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- ISBN 9780761860150
- Weight: 776g
- Dimensions: 149 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2012
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what would Bill Gates do if he had Hitler’s absolute power?It is a sociological question that exposes power as a tool of control over the powerless, not as a psychological trait or manners of personal interactions. With Hitler’s power, any individual, group, or nation could become as crazy as Hitler or as cruel as the Nazis. Call from the Cave argues that the savage struggle for power, exemplified in the free market system of America—history’s first and purest “natural” society—is in our very human nature. In the footsteps of the ancient Romans and the recent Nazis, we push on in every waking moment of our lives to expand our power and to control the souls and minds of other human beings to do our bidding. The book concludes that this is the very destiny of humanity we cannot escape.
Jon Huer received his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA and is the author of a dozen books on social criticism. One of his earlier books, The Dead End: The Psychology and Survival of the American Creed, was hailed by Time magazine’s Lance Morrow as “an important and often brilliant book.” Huer is currently professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College.
