“Do we have what it takes to do what it takes?”

In 2006 Gregory Dark published the first book of a trilogy, now known as ‘The Millennium Trilogy’. That first book was entitled ‘The Prophet of the New Millennium’. In a style redolent of Kahlil Gibran’s classic ‘The Prophet’, ‘The Prophet of the New Millennium’ is an incisive, sometimes humorous and irreverent, analysis of the morality (or lack of it) informing our new millennium. It is, as it is sub-titled, a ‘search for principles in an unprincipled age’.

The second book of the trilogy, ‘The God of the New Millennium’, is sub-titled ‘a search for balance in an age of spin.’ It invites us to consider whether we are asking of ourselves the right questions, whether we are being gulled by those who portend to lead us (whether clergy, statesmen, industrialists, economists, media pundits or whatever) into addressing fallacious or irrelevant issues, and therefore into not addressing those which are relevant, even crucial. ‘Man of the Millennium’, due for publication next year, discusses some ways forward to ensure the new millennium is not the last one.

But ‘The Millennium Trilogy’ is not a canon of turgid proselytising or academic dialectic. The last two books weave their questions through a loom of gentle and lyrical narrative, and not a little wit. ‘The Prophet of the New Millennium’ is a compliment and a complement to Gibran’s text, but it is not a slave to it. It is not a sequel or a prequel. It is its own master, and its own original.

Do we have what it takes to do what it takes?

Published by O-Books, Dark’s book, ‘The God of the New Millennium’, suggests that not only do we, but (equally importantly) that we are worth the effort of our survival. Entirely worth it, in fact. And that the very fact, and act, of survival may well also prove to be the beginning of a humanity worthy of the name.

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