One of my most recent librivox downloads was 'War of the Worlds' by HG Wells. I've actually become somewhat of a Wells fan of late, despite my inital misgivings from being forced to read The Time Machine when 12. I'll talk about The Island of Dr Moreau later, but with both that novel and WotW I couldn't help but notice how frightening and even relevant they still are. In the best tradition of science fiction, Wells uses seemingly fantastical situations to comment on the climate, acheivements and fears of the time. The only real demonstration of the age of the original is that even neighbouring villages to the scene of the initial carnage refuse to believe the stories until it happens to them in turn due to the lack of communication technology and media at the time.
Reading this, all I could think was that if it were to happen in Britain today, shaky mobile phone footage of hooded kids happy-slapping the martians would be on youtube before the BBC even got to the scene. God bless the technological revolution that has made each and everyone one of us a potential journalist/criminal!*
*But is this the same thing? For further discussion see the Diana Inquest, everywhere, constantly.
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Did you know that we all have a mantra and that "it" governs every aspect of our lives except when we are in a state of deep dreamless/formless sleep?
It is the pole around which the entire universe (one whole and indivisible) seems to revolve.
It is called I or me, the presumption that "I" am a separate something over and against everything "else".
This I/me was even celebrated as the "person" of the year by Time Magazine a year ago.
That having been said please check out these references on the origins & consequences of this I/me.
1. www.dabase.org/dualsens.htm
2. www.dabase.org/unique.htm
3. www.dabase.org/2armP1.htm#ch1
4. www.dabase.org/tfrbkyml.htm
5. www.mummerybook.org
This reference describes the unspeakably dreadful politics & "culture" created in the image of billions of FEARFUL I/me's.
1. www.ispeace723.org
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