David Edwards

The Compassionate Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Radical Politics and Buddhism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his first book Free to be Human, David Edwards showed how the mass media, controlled by powerful business interests, distort our understanding of many personal, ethical and spiritual issues, ensuring that we remain passive, conformist and uninformed and willing to accept the irrational values of corporate consumerism. In The Compassionate Revolution he builds on the argument, showing how our capitalist system is dependent on the promotion of the three Buddhist Poisons; of Greed, Hatred and Ignorance: Greed for profit at any cost in terms of human suffering; hatred of foreign obstacles to profit; and ignorance of the cosy link between Western corporations and Third World dictators, helping to protect Western profits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781907448171
• Artikelnr.: 39509559

Autorenporträt

David Edwards is a political writer from Kent who specialises in the analysis of the corporate media. After taking a degree in Politics at the University of Leicester, he worked in sales and marketing management for several large corporations. In 1991 he left the business world to concentrate on writing about human rights and environmental issues. He is the co-editor of Media Lens and the author of Free to be Human, The Compassionate Revolution and Guardians of Power (with David Cromwell).