A Fable of Liberty Lost and Found: Inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense by Ju

Description: A Fable of Liberty Lost and Found by Judah Freed, Thomas Paine Inspired by the fable that opens Thomass Paines Common Sense, award-winning author Judah Freed tells a satiric cautionary tale about what happens to government in any society when people lose a sense of natural spiritual oneness. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A Fable of Liberty Lost and Found is a short parable offering insights for the hard choices our world faces today. The satiric cautionary tale tells what happens in any society when people lose a sense of our natural oneness.The allegory is inspired by the fable that opens Thomass Paines Common Sense. To show the design and purpose of government, Paine imagines a remote community trying to govern itself, showing how the different forms of government arise. His pivotal writings convinced most 18th century colonial Americans to reject monarchy and establish the worlds first modern democracy.Today in the early 21st century, award-winning author and seasoned journalist Judah Freed builds on Paines fable to warn about our nations corrupt slide into tyranny and collapse. The ending offers hope for reviving democracy. The authors imagination and satire are informed by recent trends and events in the USA and around the world.Synopsis: The short story is told in two parts with 10 sections. Part I tells a tale of conscious people who land on a remote island to escape dystopia. Over the generations, their society goes from utopian anarchy to open democracy, then they choose a republic, which gets corrupted, leading to tyranny and collapse. Part II offers an optimistic alternative ending, a vision of the people instead emerging into an enlightened society. We need all the hope we can get these days. (Reading time: 30 minutes.)Book Backstory: This two-part work of fiction originated as the preamble and epilogue that frame Judah Freeds nonfiction book, Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth inspired by Thomas Paines Common Sense. The parable brackets Freeds reasoning on the power of a billion globally aware people to build our world anew. Because the story stands up on its own, heres the full tale told in a single volume for readers who care about our future on earth. Author Biography JUDAH FREED is an award-winning author and seasoned local to global journalist. His work won two Nautilus Book Awards and a Benjamin Franklin Book Award. He earlier pioneered press coverage of the internet for the top U.S. and European media trade magazines.He earned a double BA in communication and journalism through the University Without Walls program at Loretto Heights College (Regis). He researched public communication through the Individualized MA program at Antioch. He studied creative writing with John Schultz and Betty Shiflett in The Story Workshop at Columbia College Chicago. Thomas Paine in the 18th century wrote pamphlets and books that changed the world, so society and government shifted from monarchy to democracy. Paines writings matter in the early 21st century when autocracies outnumber democracies Review "Thomas Paine rallied Americans to a new sense of themselves and their possibilities. Judah Freed does likewise for citizens of the planet."- Bill McKibben, The End of Nature; Falter; Global Climate March"Judah Freed has taken the gauntlet from Thomas Paine and other great innovators of democracy to guide us toward the evolution of democracy itself."- Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution (she saw draft) Details ISBN1737398567 Author Thomas Paine Pages 72 Publisher Media Visions Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781737398561 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-01-29 Imprint Media Visions Press Subtitle Inspired by Thomas Paines Common Sense Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159753119;

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