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In The Absence of the Sacred
  • In The Absence of the Sacred

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    Author : Jerry Mander

    ISBN : 978-93-82400-27-1

    431 pages  |  Paperback

    • About the Book

      In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (Banyan Tree), author and social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerous to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process. With In the Absence of the Sacred, he goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole.


      In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world's loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorder and worse lies ahead.

       

      Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation.

       

      Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the “new world order”computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itself and warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results.


      Jerry Mander holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics, spent 15 years in the advertising business. After quitting commercial advertising, he achieved national fame for his public service campaigns, leading the Wall Street Journal to call him "the Ralph Nader of advertising." He is the author of In the Absense of the Sacred (Banyan Tree) and has recently edited a book with Edward Goldsmith called The Case Against the Global Economy.

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