Diminishing Return preview & excerpt by Joseph D. Newcomer

https://videopress.com/v/BLBmAuiG?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true The following is another excerpt from my last novel. It is one of the parts of the book that makes me proudest of the message I was attempting to convey. I feel as though it is even more relevant today than the day I wrote it. If you feel the same, please share it [...]

Autoconsumerism

At this point, I honestly don’t fault anyone for feeling any way about anything. We all react differently to society’s obvious ills. We've all been inundated with rhetoric hypnosis. However, I do find it difficult to see people with drastic mindsets, (people who should be the most accepting by virtue of feeling so entitled to [...]

False Profiteers

Freedom is fragile. It can be destroyed with simple words. This is why those who charge themselves with protecting it choose their words carefully. It is also why those who vie to replace freedom with their own self-serving will seem to lack nuance, but it is a certainty that their words are chosen just as [...]

The Patch Somatic

When art, science, and technological advancement took a back seat to profit, consumerism, and ill-conceived economics. (Where it all went wrong) A handful of the fortunate and fortune obsessed, oversee the entirety of the machine of society, ensuring that, above all, the rest of us continue to feed the machine. The machine that, without us, would [...]