My Critique of The Dawn

Starting at the cover
- Calling the book "... of Everything" is arrogant
- BOTH authors are: white, cis-male, old, "western", able-bodied.

=> I find that they should have had as co-authors more people from marginalised groups

Page one: "the world seems to be in such a mess"
- as a starting assumption, this statement the OPPOSITE of the proclaimed premise that they are dispelling the "myth of progress"!

=> from a cyclic-time PoV, the world is neither more nor less "in a mess" than long time ago, or far in the future

=> from the zen/spiritual PoV, "it is what it is", so calling it "a mess" is an unnecessary suffering, in addition to the existing pain

=> from the NVC PoV, this is NOT an "objective observation", but quite judgemental

=> AND it's ignoring the JOY that is ALSO present in the world, as both Zen & NVC "see"

by page 10/600
- Plus points: anarchism, non-dualism, beyond “fall from grace” story.
- Minus: not enough humility nor deference to non-western non-male stories; didn’t mention Freddy Perlman yet; no pictures ;)