It’s Wednesday, and that means another new section of my novel, New Idaho, is released! Here’s a sneak peek at section 25: A New Protest:
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Since the fall, interest in the Jungle Club had died down significantly. Members of the group had gone to Daskus’ office hours, and though anger burned hot in their hearts when they entered, many walked away at least empathizing with her point of view. This did not bode well for Todd’s group, the sole purpose of which was to demonize the University’s point of view in the hopes of causing a large enough stink that the Jungle be left alone.
With the Jungle club dissolving, Todd had to look for alternative avenues to let out his rage against the powers that be. It was a Godsend when, around November, a new group began to grow south of the Jungle: “New Idahoans Against New Slavery”. This group campaigned for workers’ rights in the same vein as many similar groups that bemoaned the wealth gap in America. In New Idaho, however, this problem was exacerbated through the federally recognized “Guaranteed Basic Income” program, which was basically an excuse for capitalists to pay workers far less than livable wages.
As Todd had learned in his latest years, all injustice is connected. The exploitation of the working class was at the heart of capitalism, and most other pursuits in this country were in service of the same immoral system. The Jungle, for instance, was being studied by Daskus so she could learn more about what the plants growing there could offer the world. Instead of just being content with what humans were already lucky enough to have, Daskus followed the greedy capitalist credo that stated to succeed as humans, you must continue to make new discoveries and inventions to capitalize upon. Who cares about the state of the only rainforest in America when you could trade it for prestige and money for your University?
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