Literature out of Time: China's Weaponized economy

I am going to except parts of "CWE"-China's Weaponized Economy in the days leading up to publication and my presentation at the Faulkner Society.

Here is the presentation topic along with the first section of CWE

 

Literature Out of Time: World War C

How the heart and soul of America have been stolen by China is the subject of this paper, which will be presented by Gregory Friedlander

 

I suppose manufacturing and innovation are the heart and soul

but it could equally be said that democracy are

both are lost now and both were tied to China

INTRODUCTION

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.  Chinese proverb

Great love sometimes mutes the voice and must be told in poetry so the soul may speak. Also great horror often blinds the mind and must be hidden in prose.  So begins the Novel World War C.  The original novel used a fictional mechanism to present the themes raised in this essay.  This essay pulls out the pieces and  examines them one at a time.  There is no hiding behind prose.

One problem eliminated with the fictional mechanism was the difficulty of talking bluntly about diversity, population control and revolution.  While it was easy to pull out and organize the philosophy and decide which parts merited discussion and which did not; it is difficult to deal with issues where people may be offended.  However, an attempt is made to address every issue logically and accept that some criticism of offensive content is inevitable.

It should be noted that some of the most important issues and solutions come from other people’s observations.

It is also significant that while solutions are suggested in this book, blank pages would be more appropriate to allow the reader to develop and implement their own solutions. There are two modest goals embodied in this work.  One is to (metaphorically) overthrow the government of the United States through reform and term limits.  The second is to have it declared that a state of war exists between the United States and China.