If there were no writing then there would be no collective memory. No shared humanity. No way to relate our experiences to the great stories: no Holy Books, no warnings of Big Brother, and no Romeo and Juliet. No way to relate to love. Perhaps love itself would be different. Certainly mankind would not be the same.Gangnam style can entertain and appeals to something in us that needs easy entertainment but Gangnam style will never change the world. Or someone’s life. Or even an attitude.
From my experiences as a doctor and a writer researching 'The Clash of Civilisations', I have come to the unavoidable conclusion that soon, you – the majority – will be destroyed by a conquering swarthy mass of Islamification or become enslaved under European hegemony. Britain and perhaps Europa herself will lie panting defenceless before the invading hordes. That is what some in our society would have you believe. The swarming masses and their weird ideas must be finished off before they undermine our civilisation.
Therefore the most urgent directive seems to be that the West must destroy the scary terrorists from inside and out; the main threat may be from those who are set on ending liberal western civilisation. Both seem intent on striking a deathblow: either scenario has its own burdens. However it is certain that change is gathering momentum. A storm that will challenge and destroy the current status quo. The white liberal majority will be to blame. By definition in a democracy it is the majority that takes the responsibility.
Why do writers matter? This a time of financial crisis: because we have made the moneylenders the high priests. Hence we are responsible for a divided society that is full of unhappy individuals who are too ashamed to own up to a trashed common culture. Writers need to not only inform the debate but change attitudes.
Thinkers are meaningless unless they write. Only writers influence. They create new thoughts and change minds from beyond the grave. Every revolution is political in the broadest sense:
‘She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies’, is a political work. Lord Byron died fighting for the Greeks against the Turks. Every piece of writing that moves is beauty, a revolution of the heart.
Writing can be fun, of course it can and it should. Even on board The Starship Enterprise there exists a Prime Directive: no one is to interfere in the lives and societies of others.
As writers we have a Prime Directive: to interfere in the lives of others. To discomfort the days of humanity, to ensure they do not sleep easy on their comfort mattresses but instead have nights of blissless insomnia. Writers must build a cohesive memory, and create a collective consciousness, by asking the right question. That is the only job of a writer.
What type of writers matter? What types of writers are dangerous? The publicly masturbatory types? The self-flagellatory types? The sh*t ones?
The truth of the matter is most writers will not matter. Some will matter and some will matter more than almost all the others. Those will be the ones who come seriously to the blank page.
And for a very few it is of no consequence whether they write about aliens on Zog or essays about the Zeitgeist; they will make a difference.
I became a writer because I had to write. To write means only one thing: to ask the most relevant question.
My question right now is: when are writers going to take responsibility again?
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Dr Max Malik is a medical doctor and an award winning writer, as well as an established expert on ''The Clash of Civilistions' and also a commentator on international relations between the West and the Muslim World.
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