Stagnate as a creepy caterpillar or transform into a beauteous butterfly his path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: what is man’s rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or divine beings struggling to overcome the hubris of the human ...
