(DOWNLOAD) "Burnt Offerings" by Floyd Sours ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Burnt Offerings
- Author : Floyd Sours
- Release Date : January 25, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 326 KB
Description
In "Burnt Offerings", Floyd explores and describes different kinds of freedom whilst giving the reader a frank analysis of the current political and social problems in America. He reveals how the popular version of freedom has distorted the original meaning of personal freedom. The central theme arises from the relationship between inequality and equality.
Floyd starkly reminds us that notwithstanding general progress in our society, the evolution of life and ideas is cyclical and never always linear. Furthermore, in our new world of excessive information, blurring develops into a cultural problem and becomes as problematic as excessive rigidity. With the advent of technological advancement and social media, the bad can easily be portrayed as good and vice versa. The result is a growing inability to distinguish good from bad, a sense of blurring that can be "likened to cultural psychosis if it gets chronic enough" or a "kind of phantom illness" which can only chart a course of self-destruction.
Floyd, who has in his book substantiated with statistics and developed theories of Erich Fromm, David Reisman, Orlando Patterson, Theodore Lowi and Francis Fukuyama amongst others, calls for a pause from "our mindless race into the future armed with progress and cry of freedom". Instead, we should seek out the benefits of the past and give them their rightful place in our society. In doing so, "we must compromise ourselves for the benefit of our brothers who believe differently. This would constitute a new direction than the one called progress that we now pursue."
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