IS THERE SOMETHING IN OUR FOOD OR WATER?
Americans have always been know for our contentiousness, but for some reason that dissonance seems to be evolving into divisive confrontation mostly without any rational plan for addressing the dialectic. What’s causing this impulsiveness, I wonder. Maybe it’s all the Viagra being consumed these days? Maybe it’s something in our food or water? I don’t know, but I do wonder how much more contention we can absorb without falling apart as a government. Foreign powers and the like may be egging us on, hoping to lead us into revolution and dictatorship, but if we end up there, it will be of our own doing.
In THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) — which, by the way just received it’s first Amazon review with 5/5 stars! — I tried to make the case that politics should follow, not lead socio-technological change. In my hypothetical former USA, the reverse is what brought the nation to crisis (and, if I may be so bold, may be doing exactly that now); returning to governing following socio-technological change is what brought a smaller but much more empowered NewAmerica into being. In short, I presented a pre-NewAmerica world where government was run by “leaders” rather than administrative followers of the legislative and judicial processes. The most important point, however, was that what “saved” the former USA was not stronger leadership but better administration. Not change for leadership’s sake, but resulting from the “natural” cultural forces. Is that bizarre? Or is it just too much Viagra? Or something in our food or water? Go figure.
What, in my opinion makes THE EDGE OF MADNESS unique is that the three principal characters, as is true of every generation, struggle to find their place(sJ) in what is a complex, often seemingly indifferent society. It isn’t about political movements or revolutions. it’s about humans struggling to find meaning in an ever-enlarging, ever-changing world.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) By Raymond Gaynor 257 pp. – 5.25″ x 8″ Softcover Pocket Book ISBN 9780999693858 Suggested Retail Price (SRP) $16.95 paperback/7.95 Kindle eBook.
Now available worldwide with free shipping from The Book Depository at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
In THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) — which, by the way just received it’s first Amazon review with 5/5 stars! — I tried to make the case that politics should follow, not lead socio-technological change. In my hypothetical former USA, the reverse is what brought the nation to crisis (and, if I may be so bold, may be doing exactly that now); returning to governing following socio-technological change is what brought a smaller but much more empowered NewAmerica into being. In short, I presented a pre-NewAmerica world where government was run by “leaders” rather than administrative followers of the legislative and judicial processes. The most important point, however, was that what “saved” the former USA was not stronger leadership but better administration. Not change for leadership’s sake, but resulting from the “natural” cultural forces. Is that bizarre? Or is it just too much Viagra? Or something in our food or water? Go figure.
What, in my opinion makes THE EDGE OF MADNESS unique is that the three principal characters, as is true of every generation, struggle to find their place(sJ) in what is a complex, often seemingly indifferent society. It isn’t about political movements or revolutions. it’s about humans struggling to find meaning in an ever-enlarging, ever-changing world.
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) By Raymond Gaynor 257 pp. – 5.25″ x 8″ Softcover Pocket Book ISBN 9780999693858 Suggested Retail Price (SRP) $16.95 paperback/7.95 Kindle eBook.
Now available worldwide with free shipping from The Book Depository at https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Ed...
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