Ernest Kolowrat

A Short Take on Human History Ernest Kolowrat

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?