Affliction Included: 1 (Psychology of Technology Trilogy)

After spending his youth as the son of a dissident mother who tried and failed to plot the overthrow of the consolidated world government Stanly Borque was punished for political crimes he didnt commit. Now years later hes none other than a compliant corporate employee working in the midst of the same authoritarian oligarchical system of total social surveillance his mother had hoped to eradicate. Which doesnt actually bother him too much-until a business trip to Ghana where a bizarre accident catapults him back into the world of the powerful and the inescapable arms of the regime. As an inept participant in so much conspiracy hell be confronted with a barrage of possibly important questions along the way. Like is freedom a dead concept? Why did a global pandemic of suicides cause a tenth of the worlds population to do itself in? And is there reason to hope anymore? A story of the world in the total opposite of disarray and what it means when reality is at odds with the human spirit.