THE END OF USA?

Okay. First, I’m no Nostradamus, nor am I an astrologer, prophet, Q, or inner member of the Illuminati or Deep State. Nope. I did, however, write about the end of the USA in a scenario not unlike that of the end of the USSR; however, in our case it ended with the abdication on election night of a petro-president (President Brown, if you’re getting nervous). Written together with the incomparable William Maltese, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009), after several attacks by foreign interests, an attempt by organized crime to take over, followed by a brief nearly civil war, the USA emerges smaller and stronger, having shed it’s protective coastal coat and transferred the capital to Chicago. So now, if you still feel inclined to call me Nostradamus or any of the other attributions mentioned above, you need only wait a brief few months and “all will be revealed.”

But back to today, I’m also not a writer of dystopia. After the USA slims down and comes to realize that the fall wasn’t because of the failed president, who was more of a match than the dynamite, but because of a lack of vision wherein the infrastructure of the USA had become outdated. Pope Francis recently said that free-market capitalism, the heart of the USA, had failed. I take him to mean the highly dangerous, “necessary increasing profit” version of capitalism (and, in my mind, its inherent infrastructure from addictive Wall Street gambling to the forced emphasis on war supplies, drugs, human trafficking, forced human concentration). In my recently released SCI-FU (science-based futuring) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020), three young firebrands attempt to find their way in a post-post-meltdown world where technology and societal change drive NewAmerica and NewTerra to even greater heights. A world where the necessary increasing profit version of capitalism isn’t altogether gone but no longer drives humanity. A world where “Fast Eddies” are still on the prowl for a “fast buck,” but are balanced in their effect by a new kind of “family,” lifelong education and a panoply of choice unimaginable to us today.

Don’t worry. It’s all quite safe. Dangle your toes over the edge of madness and imagine what a future world that’s not dystopian might be like

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The Edge of Madness

Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure