{"id":18181,"date":"2020-04-02T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/wp\/?page_id=18181"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:31:40","slug":"the-big-picture-jigsaw-how-blooms-nine-books-fit-together","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/?page_id=18181","title":{"rendered":"The Big Picture Jigsaw How Bloom\u2019s Nine Books Fit Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is Howard Bloom\u2019s April 2020 book called <em>Einstein, Michael Jackson &amp; Me: a Search\u00a0 for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock &amp; Roll<\/em>?\u00a0 Why the subtitle, <em>A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of Bloom\u2019s work is a hunt for the soul of groups: for\nthe soul of friends, for the soul of cliques, for the soul of subcultures, for\nthe soul of movements, for the soul of nations, and for the soul of\ncivilizations. Bloom calls his field \u201cmass behavior,\u201d&nbsp; from the mass behavior of elementary\nparticles to the mass behavior of you and me.&nbsp;\nHere\u2019s how that focus on mass passion has played out in Bloom\u2019s seven\nbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The<br>Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History<\/em> is<br>about the competition between groups and how the group seduces, kidnaps, and<br>recruits the individual.\u00a0 <em>The Lucifer Principle<\/em> is about how group<br>souls grab hold of you and me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Global<br>Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21<sup>st<\/sup><br>Century<\/em> is about how this planet became a massive innovation-sharing<br>network four billion years ago.\u00a0 And about two competitions between<br>groups, the competition between humans and microbes, and the competition<br>between human subcultures like conservatives and liberals, Shiites and Sunnis,<br>and militant Islam and the West.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The<br>Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism<\/em> is<br>about the form of mass behavior we call an economy.\u00a0\u00a0 And about the exuberant mass creativity we<br>call Western Civilization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>How<br>I Accidentally Started the Sixties<\/em> is a humorous memoir about the rise<br>in 1962 of a new social force&#8211;the hippy movement.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The<br>Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram<\/em> is<br>about the rise of the biggest empire the world has ever seen, an empire eleven<br>times the size of the conquests of Alexander the Great, five times the size of<br>the Roman Empire and seven times the size of the United States.\u00a0 The rise<br>of Islam is one the best-hidden stories of group soul and mass passion in human<br>history.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The<br>God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates<\/em> is about how a<br>profoundly social and communicative cosmos has self-assembled in one of the most<br>puzzling acts of mass creativity ever seen.\u00a0 <em>The God Problem <\/em>also proposes five heresies that could change the<br>way a key mass mind thinks&#8211;the mass mind we call science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Einstein,<br>Michael Jackson &amp; Me: a Search\u00a0 for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock<br>&amp; Roll<\/em> is about the lessons in mass passion that Bloom learned by<br>plunging into the belly of the beast, diving into the dark underbelly where new<br>myths and movements are made.\u00a0 The lessons Bloom learned by focusing that beast&#8217;s<br>attention. The lessons he learned by adventuring with Michael Jackson, Prince,<br>Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC\/DC, Billy Joel, Billy<br>Idol, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Kool and the Gang, ZZ Top, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Chaka Khan, and Joan Jett.\u00a0\u00a0And the lessons<br>Bloom learned hunting down a mystery: what is the secret self that leaps from<br>you like a flame when you have a few drinks, you dance, when the strobe lights<br>and the music get you, and when a self that you do not know dances you like a<br>puppet for thirty minutes? \u00a0And how in the<br>world does your internal fire feed the forces of history?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Howard Bloom\u2019s April 2020 book called Einstein, Michael Jackson &amp; Me: a Search\u00a0 for Soul in the Power &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howardbloom.net\/?page_id=18181\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why is Howard Bloom\u2019s April 2020 book called Einstein, Michael Jackson &amp; Me: a Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock &amp; Roll? 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