Rebuilding the Foundations: Forging a New and Just America - Softcover

Brand, John H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893302334 ISBN 13: 9781893302334

Publisher: Dandelion Books,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

Should we expect a learned scholar to warn us about our dangerous reptilian brains that are the real cause of today's evils? Although Brand is not without hope for rescuing America, he warns us to act fast-and now. Evil men intent on imposing their political, economic, and religious self-serving goals on America are not far from achieving their goal of mastery."

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Should it be shocking that a seasoned Methodist minister should tell us the Bible isn't all that it's cracked up to be and that God did not create the human species after all? Should we expect a learned scholar to warn us about our dangerous reptilian brains that are the real cause of today's evils? John H. Brand is the first to tell you he "thinks out of the box," and because he does, he's "madder than hell." Writes Brand: "The scourge of materialism has gnawed the sinews of the principles of democracy to the bare bones...There is nothing sacred about private enterprise. As a matter of fact, it has turned out to be the embodiment of evil." Although Brand is not without hope for rescuing America, he warns us to act fast-and now: "Maybe there is still time to recover the essence of human freedom. Maybe the will to do so might somehow be generated in our populace. However, time is short. Evil men intent on imposing their political, economic, and religious self-serving goals on America are not far from achieving their goal of mastery." "Dr. Brand is a true renaissance man, one who has studied religion, science, philosophy, law, and business. In his life he has been a soldier, a minister, a businessman and a teacher. He has read Nietzsche in the original German. I doubt that Fundamentalist or right wing Republicans will read or comprehend his writings, but for the open minded, the journey will be interesting and for many enlightening." -- Orin Winn, B.S.E.E. I met John Brand on the pages of Yellow Times. He immediately impressed me as one of the great contemporary thinkers of human behavior. His analysis of the vagaries of the creature with the big brain which developed the weapon, and the distorted wiring of that brain which leads to a never-ending cycle of blood, is incisive. John is a freedom lover, but he is also a skeptic as to the ability of humans to ever achieve the freedom they so desperately long for. John is a social philosopher who transcends the universal belief in the inherent goodness of humans into the realm of that mysterious subconscious that took millenniums to evolve and that still affects and dominates our behavior, that still makes us opt for wars rather than peaceful means to solve our problems. John does that in a language that one need not be a scientist to understand. John is cynical of the people who end up holding the reins of power. In a great many instances - too pervasive for comfort - their morality tends to be on a scale lower than what is required for mankind to shed the burden of its animal origins and forge a morality compatible with the awesome technology - good and evil - it has developed. In times like the ones we are passing through now, with the threat of terrorism by remote individuals on the one hand and the erosion of individual liberties at the hands of those elected (or appointed) to preserve them on the other, John's writings go beyond making a political point on current affairs, but provide insight into why that complex creature who roams the earth, carrying a gun in one hand and a holy book in the other, behaves the way he does. --Raja G. Mattar, M.B.A.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dandelion Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1893302334
• ISBN 13: 9781893302334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238