PROFESSOR MORIARTY:
"Their control is merely an illusion
and their power is only as strong as our consent"

Blazing Reader,

My son and I finished listening to Moriarty — a theatrical audio production that offers a 180-degree twist on the classic Sherlock Holmes story.

In this alternative retelling of Sir Conan Doyle's masterpiece, we find out that Sherlock Holmes is a fraud. His cases were all fiction, written by Dr Watson to put him in a position of power and public esteem — while he serves as a London agent for an evil, global cabal set on controlling the entire world.

Professor Moriarty, Holmes's archenemy, is the good guy, framed by Holmes for the murder of his own fiancé. Moriarty manages to escape the gallows, but soon finds himself leading an organization of good-hearted criminals to save London and the world from the evil elite known as "The Order."

I can’t help but suspect the author, Charles Kindinger, is aware of the New World Order agenda and has woven opposition into his re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes saga.

Just take a look at these wise words from chapter 9 of the second audiobook in the Moriarty series:

AGATHA: You want me to stay?

MORIARTY: I want you to fight. You won’t get very far, running away from your problems. Trust me.

AGATHA: Trust you? I owe you nothing, Professor, especially not my trust.

MORIARTY: You’re right. There’s nothing I can offer you but my own reasons for not running, too.

AGATHA: Revenge?

MORIARTY: No. Something far greater. There are forces out there that mean to control us. But what they fail to comprehend is that their control is merely an illusion and their power is only as strong as our consent. And when we bow, when we cower and run, we only embolden their game.

Their control is merely an illusion. Their power is only as strong as our consent.

So don't consent.

Don't cower.

Don't run.

Fight!

And, much like the brilliant mathematician Moriarty, we need to fight first with our minds — finding clever ways to convince the masses to stop giving their consent to the powers-that-should-not-be.

One of the ways to do that is to support literature that entertains while emboldening the masses to oppose those "forces out there that mean to control us."

While not as direct (and prone to censorship) as my own novel, Much Ado About Corona, I'd say Moriarty is such a work of opposition.

You can listen to the trailer for Moriarty here: https://www.audible.ca/pd/Moriarty-Podcast/B0B2DZWYDT

—John C.A. Manley

PS And for some musical inspirational as to why we should not run, check out my previous post: Howling ghosts, they reappear in mountains that are stacked with fear but…

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/