Which can be accessed via the links below
the following remarks:–
As suggested by the title, this volume
of aphoristic philosophy has a concept of progress which is radical and
far-reaching in its left-wing implications, albeit in relation to the sphere of
religion rather than economics, which is the only sphere, so far as I’m concerned,
which can be genuinely progressive, provided, however, that the religion itself
is genuine and therefore transcendentalist, stemming, as I have argued in the
text, from an antihumanist precondition. But that is only one axis, or
diagonal plane, in the totality of axial factors at work in different kinds of
societies, whether on a primary or a secondary basis, and in Radical Progress I have gone into the distinctions
between church hegemonic/state subordinate and state hegemonic/church
subordinate societies in no uncertain terms, outlining the different ideals and
fates which appertain to them with a logical consistency that leaves one in no
doubt as to the relative value of each type of society, whether rising
diagonally or falling diagonally, and making a conclusive case for that society
which has the capacity to lead people higher rather than simply rule them from
a height in opposition to something lower that is nevertheless distinct from
the kind of lowness obtaining across the great divide of the world, as
explained in this my most definitive and outstanding text to-date. – John
O’Loughlin.
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 after a long marital absence) in the mid-50s and
attended infant/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 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 for booking
ABRSM examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, quit 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). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has 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).
