In individual ownership as the "matrix of power, inequality, criminality, obscurantism, and immorality" refers to the new essay by Kostas Lampou, continuing his unconventional critique, which he so aptly analyzed in his previous works, for the establishment of absolute individualism in the third Christian millennium.

"During the great period," he writes, "of human history without individual ownership, which lasted hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, during which the human species evolved from a herd-gathering quadruped to a socially thinking biped and ensured its survival, it seems that what interested its members was not wealth as the power of one over others, but the safer individual and collective survival and happiness."

The book is read breathlessly and the reader "is educated" with the multitude of references from leading intellectuals and researchers related to the subject, while the talented author, knowing in advance the criticism that may be directed at him, promptly distances himself from those who in the early 20th century abolished individual ownership without achieving either happiness or prosperous collective survival.

Many of your questions about how planet Earth reached today's economic and environmental crisis will be answered through the pages of this extremely timely book.

Vasilis Vasilikos