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Babylon Falling: Essays About Waning Qualities and Studies of Failing Empires Paperback – August 23, 2017

by Gaither Stewart (Author)
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The logical story behind Gaither Stewart’s Babylon Falling is not merely philosophical, economic and political musings, nor didactic lessons, although that plays a part in the story. This story of change is personal, private and ultimately the sum of the parts assembled by his life experience and choices. It is a gift and a challenge for us. Stewart does not proclaim knowledge for Knowledge’s sake as Plato’s Socrates would see as the ultimate. But, he uses his experience and knowledge as a call to action, a sorely needed call for social, political and economic transformation in the face of global power and global terror--a call for justice in the face of overwhelming injustice. This is where knowledge is the currency and utility the product, not the end of history but the beginning of a transformation to a new era of knowledge exchanged. But, we cannot get there without remembering what has failed and what has worked--the crucibles that men have endured. The waning qualities of loyalty, solidarity and sharing among men and women, groups and nations are visible as refugees flee to Europe and the US creates and enters incalcuble wars for war’s sake. Here there is no solidarity and sharing but instead the ignorance of the sophisticated and wrongly educated elite, the specialists, the ignorance of our political and economic leaders and masters who are morally ignorant, incapable of distinguishing between good and evil. —Perry Miller
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Punto Press, LLC (August 23, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0996487050
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0996487054
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
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  • Arturo Paini
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's a plea for a better humanity, which we cannot but feel involved and ...
    Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2017
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    I have read Gaither Stewart for many years, each time with renewed and greater pleasure.
    "Babylon Falling" is a collection of thoughts and considerations on aspects of life, on social intercourse and on the changes our world is
    going through. It is especially emblematic of the Author's deep attachment to the human values he has always stood for : solidarity, social justice,
    loyalty... It's a plea for a better humanity, which we cannot but feel involved and concerned with.
    The styles is smooth and elegant, the tone is appeased, the vigor and the strength of Stewart's ideas are thus further enhanced.
    Great reading. Highly recommendable.
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  • Brett
    5.0 out of 5 stars A cornucopia of wisdom
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017
    In this sagacious and prescient treatise the author addresses the times as we live them now, offering a cornucopia of wisdom about a period in which “discontent with the existing system” is high, and “tensions are reaching the boiling point, and public apprehension becomes that of the animal trapped by its predator.”

    Unfortunately, help is not on the way because modern day liberals who “could join in the great movement” to resist this development, are not coming to our rescue and because of the nature of American liberalism they never will be able to “bring about real radical social change.” Liberals, according to Stewart, have “given up the struggle” for social change.

    What’s worse, this abandonment by America’s elites, conservatives and liberals, has shown itself to be ever more arrogant and condescending towards the rest of the world. Liberals are still convinced that America continues to carry “the torch of enlightenment” on behalf of the rest of humanity. This flawed arrogance has to be countered, and American history must be reviewed and re-written, so that old myths can be altered or erased. In order to prevent the American people from being misinformed, fearful of the rest of the world, and thereby disillusioned about their past, America’s history has to be revised.

    “What then has happened?” Stewart asks. The America we believed in has betrayed our trust. The only solution to this lack of trust is solidarity, compromise, commitment, and resistance, but instead resisting the system, Americans continue to be smug and complacent. They are not taking action. According to Aldous Huxley, “a whole series of techniques” have been devised “which will enable the controlling oligarchy…to get people to love their servitude.”

    Loving their servitude is not all there is which hinders the American people from correcting their system. “Once, ruling classes found it advantageous to keep the working class on the verge of starvation to keep them obedient. Today they know it is more advantageous to give them enough to make them complacent.”

    Stewart goes on to discuss the American Dream, various “isms,” U.S. hegemony, the role of journalists, and “a world in which truth is a dying species.”

    The last half of Stewart’s polemic is devoted to “The Russians” and “Arabia.” Interestingly, the final chapter describes his feelings about Communism:

    “I speak of myself as a Socialist but in my innermost self I think of myself as a Communist. I prefer the Communist name to the beautiful word ‘Socialist’ because the latter has in many places been altered, weakened, diluted, deformed, its real meaning betrayed by social democrats happy to do capitalism's bidding. It has become ambiguous and in some places has been ostracized as in the capitalist homeland, USA.”

    I am pleased to recommend Stewart’s book because he is attempting to revive a discussion of a subject that has inexplicably and mysteriously disappeared from our literary agenda. Not since the “Red Decade” of the 1930s in America have the words “bourgeoisie” or “solidarity"—even “working class” and “class struggle” been uttered in American public discourse. I think the author is trying to remind us that “Communism” is not the economic and social system that was abused in the Soviet Union—the so-called “god that failed.” Instead, it is far greater than that. I think he’s trying to tell us that “Communism” is more than a system, more than economics, more than a foreign concept. It is very much a part of American struggles, and a way of life envisioned by Marx, the I.W.W., Eugene Debs, and many others in which the means of production is no longer owned privately and operated for profit by capitalist billionaires, but communally owned instead.
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  • Rowan Wolf
    5.0 out of 5 stars An historically informed work that shines the light of reason on our chaotic times
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2017
    This book could not be more timely given the challenges we face in the world. As the US seems intent on destruction of itself, and earlier empires scramble for position, other nations and leaders look on with varying degrees of avarice for position on a pick-up-sticks planet in chaos. Anyone who is even cursorily informed is looking for some perspective that will help make sense of the socio-political insanity that seems steady-state. Enter Gaither Stewart and this offering of essays - "Babylon Falling."

    I have read many of Stewart's works - fiction and non-fiction, essays, short stories and books - and I am always struck by his ability to take his deep grounding in history and philosophy, weave in his considerable international experience, and make the bridge to contemporary issues and challenges. This skill / art is abundantly represented in Babylon Falling. Stewart acknowledges the existential crises of our times and challenges us to think beyond our assumptions to find a way to transform our world from the craven self interest of hegemonic capitalism, with its heel on the neck of most on the planet, to a world of justice in which there may be hope of survival. Such a transformation takes courage, character, and total commitment - topics densely covered in Babylon Falling: Essays About Waning Qualities and Studies of Failing Empires.

    If none of this persuades you to read this excellent collection, Stewart is an exemplary writer and his work never fails to take me by surprise. His writing calls out to the creative and associational thinker in his readers and this reader's inner thinker has always responded. I recommend this book without hesitation as a "good read" that is well worth your time.
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