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Title: Shattering the Paradigm
Review: Whatever the value that can be associated with the work, one must ultimately agree that it destroys the static, unpredictive, and merely descriptive nature of history and sociology (as Noam Chomsky would say). Shlain completes an intricate, iron-clad web of cause and effect that at worst is compelling and insightful. The book sees past the sociological archetypes of religious and ethnic dynamics as the SOLE forces behind human development. However, the book is not simply reductionist, but instead, inclusive of many different human aspects tied together with the one skill that separates humans from the animal kingdom - communication (much more than the simple communication of: Watch out, predator! or I'm ready to concieve). In short, your mind will reel.
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