Francis Ford Coppola Instagram – Books that inspired @megalopolisfilm – Part II These books are about a time before there was writing, so much is intelligent guesswork of course; there are many other influences that went into my own ‘best’ guess of what human life may have been like when walking was the only method of transportation, (or if you didn’t care whether you could get back, hopping on a log in the river.) I found ideas wherever I looked, in Plato, Aristotle, Lithuanian Anthropologist Marija Gimbutas and suggest perhaps THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE by Riane Eisler. The previously mentioned short story in the appendix of Hesse’s THE GLASS BEAD GAME is beautiful, and informs much about nature of Matriarchy and basis of the Apprentice system. For an opposing view I’d suggest Francis Fukuyama’s  THE ORDER OF POLITICAL HISTORY or even THE WAR LOVERS by Evan Thomas. All counter views usually stick to the ‘historical period’. This involves one of the greatest pleasures we humans are entitled to which is ‘Learning’. Regarding that powerful word ‘Pleasure’ I whole-heartedly recommend a great read: THE SWERVE by Stephen Greenblatt.                                                                  I believe and my @megalopolisfilm concept accepts that all living human beings (Homo Sapiens) are the only family of our species which survived. Generally considered to be one of 5 modern Apes, are remarkable to say the least,  an amazing species of Genuses when capabilities and accomplishments are considered or in the rare words of 14th century thinker Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (who was punished by the church for saying so) “…the human being is rightly called a great miracle and a living creature worthy of all admiration.”