Riot at Yorkville (I AM MERCURY series - Book 1) by Grant Piercy

Author:Grant Piercy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, suspense, mystery, short story, novella, riot, novelette, hitchcock, fugitive, psychological control

“The unbridled, balls to brass truth. This is the ruling class, the wealthy, that tiny percentage of the population that actually owns everything. We’re told from a very early age to live life to the fullest. We’re told to get out there and experience everything we can... y’know, carpe diem! But the truth is we can’t.

We are beholden to these people. We are indentured servants. No matter what, we owe them 8 hours plus each day, a full third of our lives. Well, what about the rest of that life? We need to sleep, to replenish our bodies—that’s another third of our lives gone. So in reality, we only control that last third of our lives. But what do we do with that time? We prep for those 8-hour work days, we commute, we have lunches, we get ready for work and we come down from work. Aside from our weekends where we need to maintain the places they let us live, and I do mean ‘let us’, our lives simply disappear.

This is the system we live in. This is the capitalist, social construct around which we base everything. We’re born into it and we’ll die inside of it. Master and slave mentality. What happens with our jobs? There’s little to no hope of upward mobility, but they keep those flames burning by parading around the American Dream—to get rich quick and be master of your own destiny. But that’s not how it works. No, they control the wealth, so they control life. By the time we get home, we’re too tired to do anything except sit in front of a screen and be fed the stories handed to us. TV, Internet, it doesn’t matter, their distractions play in the background. And it all feeds back into that narrative, get rich quick: the singer chosen by the audience, the million-dollar prize winner, the game show contestant. The carrot dangling on the end of that stick.

It’s said that the curse for original sin is eternal toil, so the people stay complacent. The afterlife’s supposed to be their reward. But, and I’m sorry to get a little too ‘Imagine’ on you, but consider if it’s a lie. Consider there’s nothing after. You’re born, you die, and that’s it. The world’s not a test for some greater existence, it IS the existence. So that’s it, there’s no escape. There’s being and then there’s nothing.”

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