: Bill K Koul
: We Humans Our initial 100 days during the COVID-19 pandemic
: Vivid Publishing
: 9781922409515
: 1
: CHF 7.30
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: Philosophie, Religion
: English
: 354
: DRM
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed humans, bringing disruption and fear to our lives, but also an opportunity for reassessment of our place in the world and in history. In this book, Bill K Koul neither calls for ideal humans nor for perfect or ideal societies, but challenges readers to accept the 'good', the 'bad' and the 'ugly' in everyone and, in doing so, to be less judgemental of each other. 'We Humans' examines the big news stories that have happened over the course of the pandemic, particularly the protests around the world against black deaths in custody, the conflicts in Kashmir and between India and China, and the geopolitical influence of the US. Koul delves into the reasons behind our mysterious behaviour at individual and political levels, and gives a commentary on our greatest challenges and our opportunities, with a glimpse of what life may look like after the pandemic if we seize this moment to make our world anew.

INTRODUCTION

This book,We Humans, is for those humans who are not born yet. They must know how we humans acted and behaved even during the COVID-19 pandemic days. This book provides a report card for the human race during the pandemic.

This book neither calls for perfect or ideal humans nor for perfect or ideal societies. It calls for acceptance of humans and societies as they are and, thus, for acceptance of all shades of the good, the bad and the ugly in humans and societies as they naturally exist.

This book has nine chapters, each concluded with a poem. Aside from the first and last chapters, they cover the period between November 2019 and July 2020:

•Chapter 1 provides a general commentary about life on Earth and human evolution, and a philosophical comment about human nature generally and how humans have not changed much through their evolution.

•Chapter 2 discusses various shades of human nature, taking as its starting point the shocking death of George Floyd in the USA and how that country and the rest of the world reacted to it, including the cries of Australian Indigenous people and the Dalits of India.

•Chapter 3 tries to decipher mysterious human behaviour on both individual and collective levels – as common people and politicians – with several real-life vignettes and anecdotes. It also provides a commentary on gender inequality and a discussion on missing females.

•Chapter 4 discusses life in Kashmir during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and two painful case histories that illustrate the value of a human life in Kashmir.

•Chapter 5 discusses geopolitics during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the world is currently positioned precariously, all due to the ego and personal political ambitions of some powerful leaders.

•Chapter 6 gives a detailed account of the ongoing India–China conflict and its history. It emphasises why a military conflict between the world’s two most populated countries, which contain about 36 percent of the total world population and have among the world’s most powerful defence forces and economies, can be disastrous for the entire region and the rest of the world.

•Chapter 7 p