Book Description

You hear the term tossed about all the time...Society this, society that. Society is crumbling! Society is improving. Society rhymes with sobriety (Ok, maybe that last one only comes to mind if you play Scrabble...or have a serious drinking issue.) But what is human society anyway, this worldwide thing that we're all part of and that we keep talking about? Is it actually a thing? Is it a being? Or is it like a cone, and we humans are like the ice cream? Mmm, ice cream! Understanding Our Whole puts forth the theory that the global human society is a multizoa organism - that is, a biological organism made from many animals. It then lays out the various characteristics of multizoa organisms, like the fact that they feed, that they can reproduce (oh, mama!), that they can evolve over generations, that they can act, think and even get sick, all the while using our human society as an example. And to top it off, the book breaks down each of these characteristics one by one in the funniest way possible, sprinkled with pictures and puns designed to make both the writer and the reader laugh their butts off while becoming enlightened...which makes the job of taking a good long look at your whole much easier.