The Collective Face of Evil

The thesis of this book is that society, rather than the individual, is responsible for the lion's share of what we call evil. The understanding that the source of our wrongness is collective leads to a profound shift in the way we think about the social, economic and political problems that confront us. When we examine the collective moral assumptions and practices of modern society, we discover that, in the final analysis, they support a social order that is in nobody's interest. Any effective effort to avoid a humanly created apocalypse must begin with a radical reassessment of our understanding of evil.