The Government of David

By David Christian Baird

This is David Baird's first so-called real, published book. He's been chatting, blogging, and posting for many years now, building up a trail/tale of textual weight. His formation was largely academic. One transformational episode with Michael Smith at Virginia Tech, another with Ronald Judy at the University of Pittsburgh. David managed to study philosophy deeply, which can be tricky, and fell in and out of love with Theodor Adorno -- Adorno, who says "no one loves, is capable of love"; "people are spellbound, without exception"; beautiful women destroy themselves, no matter how talented, wealthy, or intelligent; one cannot be happy, only remember having been happy in the past; science fiction is a sub-artistic genre. David now characterizes Adorno, like the analytic philosophers, as ultimately kind of weird..."The Government of David can be characterized as ultra-fictional philosophy: UFP. I've been asked, "Is that more like fiction, or philosophy?" But why should it be one or the other? It's like philosophy -- except that it doesn't claim to be true. Or pretend. How could I know the truth of life, the universe, and everything? Although I propose that God has "omega characteristics" -- s/he is beyond time, space, law, logic, and causality. That's really the only way God could work, function, exist. As far as our universe? We are "x world" -- we are the nth world in a series of x worlds (universes). Brain garbage, word salad, word lies, mindless gibberish...' Stream of consciousness. Schizophrenia. Maybe towards the creation of a new world."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520429479
• ISBN13: 9781520429472
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"