The World as we Know it

Earlier this year, I started a trilogy by A.G. Riddle called The Atlantis Gene. The Atlantis Plague and The Atlantis World followed and while I haven’t finished the final book in the trilogy, I feel I can highly recommend the trilogy. If you enjoy a good read, a dive into a world you can get lost in, and thought-provoking ideas and concepts, you’ll enjoy this.

Should you read these books, I think you may agree with me that current events feel somewhat familiar. With the breakout of Ebola and all its potential ramifications, I can’t help but feel some of the threads in A.G. Riddle’s clever thriller may hit closer to home than we may like. Today, it has given me much pause to think about what our role as people – not just US Citizens – may be.

I don’t feel I’m a doomsayer, a naysayer, or even a realist to some extent (I think it’s pretty clear if you know me I like to live in my own little world), but it’s not too difficult to recognize themes of our own world in the fictitious ones we read. It can be even harder at times, to keep them out of the world’s we create.

What’s important is that we learn to recognize and know the difference. And, I think, what we chose to do with the power we have, however little, to change the world we live in.