Simplicity, Intricacy, and Beyond: Science, Religion, Politics, and Cards, Hypervolume III

Part-treatise, part-memoir, and part-art-gallery, a mixture of full-color selections and black-and-white selections analyze minds, motives, and societies. It includes examples from the January 1790 to September 2024 period of world history as considered via social psychology, stories, diagrams, photographs, and debates. Expressions--often presented by the author, occasionally presented by others, and sometimes highly collaborative between the author and others--serve to illustrate kindness, cruelty, fringe lifestyles, mainstream lifestyles, and mysteries. The focus shifts between geopolitical events, political developments, personal improvement, interpersonal improvement, healing, and more. Artwork and narratives consider health, wellness, good-vs.-evil, leader-follower dynamics, comparative religion, life-and-death situations, sacrifice, and freedom. The history and analysis of tensions--whether international, interfaith, socioeconomic, or political--abound. Examples and analyses of conflicts--whether between friends, enemies, the religious, the antireligious, conformists, or nonconformists--also abound. This is the concluding installment of The Science, Religion, Politics, and Cards Trilogy.