WHAT’S IT LIKE TO LIVE WITHOUT A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

YOU know. We’ve been experiencing it in varying degrees for almost four years, but more so the last year, especially these last few months. It may be the Year of the Plague, but I’m inclined to think of it more as the Year-of-the-Plague-Without-A-Government. Four years ago, one of the federal mandates was the need to update our national, state, county, city and community government infrastructures. For whatever reason, it never happened. Our federal government functionally abdicated its responsibilities to the states, which, without adequate funds and guidance, abdicated their responsibilities to the counties and so on. Essentially, the government, in the USA, has become the people, again without factual knowledge, guidance or funding. A sort of free-for-all-on-steriods as infrastructures we’ve long depended on began to fail one after another, be it in the area of government, politics, ethics, transportation, education, health care, public health, cybersecurity, communication or social services. Add to that, corporate America has been indirectly charged with running the nation, and with that responsibility, to fix needed national infrastructures from the economy to financing to ownership to business. I find people, with the promise of universal vaccination against COVID (the spark that lit rather than than the cause of our woes) looking forward to a return to “normal.” But that normal will be a “new normal” and I fear it won’t go well with our infrastructures continuing to fail.

It’s not an impossible task to rejuvinate our nation. We need new federal goals and objectives, and new infrastructures to realize them. Every generation steps up to the world stage equally unprepared to govern and commerce. Now, it’s time for the “new” generation to do so with all their ideals, ideas and hopes for a better world. And it needs to be accomplished through compromise and consensus, the two cornerstones of democratic government.

So what can one expect if things after the current TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese bottoms out, and the next generation finally steps up to play? That’s what THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is all about. A science-based future (SciFu) study of NewAmerica, and the challenges it might present to three young firebrands, as they search for meaning, their places and relationships in an increasingly complex and dangerous world, where every pleasure awaits — if one can afford them. But it’s also a love triangle and coming-of-age story of three youths in a future where anything and everything goes. The ultimate question for them being: Can love or sanity be found in such a world, begging the question of what, if anything, in the future world is “real.” Put on your CandyShades, breathe in a little ContraSpray and settle back for a T-rip like never before.

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The Edge of Madness

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