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    Corrosive extremism is again on the march. Politicized theology is distorting governance. Covert forces are molding the media, indeed facts themselves, to serve their agendas. The public sector has commitments it cannot afford and the private sector has gained dominance it cannot justify. The world witnessed the result in Europe when similar trends last were aligned behind economic disarray. What would be the result here were we, in this century, to suffer a malignant financial crisis? Who would become the designated victims?
    This is a long story, made all the more frightening by its origin in current trends. Its unhurried depiction of a plausible future, its photographs and graphical insertions, are intended to resonate with our own personal, real, present lives. For some, it will be a grim and, because we are witnessing now only the beginning, hopefully a heeded warning. For others ... well, we shall see.
    The saga beings with the protagonist's monologue on the suspect confusions of aging. But Barnard Cordner, a thoughtful, retired academic economist, is confronting more. Financial markets have suffered a serious decline. Domestic mountebank politicians and a secure, patient China have made even U.S. sovereign debt suspect. The loss of his retirement funds was unavoidable, perhaps even predictable. In addition, and to trim federal entitlements, the transfer of seniors to attractively presented but remotely located Elder Edens is underway. Relocation, as this newly implemented policy is called, seemingly provides less costly care for most and, for many, more efficient utilization of the assets they were fortunate enough to have put aside. Barnard fully understands the country's economic realities, the attendant social pressures, and the dramatic rebirth of the fundamentalist political ideology that has envisioned Relocation. Nonetheless, he resists the call for the elderly to relocate to designated retirement communities. He is suspicious of their true purpose. Formerly accustomed to thinking of history as fixed, its record of events diverse and dispersed, he comes to realize that reconfiguring the multifaceted past and present to justify a singular, desired future has become a matter of editing not reportage or scholarship, a matter of key strokes not years or decades. Barnard and his close companions must contend with a present that is not the future they had planned.

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