My book ( ebook? website? blog? series of the same? all of the above?) might seem a grimly dystopic account of WWII.
But I will also present an uplifting hopeful counterpose against the horrors of this essentially modest, restrained, sentimental modern war .
That is to say, it could have been much more modern and hence much much worse.
This counterpose is a 1940s green alternative, from the heart of Harlem ,that still offers the best way forward for all of us.
Of course I am talking about WWII's 'tiny green anomaly' : Dr Martin Henry Dawson's Vita Com Mensa project.
It involved microbes and man more or less working together commensal fashion , to bring wartime humanity the great boon of systemic, natural, penicillin for all ...
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
What is "systemic" penicillin?
ReplyDeleteDawson sounds like a "Green" --- he looked
ReplyDeleteat nature and natural tiny particles with
respect and curiosity.