His birthday was September 11th which if he had experienced it in 2001 would have substantiated his concerns for a humanity terribly out of sorts with itself. Never has his message been more relevant and revelatory of humanity’s immense shortcomings than today. His father Arthur worked in the coal mines, the operative word being coal, because the rest of his very short life, David excoriated those parts of his culture that demeaned, reduced and undermined humans to mere pawns in the industrial juggernaut. It feels not so much a commentary on Revelations as an inside look at a writer’s deep concerns with his civilization like nothing the Western civilization has ever produced. He called his small, exquisite esoteric tract “APOCALYPSE.” In 1931. David Herbert Lawrence would have understood the international cabal holding the world for ransom about a century ago. The captains of the corporate elite are meeting in Glasgow. “We are unnaturally resisting our connection with the cosmos.” “Confraternity of the living sun, make the embers of financial and industrial internationalism pale upon the hearth of the earth.
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