One Year Later & These Troubled Days Feels More Plausible Than Ever
These Troubled Days is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online booksellers. It’s also available at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA.
America’s poorest urban areas have been fully privatized and converted into open-air internment camps for undocumented immigrants, Muslims, and the government’s declared enemies. Private military corporations have absorbed the country’s policing functions and actively hunt out dissidents and those deemed “unfit for trial”. Most of the country’s economic activity is overseen by one megacorporation, which uses its monopoly on media to push propaganda. A fascist demagogue has gutted the democratic process and is obsessed with purging his opponents. Any dissent from a prefabricated reality is considered a crime.
If all that sounds plausible in 2022, imagine conceiving of it more than a decade ago.
I was inspired to write These Troubled Days initially as a reaction to the Bush administration’s War on Terror and the increasing power of corporate America. To watch a government treat fear as currency to change regimes overseas and enrich their friends felt wildly out of step with what we ought to be getting out of a democratic country.
