In the Author Spotlight ...
Peter Ball, Author of
Culture Locking & Culture Carrying

 

Author Peter Ball was born with unusually perceptive skills which allowed him to observe cause and effect over long social distances thus allowing him to perceive just what people were really up to and who was doing what to whom and why. This skill lead to Peter adopting culture as a hobby. Over a lifetime he was able to put together the big picture of culture. In his new book, Culture Locking & Culture Carrying, he explains culture locking and outlines our built-in system of culture.

"When I was beginning my engineering career back in the early 1960s, my first job was as design assistant in the engineering section of a large chemical company," Peter says. "However while things were going gangbusters technically, socially things were going down the drain." According to Peter, the clerical and production staff were showing interesting and alarming reactions. The Australians were exhibiting pure hate; the British migrants were exhibiting pure fear; and the European migrants were, strangely, not the least alarmed. "Interestingly," he says, "the Australian clerical staff were reporting us to the British migrants who unfortunately ordered these Australians to treat us badly, and the Australians did so with gusto."

The company first lost status, then social safety and finally physical safety. "We were driven out by very bad treatment and the people who replaced us made a point of using British manufactured production equipment even if it was a poor fit in the process lines, they were treated well as a result," he explains.

The dreadful experience turned Peter from an inventive engineer to an amateur social researcher. "Fortunately my built-in skills at doing cause and effect over long social distances came to my aid." Peter began to read all the Robert Ardrey series of books of the 1960s. "The books got me started into culture and after noticing the British were doing the same technical activity suppression as the religions, I perceived that they were doing culture locking in Australia and their other colonies in concert with the religions. My book is modeled on the style of Robert Ardrey and is an easy to understand simple verbiage book that any citizen can read particularly the culture carrying women can read and use the information for change"

"Culture Locking & Culture Carrying is the first book on culture locking by the religions," he says. "It is made possible by the recent decline in influence and authority of religion in the west and particularly by the rapid decline in the number of religious fundamentalists who would normally use their influence to prevent the book being published." While the book is not a condemnation of religion, it does highlight the unethical aspects of culture locking which may yet be a source of controversy.

Peter was married for about 17 years and has a son who is still going to university. He also has a blooming herb garden and a fine crop of lettuce. His hobby is, of course, culture.