable. If you are going to critize a money economy, how do you suspect the tools for the colonization to be ready at your disposal? Also, if we did do this-and it's a big "if"-what if we colonize and there were what we refer to as other beings out there, wouldn't we just be doing a re-run of 1492?
I also clicked on reading a few pages of this book, and what really surprised me-in light of reading his biography-is that he is somewhat angry that Noam Chomsky, didn't want to engage in a lengthy debate with him about progress. Why should this surprise him? Chomsky contended, from what I read, that we are making progress each day, which is true in a scientific sense.
I just think they should really rephrase the biography, it is reading too much like a Timothy Leary postscript. I might have bought this book, but will wait to see if any friends have it...Like I stated I have not read it, but correct me if I am wrong about my review.
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