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AT THE CROSSROADS OF AXIAL DIVERGENCE
by John O’Loughlin
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As suggested by
the title, At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence, this volume of aphoristic philosophy proceeds to explore the
distinctions between what have been termed the bureaucratic-theocratic
axis of
a rising diagonal and the autocratic-democratic axis of a falling
diagonal, and
does so in such a way that there can be no doubt as to the outcome of
each
axial progression, whether it be in respect of Social Theocracy or
Social
Democracy, with eschatological implications which give a contemporary twist to the concept of Judgement and the
consequences of what is at stake in any contest between the two axes,
the
divergent natures of which have been more comprehensively fleshed out
here than
in the preceding title Apocalypso
(2003). But as anyone familiar with
that project will
agree, there can be only one path for the self-respecting Righteous to
follow,
and such a path leads up and in rather than down and out. – John
O'Loughlin.
CONTENTS
Aphs. 1 – 25
Aphs. 26 – 50
Aphs. 51 – 75
Aphs. 76 – 100
Aphs. 101 – 125
Aphs. 126 – 150
Aphs. 151 – 158
Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her Aldershot-born daughter upon the death of her husband) in the mid-50s and attended junior schools in
Aldershot (Hampshire) and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been placed in
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, Carshalton (Surrey). Leaving high school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs
(Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs
(General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square, where he eventually became responsible, as a clerical officer, for booking ABRSM examination venues throughout Britain and ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, handed in his notice at the Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Ever since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has steadfastly dedicated himself to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned numerous titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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