When and how, yes. But whether or not? Hardly…
This is a quote from Yuval Noah Harari’s “From Animals Into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind.” Mine is a “draft edition,” without a cited publisher, but I’m pretty sure it was finally...
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Reflections on reading “A History of God,” by Karen Armstrong
Because of its breadth and detail, this is among the more difficult books I’ve tackled. In brief, Armstrong reviews the theological histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three related monotheistic traditions....
Read MoreReflections on early civilizations and social stratification
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 26, 2016 | Class, History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 3 |
I’ve spent six years now traveling throughout Western Europe, also reading histories of western civilization…from earliest prehistory to modernity. I’ve but scratched the surface, I know…an adequate...
Read MoreWar in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 1, 2016 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
This is the last of a trilogy of posts on death and destruction. Then we can move on to something serious… So, I spent the time since my last post reading War in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat. Gat is Ezer Weitzman...
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Posted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 5, 2016 | Death, History, Mortality, Notes, Search, Tribalism, War | 1 |
I’ve contemplated this follow-up post for a week or more now. My visit to Berlin has me wondering how to think about the massive numbers of war dead between 1915 and 1945. Finally, I decided to put it into perspective, so...
Read MoreParis, Amsterdam, Berlin…and the “war to end wars”
I haven’t posted for the last several weeks because I’ve been drifting…northern France, various places in Holland, also Berlin and what used to be East Germany. Maybe I didn’t post because it was...
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