Who Can Successfully Resist the Regime?

I have read a captivating novel, The Last of the Freemen, by Carl Trotz (his blog can be found here).  From the Amazon description of the novel:

In a future America, trapped under a brutal and corrupt regime, Erin Gordon becomes a target for reasons beyond her control. Help comes to her from an unlikely source, as her neighbors – the secretive, agrarian descendants of suppressed medieval freemen – prove willing and able to intervene. Accepting their protection, she witnesses a people – unbeknownst to the world – who hold stubbornly to their traditions, and remain defiant in the face of modern tyranny.

The author, Carl Trotz, weaves together many themes and narratives that we find ourselves discussing and otherwise dealing with daily – some already in place and others feared to come.

The aforementioned Erin Gordon’s unlikely source of help is an individual named Harm. In many ways, he might be compared to Ayn Rand’s John Galt.  Both characters are larger than life.  Both offer an intellectual and

  • Social pressure to behave a certain way – always true, so it only depends on what type of social pressure.
  • Gray areas work themselves out.
  • The absolute thought is fertile soil for the roots of tyranny.
  • Those who suffer the consequences for defiling the natural order deserve all that they get.
  • Regarding the government and connected: they will eventually rot – they always do.
  • There is a remnant.
  • I have written nothing about the characters beyond Erin and Harm.  Trotz brings many characters to life.  Through their dialogue and actions, you understand the depth necessary in family, community, and culture in order to hold freedom together.

    Freedom doesn’t happen merely by chanting “NAP.”  This is demonstrated clearly through every page of this novel.

    Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.

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