A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt
Addressing an enduring challenge that looms more immediate and socially destabilizing than global warming, "A Short Take on Human History" offers a new paradigm that should make the Judeo-Christian designation more palatable to secular members of both the Judaic and Christian part of this uneasy coupling. Ranging over millennia of history and focusing on such disparate cautionary tales as Mao's China, Trump's Washington and Adam and Eve's fabled Garden of Eden, this booklet introduces an original shorthand for understanding history and raises inescapable questions question for our time: Are we doomed always to live in a world where we suffered and died because there wasn't enough - or in a world where we suffer and die because we have failed to learn how to handle plenitude? Are we forever caught between the twin scourges of scarcity and the excesses caused by our unbounded desires - forever doomed to share the fate of Sisyphus working his rocky burden to the mountain's peak, only to have it come crashing back?

NOTE: While the first part of this booklet is mostly identical to the previously published "The Laguna Beach Theory of History", the second part diverges radically to provide an original, theocentric perspective.

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A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt
Addressing an enduring challenge that looms more immediate and socially destabilizing than global warming, "A Short Take on Human History" offers a new paradigm that should make the Judeo-Christian designation more palatable to secular members of both the Judaic and Christian part of this uneasy coupling. Ranging over millennia of history and focusing on such disparate cautionary tales as Mao's China, Trump's Washington and Adam and Eve's fabled Garden of Eden, this booklet introduces an original shorthand for understanding history and raises inescapable questions question for our time: Are we doomed always to live in a world where we suffered and died because there wasn't enough - or in a world where we suffer and die because we have failed to learn how to handle plenitude? Are we forever caught between the twin scourges of scarcity and the excesses caused by our unbounded desires - forever doomed to share the fate of Sisyphus working his rocky burden to the mountain's peak, only to have it come crashing back?

NOTE: While the first part of this booklet is mostly identical to the previously published "The Laguna Beach Theory of History", the second part diverges radically to provide an original, theocentric perspective.

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A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt

A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt

by Ernest Kolowrat
A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt

A Short Take on Human History: Our Judaic Megadebt

by Ernest Kolowrat

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Addressing an enduring challenge that looms more immediate and socially destabilizing than global warming, "A Short Take on Human History" offers a new paradigm that should make the Judeo-Christian designation more palatable to secular members of both the Judaic and Christian part of this uneasy coupling. Ranging over millennia of history and focusing on such disparate cautionary tales as Mao's China, Trump's Washington and Adam and Eve's fabled Garden of Eden, this booklet introduces an original shorthand for understanding history and raises inescapable questions question for our time: Are we doomed always to live in a world where we suffered and died because there wasn't enough - or in a world where we suffer and die because we have failed to learn how to handle plenitude? Are we forever caught between the twin scourges of scarcity and the excesses caused by our unbounded desires - forever doomed to share the fate of Sisyphus working his rocky burden to the mountain's peak, only to have it come crashing back?

NOTE: While the first part of this booklet is mostly identical to the previously published "The Laguna Beach Theory of History", the second part diverges radically to provide an original, theocentric perspective.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781976460036
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/07/2017
Pages: 28
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.07(d)
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