Trauma affects almost everyone, and is a root cause of the planetary crisis. To create a positive future, we need to take action to reduce trauma.
Why is our civilization faced with so many crises? Why do humans seem unable to live in peace? Why do we continue to destroy the living systems that support our existence? Trauma underlies these and other problems. It warps our personality, blights our health, stunts our development, and condemns us to living well below our potential. This book documents the nature of trauma, and outlines its role in history and the present, before proposing a strategy for change.
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
A detailed study of the origins of the New Alienation. The author labels it normative or postmodern ennui and traces its rise to cultural power over the last two centuries.
Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions.
