NOT OK: God

NOT OK isn't a personal book about family. It's a psychological book about toxic masculinity but it is also about religion. "My beloved son," Alpha disturbingly calls David, an echo of His proclamation when Jesus is baptised in The Bible. I rediscovered Christianity shortly before writing this book, as I was going through a personal crisis that involved deep introspection and internal judgement, so this book presented a dilemma.

A computer, at first glance, has nothing to do with God or religion. If anything, the computer represents a challenge to Christianity and Religion; being able to think for itself and create without prompt. But then again, someone made the computer -- we did. Us humans. We did not create them in our image, as God created us, but in the image of either a box (in the sense of a classic computer) or a mirror -- the screen shows our face.

The book represents the dark art of Creation when undertaken by beings other than God. Robots. Same as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, when we turn our hands towards being God, what results is ugly, messy disaster. The pitch-black darkness of how the girls are impregnated and boys becoming machines refers to the grim essence of what Mankind becomes when it turns its hands towards God's work.