The Fifth Narrative: The Wiser Ascent of Icarus

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AuthorHouse, 2004 - 352 עמודים

This book was written for bright, brave and curious people who wish to become farsighted, to find other meanings and necessities beyond our recent Grand Tales (Religion, Pessimism, Capitalism and Science).

The Fifth Narrative is about our emergence out of our "dung beetle´" state. It reveals our unawareness that the "dungballs" which currently sustain us (Grand Narratives) constrain our ability to be farsighted thus endangering our future evolution. It tells how human folly in our time seems more than ever to confound these grand stories and their bearing meaning.

It explains why a new grand Narrative is necessary in order to survive and prevail. And why a new psychology encompassing areas like global ecology, demography, resources and politics is of impending necessity.

The book deals with the emergence of a new civilization through technology and farsighted knowledge, which will form and guide our further evolution. Its essential message is: Let us become wiser ascending Icarus, rising beyond our limiting schemes and perspectives.

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Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
xxv
The Religious Narrative
41
The Narrative of the Crooked World and Human Futility
67
The Almost Perfect Sweet Shop Capitalist Democracy
87
The Scientific Narrative
161
Why a New Narrative is needed?
179
The Fifth NarrativeThe wiser ascent of Icarus
213
Wean yourself
317
Glossary
331
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