Holden,
Thank you for your response. I hope you are doing allright. I hope your neighbor, the actor, has left you in peace and also the bikers do not make noise when you are trying to have some sleep at night. I also hope the power crisis, I read about, does not affect you where you are living.
For some reason I cannot see the cover. Probably old my computer has some configuration issues. But what matters is that your suggestion is important. I hope to read VALIS some day.
I cannot buy books and my only option is downloading ebooks.
In some posts I wrote about former Jesuit Spanish priest Salvador Freixedo who died two years ago. The term human farm comes from one of his books.
In it, Freixedo structures one of his fundamental theories: man is nothing but a guinea pig, and humanity is a farm, of which beings more evolved than us have taken advantage, just as we would do with our own animal farms.
Without realizing it, the cows, oxen, sheep and so many other animals that we exploit, gladly eat and graze what we generously give them, then, still unaware of the intentions of "their protector", they follow him meekly to the slaughterhouse and are sacrificed, although not so gladly.
According to Salvador Freixedo, we are suffering the same fate, only in this case we do not know exactly who the shepherd is. His thesis sustains that humanity is a farm of the "gods", understanding by "gods" some rational beings, ordinarily invisible, superior to man in understanding, who in the end are the real owners of the world.
In the order of transcendent ideas, we, men, believe what they have made us believe - and this is the origin and essence of all religions - and as for our knowledge of Nature, we know what they have let us know. Until just a century ago, technical and scientific advances were largely due to what these beings communicated to some of their "enlightened" friends.
Today, things have changed radically in this regard. The human race has freed itself from many taboos that the "gods" had made it believe -precisely so that it would not advance- and unravels by itself the secrets of matter and Nature.
An important circumstance, which must be taken into account in this thesis, is that these mysterious beings that dominate us from the shadows are neither good nor bad in themselves: they simply use us, just as we use animals.
Even if we hunt animals and even if we organize shows with them, we do not hate them: we simply use them for what is convenient for us. If that use involves good treatment (domestic animals, for example) we treat them well; but if that use involves bad treatment (animals slaughtered for our food) we kill them without any remorse.
The same is done to us by those beings who dominate the world and the human race.
Stay well.
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