So, the Timeline Of The Dying Years, part of the full excerpt of Life After along with the prologue and all the story of the short excerpt, is a pretty big deal.
It covers our past up till now — a lot of the behind-closed-doors deals that sold out the American dream and so many other countries, the military excursions under Democrats and Republicans that have destabilized formerly peaceful nations, and how we’ve been fighting these injustices all throughout, from the anti-Wall Street movements of the nineteen-teens through the Green Movement and Arab Spring and now the new ‘Occupy’ movements.
It also details a future that is looming much closer than many people want to accept. Occupy and other citizen movements are being crushed by their governments — just as the Ayatollahs of Iran suppressed the democratic reforms of the Green Movement so has Baššār al-ʾAsad used military and propagandized nationalists to dismantle and fight back against the tides of change.
It looks different for Americans because there’s no real citizen military, no threat of civil war from generals breaking rank and seizing power all on their own, let alone for some faction or group of factions that don’t have the people’s interests at heart. And it’s also not like we’ve been destabilized by attempts of this nature before, right?
Right?
All of this is to say that I want people to be able to get the information in the Timeline a little more easily. There’s a lot in there that goes past just what I’m writing about, which is a lot in its own right, and goes to why we’re dealing with the problems we’re dealing with now — and what happens if they don’t get dealt with soon.
As much as the Excerpts are definitely material I want people to be excited about, I think I’m going to start working on a new form of the Timeline Of The Dying Years just for the THT website: a slightly more meta, fully-sourced, media-laden Timeline versus what you get in the text of the book. Same information, just information-ier! I’ll also break it down, definitely between future and past, and then … well, that’s the point of this post.
I’m thinking of splitting them either by decades or subject, perhaps both. Either way I’m going to release it in installments here on the site for people to read/watch/share and build up some excitement prior to the Kickstarter reveal.
I’m not 100% sure what you guys would like to see or how you’d most like to get the information, so any comments would be much appreciated!
Otherwise I’ll just make up my mind about it in some form and that will be that — leave feedback and have an impact on this project!
