Synopses

APOCALYPSO - 'The New Revelation': This text carries on the task of highlighting the distinctions between Social Theocracy and Social Democracy, though always from a perspective favouring the former, and brings a fresh sense of exactitude to bear on a number of terms which have either been used interchangeably or in a more general way in the past, while simultaneously developing a more comprehensively exacting 'take' on what appertains to free psyche and bound soma and what, by contrast, appertains to free soma and bound psyche, so that one need be in no doubt that criteria applicable to the former are largely, if not completely, irrelevant to the latter....Which is why I have developed a different set of terminological markers for each context, whether in respect of noumenal or phenomenal, upper- or lower-class, criteria, so that there can be no ambiguity or ambivalence as to the sense in which these terms are being applied, and no justification, in consequence, for confusion over their use. But the 'new revelation' alluded to in the subtitle has to do with more than specific terminological practice, no matter how comprehensively exacting, since it is a revelation, above all, about life and the means by which life can be enhanced in respect of the more than Christian order of salvation which is what Social Theocracy is really all about.

AT THE CROSSROADS OF AXIAL DIVERGENCE: As suggested by the title, this text continues 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 text. But as anyone familiar with the preceding text 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.

OPTI-MYSTIC PROJECTIONS: Although structurally and thematically similar to the above text, composed as ever of aphoristic notes, this work represents a quantum leap forward in certain areas which are explored more accurately and rigorously than ever before, progressing from a consideration of the distinctions between sacred and profane ego to the cultural and political differences between Europe and America, and of how Britain's attraction towards America undermines Europe and creates problems which even France cannot avoid being affected by, much as France differs from Britain in respect of its cultural and political traditions and should be judged, I believe, by criteria closer, in essence, to those obtaining in countries like Eire, where the influence of the Catholic Church is omnipresent. But America is an altogether different proposition from France, never mind Eire, and its influence on Britain is such as to make one desirous of a radical change in the British Isles which will make it easier for any residual influence to be minimized or even marginalized in the interests of greater European unity and cooperation, a change which, as the reader may have guessed, points in the direction of Social Theocracy and its politico-religious aspirations, as outlined in previous texts, which besides embracing the supranational transcendence of the British/Irish divide, include a more authentic order of religious transcendentalism as its raison d'être. Finally, as a word of advice, one should not read this text before one has progressed, step by step, through the preceding ones, but once one has read it one would probably incline, as I do, to regard it as the best thing I have ever written in terms of what projects furthest into a mystical, or metaphysically transcendent, future with the logical optimism which only loyalty to self can vouchsafe.

UNFLATTERING CONCLUSIONS: More than ever I should like this text to speak for itself, because it does not paint a flattering picture of Anglo-American relations vis-à-vis Europe as a whole and the world in general, but strives to show not merely how but why the United Kingdom is a problem for Europe and the prospect of greater European integration. However, all problems tend to invite solutions, and my own solution to the problem of the UK vis-à-vis Europe in general but Eire in particular draws on my ideological legacy as a self-proclaimed Social Theocrat who, like the French philosopher Michel Foucault, is not only ranged against an overly Social Democratic 'take' on progress, but has an alternative path to offer which owes a lot more to European tradition than ever it does to the long-standing opponents of that tradition, who would be among the last peoples, as things stand, to either understand or be able to tread this new path which, as far as I am concerned, is the path to universal harmony and therefore of an end to national divisions.