ROOTS
LET’S start with today. A world admittedly filled with patriarchal, Caucasian, tribal/religious ideals all warring for dominance. Now for a moment try to envision a matriarchal, diverse, agricultural, family, globally cooperative world. Hard, isn’t it? That’s because, in my opinion, there’s something missing from each of these seemingly polar opposite “Weltanschauung.” Like birth and death, good and evil, heaven and hell. So what’s missing?
First, human society isn’t a “two-perspective dialectic.” People don’t generally live in and argue from the extremes. Most come from somewhere between. Somewhere more complex, rich and diverse.
Second, humans are, first and foremost human. Not patriarchal or matriarchal, warring or cooperative. What humans share are a set of long forgotten common roots, roots sunk deep into the living earth, Gaia, that human and animal existence is wholly dependent on. What’s missing isn’t more adventure or nurturing, fighting or love, eroticism or reasoning. We already have these at our command in whatever measure we so desire at any moment in time.
What is lacking is a sincere respect for our origins. Call it an ancient, almost completely lost form of pantheism. Call it, as I do in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, the emergence of a new spirituality rather than religion. Call it Wicca, if you like, as I do in the book, but what’s missing is that which makes us stewards rather than users and consumers of a living Gaia a la James Lovelock. Maybe as some naysay, it’s too late. We’ve lost our chance to change. But I can’t believe that. As long as humans have and exercise choice in a concerted, caring and rational way, we still have a chance. Just as do the three main characters in my futuristic (SciFu) book.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
First, human society isn’t a “two-perspective dialectic.” People don’t generally live in and argue from the extremes. Most come from somewhere between. Somewhere more complex, rich and diverse.
Second, humans are, first and foremost human. Not patriarchal or matriarchal, warring or cooperative. What humans share are a set of long forgotten common roots, roots sunk deep into the living earth, Gaia, that human and animal existence is wholly dependent on. What’s missing isn’t more adventure or nurturing, fighting or love, eroticism or reasoning. We already have these at our command in whatever measure we so desire at any moment in time.
What is lacking is a sincere respect for our origins. Call it an ancient, almost completely lost form of pantheism. Call it, as I do in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, the emergence of a new spirituality rather than religion. Call it Wicca, if you like, as I do in the book, but what’s missing is that which makes us stewards rather than users and consumers of a living Gaia a la James Lovelock. Maybe as some naysay, it’s too late. We’ve lost our chance to change. But I can’t believe that. As long as humans have and exercise choice in a concerted, caring and rational way, we still have a chance. Just as do the three main characters in my futuristic (SciFu) book.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
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