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PART ONE
THE HUMAN DILEMMA
Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times.
—Christopher Lasch^
The Titanic sails at dawn.
—Bob Dylan
They're talkin' about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation.
—Tracy Chapman
On December 14, 1937, the Japanese high command ordered some fifty thousand troops to attack the Chinese city of Nanking and kill everyone in it. The invaders easily took the city and used the helpless citizenry for bayonet and machine-gun practice; they raped, burned, and dismembered others, including the unborn. Japanese
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