Shad Olson
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Set amid the most polarizing political era in the modern era, Shad Olson's 'American Requiem' is 100 pieces of his selected essays, short stories and
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investigative journalism written during the most significant news moments over the past four decades. Combining near clairvoyant political foresight and prosaic style, Olson summarizes America's precipitous decline from the golden age of the late 20th Century, into a climate beset by accelerating advances in disruptive technologies like genetics, artificial intelligence and social media, economic challenges including the inevitable collapse of dollar hegemony and the widening political divide between factions pushing for antithetical social versions of America's future.
"From Russian hoaxes and Chinese bioweapons, A.I. surveillance and digital censorship, the cultural Marxism and climate change fanaticism being used to advance a globalist economic dictatorship…or my own Chinese student travels with a Maoist janissary named Tim Walz 30 years ago, these disparate pieces put the struggle for free humanity’s future into the context of daily events."
"As individual pieces told contemporaneously, they are incomplete and unworthy as I am. Taken as a whole, they capture at least a part of what’s happened to all of us, one hoax, one smear, and one psyop at a time in the waning glory and gore of American empire."--Shad Olson
Can America survive another century as anything but a shadow of better days, or will she be torn apart by our political differences, taken over by foreign adversaries or swallowed whole by an advancing transition to global governmental system hostile to independent nations and seemingly intent on the erasure of individual rights in the most prosperous free nation in human history?
American Requiem: Politics, Prophecy and Prose From America's Long Plunge into the Globalist Abyss
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