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Andrew Bard Schmookler
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The Fateful Step


Introduction

  • # 1 The Fateful Step: An Insight that Might Help Human Civilization Survive

Part 1: The Inevitable Reign of Power

  • # 2 What Rules This World?
  • # 3 How the Ways of Power Spread Like a Contaminant to Pervade the Human World
  • # 4 Why It Matters
  • # 5 The Central Challenge Facing Any Civilization-Creating Species
  • # 6 Keeping the Central Challenge Always Before Our Eyes
  • # 7 Some Known Unknowns
  • # 8 Additional Problematic Dynamics

Part 2: A Force in Human Civilization Spreading Brokenness in Shape-Shifting Ways

  • # 9 Some Things I’ve Left Out of the Story
  • # 10 Human Consciousness as Grist for the Mill of Power-Maximization
  • # 11 How Brokenness in the Overarching System Inflicted Brokenness on the Creatures Within It
  • # 12 How Brokenness Moves Through the Human World in Shape-Shifting Ways

Part 3: A Secular Understanding of ‘the Battle Between Good and Evil’

  • # 13 Toward a Secular Understanding of “The Battle Between Good and Evil”
  • # 14 My Path Toward Understanding “Evil”
  • # 15 The Clarifying Effect of the “Pure Case”

Part 4: How the Force of Brokenness Gained Great Power in the America of this Era

  • # 16 The Systemic Nature of the American Crisis
  • # 17 How the Republican Party Got Hijacked by the Force of Brokenness

Part 5:

Part 6:

Epilogue

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  • My 3Quarks Daily Series
  • My Op/Ed Messages
    to the Conservatives
  • How the Ugliness of Civilized History is not Human Nature Writ Large
  • Ongoing Commentary to Illuminate the American Crisis

  • Healing the Wounds, Inflicted by the Reign of Power, that Drive Us to War

  • The River and Its Channel: Bottom-Up (Flow) and Top-Down (Control) in Fostering the Good
  • Major Relevant Essays

  • Knowing What’s Right to do Is Not a No-Brainer

  • The Heirloom Project

  • The Fateful Step

  • Andy Schmookler's Podcast Interviews

  • The American Crisis, and a Secular Understanding of the Battle Between Good and Evil

  • What Shapes Our World
    a three-part series

  • What Feeds the Spirit

  • None So Blind
  • The Sacred Space of Lovers

  • A Quest to Bridge America’s Moral Divide

  • How the Market Economy Itself Shapes Our Destiny
  • What’s True about Meaning and Value

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