Bankrolling Evolution: A Program for a President

by David Loye

This is a special edition to put the power of multinational advanced evolution science behind the American election and presidency of Barack Obama. Documenting the global gains from an American shift from regressive to progressive leadership, Bankrolling A Program for a President is a special edition of a report drawing on the work of the multinational General Evolution Research Group prepared for the Darwin Project Council of over 50 leading American, European, and Asian scientists and educators. Part I lays bare what's gone wrong with a powerful diagnosis of the persisting threat of the pathology of regressive leadership, enablers, followers, and money that financed the multi-billion-dollar rightwing seizure of America. Part II tracks how and why this happened within the context of the historic worldwide rise of hope for the American dream and revolution---in sharp contrast to the drive backward pushed to fearful extremes during the Bush years. Part III explores how recapturing the vision of real power to the people can transcend division, forge a new alliance of thinking and caring Americans, and spread new hope, respect, and trust rather than fear, environmental devastation, and nuclear proliferation globally. Part IV shows how with progressive leadership and a new measure and science of global healing we can prevent the return---otherwise potentially much worse next time---of what like the spread of a deadly illness periodically seizes whole nations to block and drive us backward in evolution. Bankrolling Evolution provides a dramatic look at the different kind of future offered by the power of progressive science, a new investment in moral evolution, and the global prospect for an Obama American presidency. Director of research and author of the report, psychologist and pioneering evolutionary systems scientist David Loye, is the former Research Director for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine. A co-founder of two multinational advanced evolution research groups, Dr.Loye is the author of The Healing of a Nation, awarded the same national award earlier given to the famous Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal for the social scientific classic An American Dilemma. Bankrolling Evolution is a special edition of the first book for Dr.Loye's six book Darwin Anniversary Cycle. Succeeding titles available worldwide with online book sellers and book stores in the U.S. through the Ingram Book Company Measuring A Leadership Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations; Darwin's Lost Who We Really Are and Where We're Going; and Darwin on Love. Forthcoming in 2009: The Derailing of Evolution, and Telling the New The Place of Evolution in the Life of Every One of Us.

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 7, 2007

Reviews

[suzdoylemusic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating account of how Darwin's work is often mis-represented as a single "survival of fittest" model, when it actually talks about 15 different aspects of evolution. Discusses our current political systems from a psychologist/ evolution point of view, and how they fit in to patterns throughout recorded history of progressive/ regressive/ and status quo evolution. (Guess which one is dominant at this point in our history?). A great "big picture" kind of book.

Very enlightening, and dovetails well with one of my other favorite books about consciousness, paradigms and human systems, "Promethius Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson.