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The Wheels of Society (Paperback)
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The Wheels of Society (Paperback)
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Written with verve and a mordant wit, 'The Wheels of Society' is a
vivid, cogent, ground-breaking proposal for us to re-think
ourselves in order to steer civilisation back to safety. As a
species we seem to cling on to the power and influence of 'the old
normal'. Forests and valleys are decimated so that businessmen can
be in Manchester 30 minutes faster; thousands of airline seats are
sold for the price of a free-range chicken so that hundreds of
short-haul planes can devastate the atmosphere and enable drunken
escapades in Barcelona rather than Soho; the rich get even richer
and the poor get Covid 19. Bankers conspire in the fraudulent abuse
of people's savings, yet can keep their loot, saved by governments
supposed to protect their citizens but who fail to hold a single
perpetrator to account. Is this how we are supposed to be? The
biology of society becomes visible when hubris is side-stepped.
First, natural selfishness must be overcome before individuals can
assemble altruistically into a working group - a rather wonderful
achievement. Our cooperating groups, which make up the hierarchy of
society, are living things in their own right. Then, once
assembled, the group must perform trial-and-error cycles to do
life's vital functions. Wilson's 'assembly-and-performance
thinking' combines these two mechanisms into a simple scientific
theory of society which applies, with variations, to all
cooperating creatures - not just to humans.
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