Curiosity and Caution Required
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By Onthegrassyknowles
Griffith gets as much right as he does wrong. Keep your grains of salt handy, you may need them. His examinations of Plato and Jesus are interesting and his insights into the dual nature of individualist and collectivist humans are likely close to true, however, he misses much, such as: the importance of propaganda in Plato’s Cave Allegory, the role of martyrs and violent revolutionary movements in the politics of Christ’s time on earth, and his examination of the hemispheres of the brain leave something to be desired. His use of denial and the dead effect in the early chapters are self-defeating, however he is quite insightful despite his failures in the mid and later chapters as he gets closer and closer to his expertise of Biology. Give and take are advised as are multiple readings. The text is dense and requires intellectual filtering. “Buyer” beware.