The only thing more important than remembering the past is making sure you’re not living in it.
Diminishing Return Preview and Excerpt by Joseph D. Newcomer

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The only thing more important than remembering the past is making sure you’re not living in it.
When art, science, and technological advancement took a back seat to profit, consumerism, and ill-conceived economics. When it all went wrong.
The year is 2022, and humanity is nearly snuffed out by the mountainous blankets of irresponsibly discarded, infectious disease prevention masks. In the narrow pathways between towering mask mounds, the few children still in existence play a darkly amended version of Rock, Paper, Scissors called Covid, Climate Change, Crushed by Maskalanche. The viral epidemic was [...]
Don’t do it. Don’t hate people for being manipulated in a different way than you’ve been manipulated. Trust that we all have been. Know that we can all be wrong, and empathize with one another for that reason. This should be our mantra. It will not be easy. It may even be impossible. I’m the [...]
The following is an 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 with [...]