The Prophet of the New Millennium

Gregory Dark 'The Prophet of the New Millennium' Links More about Greg More about 'The Prophet of the New Millennium' More about 'The Millennium Trilogy' More quotes from 'The Prophet of the New Millennium' More from the Publisher How to order the book from Amazon   Gregory Dark has been described as combining the worst excesses of Lord Byron, the Mahatma Gandhi and Homer Simpson. He has written, directed and produced in theatre, cinema and television; has assisted both Edward Bond and James Bond; has survived working with sharks, crocodiles, black mambas and Michael Winner. He has directed five films, three of which he co-wrote (with Michael Bywater). And has worked on many more, in virtually every capacity short of hairdresser, including as Associate Producer to Producer Michael Codron on Michael Frayn’s “Clockwise”, starring John Cleese. He has also directed over thirty theatrical ventures, from Sloane Square to Bogotá, sometimes to astounding effect. His production of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ in Lima, for instance, ‘coincided’ with the Peruvian government’s declaration of a state of emergency. To punish him for all his good fortune, he was given the job of overseeing the pre-production of ‘Eldorado’ on the Costa del Sol. His passport was therefore confiscated and he has been trying to get back to England ever since. ‘The Prophet of the New Millennium’ and ‘The God of the New Millennium’ are already published. And, if he ever finishes it, the third of the trilogy (‘Man of the New Millennium’) is scheduled for publication in 2009. The sub-titles of the books are also significant: ‘The Prophet …’ is sub-titled ‘A search for principles in an unprincipled age’; ‘The God …’ ‘A search for balance in an age of spin’; and ‘Man of the New Millennium’ ‘A search for us in an age of me’.

Quotes from 'The Prophet of the New Millennium' We embrace a system of government where it is not the cream which rises to the top but the milk which is the most curdled. It is only those who hate themselves who cannot weep for those who hate themselves. The wisest know, sometimes the best way forward is to wait for the signpost to change direction. When we glory in a child because he is the future we glory in only half the child. Our prayers are most mercifully answered not by staunching the bleeding but by exposing the wound. It is not to be countenanced, companies which support children's charities in one country and exact their exploitation in another. In our search for ourselves, curiosity is the compass. We do not educate our children today, we apprentice them. All of us have a profession ... are gaining our income from an activity which involves a compromise in ethics. Sex is the bliss of Heaven adapted for human consumption. It is God's thank you for putting up with life.   The Millennium A playwright friend of mine - a bad speller - maintains that good writers cannot spell. By which token, I must be at least a Henry Miller if not a John Milton! If you have got to this site (as I would have done) via 'milenium' or 'millenium' or 'milennium', well done. If you got here via the correct spelling, well, okay, you're entitled to a few moments of smugness. Welcome, of course, to you as well.   "This is unreadable!" This was the comment of a friend of mine, the owner of a PR company who, I had hoped, would help me with the publicity of my book. I mention this only as a formal acceptance that my book will not be to everyone's taste. All books are for intelligent people. This is for people who enjoy their intelligence, who enjoy using it and whose intelligence tells them about the crisis today faced by mankind. Its style, whilst my own, is (I acknowledge) reminiscent of Kahil Gibran's. I hope indeed my book is both a complement and a compliment to his original. It was indeed conceived from the fairly innocuous remark that what the world needed today was an up-dated version of his book, 'The Prophet'. 'The Prophet of the New Millennium' is a book for today quite as much as 'No Logo' and 'Fast Food Nation'; it combines a quest for the spiritual of, say, 'The Road Less Travelled', 'The Tao of Pooh' or the Dalai Lama's work with the earthiness of, say, 'Stupid White Men', 'The Exception to the Rulers' and the work of Naom Chomsky. And the only reason I wrote it is because it seemed to me that no-one else was.