What happens if you fall into complacency, what happens if you value comfort over doing what is morally correct? What happens if you keep changing the line to be crossed, when you redefine what is bad, what is unbearable. What happens if it all unfolds very quietly, like those extra pounds that suddenly appear on your body. You didn't want it, you didn't plan on it, yet it happened pound by pound....What happens if you keep lowering standards and values......do "democracies fall not with a bang, but with a whimper?" Reviewer Adam (from the Chaotic Neutral website) commented: "It wasn't until I read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson that The Man in the HIgh Castle clicked for me. |
Man in the High Castle (1962). This is a novel of ideas, giving us an alternate history where
President Roosevelt was assassinated in the 1930s and we lose WWII with the new leadership.
Germany and Japan are the victors, and they divide the US between them. Hitler remains in an
asylum , having gone insane. Slavery is legal, Jews hide under assumed names.
The author "made much use of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a History of Nazi Germany,
by William L. Shirer" (1960); as well as, consulting The Tibetan Book of the Dead and the
I Ching or Book of Changes. The book was made into a mini series available on Amazon.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror & an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Thursday, December 7