: Candace Carter
: We Save the World
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: 9783819287343
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: Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
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"We Save the World" A trans-human, living in the year 2450, recalls his life as the boy Pascal centuries earlier and shares the gripping story of how the world was saved. In the year 2125, George Orwell's prophecy in his novel"1984" has become chilling reality. Countries and nations have been destroyed, and people live as slaves in castes. The World Bank, known as the WB, celebrates the 75th year of its global rule. But in this same year, their reign begins to crack as a strange plague breaks out - and the child Sophia is born. As a young woman, Sophia comes to live on an island off the coast of France, where"misfits" are kept for experimental purposes. Inspired by her motto,"We must love our enemies to death", a small group decides to take action. And so they set out to conquer the beast and save the world - with the only weapons that have ever, through time, really made a difference: pacifism, friendship, and art. The great saga takes place on the island, in Paris and in New York. And this time - they succeed! The world is reborn into the Age of the Parousia, where duality ends and matter and consciousness are joined in union. But what about the rest of the universe?"We Save the World" is Part 1 of the trilogy"New News from the West". Watch for Part 2,"Sequence", and Part 3,"The Beyond", coming soon!

Candace Carter grew up in a small town in the Midwest of the USA. She was privileged to belong to a politically active protestant family. Unfortunately, the family had to endure mobbing and repression in their bigoted, racist community. At the early age of nineteen, Carter left her native home to start a new life in Hamburg, Germany. After working her way through school at the Academy of Fine Arts, she took up residence in Karlsruhe. Since 1980, she has been a freelance artist in the region. In the beginning of her career, painting and drawing were her passion, but in time she moved on to performance, installation, and video. Candace Carter hosts a channel on YouTube,"Candace Carter Thoughts to Go", as well as the podcast"Kunst oder Grombiere?" ("Art or Potatoes?") on her channel and on Spotify. In 2015, she returned to her first and oldest love: writing. Through all the years, Christianity and Marxism have been the major influences in her work and life. Candace Carter was married to fellow artist Tutilo Karcher, who passed away in 2019. She lives in close contact with her children and the many friends she has been blessed with. Her first novel,"We Save the World", Part I one of the trilogy"New News from the West", is dedicated to her grandson, Anton Tuto.

Prologue


The island was safe for the time being. Before I continue my story, I would like to clarify what distinguishes our time from previous ones. The age in which we live, which began to unfold even then, we call the Parousia. The Greek philosopher Plato saw the Parousia as “the presence or presence of the ideas in the things which partake of those”. For the Christian tradition, the Parousia is coupled with the end time return of Christ. Our era is the realization of this marriage of spirit and matter. With us, there is only exchange and enrichment, as dualistic separation no longer exists.

A linear time calculation plays a very subordinate role in our present. It is entertaining for me to again employ the chronological method of narration, but in our world, we move freely in time and space. The renewed encounter with Chronos is comparable to the idea of time travel in earlier eras: I narrate while I am simultaneously a part of the narration.

In the course of my story, the open exchange between organic and inorganic matter will refine. As I have spoken of before, if I visit a lioness host, the entire history of the “lioness existence” is available to me. However, I can just as well visit a chair and learn how it became one.

In former times, there were people who imagined the Parousia as boring: passions, dramas, wars, power plays...superfluous. The truth is, nothing is more beautiful than expanding matter. The present develops its own dynamics as it completely redefines the concept of diversity. We are diversity. And, since our diversity is infinite, unlimited possibilities arise to experience, shape and exchange our diversity. In the Parousia, creation is in a cosmic embrace with itself. The concept of “death” as earlier experienced, has become a thing of the past. We cannot say exactly when we will die. Death has become one door of many, as a stone “dies” slower than a butterfly. Beginnings and endings touch and complement one another, as they are no longer mutually exclusive.

But let us now return to our story.

The Pilot Tells His Story


After the great events, everyday life was healing for the island. The following weeks were a blend of physical exertion and joyful encounters. New homes were built on the cliffs for the Stranded. We younger ones cared for the animals, helped in the garden and with the fieldwork. Evenings we met on the beach, ate and sang together and became ever closer as a community. The tireless efforts of Carmen, Viktor, Marie and Anton, as well as Wiebke and Selene, were decisive for our guests suffering from the Markings. Thanks to their help, the traumatized newcomers were able to live in peace. Carmen was imminently important in helping them accept their ability to transform as a gift and not a curse.

The OKs were in their new homes, the animals and the fields prospering. For us, the companions, the inner urge to pursue our mission grew. And so it was that one evening, around the campfire, we considered our next steps. Sophia held our entire attention as she addressed us:

“Well, what do we know exactly? We know, that the power of the Black Pillar has been broken. The WB believes our island no longer exists, perhaps destroyed by a tsunami or some similar nature event. The link between the data center and the mainland has been dismantled. As a result, we have gained a great deal of freedom and we need to consider what to do with that freedom. It is not enough to just go on living as before. Carmen has told us about the Resistance. It is time to find out what information the black box contains.”

Sophia asked Herbert and Rainer to bring the box, the battery and the feather antenna. Everything was set up and Rainer spoke the password. Fascinated, we watched, as the CD began to move and a calm but grave voice could be heard loud and clear:

“My name is Ben. As the pilot of this aircraft, I am speaking my last words on this CD. The dark forces have triumphed for now and none of us will survive. Therefore, I need to record our story for future generations, who will hopefully, as were we, be willing to risk their lives to overcome the WB domination.

It is the year 2135. Since 2130, I have lived on an island approximately 60 kilometers west of the former French mainland. A center was there and a select handful of scientists, including myself, were given the task of researching solutions for the growing epidemic of the Markings. At least, that was what we were told, but the WB had far more important goals we knew nothing about. The truth was, we represented a kind of experimental field for them. As in earlier times, they let us live in family units and observed our