100 Seconds to Midnight: Conversations at a Seminar
100 Seconds to Midnight: Conversations at a Seminar is the intriguing and revealing latest book from the often prescient and always interesting author, Surendra Kumar Sagar. The provocative title references the so-called Doomsday Clock and how close its hands have moved towards midnight, the moment when Judgment Day is supposed to happen and all of humanity will potentially perish.
In 100 seconds to midnight, Sagar illustrates how close we have come to midnight and the roles he feels the Trump administration and the Deep State have played in bringing the hands ever closer to the fatal hour through a series of fictional conversations held by actors from Hollywood and Bollywood portraying dead celebrities. intellectual figures such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, Leonardo Da Vinci, Diogenes of Alaska and himself, in a seminar. Although the topics and possible conclusions of the talks in the seminar are, as the author calls them, “mental exercises,” they are meant both to enlighten readers of 100 Seconds to Midnight and to encourage them to get involved and do whatever they can. . to help ensure the continuation of intelligent life on Earth.
Congratulations to the author for including the topic of COVID-19 in his book, and the ramifications that the unbridled spread of it and its variants, as well as the mortality rate of the virus, has had throughout the world. The response of the countries of the world, and the initial somewhat delayed response of the United States, has pushed the hands of the Doomsday Clock a little closer to midnight, although it is encouraging that vaccines have been invented to combat the disease, and they are quite effective against her.
Politically speaking, Surendra Kumar Sagar does not seem to take either side as to whether he leans more toward Republican or Democratic views when it comes to who is more to blame for moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward. Both sides are to blame, along with the Deep States and the political leaders of the other countries of the world. What is more important than who is to blame is what can be done to reverse the trends and actions that have caused hands to steadily move closer to Judgment Day. While there are numerous puzzling things that the fictionalized versions of famous historical figures discuss in the seminar that Sagar describes in 100 Seconds to Midnight, the author isn’t all doom and gloom. There is still a chance to reverse some of the harmful trends and slow the constant ticking of the Doomsday Clock towards midnight.
The mere mention of the term “Deep State” triggers something different in the minds of Republicans and Democrats in the United States. For Republicans, it often means that Deep State officials are appointed and elected by the Obama administration, officials who control the government behind the scenes, even as President Donald Trump tried to get rid of and remove them. with many of Obama’s policies and programs. For many Democrats, the idea that such a deep state existed and still exists was a complete fabrication by the Republicans and Trump, concocted by them in an attempt to instill in the minds of voters the rather potent idea that there was/is a government in the shadow. working against Trump, while he was in office, and the Republicans’ attempts to make America great again.
the author of 100 seconds to midnight, however, has a different definition of what a Deep State is, in that he does not write that it is a fabrication of any political party. Instead, in his view, a deep state is when politicians who are deeply embedded in the governments of any country in the world can negatively influence a country’s actions, decisions, and policies. So, for example, Russia, China, the UK and all other governments have their own brands of “Deep States”. Each of these Deep States, according to the author, have their own agendas, and most of them are not always in the best interest of humanity, as a whole.
While I didn’t always agree with everything I read on 100 second conversations at midnight in a seminar, that is not, of course, really debatable whether or not it is a very interesting book that I would recommend (which it is). However, I doubt that anyone who reads it will come out of the experience without getting the worrying feeling that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are ticking too fast towards midnight. That awareness is what Sagar would like to instill in the minds of his readers, as well as the knowledge that it’s not too late to turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock. If you are interested in reading books that make you think and raise awareness about the potential direction the United States and the world are taking, I highly recommend you check out !00 seconds for midnight chats at a seminar by Surendra Kumar Sagar!
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