This really hits the core issue I keep writing about: democracy can’t survive when a handful of corporations control both wealth and information. At that point, it’s not left vs. right anymore — it’s people vs. power. If we don’t break up this grip, no amount of elections or speeches will restore trust. The real test now isn’t saving democracy from one politician — it’s proving democracy still works for ordinary people.
Q - Why did you choose to write such a political novel, and has your work in activism influenced your fiction?
A - Today we live in a world that is hermetically corporatized and monopolized, a world with close to zero choice and a world that is only growing darker. As my novel is about a group of fed-up activists that starts assassinating billionaires in order to draw attention to the misery and death their corporatization and monopolization inflicts upon humanity, yes, I would say my career in activism influences my fiction. And if a comic novel about a billionaire hit list brings attention to the wealth disparity crisis, this real life holocaust of which billionaires are the grinning poster boys, then I will have achieved my goal.
Democracy is fragile and the alternative is a crap shoot between Trump and some other populist demagoguery as long as we tend to hear what we want to hear. Plato’s least preferred regime is democracy. The most sagacious people back then and now preferred a Philosopher King. Americans are politically and rigidly narrow and like the electorate. We were given a Republic with a warning about losing it to democracy.
You don’t say? Have you read Plato’s entire body of work? Do you know what life was like back then and how? Any rational person would need the requisite knowledge and understanding of that 2-3000 years of history to make such a comparison, would you agree? Prosperous and over 8 billion in population? How does that work? If we could do what we are now capable of, I would but there is too much prosperity in the hands of monsters, don’t you agree?
You are best advised to go back to school, young fellow. I am not your teacher and you are entitled to your own opinions such as they are, albeit completely fact free.
This really hits the core issue I keep writing about: democracy can’t survive when a handful of corporations control both wealth and information. At that point, it’s not left vs. right anymore — it’s people vs. power. If we don’t break up this grip, no amount of elections or speeches will restore trust. The real test now isn’t saving democracy from one politician — it’s proving democracy still works for ordinary people.
What is the last monopoly that is foundational of all others that must be entirely dismantled and replaced?
I would be curious to know what others think.
#EndCitizensUnited
Q - Why did you choose to write such a political novel, and has your work in activism influenced your fiction?
A - Today we live in a world that is hermetically corporatized and monopolized, a world with close to zero choice and a world that is only growing darker. As my novel is about a group of fed-up activists that starts assassinating billionaires in order to draw attention to the misery and death their corporatization and monopolization inflicts upon humanity, yes, I would say my career in activism influences my fiction. And if a comic novel about a billionaire hit list brings attention to the wealth disparity crisis, this real life holocaust of which billionaires are the grinning poster boys, then I will have achieved my goal.
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You certainly buried the lede in your comment.
Democracy is fragile and the alternative is a crap shoot between Trump and some other populist demagoguery as long as we tend to hear what we want to hear. Plato’s least preferred regime is democracy. The most sagacious people back then and now preferred a Philosopher King. Americans are politically and rigidly narrow and like the electorate. We were given a Republic with a warning about losing it to democracy.
You seem to be out of your depth of understanding, particularly with respect to population growth.
You don’t say? Have you read Plato’s entire body of work? Do you know what life was like back then and how? Any rational person would need the requisite knowledge and understanding of that 2-3000 years of history to make such a comparison, would you agree? Prosperous and over 8 billion in population? How does that work? If we could do what we are now capable of, I would but there is too much prosperity in the hands of monsters, don’t you agree?
“Adversity makes men, prosperity makes monsters.”
Victor Hugo
You are best advised to go back to school, young fellow. I am not your teacher and you are entitled to your own opinions such as they are, albeit completely fact free.