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Michael T Darkow
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A Brief Biography
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on January 6, 1951. At the age of six, my family moved to Menomonee Falls. There I enjoyed the quintessential suburban childhood of a baby boomer. There I gained my very American sensibilities.
I attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1968 to 1972. I studied creative writing, theater, and philosophy. No less passionately, I indulged myself in the rich culture university environments so generously offered during those very memorable years.
The course of my life since has been guided by the emotional idealism natural to childhood, struggling with the pragmatic realism adulthood inevitably imposes.
I do not accept the highest purpose of art is to entertain, but am fully aware that art which does not entertain is silly and self indulgent.
Neither do I see art as an end unto itself. Rather, I consider it to be a dialog through which to explore and evolve our human selves. I am fully dedicated to our human evolution.
My perspective is informed by science. It, however, is animated by emotion. I have pursued the much awaited wedding of the two. I am not ashamed to confess my writing has this conscious thematic core.
My thematic core best could be described as the conciliation of instinctive idealism with scientific logical objectivity. In my work, the Age of Reason confronts the passionate idealism of blind faith belief, not to deny it, but to propose to it the real mechanism which shall enable its actual accomplishment.
My body of work takes the dramatic admonition, “let us embrace Good and do no more Evil,” with literal objectivity. It is with pragmatic objectivity, I embrace and then reiterate the proposal, let us make of our human society Heaven, our beloved earth Paradise.
Can we any longer be deceived by our prescience irrationalities, even if well intended, how this shall be accomplished in actual reality? Our astounding material technological progress proves how limitless our human capability is. What has seemed, unrealistic and impossible, except a divine entity would intervene and cause it to be, I now reason a literal and objective basis and means. I reason, it is fully within our human capability to accomplish this. By our inventive intelligence, the integrity, dignity, and nobility of our own human deeds, there is no limit to what we human beings can accomplish. It is entirely within our human capability to make of our human society Heaven, our earth Paradise.
It is this thematic core that underlies my body of work. I invite the reader to join me in this bold exploration, this unafraid conversation, to quest for precisely this evolution.





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