Island of the World: A Novel

by Michael D. O'Brien

Dear Caleb, Thank you so much for sending me your latest book. It is ever encouraging for me to see a man of your generation resisting the “zeitgeist literary Nazis”, as you once called them. And it seems that you have discovered a parallel truth: zeitgeist literary Communists are an alternative danger, as are the proponents of any other collectivist ideas that present themselves to the mind as solutions to “the problem of man”. I include in this category the new globalist’s models of what is now called universal “governance”. As all ideologues do, they offer us superficial either/or choices. Supposedly, one must choose between war and world government. They do not understand that globalism will not change the fundamental human condition. Globalism is ultra-nationalism expanded to a planetary scale, without the safety measures of cultural and religious diversity. Believe me, world-shapers (rather, world-reshapers) are long familiar to those of us who have lived through political experiments. Claiming my rights, I dare to remind you that beneath their constructs, and even beneath their supposed humanitarianism, you will always find a killer. Presumption and arrogance over mankind brings forth, in time, the fruit of death.