The Crazy Ape

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A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Szent-Györgyi concerns himself with the underlying forces and conditions that have prevented the realization of the higher possibilities of the American Dream, and, by extension, of all mankind. He addresses himself especially to the youth of the world in his attempt to show how man, the more he progresses technologically, seems the more to regress psychologically and socially, until he resembles his primate ancestors in a state of high schizophrenia. The fundamental question asked by this book is: why is it that most of the scientific research that is done to eleva.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; FOREWORD; I. THE PROBLEM IS STATED; II. MAN vs. NATURE; III. THE BRAIN AND THE MIND; IV. REMARKS ON EDUCATION; V. THE DUALITY OF MORALS; VI. THE BIOLOGY OF ARMIES; VII. THE DUAL WORLD STRUCTURE; VIII. ON GOVERNMENTS; IX. ON INFORMATION; X. LIFE vs. DEATH; XI. ON VIOLENCE; XII. GERONTOCRACY; XIII. SEX; XIV. THE GENERATION GAP; XV. A PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH; XVI. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY; XVII. THE WAY OUT; XVIII. ADDITIVITY AND THE BIPARTISAN WORLD; APPENDIX; POST SCRIPT; Notes; Copyright.