The chapter-by-chapter index of 📝The Ascent of Humanity by 📝Charles Eisenstein — a companion to the book's pillar memo, routing to a dedicated memo for each of its eight chapters.
Chapters
- Chapter 1 — 📝The Triumph of Technology: technology's broken promise of utopia, and the drift from affluence to anxiety.
- Chapter 2 — 📝The Origins of Separation: how language, number, time, and the machine built the separate self.
- Chapter 3 — 📝The Way of the World: the scientific-reductionist worldview and its mechanical cosmos.
- Chapter 4 — 📝Money and Property: how money converts the relational commons into ownable wealth.
- Chapter 5 — 📝The World Under Control: the logic of control extended over nature and human nature.
- Chapter 6 — 📝The Crumbling of Certainty: science at its frontiers dismantling the worldview it built.
- Chapter 7 — 📝Age of Reunion: the return to connection at a higher order of complexity.
- Chapter 8 — 📝Self and Cosmos: the self reimagined, and the journey placed in cosmic context.
Read the full text at ascentofhumanity.com.