Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird: Human kind's unbearable realities and what might be gained by accepting them

Taking its title from lines in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets – "Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality" – this book sets out to expose some of the realities which, at this stage of our evolution, human beings cannot bear to accept. Successive chapters examine rationality, conscience, religion, perception, sexuality, free will, moral responsibility and crime, pointing out the incomprehension which mars our approach to each topic. One of the book's themes is that we ...