The Tunnel at the End of the Light

We used to speak proverbially of “Seeing the light at the End of the Tunnel.” But this controversial book reverses that proverb and sets out to show that we are leaving the light behind us and are entering a dark tunnel of anxiety, disorder and inevitable dehumanisation. This book argues that Western civilisation has taken a profoundly wrong turning which we need to set right if our civilisation and our lives are not to descend into chaos. It identifies the domination of our lives by science and technology as lying at the heart of the deep malaise in our society. In the light of modern history, it has become clear that our immense scientific knowledge and skills cannot bring us the gift of happiness, personal or social. On the contrary, our enslavement to technology has poisoned our lives and corrupted our ethical values. Materialism, in the form of wealth, power and pleasure, is the creed of our time, chanted by so-called democratic governments the world over, and this is precisely what the sci-tech obsession offers us. This book analyses how we have been sleepwalking into this critical situation, and why we must retrace our steps if we wish to recover our true humanity. We must understand that if we accept life in a virtual reality, we shall end as being virtual people in a virtual world, for the truth is that we are currently engaged in programming mankind for self-destruction.