NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND

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In this secular 21st century society without a soul, capitalism has become the civil religion. Not only do profits come before people, but money is the central theme of that religion.

Money is the crucial "Energizer Bunny" for candidates running for the American presidency in this latest chapter of quadrennial madness. Money fuels the discourse as candidates talk about jobs and how they are going to make the American economy robust again. One candidate is not subtle about this; with him, everyone will have a job, a free college education and free healthcare. The other candidates promise the same but with more circumspect rhetoric.

“Socialism,” writes Oswald Spengler, “is nothing but capitalism of the lower classes.” What Spengler doesn’t say, but is also true, corporate welfare is nothing but capitalism for the upper classes. It is a case of choosing your own poison.

World peace and prosperity is not possible if the wealth of the world is literally controlled by twenty percent of the world’s 7.2 billion people. Many Second and Third World countries have been under Western powers for centuries and possess little of their own nation’s wealth.

Love, peace and prosperity is not possible in this neoliberal era of capital accumulation going to the few. Low wages and investment has limited consumption and forced workers to borrow beyond their capacity to repay. This casino economy has been in play since the 1980s across the West with deregulated labor, goods and investment markets, signaling the decline and ultimate demise of capitalism as the West has voted for going on the cheap.

NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART SEVEN

IS NOWHERE MAN SOULLESS?

JAMES RAYMOND FISHER, AUTHOR

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As we move ever faster from the sacred to the profane, from the spiritual to the secular, from the immaterial to the material, from the scientific to the technological, from the soul to the beast within us, from being fearful of what we don’t know to the hubris of feeling equal to all challenges, we find ourselves at the gates of NOWHERE LAND expecting them to be the gates of PARADISE.



Despite man’s conscious profundity, he has failed to escape his own animus, or to recognize that without the credit of a soul, there is little that holds us together as a species. Whether the soul is only symbolic, ephemeral or simply philosophic, it, alone, has held us together on this hostile planet called “EARTH!”



With the soul, we have the sense of possessing a moral compass and the confidence of knowing our way. The irony is that the soul persist even though it is denied.

NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART SIX

NOWHERE MAN IN THE DYING

SENSATE CULTURE!

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We wonder how people who have everything could become engaged in fraud; how people who have more power than they can handle could become involved in corruption; how people with no taste for food could become gluttonous; how people with waning libidos could become engaged in shameful debauchery; how people who have everything but still envy people who have little.


Wonder no more. This behavior is evidence of the death rattle of the dying Sensate Culture of our magnificent 600-year-day as we transition through Nowhere Land as Nowhere Man to the Ideational Culture of our creative tomorrow.


Ideas have been a bane as well as a blessing. They have changed the world and changed us in the process. We have allowed ideas to take us wherever they might without much thought where that might be, or what impact these ideas might have on us and others. We take pride in being a conscious thinking animal, which in this transition our actions suggests an oxymoron.

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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- Nowhere Man's "Cut & Control" Journey Through Time!

Like many writing projects, ideas are conceived and gradually developed in the mind of the author long before they are captured in a book or article.  That has been the case for this author with Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land.  For decades, I committed words to notebooks without uncovering the conceptual core of what I was thinking and trying to say.    

Then I read James Burke and Robert Ornstein’s The Axemaker’s Gift: A Double-Edged History of Human Culture (1995), a book that explained how society cuts existence away from the “way it was” into a new sense of reality, a reality that has gained something much desired but at the expense of something lost, possibly forever.  

The theme throughout these pages Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land will reflect that perspective and core idea.

So each new tool invented changes existence and represents the latest aspect of the “cut & control” phenomenon.  This has become the cultural reality of “Nowhere Man,” for each new tool has devalued what was and replaced it with a more valued tool.  No one worries about the cost or the loss, only the promise. 

The inventor of each new tool is celebrated, which urges him on to invent another tool.  People rush out to buy the new tool to make it part of their daily existence. No one seems concerned about the cost benefits involved as attention is only on the efficacy and convenience of the new tool.

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