The Douglas Coleman Show w_ A. Darius Kamali

With two decades of Hollywood, television documentary, and feature animation producing, A. Darius Kamali is now expanding into publishing. As the creative author of two timely and thought-provocative books, Mistake of Identity and Dog Whistling Dixie Past the Graveyard. Kamali explores the impact and role of identity and groupism, identity politics, political correctness, and individual spirituality. Kamali, a one-time human-rights activist and documentarian, brings a unique multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-national background to his work and informed perspectives.“My writing may awaken people to the realization that without spiritual return to the primacy of individual consciousness – rather than group-based rights and responsibilities – all political solutions are bound to be as useful and ultimately absurd as a game of musical chairs being played on board a sinking Titanic,” says Kamali.”About The Books: Misstake of Identityis a genre-bending collection of short musings, at once worldly and idealistic, hardboiled and spiritual. It combines the conventions of the social media post with the traditions of the philosophical aphorism, and eastern wisdom literature. The book consists of a series of concise, often witty, sometimes dark, counterintuitive, even contrarian thoughts that boldly tread our contemporary sociopolitical fault lines. It playfully uses parody and paradox to pry past the surface of the political trope. And it searches for a truth that lies deeper than either the ideological talking point or hackneyed partisan convention. Dog Whistling Dixie Past The Graveyardis a collection of dark poems of ironic, paradoxical reflections of varied length on the ephemeral and ever-present shadow of identity. It combines the deeply personal with the broadly social, and gnostic insight with political polemic. The book reflects unconscious and fractured nature of the individual self in our socially fraught and uncertain times. It also offers glimpses of a spiritual, post-identity-based path forward.The Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. We also offer advertising. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow