A Species In Denial Receives The Australian Online Bookshop “Book Of The Day Award”

 

The Australian Online Bookshop (www.bookworm.com.au) sells books on all subjects, and in 2003 displayed a large “Book of the Day” award each day at the top of their homepage.

 

A Species In Denial appeared as the Book of the Day on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October 2003.

 

The award linked to a page providing details about A Species In Denial, including the following description.

 

Description Give Of A Species In Denial

 

A Species in Denial reveals the naked - but dignifying - truth about humans.

 

To be a conscious being and not have understanding has been a terrible affliction - our super computer brain came without its program and we were left to wander in bewilderment searching for it.

 

Ignorance led to all manner of fear, insecurity and superstition. For instance there was a time when humans sacrificed their first born to appease the terrifying god of lightning. Thankfully knowledge has liberated us from ignorance as to the cause of lightning. Indeed, the steady accumulation of knowledge since the dawn of consciousness has liberated humans from an immense amount of bewilderment.

 

How far we have come; yet how far we still had to go. The truth is, all the liberation from insecurity that enlightenment has yielded to this point in time is negligible compared to the freedom that the finding of understanding of the human condition - humans’ capacity for good and evil - now brings.

 

Ignorance about ourselves, about why we are the way we are, has been the ultimate affliction. In fact, so insecure have humans been about this core issue of the human condition that we have had no choice but to live in a dark ‘cave’ of denial of the whole depressing subject.

 

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species connected humans with nature, but there we have been stalled, unable to explain, and thus safely address, the human condition, the riddle of human nature, our capacity for good and evil.

 

But we are no longer stalled. In A Species in Denial Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith confronts, and then resolves with explanation, the issue of the human condition. In so doing, the naked - but dignifying and thus liberating - truth about humans is finally revealed.

 

This is the monumental breakthrough that will bring about the now urgently needed psychological maturation of the human race.