All Our Yesterdays

In New America, the History Channel of the 25th Century edits 20 episodes of The Ancient Office, which still produces documents in ways Gutenberg understood. In Old America, the office of 1975 in Indianapolis has more in common with Da Vinci’s drawing of the Cannon Factory, than with any workstation in 2452.

Next year, Apple sells its first personal computer, and 30 years later, the assault on consciousness begins with the great connectivity. The Network's local producer learns what's coming; realizing that a hive of bees may have total connectivity, but what have they given up? Progress promises to pick up speed at the turn of the 21st century, accelerating toward the eventual downfall of one particular animal, a mammal: genus Homo, species Sapiens.

Within the program, All Our Yesterdays, some shows are epic: The treason trials and public executions of Old America; the paralyzing anxiety of our near miss at extinction, when our fate hung on that single capricious chromosome; and the building of the Atmospheric Decarbonizing Complex on the Columbia River. But New America has recovered (temporarily) in these last 50 years, and so, the series The Ancient Office documents life at a more gracious, walkabout scale.

Time is a relic of our Neolithic campfires, and yet our moments remain forever real. The end of days begins so innocently in 1975. The exponent works simultaneously across 500 years, playing moments like Bach at his clavier. Then comes the labyrinth's crucial turn: 2006; the I-phone; Twitter; the assault on consciousness by this nemesis who was awakened from the null zone by the growing racket of incessant human connectivity. Man’s destiny is not to have one, and even to lose his past.

This writer sees the present struggle against the New World Order as mankind’s unconscious course correction versus the approach of the technological singularity. Overtaking us, it would bring the irreversible loss of our nature as Longhunters. All Our Yesterdays is an allegory of mankind’s defeat in that struggle.

The characters in the story explore the four levels of consciousness via the retro-causation from the History Channel of the 25th Century. The back matter at the end of the book provides an expanded definition of each. This novel was the channeled experience of the military's "Project Looking Glass." Channeling is the means to discover the thing you know that you do not know you know. It is a rendezvous with the thing that has no name. The unconscious does not sleep.