The Peripatetic Philosopher continues with:

TO MY READERS:

Readers write asking me how I am creating this work, why in segments or chapters, and where is it going? Fair questions. It is a parody of an age that keeps running away from itself only to find itself running into itself again.

More than a decade ago, 2003 to be precise, I wrote a dystopian book, which I called "Near Journey's End? Can Planet Earth Survive Self-Indulgent Man?" 

It was divided into three parts: “Past Imperfect, Present Ridiculous and Future Perfect." 

I never attempted to publish it, but like eleven other manuscripts lost when -- through my ignorance -- I erased them from my hard drive, including three novels, a copy was made of this manuscript. 

Fortunately, I also made a copy of "Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land" written in 2006, also lost. 

This present work is something of a hybrid, or integration of the two versions being at the same time revised and updated as a completely new work. 

I liked the flow of "Near Journey's End," but the research was better and more complete for "Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land.” I find I can better control the product in this format, plus it keeps me going. 

Eventually, I would like to publish it in hard back copy as I would like to do the same with A GREEN ISLAND IN A BLACK SEA. Stay tuned!

For those who are reading "Nowhere Man," they will appreciate how fundamental grammar is to the work, as it was to authors some 500 years ago.

THE FISHER PARADIGM ™© is based on the subject of a sentence being of a person (personality), place (geography) or thing (demographics). This was used in my book, Self-Confidence, while NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND is based on grammatical tenses. To put this another way, we are obsessed with chronological time when the only time we have, which is real time is psychological. 

JRF

NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND

PART SEVENTEEN

A WATERSHED MOMENT DEFINES AN AGE 

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Many believe the “Information Age” and the Internet with its ever more sophisticated electronics while increasingly relegating conventional life to robotics is “the greatest watershed moment in human history.”  This may prove to be true, but it must climb a very high watershed to eclipse one that happened five hundred years ago.

That “watershed moment” changed Western society from a collection of feudal principalities to nation states, lifting the population out of illiteracy, created a merchant class that gave birth to capitalism, eroded the power of the Roman Catholic Church and the unassailable hold of monarchies on institutional life, while giving birth to ethnic languages and culture and providing the impetus for the “Renaissance,” the “Protestant Reformation,” and the “Age of Enlightenment.”

In the process, Western society was put on the doorstep of world dominance and modernity.  This led to the “American Revolution” and “French Revolution,” and provided the paradigm shift that would hold with remarkable consistency over the next five hundred years to this 21^st century.

Whereas the “Information Age” has many authors, few who can be identified with any confidence as creators of this moment in history.  That is not the case with the “Watershed Moment” five hundred years ago.  Two individuals stand out in that moment, one was a journeyman goldsmith, the other an irascible cleric in a remote region, two men who changed Western Society from its Roman imprimatur and thousand year decline into the force that it remains to this day.  This is their story.

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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART EIGHTEEN -- 

THE SHATTERING OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM!