Today run into the issue ofRalph Nader‘s utopian time to come / alternate history , Only The Super - deep Can spare Us ! The 736 - page epic ends with third parties win elections , pot being castrate , and America being saved . Oh , andYoko Onocreates a judgment - thrive logo .
According to the New Yorker , Nader includes several real people in the novel , includingWarren Buffett , Barry Diller , andTed Turner , and he telephoned them up to let them know that they were in the book . Nader felt sensitise to this payoff , because he ’s been featured as a character in other people ’s novel , let in Greg Bear ’s Eon , which the New Yorker says
portrays Nader as “ a angelic figure , a Hero of Alexandria in a wasteland , ” whose follower gain ground landslide elections in North America and Western Europe ( in 2011 ) and lend down the Soviet Union ( in 2012 ) . “ You see , that ’s science - fiction utopia , ” Nader said . “ Nobody can give that any credibility . ”
Some people , include one famous billionaire , were a bit “ snippy ” about being included in Nader ’s Word of God . But Yoko Ono andWarren Beattywere thrilled :
Yoko Ono , who in the Christian Bible invents a logo phone Seventh - Generation Eye that stimulate millions of people suddenly to shed their political apathy , sent Nader a brief reply . ( “ I think it is so sweet of you to write a book about somebody who resembles me . I do n’t mind at all , of course . Does she look like a tiny dragon ? ” ) Warren Beatty , whom Nader envisions run for governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger , and winning , with sixty - three per cent of the vote , blurbed the book . Nader , he wrote , was present the world “ how good he think thing could be . ”
So just how weird is this novel?Here ’s how the San Francisco Chronicle describes the secret plan :
The story begins in 2005 , not long after Hurricane Katrina . A mystic gathering is convened by Buffett at a Maui deal retreat , where 17 very wealthy people agree to take back the land they guess has been shit .
They give speech , write books , organize community of interests natural process groups . They infiltrate corporal boards of directors , stage demonstrations for the surroundings and better wages . They originate a People ’s Chamber of Commerce , preach change the national anthem to “ America the Beautiful ” and dream up a politicized parrot , “ Patriotic Polly , ” that becomes a spiritualist family hero .
“ Fiction is a way to set free the resource , ” Nader says , “ to see what could happen if 17 billionaire and top-notch - rich people really put their psyche to it , along with a parrot , and take on the existing business office bloc and the politician in Washington who serve ( it ) . ”
The super - racy name themselves “ Meliorists , ” believers that people can make the world good . They sway the elusive Warren Beatty to run against Arnold Schwarzenegger for California regulator . They collude to force Wal - Mart Stores Inc. to allow its workers to unionize . They campaign for universal health care . They jump a new political political party , dedicate to in public financed election . They are so nimble , and clever , their enemy ca n’t overtake up .
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