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The Lucifer Principle : a Scientific Expedition Into The Forces Of History /
The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a s...
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.,
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| 520 | |a The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth's, as well as mankind's, history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or "superorganism," rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle. But, Bloom asserts, the prominence of society and culture does not necessarily mitigate against our most violent, aggressive instincts. In fact, under the right circumstances the mentality of the group will only amplify our most primitive and deadly urges. In Bloom's most daring contention he draws an analogy between the biological material whose primordial multiplication began life on earth and the ideas, or "memes," that define, give cohesion to, and justify human superorganisms. Some of the most familiar memes are utopian in nature'Christianity or Marxism; nonetheless, these are fueled by the biological impulse to climb to the top of the heirarchy. With the meme's insatiable hunger to enlarge itself, we have a precise prescription for war. Biology is not destiny; but human culture is not always the buffer to our most primitive instincts we would like to think it is. In these complex threads of thought lies the Lucifer Principle, and only through understanding its mandates will we able to avoid the nuclear crusades that await us in the twenty-first century | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Who is Lucifer?; The Clint Eastwood Conundrum; The Whole is Bigger Than the Sum of its Parts; The Chinese Cultural Revolution; Bloodstains in Paradise; Mother Nature, the Bloody Bitch; Women-Not the Peaceful Creatures You Think; Fighting for the Privilege to Procreate; The Greed of Genes; Why Humans Self-Destruct; The Theory of Individual Selection and Its Flaws; Superorganism; Isolation-the Ultimate Poison; Even Heroes Are Insecure; Loving the Child Within Is Not Enough; One Man's God is Another Man's Devil; Us versus Them | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Value of Having an EnemyThe Perceptual Trick That Manufactures Devils; How Hatred Builds the Walls of Society's Bungalow; Man-Inventor of the Invisible World; From Genes to Memes; The Nose of a Rat and the Human Mind-a Brief History of the Rise of Memes; How Wrong Ideas Can Be Right; The Village of the Sorcerers and the Riddle of Control; The Modern Medical Shaman; Control and the Urge to Pray; Power and the Invisible World; Einstein and the Eskimos; The Mysteries of the Evolutionary Learning Machine; The Connectionist Explanation of the Mass Mind's Dreams; Society as a Neural Net | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Expendability of MalesHow Men Are Society's Dice; Is Pitching a Genetically Acquired Skill?; Oliver Cromwell-the Rodent Instincts Don a Disguise; Ideology is Theft; The Invisible World as a Weapon; The True Route to Utopia; Why Men Embrace Ideas-and Why Ideas Embrace Men; Righteous Indignation = Greed for Real Estate; Shiites; Poetry and the Lust for Power; When Memes Collide-the Pecking Order of Nations; Superior Chickens Make Friends; Wordviews as the Welding Torch of the Hierarchical Chain; Who are the Next Barbarians?; The Barbarian Principle; Are There Killer Cultures? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Violence in South America and AfricaThe Importance of Hugging; The Puzzle of Complacency; Poverty with Prestige Is Better Than Affluent Disgrace; Why Prosperity Will Not Bring Peace; The Secret Meaning of "Freedom," "Peace," and "Justice"; The Rise and Fall of the American Empire; The Victorian Decline and the Fall of America; Scapegoats and Sexual Hysteria; Laboratory Rats and the Oil Crisis; Why Nations Pretend to Be Blind; How the Pecking Order Reshapes the Mind; Perceptual Shutdown and the Future of America; The Myth of Stress; Tennis Time and the Mental Clock; The Luciferian Paradox | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Lucifer PrincipleEpilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author | |
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