Waiting for Civilization: Meditations and Adventures in Reverence for Life

ISBN-13: 9781522997849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 226 str.

Arik Bjorn

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Civilization exists, right? After all, humans have walked on the Moon and sent robotic rovers to Mars. But Arik Bjorn argues that humanity has only just begun taking baby steps toward Civilization. Otherwise, there would be far more advances in global food programs and virtually no public sacrifices of zoo giraffes and Parisian cartoonists. In this collection of essays, Bjorn examines the ape hate that still reigns inside us-from Haiti's Auschwitz to squashed caterpillars to the Confederate Flag-and makes the case that a global foundation of Reverence for Life must be laid before True Civilization can exist. Every person has a part to play in establishing this foundation: "It will in fact take tens of billions of acts of kindness and thoughtful gestures to finish laying." Only then can the world attain Martin Luther King Jr.'s "audacious hope" for humanity. Arik Bjorn lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Evangelical Ground Zero, Wheaton College. In 2016, he ran for U.S. Congress as the Democratic Party / Green Party fusion candidate for South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District. Visit his website, Viking Word, to read his articles at Forward Progressives and Patheos, as well as his fiction and personal blog, The Viking & the River Horse. You can follow Arik Bjorn on Twitter @arikbjorn and on Facebook. He is working on a sixth book about his experience running for Congress against Joe "You Lie " Wilson.