Making Global Sense: Making Global Sense: Grounded Hope for Democracy and the Earth - Hardcover

Freed, Judah

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798990028876

Publisher: Hoku House, 2024

Synopsis

Updated 2026 for the 250th anniversary of Common Sense

• The right book at the rig time.
• Shows why we need No Kings.
• Tells how we got to where we are, and what we can do from here.

IN THESE TRYING TIMES of climate change and rising despotism that threatens to end democracy, Making Global Sense revives the ideas and ideals of Thomas Paine to champion 21st century freedom and enlightenment. The book offers sensible reasons for hope.

Overview: Seasoned journalist and award-winning author Judah Freed updates and extends Common Sense by Thomas Paine. Freed builds on Paine's structure and logic: to argue for adopting a global sense of natural oneness or connectivity to guide out crucial choices in today's crisis. A global sensibility, rooted in reason, grounds the hope needed to do the daily personal growth and social change work that together can repair our world.

• Where Paine challenged monarchy and hereditary succession, Freed challenges ancient alpha male rule and authority addiction (hidden by split perceptions).
• Where Paine proposed the first modern republic, Freed proposes mindful self rule, personal democracy and direct republics.
• Where Paine inspired independence and rviolent evolution, Freed inspires interdependence and peaceful evolution, now..

Why Thomas Paine? Back in 1776, Paine's pivotal Common Sense galvanizing public support for the American Revolution. Without his essay, the colonial rebellion against the king would have failed. Paine changed how people made since of their world, and so the world changed. In today's world of wannabe kings denying climate change an human rights, we again need books to galvanize public support for global ecology and honest democracy.

Creative Nonfiction: Balancing mind and heart, Judah Freed frames his essay within the memoir survival story behind the book. He narrates childhood abuse, school bullying; joining a cult at age 20, fleeing at 24, facing his authority addiction to choose self rule. He recalls ego follies in later decades of local to international journalism with world travel adventures, like landing in Fiji amid a coup. Judah shares his soul choice as an elder to survive cancer, so he can finish this book.

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BOOK AWARDS:

• 2023 Nautilus Book Award - Memoir
• 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Culture
• 2024 Visionary Book Awards - Rising to the Challenge
• 2024 Visionary Book Awards - Earth Changes
• 2024 Visionary Book Awards - Social Justice.
• 2024 Colorado Evvy Book Award - Social Issues

About this title

About the Authors

JUDAH FREED is a seasoned journalist and award-winning author. He made a soul choice as an elder to survive cancer and publish Making Global Sense, which he began writing in 2001.. As a freethinking student of Thomas Paine and the Enlightenment, Freed distills 18th century ideas and ideals for 21st century minds. To balance head and heart, he frames his thoughtful essay within a vulnerable memoir of the life behind his insights. Giving back beyond his writings, Judah serves on the First Amendment committee of the American Society of Journalists an Authors. He represents ASJA on the executive steering committee of the international Banned Books Week Coalition. He serves on the board of of directors in the Thomas Paine Historical Association. He's active in the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, which awaits final congressional approval for a Paine statue in Washington, DC.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), an English-born writer and activist, is renown for his 1776 essay, Common Sense, a pivotal call for American independence and democracy. He was a leading writer of The Enlightenment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hoku House
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798990028876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286