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  • So What Does It All Mean?: The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang to Trump

    So What Does It All Mean?: The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang to Trump

    The final book the fascinating series The Secrets of Life: So What Does It All Mean in many ways presents elements of this massive work in a far from conclusive style, as O’Connor recaps much of the previous three books, in order to present what he considers is a pretty good forward projection as to where our world is headed.

    Inspite of our best efforts, he does not consider we are in for the Big Bang, but that we as an ever evolving species are moving towards the next phase of what could be considered, ‘this comes next’. Perhaps as he suggests all this turmoil is indicative of slowly moving towards a more Community based world which is more tolerant, kinder and less dependent on the “Big Man” telling the world what he wants to achieve.

    Although many of O’Connor’s theories seem to be a bit light and fanciful, the reality is that we are still a series of organisms wandering about, reforming to absorb the many facets of an ever changing world. This has been proven to be a slow but steady process, in some cases very slow, which has over the past 200 years, speed up to a pace which may not be sustainable in its present form.

    As with all of the previous books there is much to ponder over again, a considerable amount that challenges the very basis of entrenched beliefs and a massive amount which, when given serious thought, makes absolute sense.

    The future as O’Connor presents it, is a place that is exciting, involving many differing drivers to times past, as history will attribute too, but looking back over the past 50 years, life has changed, which is an undeniable fact.

    So What Does It All Mean is in essence a very positive view of the future of the world: a world many of us will not live to see, but in our own small way will have contributed to, in one way or another. But as always, time and only time, holds the answer and until then much of what has been theorised upon and researched will make for many excellent debates.

  • How Did We Get To Be So Different?

    How Did We Get To Be So Different?

    The Secrets of Life: From Big Bang To Trump (Book 2/4)

    How did humankind get to be so different since our less than auspicious arrival as a form of micro-organism, around 3.8 billion years ago, to a race or many races of peoples living vastly sophisticated lives?

    In Book Two of The Secrets of Life series from SS O’Connor, How Did We Get To Be So Different, O’Connor sets out to present his take on the process of evolution that has occurred over what is considered by academics, as a relatively short period of time.

    In a wry, witty and very informative style, O’Connor leads us down the pathway of what happened to create the place we are in today. This becomes more and more intriguing as the various stages of development are in some cases immense and take place over relatively short time spans, whereas others take so long the change in the development at the time would have been less than remarkable or perhaps noticeable.

    Moving along from speechless entities slowly learning to walk in an upright manner, no small challenge at all, as the physical body had to change immensely, to a grunt thought to be the earliest form of communication, to a fully-fledged language which, over time moved through the phases of thinking, bartering, the development of the ‘Big Man’ in the smaller groups or villages of up to approximately 150 people, to the urban sprawl we live with today.

    An interesting concept, amongst the many is where do we go, or how far can we go next in our development or have we almost come full circle.  Another interesting fact is that ever since man learned to hunt with tools, they set about destroying many species which have been extinct for hundreds of years, which then, along with a few other salient points, puts forward the really intriguing theory that the ‘meme’ is now considered to be almost hardwired into the human from conception.

    Each series of questions which head up the various chapters leads on to further questions with gusto. This creates immensely exciting reading, as although people are aware of the ‘theory of evolution’ which has been and still is a hotly debated area of science and religion, it has often been presented as a dry, uninteresting subject, which it certainly is not, when delivered in SS O’Connor’s engaging style.

    While a part of a series How Did We Get To Be So Different, can also be read as a stand-alone. Are life’s many questions being answered along the way or are more points for consideration being raised?

    Will book Three Why Do We All Behave The Way We Do hold more answers: that is yet to be discovered!