A THANKSGIVING BLACK FRIDAY
TODAY is Thanksgiving, and I wish you and yours a pleasant holiday. It’s odd, or at least paradoxical to me at least, to be celebrating family during a Black Friday (Day, Week, Month or Year, depending on your political or COVID perspective). The Year of the Plague makes for this year’s Thanksgiving adage, “Wishing you a death-free Thanksgiving” a chilling reminder of where our world is in our struggle with COVID-19.
But it’s not really about COVID or Trump. I’ve repeatedly posted my opinion that COVID-19 isn’t the “real” enemy. The scythe of the uncooperative and disbelieving, it isn’t COVID-19 per se that’s creating havoc. Instead of COVID-19, it might just as well have been any number of bacterial, viral or prion-based epidemics prophesied by health officials. No, it’s our outmoded infrastructure from the way we govern right down to how we live our individual lives that needs critical re-examination.
We’ve come to rely on the creation of increasingly dense concentrations of humans in order to satisfy an unrelenting greed, basing our “measure of success” on the accumulation of money.
I have long held that money — like power is an illusion. Money is a “game” invented by people to benefit a few “winners,” at the expense of the rest of humanity, the “losers.” Money isn’t proof of success. It simply bypasses everything that makes us human and of intrinsic value simply because we exist.
Are we, as one, capable of “growing up” and taking our place in the universe as humanity, or are we destined to remain stuck in our monitized sandbox, fighting over who can amass the most sand while we succumb, one by one, to the two Great Illusions and the henchmen, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? I’ll say it again: In my opinion, our “real” enemy isn’t COVID-19. It’s our own failing infrastructures, whether they be in politics, ethics, education, transportation, health care, business or religion.
Can we rise above our own destruction? I think so. That’s why I wrote THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. It’s a science-based futuring (SCI-FU) novel providing readers a way to look at the present and a plausible future, neither dystopian or utopian, simply clearer, so we can see where we are today and where, claiming our own control of our lives and humanity, to direct our present efforts for a future that elevates all humankind, animals, plants…and our own living, breathing planet.
So, Happy Thanksgiving. Me,, I’m thankful for the opportunity of sharing THE EDGE OF MADNESS with you, and I hope you will be thankful for having read it!
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
But it’s not really about COVID or Trump. I’ve repeatedly posted my opinion that COVID-19 isn’t the “real” enemy. The scythe of the uncooperative and disbelieving, it isn’t COVID-19 per se that’s creating havoc. Instead of COVID-19, it might just as well have been any number of bacterial, viral or prion-based epidemics prophesied by health officials. No, it’s our outmoded infrastructure from the way we govern right down to how we live our individual lives that needs critical re-examination.
We’ve come to rely on the creation of increasingly dense concentrations of humans in order to satisfy an unrelenting greed, basing our “measure of success” on the accumulation of money.
I have long held that money — like power is an illusion. Money is a “game” invented by people to benefit a few “winners,” at the expense of the rest of humanity, the “losers.” Money isn’t proof of success. It simply bypasses everything that makes us human and of intrinsic value simply because we exist.
Are we, as one, capable of “growing up” and taking our place in the universe as humanity, or are we destined to remain stuck in our monitized sandbox, fighting over who can amass the most sand while we succumb, one by one, to the two Great Illusions and the henchmen, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? I’ll say it again: In my opinion, our “real” enemy isn’t COVID-19. It’s our own failing infrastructures, whether they be in politics, ethics, education, transportation, health care, business or religion.
Can we rise above our own destruction? I think so. That’s why I wrote THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. It’s a science-based futuring (SCI-FU) novel providing readers a way to look at the present and a plausible future, neither dystopian or utopian, simply clearer, so we can see where we are today and where, claiming our own control of our lives and humanity, to direct our present efforts for a future that elevates all humankind, animals, plants…and our own living, breathing planet.
So, Happy Thanksgiving. Me,, I’m thankful for the opportunity of sharing THE EDGE OF MADNESS with you, and I hope you will be thankful for having read it!
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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