Books with title Briefcases: the Greatest Magic Show on Earth

A stream of consciousness narrative, M. Christopher, intertwines his personal story, a teenager growing up in the 1990's, describing the difficulties in being raised by a single mother with deep insecurities for the future.Large swaths of America are becoming a failing state, resembling a third world country. Conservatives and liberals alike must come to agreement that there are two major issues; that the richest people in America, the investment and financial class, including the upper 10%, are crushing 10s of millions of Americans’ ability to make an honest living and creating inequalities so vast that the middle class is on the verge of extinction. They are simply transferring wealth from the masses into their own hands rather than creating new wealth. And two; a growing cancer of immorality of a majority of American society is a selfish, opportunistic, winner-take-all, free-for-all for money and resources. Is this just the behavior of inherent and natural human nature and Capitalism? Or the economic result of an Earth with dwindling finite resources in an age of ever growing Greed?There is a class extermination going on in America and it comes down to political bargaining power. The events going on in the world today from the micro societal level, all the way up to the macro global level are creating a future that is not only unsustainable but is questionable whether civilization will survive the next several decades. The current trajectory we are on looks bleak; with most people being dead broke, indentured debt servants. The debate should be on the table with all potential solutions laid out – or do we risk going blindly into the future, entertaining and breeding ourselves to a slow extinction as we unravel the ‘progress’ of three thousand years of human civilization? The power of economic herd behavior and self-fulfilling prophecies could potentially snowball society into a total collapse or perhaps with our standard of living greatly reduced, a vast majority of society will live in huge crowded metropolis’ with nothing but a small apartment and our Smartphones for entertainment. It is both fascinating and exciting to live in these times – never before has the potential for failure been so great and the repercussion even greater. The enclaves for the Elite are set up around the world, from China’s giant prefabricated and over-invested Ghost Cities to Dubai – further separating the thriving class from the societal decay they helped create through the control of finance and labor through the highly technologically advanced stock market – the greatest transfer of wealth the world has ever experienced continues to take place. We have the choice as to whether the future will be worth living in – do we care enough to work together to make that future better or will we continue on the selfish path that will destroy us all? From megacities of the future, to religion, capitalism, and the environment; as someone who has personally experienced extreme injustice, I discuss the stress humanity is facing as we approach and breach the limits to growth on planet Earth from a critical view of both sides of the political spectrum. Nobody is immune from critical analysis in this book, including myself. Critical analysis, admitting our flaws and failures, is the only way we can fix them. This is a matter of human justice and of our species’ survival. We are being crushed by a rigged system of ever complex laws, taxes and anti-competitive monopolies. The only word the ultra-wealthy understand is ‘more’ and they won’t stop until they have it all, at which point they will go after each others’ throats. The only end result of our current system is going from the Plutocracy (rule by the rich) that we are in, to a corporate dictatorship run by an aristocracy (rule by one large extended family). The more power concentrates into the hands of a few, the more corrupt America, China, and other powerful countries become.