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2034: The Corporation - Post 2012
by Mark Whistler
Paperback : 354 pages
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As the masses desperately search for security and stability, the people are duped into voting out the Constitution for the first-ever Social ...
Introduction
(The failure of the U.S. Government; enabled by the financial crisis, media, national debt, reckless Federal spending and haughty politicians.
As the masses desperately search for security and stability, the people are duped into voting out the Constitution for the first-ever Social Enterprise Employee Stock Ownership Country (SEESOC). Quickly, the people find they have become corporate slaves, locked inside two Great Walls separating Mexico and Canada. Tagged with barcodes and endlessly watched by Security Services, the dystopian novel, 2034, illustrates just how George Orwell's prophecy could be unfolding.
However, one man will risk his life for the woman he loves and their independence. Will hope, love, and freedom triumph in the end?
Despite most employees mindless embrace of The Corporation's principals of 'progressiveness' (uniformity and repression in disguise) one man suddenly unexpectedly - finds love in the coldness of the futuristic dystopian corporate community. Hiding his affection from Management and Security Services- Franklin finds refuge in the words and company of an old man- mysteriously running a junk shop filled with illegal antique books, among other treasures. With their love affair exposed, Franklin and Sue are faced with a critical decision: Stay in The Corporation and be taken to 'confession' by Security Services, or attempt to escape through The Great Wall of Mexico, or The Great Wall of Canada? Despite the harsh reality of possible political and economic events at hand, 2034 is a story of hope, love, empathy and compassion. 2034 is truly about The Form of the Good - in true Orwellian style. Excerpts:
The Corporation had banned all paper products; including cash, in 2014, just after H1N5 (the Avian Flu) mutated and became airborne. The plague's evolution triggered a virulent Pandemic topping that of the Bubonic plague of 1918. - Page 17
The financial crisis propped up the price of gold, and with the final approval for the international fund to sell the gold (by the U.S. Congress in late 2009 and early 2010), the fund was able to dump the gold into the market at over $1,500 a troy ounce in 2010. - Page 37
The paper-money ban was also the birth of the human barcodes, which were propagated as a 'vital necessity to provide greater health safety for the masses', replacing germ spreading cash, ATM, and credit cards.-Page 17
There weren't too many winter days now when temperatures on the Northern seaboard were above freezing. At least, not since the Gulf Stream had almost completely slowed in 2015. Before the Government began acquiring positions in airlines, healthcare, and the automotive industry too. -Page 4
Dearest employees: The Corporation is pleased to announce the Lomonosov Ridge beneath the arctic sea was secured this morning by Security Services Special Forces. The Corporation's Special Arctic Naval Forces retrieved a flag from the floor of the Arctic Sea, planted there almost 27-years ago by Russia, on August 4, 2007. - Page 27
â�?¦a leader in human-implantable microchips and was contracted by the Government several years beforehand to ensure the 16-digit human bar code system was in place, just in case.-Page 17
Looking back at history, the initial Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for implantable chips surfaced in 2004, under the auspice of a more secure method for individuals to transport medical records. Really though, the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) microchips meant humans would be tracked like cargo.-Page 17
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