Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human SurvivalRambo and the Dalai Lama suggests that the assumption that human life is based on conflicts of interest, wars, and the opposition of people to each other and to nature exists as a paradigm that supplies meaning and orientation to the world. An alternative paradigm sees cooperation, caring, nurturing, and loving as equally viable ways of organizing relationships of humans to each other and to nature. Fellman sees this shifting emphasis from adversarialism to mutuality as essential to the survival of our species and nature itself. |
Contents
On Cruelty and Social Change | 3 |
To Overcome or Not to Overcome That is the Question | 9 |
Oh to be Torn twist Love and Duty | 19 |
Two Paradigms | 23 |
Two Compulsions | 37 |
The Terrifier | 56 |
Rituals of Killing and Revenge | 69 |
Rituals of Undermining | 88 |
The Emergence of Empathy | 145 |
Reappropriating the Self | 161 |
Seeds of Mutuality I Old Seeds in Old Institutions | 178 |
Seeds of Mutuality II New Seeds in Old Institutions | 186 |
Seeds of Mutuality III New Seeds in New Institutions | 201 |
Three Stretches toward Globalism | 227 |
Notes | 249 |
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