When I started beginning writing Kirin Rise The Cast of Shadows, this video was the foundation of where everything came about. While much of the book takes from the current state of where things are in the world, this speech remains timeless. Often times when I found myself drifting from my writings, I would sit down and listen to this video. It’s painful to look at the state that we are in. If we really look deep down and see what’s happening, we just know things are wrong, but yet aren’t quite sure what or how to go about to make that change. We are sold the lie that we can make change happening, but I honestly feel that change doesn’t come about playing in the system of those who with power.
I believe a good book does more than entertain, but its purpose may not be apparent right from the get go. Kirin Rise The Cast of Shadows was meant to do that, and my job while creating the book was hoping that the main message got through to the reader. When I wrote the preface, I painted the picture of fiction allowing the reader with some awareness, that what I spoke of was of current times. Government corruption, corporate greed, the dwindling of the middle class all things happening not just in the US, but the world we live in.
I tell you from my own experience that we love to label things. He’s black, he’s white, I’m conservative, he’s a liberal … this is a democracy, their communist. In the scheme of all things, it’s all the same. Instead we get caught in these petty debates, thinking we are on the better end of things, when in fact we are all in the same boat.
I ended the preface with this paragraph. “In truth, all it takes is one: one person, one voice, one single action to rattle the cages around us. The strength of this dominating machine will soon be put to the test.” This is you, this could be you, in this fictional story that I created. The question is what are you going to do about it.