World Is One Bloody Family

This book is written hoping it can help keep humanity from destroying itself because of its extreme greed, unsustainable consumption, and political corruption. American politics has been used and the world economy as background, most of what is presented here is fiction. The Republicans have been out of power for two terms and the Democrats are making their best moves, hoping to sweep into the White House a third time with a woman as their candidate. The elitist Collective moguls are weighing their options about whom to back, with the emergence of new capitalists from Asia making demands they want to be met, no matter what. A high-stakes game of global geopolitics begins, throwing morality and principles to the wind. Who will give in to the new demands and what are they? What will cause the tragedy, and in which camp will the climax be played out? As the election nears, the Republicans are starting to rally around a figurehead who represents the ideology of the past century, where gains and losses are a zero-sum game: The West must prosper at the expense of the rest of the world. In the East, a rising set of capitalists modeling themselves on the dominant Western moguls see themselves as global citizens free to operate with impunity and to not be held accountable to the citizenry of any country. For them, too, this is a zero-sum game, but against the "have-nots" of the world. Manifest in these ideologies is a costly conflict reflected in individual lives as well as the larger theater of global politics. Will a hero finally emerge who breaks the boundaries and guides humanity toward the ideal of VASUDHAIKA KUTUMBAM, the world as one balanced family? Part I of the story develops with devastating effects on individual lives as the two sides juggle their own interests, exploiting the innate fears of the larger constituents that they control. Will a hero finally emerge that breaks these boundaries and brings the human tree towards the ideal of "VASUDHAIKA KUTUMBAM…." - the world as one balanced family?