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Is The us a “lifestyle-shocked society” at war with alone, as is the relaxation of the planet?
Mr. Ian C. Dawkins Moore-a gentleman on a mission, who hates “xenophobic bores,” who, in a continuing voyage of self-discovery, traveled as a result of the heart of Europe back to Africa and then into America-believes it is.
And so, taking the expression “society shock” from Alvin Toffler’s 1970 guide, Long term Shock, he has established out to wake us up and to help us better fully grasp the multicultural entire world we stay in through the medium of Society Shock Information (CSN), which can now be found 24/7 about the environment in flash movie structure.
Mr. Moore’s argument is that while we have reached “excellent heights” technologically, “the parallel enhancement of social interaction, integration, and inclusion has not kept speed.”
He believes societies are “at war with every single other and by themselves due to the fact they do not settle for the need to deal with each and every other like they would would like to be dealt with by themselves.”
Even so, ever the optimist, Mr. Moore sees a way out of our lifestyle-shocked point out.
“My experiences,” he says, “have revealed me that when people listen to every other, each and every gains beneficial opinions.
“Each individual 1 I satisfy is a likely innovative force that can transform the character of their lives and those all-around them.
“By concentrating on a person individual at a time, I am encouraged by the possible for modify there is for the future.
“As the Christians say: If I can help somebody on their road of existence, then my everyday living will not have been in vain.”
The qualifications of this author, teacher, engineer, and online video producer, who was born in London, England, to deal with the shocks of a multicultural earth-or what a writer has explained as “a blurry-bordered, polyglot Blade Runner planet” although reviewing Mr. Moore’s work [Anneli Rufus in the East Bay Express, August 10, 2005]-are persuasive.
As “the youngster of the fifties and sixties,” he thinks he belongs to “the initial technology possibly, to give voice to the multicultural reality of the modern-day environment” [Culture Shock Essays by I. C. Moore, Jukebox Press, Oakland, CA, 1999; page 1].
“I’m,” Mr. Moore factors out, “a product of an English mother and a Jamaican father,” and mainly because neither of them lifted him, he had several surrogate parents and households from whom he figured out “to enjoy individuals who give like.”
And in what was to become attribute of him in later on several years, he spent his youth fleeing “xenophobic bores” [“My Bio-Sphere,” Culture Shock Essays].
Following graduating in 1970 with a British degree in civil engineering, Mr. Moore started a journey throughout continents that honed his vision and his role in a multicultural world.
To start with, he traveled throughout Europe, doing work a variety of positions. Then in 1974, he decided to dedicate himself to the instructing occupation and traveled to West Africa for two many years in look for for “the African side” of his nature.
He crossed the Sahara desert and journeyed by way of Algeria, Mali (viewing Timbuktu), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, educating English and operating as a graphic designer, income executive, and diamond miner.
Mr Moore writes that his African odyssey experienced a “profound outcome” on his “early manhood” [“The Road to Ramadan,” Culture Shock Essays, p. 51] as he turned conscious of his true African connection.
It was also through this journey that he grew to become a Muslim.
On his conversion to Islam, Mr. Moore displays in “The Street to Ramadan”:
“Via religion and compassion my knowing of the planet and its distinctive peoples was considerably improved. Higher than all, the search for reality through consistent inquiry and self-examination has persisted throughout these quite a few yrs since I uncovered myself on the road to Ramadan.”
In 1976, he once more returned to England and worked on an oilrig in the North Sea as a roustabout, and as a organizing engineer for an oil corporation in Aberdeen, Scotland. He also performed saxophone in several bands at regional establishments and was concerned in a amount of theatrical productions.
Then in 1981, Mr. Moore moved to the United States and set up himself as a freelance writer, graphic artist, and award-successful online video producer, and set out to wake us up with CSN
His mission lights him up. Elaborating on CSN’s exploration of the contributions of all the cultures that make up the American spouse and children-such as its confrontations, Mr. Moore suggests, “I have set out on a person of the most interesting difficulties of my life: Transforming the globe by means of poetry and artistic expression, a person poet at a time.
“I have a reward for conference people, and, encouraging their creative spirit.
“Each person have to no cost by themselves, and that can very best be completed by opening up to their artistic spirit.”
He has written 4 guides, two about society and education, and two publications of poetry.
This avid reader, who averages “a ebook a 7 days,” all of which he finds have an affect on him, says in his autobiographical poem, “My Bio-Sphere” [Culture Shock Essays, p. 110]:
I browse like a fish who swims in the night
I expend more on publications than I have such a proper
I meditate, interesting out, and continue to be un-tight.
My goals are to learn the coronary heart of the term
My hopes are to chase that winged bird
My endeavors, I pray, are to educate and be listened to.
Poem © 1999 Ian C. D. Moore
Dependent in Oakland, California, because 1981, Mr. Moore lives with his spouse Bridgette and daughter Jazmine.
Flash Reviews of two publications by Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Tradition Shock Essays [Jukebox Press, Oakland, CA, 1999; $13; ISBN 0-932693-04-0]
All of these essays are enlivened by Mr. Moore’s special issue of perspective. He says what is actually on his thoughts, a brain alive to the multi-cultural prospects and contributions of our periods, as well its confusions, as he describes his travels in essays entitled: ‘Coming to America’ ‘See London and Die’ ‘The Highway to Ramadan’ (about his conversion to Islam) ‘China: 6,000 several years in 6 days’ ‘The Promised Land’ (his sojourn in Palestine) ‘Jamaica-No Problem’ (his working experience throughout Hurricane Gilbert in 1988) and ‘Nice Chap’ (an essay about his marriage with his father).
The Coloration of Jazz (Poetry) [Quilombo Enterprises ICM, Oakland, CA]
These poems, which report observations and unforgettable times in Mr. Moore’s lifetime, each and every composed with a man or woman in mind–like poets, musicians, politicians, himself, and relatives, had been released in 2001 under the identify ‘Kweku Dawkins, author, poet, raconteur.’ The just one I located fascinating was a poem for the poet by the poet that demonstrates an vital component of himself, the two as poet and human being, that he wishes to rejoice and acknowledge:
It is really NOT WITH EYES OF TEARS (For Kweku D.)
It can be not with eyes of tears
That I greet the new season’s dawning.
Nor do I chase like a butterfly the
Threads of a 50 percent-neglected tapestry.
I sing no tune of suffering to increase my muse,
For she phone calls to me in each and every mood,
A spirit fixed to my interior soul
—-I have only to hear.
Poem: © 2001 Ian C. D. Moore (Kweku Dawkins).
