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File Size: 468 KB

Print Length: 266 pages

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0374270937

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (March 29, 2016)

Publication Date: March 29, 2016

Language: English

ASIN: B01CNTOJCK

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Absolutely one of the ten worst books I’ve ever read. I’d heard a lot about how great it was, and as an atheist who shares the belief that humans are an accidental occurrence in the universe I thought I might find it interesting.However, the entire book is nothing but false statements and poor reasoning. Gray discusses everything from Ancient Greek philosophy to present-day neurocognitivism. Nobody could be an expert on all these things, but whenever he discusses something I do know about he gets it completely wrong, so I have little faith that he gets the rest of it right. When discussing anyone from the entire history of Western civilizations (or Eastern, for that matter), but just asserts that they way whatever stupid thing best fits his argument.And he isn’t even a skilled sophist! HIs arguments are just too obviously specious, usually of the form “All men are mortal, Socrates is mortal, Socrates is a man.” E.g.: all conscious organisms can respond to external stimuli, bacteria respond to external stimuli, so bacteria are conscious.He also realizes heavily on equivocation—as when he argues that when trees release certain chemicals in response to stressors we call that ‘communication,’ and when people use language we call that communication, therefore trees have a language exactly the same as humans.There is a logical error or equivocation, and usually a false assertion, in absolutely every section of this book. What really puzzles him is why people seem to like it. It clearly uses these strategies to produce the worst kind of quietist, even nihilist, neoliberal ideology: political activism is the source of all evil, and we are evolutionarily designed to be capitalist and competitive and vicious, so just learn to accept the world because we can’t change it—we can’t even understand that last sentence, because all thought is just an automatic response to stimuli programmed by evolution, without any real “meaning.” It is hard to believe that so many people think this poorly. I can only suppose that most people ignore the arguments completely, because they want to agree with the conclusions—although that may be even worse.I can understand why affluent and powerful people would like the oppressed to buy this crap. I can’t understand, though, why anyone would accept if for themselves. Gray’s basic premise has two contradictory parts: first, we shouldn’t bother trying to improve our lot, because we cannot do this anyway, and it is somehow evil to try to do what we cannot succeed at (although how there can be “evil” in a world inherently devoid of meaning is not explained). Second, we should not try to change the world or even think because we can in fact do so successfully, and this violates the dictates of the Gaia that we humans are the only species without value (all other living things have value—we are arrogant to think they don’t, because only WE don’t have value), and Gaia wants us to suffer, in fact needs us to suffer and die out, so to successfully improve our lot is somehow arrogant and rude at best, evil at worst.In the end, he suggests that we should give up on action in the world (it is merely a pathetic consolation for our meaninglessness) and just make use of the technology that we have (he seems unaware that this technology was produced by human action) and learn to passively observe the world without trying to live in it—except, apparently, through use of technology. iPhones are fine, it seems, beause they promote apathy and inactivity and the end of the humans species. Organized attempts to advocate for human rights, things like feminism and civil rights movements, are both doomed to fail, and morally corrupt because they violate the dictates of Gaia that we humans are the only worthless life form on the planet and deserve only to suffer and wait passively to die.I read the whole thing trying to figure why people might like this so much. The only thing I can think of is that it is popular with the affluent and powerful, who can use it as a justification for oppression of others, of course never believing it applies to themselves.

If you think that you are not straw dogs that will be crushed ruthlessly by heaven and earth, then you will have to read this book, among the most important philosophical books ever written.But reading the book once is not enough: you will have to re-read it and then, perhaps, read it one more time and check out at least some of the references and sources recommended by Prof. Gray. His philosophical analysis may be overwhelming, I am afraid, for an average reader, who most likely has never been exposed to such a vast array of names, sources, quotes, philosophical ideas in just one book.Anybody who knows anything about human history cannot possibly disagree with Gray that we are a very violent species, although not as dangerous as the religions we have created, particularly the monotheistic religions such as Christianity. But perhaps the most destructive ideology we have developed is the idea of social progress buttressed by technological advancement, no doubt. Except that technological progress doesn't guarantee any other progress and may result in our annihilation. Those who, like the Fascists and the Communists, have tried to impose their idea of progress have left the planet devastated by mutilated lands and littered by millions of corpses. Unfortunately, the current worship of the “free market economy” and globalization may not be far off from a similar course.Another devastating critique of our civilization is the way we have treated animals, of whom we are but one species but from whom we have usually tried to separate. The role of Christianity in this endless tragedy of torture and unspeakable murder is appalling, but the consequences are even worse. (This argument is so important in Gray’s philosophy that he discusses it in more detail in another excellent book “The Silence of Animals.”)

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