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Albert Gum and the Coup D'état to Save Humanity
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2022
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If Vonnegut penned 1984.
As climate change wreaks havoc and the water wars end, North America shatters into several new countries in the near-distant future. The eastern coast is a nuclear waste with some rebuilding; the south has reformed around high waters flooding into Georgia: the west is wild, but the old states of Indiana and Michigan areas are running successfully and known as THOD's district.These areas function with order and are controlled by the self-proclaimed god, THOD. THOD, along with seven senators, including the most beautiful woman in the history of the world, Wren Carter, use propaganda to control the citizens.
Education isn't allowed, and every man, woman, and child must be working. If the hoi polloi is working, they cannot try to overthrow those at the top. Keep the masses dumb and working, feed them propaganda like candy, and keep them fed and entertained when they aren't working.
This bread and circuses routine by THOD and company has worked for over 20 years. The citizens are happy working under the ruse that they are in a socialist society and 'own the means to their production.
Every worker in the district is a millionaire and is trained to be grateful for their work even though money isn't real and most of the jobs are to occupy time only. The dystopian society is called utopian, and the working class believes what they are told.
THOD and his senators live in downtown Indianapolis in the former Circle Center Mall. It is the tallest building left in North America after the water wars, is guarded heavily by military drones and bots, and the seven story building is known as the mall castle.
Albert Gum is a man who doesn't fit into the usual brainwashed crowd. He doesn't love working seven days a week, 50 weeks a year. He doesn't like getting up each morning to work in his pit, and he believes humans should get more than two weeks off in a year. It is dangerous thinking, but his thinking isn't the only danger.
Albert Gum wins a vacation from Wren Carter, but while on his journey to Chicagoland, Albert runs into the father of Beck Lang, outcast senator, and military man, Ryder Lang, and the adventure begins.
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