The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival Author : Serhii Plokhy ISBN-13 : 9780241582862 Publisher : Allen Lane Guideline Price : £30
It begins in childhood. Our parents and siblings and those close to us teach us how to love. They teach us how to love ourselves and how to love others, and the balance between the two. For a cursed minority, however, the lesson they are taught, through violence, neglect, abuse, or indifference, is to envy love. Their psychological formation leaves them bereft of the basic human capacities for empathy and care, a vacuum they are compelled to fill with a compulsion for power, wealth, cruelty and envy. There is an Ethiopian saying that sums up perfectly this most crucial finding of psychological science – “The child who
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