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    Buna explains that the project is not about a sinister conspiracy but is instead "a stirring war cry to activate a new ... movement". Buna hesitates to call it political and sees it more as part of a larger culture change initiated by Thales' emphasis on empirical observation over authority. Buna assures John that the project is not meant to replace existing noble humanitarian organizations but rather engage in an ongoing culture war between new and traditionalist cultures.

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    Hi John,

    There are so many deliciously tempting opportunities to


    respond, created by your kind review - offering me such
    indulgence to further decorate my earlier disclosure of my
    literary project so long in gestation. 
     
    I will begin here with just this one of those many portals: 

    “Would your novel be about a sinister conspiracy to take over


    the world, or would it be a stirring war cry to activate a new
    political movement.”

    Firstly perhaps it's best that I dwell for a moment on the


    meaning I myself intend by the use of the root word: "theo" in
    "theotropic". 

    I imagine that there was a time when our most ancient human
    ancestors hadn’t yet realized the concept or idea (Platonic
    form) of “God” and that there must have been a first human
    and a first time that someone experienced the abstract idea of
    the possible existence of a personal divine being existing
    external to themselves, although I also imagine that such a
    person might have previously experienced sublime states of
    existence that would qualify as enlightened, blissful, divine -
    states of supreme well being. 

    I expect that the sustainable theotropic culture that the


    revolutionary vanguard and lead character of “the novella”
    is/are depicted as cultivating, is quite secular and quite
    agnostic with regard to the imaginary Judeo-Christian “God”
    existing as a soer of “person” (conscious entity) who is
    immortal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent and omniscient.
    Like Einstein and Spinoza have shown, divinity is a adjective
    that describes teleological fulfillment of the motto of the
    ancient Greek founders of our Euro-Hellenic culture – gnothi
    seaton (know yourself).

    Suffice it to say a “novel … about a sinister conspiracy to take


    over the world” is not on the cards for me. Au contraire.

    However, “a stirring war cry to activate a new … movement” …


    is much more like the plot of the autobiographical hybrid e-
    work of fiction I have in mind. I hesitate to take possession
    here of the word “political”, mostly because I understand
    politics as but a small fragment of “culture”, where “culture” is
    used to signify the mutant human cohort that came into
    existence after Thales first decided that autonomous empirical
    (scientific) observations of reality, as it is, are far superior and
    more effective than simply investing faith in the verbal and
    written claims of traditional authority figures.

    This is in keeping with the way in which the mutant scientific


    culture of Thales was described in Edmund Husserl’s 1935
    Vienna/Prague Lectures on the “Crisis of European Man” just
    before the Nazi’s were getting ready to send him to Auschwitz
    to shut him up for good.

    Regarding your astute observation that:

    “Maybe such a culture already exists, as many independent


    organisations/cultures such as save-the-children, smith-family,
    world vision, mercy ships, dr w/o borders etc etc. many of
    which my family has financially supported.

    I hope you would not want to replace these noble bodies by


    navel-gazing philosophers – or does ‘teleological’ cancel this
    possibility?.”
    Like you say - maybe such a culture already exists. However it
    sure seems as if the culture of the “new (civilized) humanity” is
    still engaged in the perennial 2500 year culture-war (since
    Thales) with the parasitic traditionalist hyper-predatory
    ancestral culture who remain content with self-extinction. Yet
    they seem quite determined to continue the Darwinian struggle
    for life until we all go down together.

    Please be assured there is no sense in which I’d want to see


    navel-gazing pseudo-philosophers replace the existing new
    humanity formed by those noble organizations.

    I will make an honest effort to respond fully to the other


    issues, you’ve raised in your very welcome message.

    Kind regards
    Buna

     
    -fin-
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    Ja
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    -fin-

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