Cube & Cathedral: A Book Review

Weigel, George
The Cube and the Cathedral
Basic Books (Perseus Books Group)
New York; 2005
ISBN 0-465-09266-7

This is most certainly not an easy book to read in spite of its shortness and shortness of each chapter. In many ways it reminds of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer—Some Notes On Mass Movements as to the compactness, logic and challenge of its thoughts AND my need to re-read much of it as a first reading of and reflection upon their contents was not enough for me to really grasp the essential meaning of the authors.. This is very interesting because the two authors are worlds apart in basic assumptions about the reality of the the true nature of humans. However, both authors had (Mr. Hoffer is dead) or have commanding personal (On TV) presences and spoke/speak with a passion not understood from their written words.

Mr. Weigel lays out the current and probable future of what was a European Civilization with special references to: The French; The EU's purposeful and even hateful rejection of Europe's Christian roots and foundation in its proposed constitution and even the current administration of its affairs; The contrasting Slavic view of human and humanity, as well as the very modern (Perhaps, too modern for the EU's bureaucrats who are “stuck in the 1960s”); The pathological and self-destructive (Even suicidal) loss of population; And, many other and very interesting facets of European dynamics.

This book is worth your time and reflection---And, will make demands on both.