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Mission
Briefly, our mission is to put the as much of the human community as possible into the global information loop, and to elaborate this loop as a metasystem as much as possible such that it is capable of comprehending in both general terms and in as much detail as possible the full spectrum of knowledge and understanding as exists and transpires in the world. It is nothing less than a complete opening up of as many information channels as possible.
The critical connection that we thereby address in our Lewis Publications mission statement is the relationship between collective worldview, the received view of reality and its textual/graphic representation, the ability of political structures to deliberately control and manipulate information, perception and understanding of reality among large groups of people, and the teleological ramifications of the digital information revolution for fostering social reform, innovation and widespread human development.
Our mission is primarily to provide to as many people as possible as much quality, intelligent and realistic information about the world, without persuasive manipulation or the resort to propagandistic distortion or rhetorical hype. Our main mission is nothing less than the promotion of world literacy and a literate world culture, which is considered to be the basic foundation for a more realistic worldview and hence, a more stable world pattern.
This mission is functionally sub-divided into a set of five interrelated goals around which planning has been based:
1. To provide a forum for quality alternative publications, in a wide range of subject areas and the full spectrum of genres, in limited edition with the potential for inexpensive, worldwide distribution.
2. To provide a web-based forum for the free e-distribution of information and knowledge in edited and digestible form.
3. To provide a book dealing, collecting and conservation service that will help to preserve and promote written texts, literacy and the appreciation worldwide of literature.
4. To provide the foundation for an alternative integrated library system that will help make a fully cross-referenced, comprehensive textual cornucopia available for as wide a population base in the world as possible.
5. To provide the framework for the production and publication of new and alternative texts, of all styles and types, and for the elaboration and celebration of these texts in a variety of metacultural frameworks.
Though this mission may seem grand and unrealistic, it must be remembered that just a decade ago it would have been impossible, but now the possibility of a global forum for literacy, literary production and literature is intrinsic to the electronic information revolution engendered by the Internet and the worldwide web. Grand goals have become realistic possibilities as a consequence of the computing age, even if traditional style publishing houses have become hard-pressed in the age of digital information storage. If we do not set high expectations of ourselves and of our world, then we cannot hope to achieve anything greater than ourselves and what our histories have decreed to be our fate.
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