Institute members are very good a writing books. For sometime now a story has been formulating in my mind of Cultural Fiction from which I’ve been deriving a lot of pleasure and satisfaction. There are many Science Fiction books of this genre. But I’m not the one to write it for several reasons. The main reason is that my knowledge of Anarchist Theory is too weak. However I’d be glad to give or include in the Forum an outline if anyone is interested. It would have to include some excitment, a murder mistery perhaps.
The scene would be some reasonable time in the future, and about 30 years after a world changing event. This event is that one morning everyone, in every country, wakes up to find dead bodies everywhere. Every elected, and maybe appointed, politician is dead. Every person of a race other than the nationally majority race has disappeared and all those of the national majority race living in foreign countries is back, and for 20 years after the event any personal agression or violation of property rights cause immediate death. ( The reason for the racial disappearance is that dealing with the cultural effects otherwise becomes too complicated to include in the book, which can’t be overly long. ) Anyone who tries to run for public office, or simply to take over any personal power, immediately dies. Further, for 10 years, every national border has become completely impenatrable (including electronics). After 10 years these impenatrable borders were extended to the middle of oceans.
If the book is a hit, a follow-on book could be about national defense when the borders were lifted and whether or not there is a need for it.
Something like Orwell’s 1984. The main purpose of the book is to describe how an anarchist society and culture would function. There seems to be a great misunderstanding publically over even the meaning of the word. Some chapters would look back to what occured in the years after the event. One chapter could be on economics and one on FRB effects, such as the paper on its history, but with a note to the reader that these chapters could be skipped.
I’d sure like to read a book like this.