In the Absence of the Sacred is an exceptionally lucid and intelligent presentation of the urgent need to change the direction of our culture before we no longer have a choice. It is a skewering critique of modern technology, in which cars, telephones, computers, banks, biogenetics, and television all are shown to be part of a mad megatechnology that is destroying the world's resources and robotizing its peoples. It tells us how megatech is hollowing out humans and annihilating everything natural. It proposes that we must relearn a sense of the sacred from the earth's remaining indigenous peoples and change the way we live now. Jerry Mander shows us that native peoples are not quaint relics, but the sources of precisely the practical wisdom our species needs not only for survival, but for renewal. Soft cover. 446 pages. Appendix and bibliography. 9"x6". To Order By Phone Call Toll Free: 866-596-9982