The Old Boys' Club

About the Book

The Old Boys’ Clubis not a book on geriatrics nor about the social interaction of old, retired club members, as its title might suggest, but refers rather to its more colloquial meaning of any clique high up on the socio-economic totem pole, which more in the sense of a secret society would prevent any newcomer to participate in, let alone usurp their power and vested interests, a fact which the book’s subtitle - The Mahatma’s “5” Truisms [which in fact are no self-evident or indisputable truths at all or there would have been no need for such a book!] - certainly demolished right from the start any possible suspicion about such an aged and thus dated dissertation about dotage in general. And since theses five truisms as listed in so many words in this book’s Index as Religions, Governments, the Legal Profession, our Medical Associations, not to forget our Universities, which all destroy in total and respectively Spirituality, the citizens’ rights to Freedom and Liberty, Justice in its true sense of the word, the nations’ Health, and Knowledge we as members of genus homo sapiens are so proud of; and it is these five truisms and their implications for modern man and his troubled times which this writer explores in his own unique way. A treat for those who wonder what lies behind those institutions and their avowed purpose for man of which the late Mahatma Gandhi seemed to have taken quite a different point of view as indicated above. A very refreshing approach to some very difficult subjects presented in an easy flowing narrative that is sure to win the reader’s fullest approval.

About the Author

THIS AUTHOR IS certainly one of the “Old Boys” as far as his chronological age is concerned but not in mind nor spirit or he would have hardly undertaken the task to write a commentary to each of the above five pronouncements as attributed to the late Mahatma Gandhi. He obtained a general arts degree at the University of Toronto, but stayed in the business world or the ‘school of hard knocks’ rather than trying to pursue an academic career with its often quite limiting effects on the later “specialist” [the one who knows more and more about less and less] while the “generalist” [like subject author] does quite well, thank you, without those defining blinkers. The reader therefore should be aware that this treatise pays no allegiance to any customary traditions just because they constitute our socio-economic-cultural fabric, but rather analyses critically those “holy cows” which are not to be discussed by the citizenry at large - you & me! - since counterproductive to those five institutions with their implied anti-social agendas. That this book will not change the world, can be assumed; but it might add to the “Weltanschauung” of its readers which according to the saying that “to be forewarned is to be forearmed” might fill that age old gap between ignorance and understanding which in our world of “smoke and mirrors” is often mistaken for true coin.