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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Lucifer Principle is a complex of natural rules that work together to weave a fabric that sometimes frightens and appalls us. Every one of the threads in that tapestry is fascinating, but the big picture is more astonishing still.
#2 The Lucifer Principle takes new data from a variety of sciences and shapes them into a perceptual lens through which to reinterpret the human experience. It argues that evil is woven into our most basic biological fabric.

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Date de parution 24 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures 0
EAN13 9798822547759
Langue English
Poids de l'ouvrage 1 Mo

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Insights on Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 1



#1

The Lucifer Principle is a complex of natural rules that work together to weave a fabric that sometimes frightens and appalls us. Every one of the threads in that tapestry is fascinating, but the big picture is more astonishing still.

#2

The Lucifer Principle takes new data from a variety of sciences and shapes them into a perceptual lens through which to reinterpret the human experience. It argues that evil is woven into our most basic biological fabric.
Insights from Chapter 2



#1

The idea that the individual can control his own universe is a popular notion that was promoted by Eric Fromm, the psychoanalyst. However, this belief is based on a scientific fallacy that has become mainstream dogma.

#2

The stress response, with its high levels of corticosteroids and its clammy manifestations of anxiety, is a part of a fight-or-flight syndrome. But the stress response is not just a mechanism for self-defense; it is also debilitating because it shuts down our thought processes, cripples our immune system, and occasionally turns us into stupefied blobs of jelly.
Insights from Chapter 3



#1

The first principle of the Lucifer Principle is that complex things emerge from simple objects when you put them together. Entelechies are a example of this. Cultures are a result of the crowd being large enough.

#2

The five concepts are the meme, the neural net, the pecking order, the group mind, and the nature of despotism. They explain how our visions bestow the dream of peace, but they also turn us into killers.
Insights from Chapter 4



#1

In the mid-sixties, Mao Tse-tung tore the fabric of Chinese society apart. He unleashed the most primitive emotions, which ripped across China. However, the frenzy he had freed was not some freak child of his philosophies; it was the simple product of passions that squirm inside us every day.

#2

The Cultural Revolution was a campaign launched by Mao to regain control of China. It began innocently enough with a literary debate in the newspapers, but soon moved onto the schools. Students were encouraged to write their own excoriations of the traitors, as one newspaper put it.

#3

The students at the Three Family Village school were also assigned to find and expose any teachers who had bourgeois tendencies or were guilty of revisionism. They would publicly shame their teachers, and some teachers couldn’t take the humiliation.

#4

The Red Guards went on a campaign against The Four Olds - the remnants of prerevolutionary style. They pulled down store signs, renamed streets, and cut the trouser legs of anyone wearing tight pants. They stopped women from entering the town gates to cut off their braids.

#5

The two Red Guard factions at Gao Yuan’s school began to fight each other. They made slingshots and clubs, and wove helmets from willow twigs soaked in water. The helmets were so hard you could barely make a dent with a hammer.

#6

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a microcosm of the forces that manipulate human history. It showed how the insubstantial things we call ideas can trigger the loftiest idealism and the basest cruelty.
Insights from Chapter 5



#1

The noble savage concept, which states that humans are born good, has been popularized by writers and scientists in the past two centuries. However, culture alone is not responsible for violence, cruelty, and war. Our biological legacy is evil.

#2

Nature’s amusements are cruel. She offers her children a choice between death and death, and she offers a carnivore the options of starving to death or killing for a meal.

#3

The triune brain is made up of the reptilian brain, which is responsible for our basic instincts, the mammalian brain, which guides play and other emotions, and the newer, more evolved cerebral cortex, which allows us to think and reason.

#4

The early hominids, who were the first to try and use their brains to exploit the world, were still subject to the voices of their old brains, which were still active and issuing orders. The human brain had awesome powers, but it was still just a thin veneer over the two ancient brains.

#5

The tendency toward slaughter that manifested itself in the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the result of agriculture, technology, television, or materialism. It is a subhuman trait that we share with apes and fish.

#6

Males play a large role in stirring up bloodbaths. They do most of the killing and dying, which makes them sound pretty atrocious. But they are also the victims of the Lucifer Principle.

#7

Livia, the most powerful woman in Rome, was married to the leader Augustus Caesar. She had inveigled him into matrimony when she was a tender seventeen, and she had quickly consolidated her hold over him. She wanted the imperial throne to go to her children.

#8

Women are as violent as men, and they encourage killers by falling in love with warriors and heroes. They do it by developing a craving for a certain kind of guy, and all the males compete to live up to the female ideal.

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