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THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History HOWARD BLOOM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS NEW YORK Copyright © 1995 by Howard Bloom Foreword copyright © 1997 by David Sloan Wilson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Scanning, uploading, and electronic distribution of this book or the facilitation of such without the permission of the publisher is prohibited. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Any member of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or anthology, should send inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 154 West 14th Street Broadway, New York, NY 10011 or [email protected]. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Excerpt from Psychological Care of Infant and Child by John B. Watson. Copyright © 1928. Published by W. W. Norton. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Excerpt from the Squeeze song “Hits of the Year” by Christopher Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. Copyright © 1985 by EMI Virgin Music. Reprinted by permission of EMI Virgin Music. Excerpts from Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Iman Khomeini. Translated by Hamid Algar. Copyright © 1981. Published by Mizan Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Excerpts from The Reign of the Ayatollah: Iran and the Islamic Revolution by Shaul Bakash. Copyright © 1984 by Basic Books. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Excerpt from The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890– 1914 by Barbara Tuchman. Copyright © 1966 by The Macmillan Company. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bloom, Howard K., 1943— The Lucifer principle : a scientific expedition into the forces of history / by Howard Bloom. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-87113-664-0 eISBN: 978-0-8021-9218-9 1. Man. 2. Evolution. 3. History—Philosophy. 4. Culture. 5. Civilization, Modern—20th century. 6. Good and evil. 7. Devil. I. Title. BD450.B526 1995 128—dc20 94-11464 DESIGN BY LAURA HAMMOND HOUGH Atlantic Monthly Press an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. th 154 West 14 Street New York, NY 10011 Distributed by Publishers Group West www.groveatlantic.com To Linda Bloom If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Only through knowledge will we be able . . . to deliver those with superstitious faith in the omnipotence of violence from their folly. Fang Lizhi We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to escape from it. Ortega y Gasset CONTENTS Foreword Who Is Lucifer? The Clint Eastwood Conundrum The Whole Is Bigger Than the Sum of Its Parts The Chinese Cultural Revolution BLOODSTAINS IN PARADISE Mother Nature, the Bloody Bitch Women—Not the Peaceful Creatures You Think Fighting for the Privilege to Procreate The Greed of Genes WHY HUMANS SELF-DESTRUCT The Theory of Individual Selection and Its Flaws Superorganism Isolation—the Ultimate Poison Even Heroes Are Insecure Loving the Child Within Is Not Enough
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