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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Triumph of Technology
Gee Whiz—The Future!
Utopia Postponed
The Addiction to Control
From Separation to Boredom
From Affluence to Anxiety
Chapter 2: The Origins of Separation
The Origins of Self
Fire and Stone
Language and Label
Mathematics and Measure
Keeping Time
Images of Perfection
The Marvelous Pirahã
Cultivation and Culture
The Machine
Religion and Ritual
The Playful Universe
Chapter 3: The Way of the World
The Scientific Method
My Personal Age of Reason
Masters of the Universe
The Quest for Certainty
Reducing Reality
The Ghost in the Machine
The Origin of Life
Alone in the Universe
Chapter 4: Money and Property
The Realm of Me and Mine
Alone in a Crowd
The Anonymous Power
Social Capital
Cultural Capital
Natural Capital
Spiritual Capital
Time, Money, and the Good
The Economics of Other
Interest and Self-Interest
The Crisis of Capital
Chapter 5: The World under Control
The Total Depravity of Man
The Winners and the Losers
Life, Death, and Struggle
Yes and No
The Pressure to Break Free
Molding Minds
The Great Indoors
Life under Contract
The War on Germs
The War on Suffering
Life in a Playpen
Chapter 6: The Crumbling of Certainty
The End of Objectivity
Truth without Certainty
Order without Design
The Nature of Purpose
The Purpose of Nature
Life without a Replicator
The Community of Life
The Genetic Plenum
Chapter 7: The Age of Reunion
The Convergence of Crises
The Currency of Cooperation
The Restorative Economy
The Age of Water
Technologies of Reunion
Work and Art United
Back to Play
The Medicine of Interbeing
The Spirit of the Gift
Storyteller Consciousness
In Love with the World
Chapter 8: Self and Cosmos
Human Nature Restored
The Fall
The Perinatal Matrix
The Gaian Birthing
Eulogy and Redemption
At Play beside the Tower
Notes and Sources
About the Author
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