{"product_id":"the-lucifer-principle-a-scientific-expedition-into-the-forc","title":"The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forc","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0871136643\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Howard K. Bloom\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that evil is a by-product of natures strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric.In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earths, as well as mankinds, history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or superorganism, rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle. But, Bloom asserts, the prominence of society and culture does not necessarily mitigate against our most violent, aggressive instincts. In fact, under the right circumstances, the mentality of the group will only amplify our most primitive and deadly urges.In Blooms most daring contention he draws an analogy between the biological material whose primordial multiplication began life on earth and the ideas, or memes, that define, give cohesion to, and justify human superorganisms. Some of the most familiar memes are utopian in nature Christianity or Marxism; nonetheless, these are fueled by the biological impulse to climb to the top of the hierarchy. With the memes insatiable hunger to enlarge itself, we have a precise prescription for war.Biology is not destiny, but human culture is not always the buffer to our most primitive instincts we would like to think it is. In these complex threads of thought lies the Lucifer Principle, and only through understanding its mandates will we able to avoid the nuclear crusades that await us in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHoward Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49677210583280,"sku":"NEW0871136643","price":13.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-lucifer-principle-a-scientific-expedition-into-the-forc","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}