Hi there again!
This announcement applies to action to be taken the day after tomorrow, July 25th. It is related to Polyamory in the 21st Century, a book yours truly has read very carefully and recommends with high marks! Here's why everyone who reads should get their online order in come Sunday!
For a number of years now bestsellers have been engineered by the book industry. Lots of books get published every year: in fact it has never been easier to become an 'author.' However, which books get into whose hands, who has access to them, who thinks they should, and who, eventually, get the wisdom of these books is another story. With big conglomerates controlling a great deal of the book production and distribution, the public is often the very last entity to decide what's worth reading. That's why the vast majority of people still believe many very natural ideas to be quite esoteric and radical and eccentric. Like the idea that we humans can love more than one person at once and can do so in integrity! Which is of course the very essence of polyamory and also a nugget of very ancient wisdom that has helped people whose love is abundant get by under all kinds of different circumstances.
The so called 'social media' offer tools that help reclaim the ability to create bestsellers. We don't have to do it the way the book industry does it, namely by investing big six-digit figures in expensive bill boards that use a lot of paper and destroy a lot of trees and induce false desire to consume what others consume too. No. We can do it digitally and communally, by focusing efforts on ordering online a certain book on a specified date. The multiple sales made in close proximity send a signal to the digital system that a certain title is highly requested. This gets attention to the title and author, who then get the advantage of being billed as 'best sellers' for the day!
That way the very notion of bestseller (that which sells best) gets redefined as something that certain groups of people prefer for reasons that are close to their hart, that reflect their genuine inclinations and commitments, their thirst for out-of-the-box knowledge, rather than corporate interests. This type of community action helps the book industry realize that all kinds of books generate interest among readers, even books on topics many big publishers would consider too 'niche,' radical, or marginal to invest in. So all in all this reclaiming is a way to favor the general public with a book industry that offers a wider variety of products that respond to a wider range of interests and that presume a higher level of intelligence and decision-making abilities among book buyers and consumers.
The time has come to activate this best-seller reclaiming system for poly books. Deborah Taj Anapol's Polyamory in the 21st Century is coming up for its special day on Sunday, July 25th, which is also a day of very momentous astral coincidences. So, let's all coalesce and buy our own copy from Amazon.com on that very day!
Reclaiming bestsellers for our communities is a bit like reclaiming land for sustainable agriculture from agribusiness. Monoculture is a state of mind, as yours truly learns from Vandana Shiva, author of Monocultures of the Mind, among other amazing books. It's a way to colonize our minds with ideas that serve interests foreign to our inherent needs. In the mind, monocultures are just as pernicious as they can be in the fields. Think of creating 'polycultures of the mind' as you place your order on the 25th. You can do it directly from this website.
Thanks for takign action.
Namaste from yours truly, Gaia
a.k.a. Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
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