TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF TYRANNY
ON THE ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION AND SIN
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About the Book
“Ten thousand years of tyranny” is a polemic as uncompromising as Rousseau or Marx. It rejects one central idea of Darwin’s theory, ie that life evolves in an environment of scarce resources and claims that the world has always been abundant of and for life. Given this, Frost claims, life is, though violent, essentially benign. Humanity, freed from the whip of scarcity, would be free to live in harmony with itself and the wider world, without sin, were it not for the corruptions arising from differential social power. The author, aged about 20 months, with his pregnant mother, Selina, taken in about September 1938 in North End, Essex, UK.
About the Author
Richard Frost is 83. He left school at 16 to become a reporter on the local newspaper in Hasting. He went to Lancaster University at 33 to study politics (awarded first class honours) and subsequently studied prehistoric archaeology at Liverpool and Durham. His book is the result of 40 years of research in the two subjects.