A Middle-Aged Agnostic Bipolar Termite: the Cracks in the Materialist Worldview

How to effectively navigate the path of pain, grief, suffering, and despair has been addressed by philosophers, religions, social scientists, parents--and probably just about every person who ever lived. What is this book really about other than a bipolar shaman Termite? It's about the growing despair and loss of connection and meaning many of us are experiencing today, manifesting as depression and self-loathing. It's about the frustration of not knowing why one exists in a world...
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How to effectively navigate the path of pain, grief, suffering, and despair has been addressed by philosophers, religions, social scientists, parents--and probably just about every person who ever lived. What is this book really about other than a bipolar shaman Termite? It's about the growing despair and loss of connection and meaning many of us are experiencing today, manifesting as depression and self-loathing. It's about the frustration of not knowing why one exists in a world where the reductionist materialists reduce nature to meaningless greed fuelled quest to acquire wealth and status, dominated by the oligarch elite and selfish genes. Termanity/Humanity has lost its purpose and the most healthy reaction is to laugh. So the primary objective of this book is to laugh at ourselves and our situation as an alternative to feeling powerless and depressed. But this book also details some of the cracks in the materialist worldview and behind the scenes details a Buddhist Psychology as a tonic to materialism-induced metal illness. And if you look into these cracks it becomes obvious that our reality is more complicated and less understood than we are led to believe. This book is a concoction of magic realism, Buddhist psychology, comic book philosophy, environmentalism and Monty Python humor mixed in an easy-to-digest brew.