It’s a preposterous title for a preposterous book. The authors basically attempt to re-write the entire history of humanity. Instead of this linear development from monkeys living in the trees millions of years ago (actually the cousins of monkeys) to a creature walking around on the ground, our head held high, inventing things like stone tools and mastering fire and developing tribal societies so we could hunt and gather more efficiently, then evolving a bigger and bigger brain until we finally started farming and living in villages and cities and then empires where we needed politics and politicians to keep from killing each other which was our basic nature of course having been kicked out of paradise, the primordial garden of Eden (which was of course nature herself) and then got to the point where we are today with airplanes and cars and communications technologies and spaceships and all the rest of it but in the process became enslaved by our own inventions and lost our personal freedom for the sake of our politics which was all kind of preordained in a
Gosh, really good, I give you an A+ on this book report.
It's dense so I will need to read through it again, once or twice to grasp it. For now my main takeaway is Monk Mounds and the desire to visit Denmark and Iceland (though I already wanted to).
My focus is only 7 seconds long, maybe a second less than a goldfish, which I think is 8 seconds.
I love doing book reports. I did one on Zen I will share sometime.
Maybe have a look at Graham Hancock’s’s work. Fingerprints of the Gods, Underworld , Lost cities of the last Ice Age, Heaven’s Mirror and America Before. He is the original.
Gosh, really good, I give you an A+ on this book report.
It's dense so I will need to read through it again, once or twice to grasp it. For now my main takeaway is Monk Mounds and the desire to visit Denmark and Iceland (though I already wanted to).
My focus is only 7 seconds long, maybe a second less than a goldfish, which I think is 8 seconds.
I love doing book reports. I did one on Zen I will share sometime.
Maybe have a look at Graham Hancock’s’s work. Fingerprints of the Gods, Underworld , Lost cities of the last Ice Age, Heaven’s Mirror and America Before. He is the original.
Interesting. Published date of this book?