…AND ALL FOR A BETTER NEW YEAR

HOPE. There’s nothing like it. Hope seems to me to be unique to our species (though every such claim in the past has eventually proven wrong). Still hope is something that can remain undaunted irrespective of the events of the past and the most dystopian futures. Not that 2021 is dystopian, though I often hear such and am aware of the various “Five-Year Hell” prophesies that correspond roughly with my own Dark Age predictions. But that hasn’t affected my hope that we humans will, in fact, begin to accomplish things right now that we’ve done so many of them wrong. Science says we learn from mistakes more than successes, and, well, that’s certainly something hopeful. We’ve sure made our share of mistakes in 2020.

I personally view hope as a gift of the Goddess rather than the God. Maybe it’s the need to cling to hope when given that birth is always risky. Then again, that Goddish-thing, war, certainly evokes risk, but intereastingly instead of hope, it seems to require bravado, increasing both the violence of war and the need to eliminate any empathy, another thing that seemed to me to be unique to our species, and, I’ve learned since, isn’t.

One truism most would agree with is that we humans do seem to be the most violent of species. I am of the opinion that money and power (power being the bedrock concept of violence and war, and money, the “financier” of conflict) are childhood illusions, and that someday (soon I hope) we humans will grow into young adulthood, leaving money, power and violence behind, replacing them with hope, empathy, cooperation and stewardship. That which actually makes our species more resilient. That may sound untopian; however, I’m not talking utopian anymore than I am dystopian when say that we’re currently trapped in a childish world of illusion of money, power and conflict. Get a copy of TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, and a copy of its sequel THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor and see if you don’t, in the end, agree with me. Can we, as a whole, actually accomplish such a change? I think so, but the world, as I suggest in THE EDGE OF MADNESS would likely be quite different. There’s always need for balance.

Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure

The Edge of Madness

THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is now available in digital format for Android users from GooglePlay at

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