Cyre2067
The Living Force
I read this one a few weeks ago, and I must say it was very good. The author paints a very structured critique of modern civilization and keeps it interesting by concocting a fictional story to go along with it.
Basically we follow a Laurentian priest who is tasked with tracking this 'guru' of sorts who's giving talks throughout central Europe. His order is primary tasked with discovering the antichrist and the flavor of this guys talks and his notably disinterest in money is what earns him the label as a potential. From there we see a philosophy unfold in a series of lectures that are given by this guy, his name by the way is B. That's not his real name, just the label that he acquires in his lecture series.
His basic idea is that we forgot how to live as real humans, he attributes this to 'the great forgetting' which happened sometime around 10,000BC when mankind stopped being hunter-gather and became more agricultural. He actually calls our culture one of 'totalitaran agriculture' because we enslave the earth and force it to produce food. He blames this for a steep rise in population, and goes on to attribute many of our cultural problems - crime, poverty, unemployment, war - on over population.
The philosophy it self rings true, there are some parts that are lacking - IE any discussion of psychopathy and its ponerological influence on the rest of the world is totally left out. However, it does make some interesting points regardless and given all the subterfuge and plot twists it makes for interesting light reading.
Anywho thought I'd give it a little review for the record.
Basically we follow a Laurentian priest who is tasked with tracking this 'guru' of sorts who's giving talks throughout central Europe. His order is primary tasked with discovering the antichrist and the flavor of this guys talks and his notably disinterest in money is what earns him the label as a potential. From there we see a philosophy unfold in a series of lectures that are given by this guy, his name by the way is B. That's not his real name, just the label that he acquires in his lecture series.
His basic idea is that we forgot how to live as real humans, he attributes this to 'the great forgetting' which happened sometime around 10,000BC when mankind stopped being hunter-gather and became more agricultural. He actually calls our culture one of 'totalitaran agriculture' because we enslave the earth and force it to produce food. He blames this for a steep rise in population, and goes on to attribute many of our cultural problems - crime, poverty, unemployment, war - on over population.
The philosophy it self rings true, there are some parts that are lacking - IE any discussion of psychopathy and its ponerological influence on the rest of the world is totally left out. However, it does make some interesting points regardless and given all the subterfuge and plot twists it makes for interesting light reading.
Anywho thought I'd give it a little review for the record.
