The Stupendous Story of Us | Free Book
From Big Bang to Big Brother in Fifteen Frantic Chapters
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These
questions form the title of an 1897 painting by the French artist Paul
Gauguin. He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by
asking them. He also knew they are not new questions. Our ancestors
began to ask them on the African savannah. The Roman poet Lucretius
posed them in his long poem On the Nature of Things, written just
before the Christian era. He sought natural explanations for the
behaviour of matter, without recourse to gods. But he also knew that
the world we see is largely a creation of our mind. Since then,
science has answered most of his 'how' questions, almost to the point
of offering us a 'Theory of Everything'. But Gauguin's 'why' questions
remain largely unanswered. They require a personal response from us,
without which, as Lucretius intuited, nothing can be joyous or lovely.
In The Stupendous Story of Us, we consider the narrative from all
angles: our mastery of the realm of things, our exploration of our
inner world, and our connectedness to each other. The pace is frantic
because life is short, knowledge is infinite, and the challenges ahead
are pressing.
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