Viole by Derek Baker

Author:Derek Baker [Baker, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Alexander was much better at describing political turmoil than I, so with his permission I have included the following from his memoirs for more insight:

President Allen Garner was in many ways the last official President of the United States of America. Sworn in on the twentieth of January in 2133 as the sixty-fifth president, he presided over a corrupted and tumultuous couple of years until he was unfortunately killed in a bomb explosion. The years leading up to my abduction were full of religious tensions between the two political parties that both received bribes from each of their respective church backings.

On the conservative right, they followed Protestant Christianity as had been the case for the past several hundred years. The left was a different story.

The dawn of the twenty-second century brought in a new fervor of spiritual thought based on ignorance and distrust. Young people and those easy susceptible to join the crowd latched on to this new religion that threatened to undermine the fragile society that was barely able to hold itself together in the first place. Their new religion around which revolved the notorious leader Johnny Haven was a set of radical decrees that challenged basic human virtues.

A core belief in this religion was that there was no God, nor heaven nor hell. Morals did not matter; therefore anything was acceptable to the Havenists. The typical lifestyle that we went through was seen as unnatural in their eyes. One of these Havenists would come to disregard the life goals of having a successful career and contributing towards the greater good.

No, the only thing these people cared about was the immediate future and its consequences. They didn’t look ahead, the present situation presented before them was the primary concern and enjoying each day to its fullest was the ultimate goal.

I must admit, such a lifestyle looked tempting before my outlook was forever altered by my incident. I had dropped out of school, a lousy job at a photography shop, no girlfriend, and nothing much to show for myself. The only money I had to my name was spent on my truck. My few acquaintances had converted to Haven’s ways; they partied all the time, not a care in the world. When I crawled out of my apartment and made some attempt at experiencing a social life, they’d always ask me, “What the hell are you doing with your life?” or “Hey Alexander, come hang out with us sometime, you need to enjoy yourself for once.”

No words can describe how happy I am even to this day that I (for the most part) resisted those temptations.

Seeing as politics was my forte, I had a deep respect for President Allen Garner. He at least tried to hold things together. His death was caused by terrorists, no doubt, but those terrorists or better yet anarchists were obviously followers of the Havenist doctrine. Sure, speaking as a historian, this faith sounds fairly simple in my summarization of it, but it went back deeper and further than I have the patience to retell.

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