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A word from Dean Koontz
Fire, ice, asteroids, and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is not community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.
My college roommate turned me on to author Dean Koontz nearly 20 years ago. Two decades later, he's still my favorite read.
He's been tagged as a horror writer, but he's much deeper than that. Koontz understands the world in which he lives and masterfully weaves it into his fictional worlds -- often making the unbelievable seem totally plausible.
The above quote is from his latest novel, "Relentless."
I couldn't agree more.
We must rebuild community to save ourselves from ourselves.
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