Author maint a warning: to the little, average people to wake up from the general apathy, as well as to the ones at the helm to stop or seriously modify what they've been doing so far. The chain of events in the book is based on author's personal experiences, his travels - his time spent in Africa, then Spain, and then, in the end his moving to the US. As F.Durkheim once said: If you're on a journey and the goal of that journey moves farther and farther away, you realize at some point that the goal is the journey... Author adds that the journey might be a comfortable, logical means to bring...

History, ancient, from thousand years ago versus today - comparisons, analogies; they may be shocking at times. The question what would be the life of Jean Paul Sartre and Simmon de Beauvoir (author chooses the two for his exemplification because of who they were and how they lived in France of their own time). Reporting and comparing is Columbia University professor, Jim, who also plays the role of the Lithmus Paper in this literary lab: how he changes ilustrates the changes in the world around him; all of which is supported and contrasts brought about all the way to the bottom by other...

Through the lives of four artists author shows the world of culture run into the ground - cheap commercialism replacing what once used to be 'excursion back to the source.' Art understood as re-linking the present human predicament to its origin known to us only as intuitions, dreams and forebodings - well, art then, this type of spiritual endeavor now belonging for good to the past, leaving the people like our four in here, stranded, with the deep feeling of being cheated by the destiny, only to be completely abandoned in the end, all of which means not only senseless outcome of individual...