Coming Of Age: Volume 1: Eternal Life - Plot & Excerpts
Total Loss of ControlJohn Praxis watched with a kind of clinical fascination—by turns mixed with frustration, anger, and horror—as the country came apart. He was eerily reminded of those film clips in biology class, where the cell divides, the nuclear spindles form, and invisible threads draw the chromosome pairs apart, like pulling down on a zipper. From everything he read in the papers, saw online, or heard on television, it seemed that the various states had simply lined up on different sides of the room, dividing over the question of the country’s political and economic future: Continued reliance on free markets and unfettered growth, or adoption of U.N.-imposed restrictions and sustainable limits? Cultivation of American exceptionalism, or adherence to a One World sameness? Sovereignty or submission?He found hope in the fact that the newly announced republic created in the middle of the country had adopted the same form of representative democracy with the same founding documents as the old United States.
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