Essay by R.M. Dolin, June 16, 2025
You ask me why I no longer blog about politics expecting an elevator answer. I’ve given it a lot of thought and my answer’s the same now as it was when I stopped. The easy out is that the world’s gotten too crazy and confrontational to listen to anything other than empty echoes of irrational ranting, so why even attempt to add logical discourse. A deeper answer is that my first amendment lawsuit against the government remains ongoing and given the heavy handed way I’ve been banned from publishing why tickle the dragon….even though it’s increasingly imperative I do.
Those are the answers I give in casual conversation or at polite parties but when I allow myself to be introspective or when sharing with those having the capacity to know my soul, I can be more honestly open. I write because I cannot stop any more than I can stop eating or breathing, for whatever reason, God’s decided that’s my burden. I accept the challenges and struggles he’s places on my path; the suffering and disappointments he expects me to endure. I don’t need to know why any more and I’ve stopped worrying about where I’m supposed to be and whom I’m meant to be with; life is far more interesting when everything remains a mystery waiting for resolution.
Until then I write poems no one reads with a diminishing interest in whether they’re understood. I write novels to share lessons about life, love, and finding a greater purpose. My novel, “The Dangling Conversation,” is about the struggle of two lost souls hoping for happiness. I still, however, provide political pearls; in this novel, Kyle is persecuted by the government for discovering food safety malfeasance that if exposed will shatter consumer confidence in the food supply. In my trilogy, “What Is to Be Done,” a group of technologists confront their obligation to do something about world government dysfunction. In my current novel, “An Unsustainable Life,” I address the collapse of humanity as AI and social media increasingly control people’s minds and souls. In my nonfiction book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” I use math and logic to analyze how easily we were manipulated during COVID and how close we came to the virus causing an existential calamity…..so I am still providing political commentary, just in less direct ways.
I will always be a romantic who cherishes love over money; an idealist refusing to be engulfed or enslaved by darkness and hatred. I am forever the lost enigma God made me and for that I write to repay my debt.
If I were still writing political commentary, I would write about world government’s failure to prepare for future electrical energy needs. They only now are waking up to the realization that computers alone will consume 90% of the world’s current electrical energy capacity in 5 years…..something I foresaw many years ago. Now the US is scrambling to build 65 nuclear power plants in the next two years with China on an even more accelerated path; how safe can such a pace be and what about the infrastructure needed to carry that load even if it could be realized? The problem with politics is that they don’t know how to solve problems, only to react with hyper-inflated hysteria.
I would write with grave disappointment that the French government has declared they will sit on the sidelines as AI is developed. I do not believe French engineers are that uninterested or incapable of being EU AI leaders and worry what will happen if the EU allows Germany to lead. I would write about the many obvious indicators humanity is racing toward annihilation; war with Russia seems increasingly inevitable for Europe and the US has declared it’s not their problem. The middle east seems hell bent on destruction and it’s terribly troubling to even pick a side; when evil performs a perfect crescendo the veil of righteousness shrouds the suffering of people who just want peace. The US seems eager to get something going with China and there’s just is no scenario where that ends well for anyone. All this chaos seems like part of an orchestrated plot by oligarchs to remake the world in their authoritarian vision, just as the powerful World Economic Forum (WEF) pontificates in their manifesto. I like the world as it is, with all its warts and wrinkles so I would write about what to do about that if I were to write political commentary.
I choose instead to write my poems and novels and let whatever fate has in store for me find its way through goodness, love, and an unyielding belief that the solution to all the world’s problems can be found in human compassion…..I will never be rich, never be famous, never be remembered but I do believe there’s a reason I’m compelled to write and someday those reasons will be revealed….I hope.
It’s a long answer to an obviously simple question but like everything for everyone, there’s always an answer behind the answer and this is mine….at least until my saga changes…..
Peace and love dear ones……
