Apocalypse Of The Barbarians

by Sandy Krolick

The background chatter is becoming increasingly America is facing a terminal crisis, a singular and perfect turning in its short history. While we stand as benefactor and apotheosis to an arduous historical legacy called Western civilization, the whole story - from its stunning beginnings in the ancient Near East nearly six-thousand years ago to the post-millennial American hegemony - the entire edifice rests upon a cluster of hypotheses about the world. These continue to shoulder our commonsense understanding of life, while thwarting any recollection of what was lost with the emergence of that history. Apocalypse is an inquiry into those remote and founding hypotheses. Rummaging through current global affairs these essays serve as a handle for unwinding some ingrained historical prejudices so we may overcome the forced erasure of our pre-historic past, and recover the memory of another, perhaps more humane way to live.

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First published April 5, 2011

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[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

another book on a topic that has extreme relevance to How We Live Now and the ongoing decline of Western Civilization; evidenced by the clusterfuck of AMERIkA in 2011. Amerika, through the elite in our government, Wall Street and multinational corporations is hurtling down the path to a new Dark Age. We are being hypnotized by the chattering classes who are failing us by refusing to recognize the fact that Amerika, is not the hegemon we think we are. We are forgetting our ties to our long history - I mean to our origins 6,000 years ago and even pre-history and the fate of those civilizations that have disappeared. These are thought provoking essays, concisely written that are asking us to consider one thing: perhaps there is a better, more humane and more peaceful way of living.