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G. Lewis Bauman
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As of the publication year of this book (2014), I am an eighty four year old man afflicted with a terrible foreboding. Everywhere I look, I see nations, including my own, descending int...view moreMy Profile
As of the publication year of this book (2014), I am an eighty four year old man afflicted with a terrible foreboding. Everywhere I look, I see nations, including my own, descending into religious, moral, economic, and political lunacy. Unrestrained money printing and debt accumulation are considered workable economic doctrines; and wars are plotted for profit within the banking and armaments industries, and because those holding the reins of government are unable to see people different from themselves as equals. Ignorant and corrupt voters put their like kind into positions of high authority, and then wonder why their country trends downward. Religious wars consume lives and nations, but only a handful are willing to consider their own religious beliefs may be partly to blame. Morality can do little to keep diverse populations on the path of peaceful co-existence, since it is differentiated by the plethora of regional and racially based religions existing in the contemporary world, each one engaged in a life and death struggle with the others. Most astonishingly of all, the great masses go about their daily business, steadfastly refusing to change their beliefs or habits. They do not pursue knowledge. It is a maddening world.
I have worked most of my life as an avionics technician. Problem isolation and repairing were my specialties and things had to work when I signed off on them. That has been my approach to the religious, moral, economic, and political problems I write about in The Desideratum. My first task was to isolate the faults and reveal them as perverted and deceitful influences. I then made whatever repairs and added whatever missing links were necessary to blend the structures into a unified, logical, and functional edifice of understanding, which is in full compliance with the Providential Laws of Reality and Truth that radiate down upon all of divine creation.
Though fear and loathing have been the driving forces behind this book, I have never lost sight of hope, and have been careful to offer what I believe to be workable alternatives for everything I condemn. Reality and truth are powerful allies, and I am firm in the belief that the young of all nations and races are searching for a new set of beliefs to replace the old ones that threaten their lives and futures.
Two major events in my life have found unity in The Desideratum. The first is my rejection of Christianity in my childhood. I can still remember sitting on the floor with my legs crossed, looking up at my Sunday school teachers and wondering why they were telling me stories that were not true. Later, when I was old enough to attend adult services with my parents, I silently asked the same thing of the pastor. In the amphitheater, I could see hundreds of adult faces, my parents included, all listening attentively to childish and pretentious stories, and apparently believing everything they were being told. My pragmatic mind, enlightened as it was by recent discoveries relating to a variety of myths that are commonly taught to children, would no longer accept the blending of reality and fantasy. By my late teens, I had explored the remaining major religions of the world and found them all wanting for the same reason. They were steeped in fantasy, and were not believable.
I have lived most of my life, therefore, as a religious exile. I understood what not to believe, but found only a void as I searched for a religious edifice capable of satisfying the yearnings of my heart and mind. In my quest for a spiritual refuge, I was also determined to remain aloof of the inter-religious conflicts that have plagued humankind since the dawn of its recorded history. That meant that I had to find something new. It would have to have universal appeal, as opposed to regional or racial appeal. I leave it to you, dear reader, to judge how successful I have been.
The second event I would like to share with you was the discovery in my late twenties of the Austrian School of Economics. It is the only school of economic thought that has remained true to its scientific roots, free of the corruptive influence of politics, and consistent with The Providential Laws of Reality and Truth, and the biblical commandment, Thou shalt not steal.
It is the school of economic thought I champion in The Desideratum. Unfortunately, in today’s world, where Keynesian economics dominates, only a handful of people are aware of its existence or importance. My study of Austrian economics taught me once again that great masses of people are capable of holding to ideas that are profoundly false.
Finally, dear reader, you must pardon me if I do not perform the role of author in accord with general expectations. My years are weighing upon me. I am not interested in promoting this book or doing any of the other things authors are expected to do. The energy is not there, and ambition wanes as future expectations become increasingly short term. I prefer now to live a quiet and undisturbed life with my loving and understanding wife. Please respect my desire for privacy. My work is done. G. Lewis Baumanview less