AMKent books

The book has been out for around a week now and I am awaiting reviews, it seems to have picked up some interest which I am happy about. The book was in a way an excuse for me to delve into the mind of both an ultimate creator and its creations. I wanted to explore consciousness, and felt the idea of a hive mind was the best form of creator for the premise, a final human-wipe out war. I have had a few messages asking me certain questions which I have thoroughly enjoyed discussing and answering. This will be a blog post of its own, but the antagonist of the book, the ‘cosmic parasite’, has in a round about way been discovered in space. I shall post the link to the article here: Black hole parasites explain cosmic flashes | New Scientist

Now, this is not the same as the cosmic parasite in the book, as the parasite in the book serves as a worrying question to the Hive. That question is if there is something outside of its consciousness, and if so, is it hostile? I felt this article was worth including, as one person who messaged me had asked if I had previous knowledge of this universal phenomenon, which I had not. The cosmic parasite within the book uses both man and essentially God to reach the Hive mind, and as it does so the world around begins to deform into a postmodern abstract. This was my way of discussing the previous era of modernity vs the new era of postmodernity, late-modernity, or late-late-modernity (whatever you want to call it really). I find, especially with art, postmodernity dissolves once classically constructed lines into an abstract retelling, a deformed echo that carries the shreds of DNA that once existed in the ‘rigid’ and ‘structured’. Nothing seems to bring out the abstract nature (especially concerning morality), more than war. I reference war atrocities in the book, including the massacre of Nanjing, and unit 731. Acts that are so unbelievably evil, that when one reads them in a strange way it almost feels as if they are abstract concepts of their own. I remember researching the horrors of wars for this book, and several times had to stop and spend time trying to comprehend that these things actually happened. Some acts seemed so immensely evil, so absurdly over the top in everything that encompasses the words ‘vile’ and ‘dehumanising’ that I literally found it hard to comprehend them. I remember discussing this with someone, and their reaction was one of pure disbelief. As if I was saying the most absurdly evil things I could muster for shock value, and the most worrying part about this is I do not doubt there are things even more degrading that I had not found out about.

To imagine an abstract form of humanity more than its propensity to commit near-unthinkable acts of violence against one another was difficult. Instead of trying to make up the most grotesque imagery I could muster, I simply took a note from ‘The Divine Comedy’ and instead displayed satirical metaphors along the man’s journey primarily. The True Human’s journey was different, as most of its existence was amongst an infinite, yet vacant, universe. This eventually drove it insane, which served as a subtle hint to how humanity inherited such insanity through the muse and its journey in the void. Infinity was also a key point in the story, as the only reason to create an infinite cosmos with nothing outside of its own existence was to serve as a ‘defence mechanism’. Something the parasite falls for, and ends up eating itself to death. Now, I am not implying anything without sentience or what we perceive as ‘consciousness’ is nothing more than a defence mechanism or aesthetic appeal. I, in my own way, was creating a satire of this idea. Humans have this innate tendency to equate value with what we can relate to, and because we cannot relate to giant nebulas or stars and infinite voids, we have no real emotional expenditure towards it. This is ironically human, despite being so immensely insignificant compared to these grand acts of cosmic evolution, we feel a superiority to it because it does not laugh or cry like we do.

I hope this blog post regarding my recent book was of some interest, and if you feel like buying it on amazon it would be beyond appreciated. Here is the worldwide amazon link: http://mybook.to/VAS