The Progress of Exterminations

Six months ago, I published my book, “Exterminations.” Honestly, I didn’t expect it to have as much success as it did. Unfortunately, not in terms of sales (*), but in terms of how real-world exterminations continue and seem to be increasing in numbers and intensity. And more seem to be programmed.

This is one of the things I said in the book. With the analysis I performed together with some colleagues, we found that wars and violence tend to “cluster” together — they are not periodic, but when they start, they seem to catalyze more wars. It is typical of those phenomena that are not controlled by anyone. They are avalanches in the fabric of that collective entity that we could call the “memesphere,” the ensemble of how people in the world communicate with each other.

Is there some hope to break this cycle of violence? Perhaps not, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. I can tell you of a group of people of goodwill who are setting up a network called the “Global Peace Offensive” (GPO).

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(*) You may be curious about sales for this book. Well, not a best seller, but about 300 copies sold is not so bad, considering that it had zero advertising, except for announcing it in this blog and a few occasional mentions on various social media. Also, I made no public presentations, book signing, etc. Right now, I am starting to advertise it on Google and KDP, and I immediately noticed an uptick in sales. I am also experimenting with the “Kindle Unlimited” (KU) publishing system. It means that people who subscribe to KU can download the book for free. Then, the author gets a revenue for the number of pages actually read (Amazon knows that!). At some moment, the book had reached 2nd place among the books in “International Policy” on Amazon, but only in the KU list. In short, publishing a book is not the way to become rich, but if you write a book, you are happy when people read it!

If you are in Italy, you may be interested in the very first public presentation (book signing included) of the Italian version, which will be at the “Conventino” in Florence on June 10 at 6 pm. Here is the cover of the Italian version.