Interactive literary texts.

Reconceptualizing Satire...
Anyone around the world who has ever read/listened to English stories couldn’t have skipped Jonathan Swift’s  Gulliver’s Travels (1726). A book usually understood to be an amusing tale of some comic adventures actually becomes  seriously relative to the present situation —a most progressive civilization facing a daunting collapse!
Often unduly taken to be a misanthropist, Swift has his finger laid on the most common human flaws. He only hates the pseudo-intellectualism and self-aggrandizement.
Swift’s naive gullible protagonist is too honest to cover up thus exposing the human flaws...unfiltered. Everywhere and anywhere Gulliver finds a human tendency to put personal pride and egoistic stance ahead of seeing the bigger picture! Sadly enough most of the economic and scientific developments are egoistical and megalomaniac.
Gulliver’s travels to four different lands, though amusing are a cynical perspective on mankind’s inequities, idiosyncrasies, arrogance and self obsession.
The inflated human ego has had  its tragic fall, tragic flaw being over-ambition and self love .
The powerful now lie deflated, helpless n daunted in the face of a Lilliputian organism. There are greater powers, the silent ones that hit without blowing trumpets!
If this is ‘not’ the moment enough to AWAKEN and reach out to the deeper self surely humanity is done with. If we are still concentrating on businesses that may flourish /what stocks will sell for profits / and which way the real-estate market go in the shadows of this global adversity, surely apocalyptic in every which way!
Swift’s message to mankind becomes meaningful - compassion for other beings is the only way to a worthy life !
Nothing is forever...shun fear and anxiety by meditating and praying! Detach n let go the illusory and connect to the REAL.