ON DOMINATION OF THE WORLD
ONE of my favorite action scenes from the movies is Largo and James Bond playing “The Domination Game” from “Never Say Never Again” (1983), though, watching the news, it could have just as well been 2022 — https://youtu.be/wUT5CpgYXMM?t=24. On the other hand, in all fairness, one should look at the situation from the opposite perspective — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj-P... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Vui... — including ongoing peace negotiations — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLyd7... — before coming to a conclusion.
In my playbook, money and power are illusions. They bring neither inner happiness nor immortality. Instead, they are pieces in a great Monopoly game, played by bored persons filled with hubris. I illustrate this in my two books, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2016) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, the recent sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and my upcoming third work in this series, PROPHECY, which is nearing completion.
If not money and power, for what do people have to live? If not lost in illusion, what does “real” life have to offer those authentic persons with “eyes wide open?” Greater consciousness? Self-actualization? I would say the blessings of volution, cooperation, empathy, good deeds and will. Neither utopia nor dystopia, but the experience of living life as it actually is, garnering friends and loves, enriching the soul that will lead us from this to the next life experience.
I’m not talking here of a new religion or, for that matter, any of today’s “social clubs” that call themselves religions, but of individual spirituality. The one-on-one between each person and his or her higher power. Call me weird, crazy or bizarrely idealistic, but I believe it’s about nurturing the “inner” child, teen, young adult, adult and elder soul. That, alongside taking responsibility for husbanding and stewarding the world upon which we are privileged to live during this phase of our lives. Being top predator and presumably more conscious than most other living things carries with it a hefty responsibility, the first of which is to grow up, stop waging war and, in the words of the Great Physician, Hippocrates, “First, do no harm.”
The Edge of Madness
In my playbook, money and power are illusions. They bring neither inner happiness nor immortality. Instead, they are pieces in a great Monopoly game, played by bored persons filled with hubris. I illustrate this in my two books, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2016) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, the recent sequel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, and my upcoming third work in this series, PROPHECY, which is nearing completion.
If not money and power, for what do people have to live? If not lost in illusion, what does “real” life have to offer those authentic persons with “eyes wide open?” Greater consciousness? Self-actualization? I would say the blessings of volution, cooperation, empathy, good deeds and will. Neither utopia nor dystopia, but the experience of living life as it actually is, garnering friends and loves, enriching the soul that will lead us from this to the next life experience.
I’m not talking here of a new religion or, for that matter, any of today’s “social clubs” that call themselves religions, but of individual spirituality. The one-on-one between each person and his or her higher power. Call me weird, crazy or bizarrely idealistic, but I believe it’s about nurturing the “inner” child, teen, young adult, adult and elder soul. That, alongside taking responsibility for husbanding and stewarding the world upon which we are privileged to live during this phase of our lives. Being top predator and presumably more conscious than most other living things carries with it a hefty responsibility, the first of which is to grow up, stop waging war and, in the words of the Great Physician, Hippocrates, “First, do no harm.”
The Edge of Madness
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