"The Great Agora" is a metaphor--the metaphor of modern, cultivated, hurried, violent, intense, hostile, turbulent and media-dominated life. The book contains implied as well as more explicit critical/satirical approaches to ways and manners of existence that are especially pervasive in certain parts of the world today. The towerful man is another metaphor, that of the one who mindfully asks some questions from within living in the Great Agora. That is, the towerful man is no stranger to the life of the Great Agora--he is part of it.

"The Great Agora" is a book on human mores, ethics, and...