Money, Murder, Madness

About the Book

Sin, Excess and Vulgarity take dominant place in a Culture driven by makebelieve. Advertising, fundamental to mass marketing has captured the soul of those deceived, which soul shall be consumed.

What is artificial, is created for profit that will be captured by the Middleman. Rock music, sounds of pubescent Vulgarity, ignorance and madness abounds. There is nowhere to hide.

What was fine, sensitive and beautiful is eclipsed by the superficial and dumb. Childish symbolism dominates nevertheless; few seem aware, fewer care. What is entertainment and fun or what is buried in habit and custom is difficult to understand. Certainly, only a few are looking for what might be wrong, most participate in the lamentation.

Mayhem shown on Television is perceived a form of necessary distraction. Viewers imagine they are truthfully informed, keeping abreast of times. The youthful, eager Barbarians, as something of an oddity avoid virtue and Holiness. Those older and wiser are thought to take too much space on the Planet. The nation suffers from the consequences of Relativism and Socialist pretense, and the spreading of falsehood.

Who could imagine the outcome, from this untamed monstrosity? However, it is certain that Money, Murder and Madness will be prominent and Mendacity. Who knows what the future holds for any nation so spiritually and morally compromised? Evil did form the Medusa. Where is [our] Perseus?

About the Author

Robert R. Fiedler, Professor Emeritus at California State University, was born December 11, 1930. He has worked as an artist, architect, teacher, businessman for nearly sixty years. He is a nationally and internationally recognized teacher and graphic artist. He has received over fifty important awards in drawing and painting, and has been the recipient of institutional, community and congressional citations. Mr. Fiedler has been married for fifty years to his wife Geri. They have a son, daughter and five grand children.