It's 9AM

I was 24 when I wrote my first novel

I wrote a novel in my twenties called EPOCH.

It was a mish-mash of everything I liked to read and watch, hints of unstoppable action stars with a little social commentary and smart ass-ery thrown in for good measure.

It was set in a post apocalyptic future, in a society rebuilt from the ashes of War.

The uber-rich can afford personal bodyguards to keep them safe in their high rise sealed skyscrapers, while a mindless mob swarms the streets below.

I was reminded of how it could happen in 2020, this story I wrote in 95.

People took to the streets to protest a black man’s death at the hands of a police officer.

They swarmed. They seethed. They raged and destroyed and fought each other and any one who came into their reach.

It was chaotic and disturbing, and one step above what I had in mind when I described the mob in Epoch.

But it was close.

Add in hunger, and fear and homelessness for a few years and it may get there.

As this mob screamed and yelled and pulsed in anger, the wealth gap widened.

The wealthy 1% got even richer as the stock market soared, and they did things with their wealth to ensure it remained with them.

They bought politicians to rewrite the tax codes, so that people getting unemployment had to pay tax on it, but people who bought yachts could write off up to $750,000 in interest and expenses.

That’s not fiction.

That is an example of how to use your paid for politician the right way.

Of course, the mob got mad about the impoverished paying that tax, and once the rich were able to write off that almost 1M in expenses against their stock capital gains, they removed the requirement for the tax on the first 10k of unemployment.

If ever there was a situation ripe to create a class war, we’re in it.

And I thought about it over twenty years ago, enough so that I wanted to create a champion who would fight for the normal people, the middle class, the ones who suffer the most under this very unequal system we live in.

Instead of writing a novel, I should have bought stock.

I should have gotten rich instead. Rich with money, instead of experiences, because money is the only way to fight the inequity.

They say the pen is mightier in the sword, which may explain why there is an attack on public schools to lower funding so more people can’t learn to read.

Or learn to hate reading.

You don’t need swords when you have dollar bills to right with.

I talked about that in Epoch too, the corruption in politics.

And as I learn more about what’s right out in the open, about how blatant the grift is, I can’t write or talk about it.

Everyone think’s I’m making it up.

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