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Call From the Cave: Our Cruel Nature and Quest for Power
By Jon Huer
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This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what would Bill Gates do if he had Hitler’s absolute power?It is a sociological question that exposes power as a tool of control over the powerless, not as a psychological trait or manners of personal interactions. With Hitler’s power, any individual, group, or nation could become as crazy as Hitler or as cruel as the Nazis. Call from the Cave argues that the savage struggle for power, exemplified in the free market system of America—history’s first and purest “natural” society—is in our very human nature. In the footsteps of the ancient Romans and the recent Nazis, we push on in every waking moment of our lives to expand our power and to control the souls and minds of other human beings to do our bidding. The book concludes that this is the very destiny of humanity we cannot escape.
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Jon Huer
The author obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1975 in sociology and is the author of 15 books of social criticism. After teaching social science for the last 25 years at the U.S. military bases around the world, he retired in 2019 and is currently living in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife Terry. The Green Palmers Chronicle is the first of the “Michael Brown Trilogy,” to be followed by Darwin’s Progress and Tales from Vespucci.
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