The Catenarian Chronicles bash the two-party system

The two-party system has disillusioned Americans who know how to think. And I’m driving that one home with the Catenarian Chronicles. 

Hans-Hermann Hoppe once penned a book called Democracy: The God That Failed back in 2001. Over the past quarter century and counting, free-thinkers like you and me can look back and say, “Yep, Hoppe was bang-on.”

Of course, the mainstream Left and Right would disagree. And you know what? Let ’em. When you’re conditioned into the sheep mentality and you’ve been on this Earth for a few or more decades, it’s hard to break.

They can keep pretending that their guy in charge will save them from their own manufactured existential crises. And they can keep thinking it’s perfectly fine to slap more laws, restrictions, mandates, and even surveillance on the masses as long as their guy is doing it.

They’ll cry, “No more war,” unless their guy is leading the charge, either with boots on the ground or through proxy. And they’ll care about reigning in unconstitutional authoritarianism unless their guy is advocating for it.

Again, they’ll disagree with all of the above, or at least line up ill-fated justifications. Still, all one needs to do these days is plug a prompt into an AI system (even old Chatty) and tell it they want a balanced, unbiased approach to how both sides of the horseshoe spit on natural rights and self-ownership. For now, at least…

Anyway, that’s where Cursed Mage comes in.

👉 Read Cursed Mage and see exactly how it spits on the two-party system

Cursed Mage was a poor attempt to write genre fiction

I’ve been embracing my status as a theme-based author. That means if you want safe, predictable fiction, this isn’t for you. Ditto for if you’re into cozy, tropey stuff featuring character archetypes and the same old B.S. If that’s the case, neither Cursed Mage nor the Catenarian Chronicles are for you.

That said, it did start out as genre fiction in the mold of E.E. Holmes’ World of the Gateway. But it wasn’t long until I slipped in things like Kaija’s roommate, Satu, believing she stereotyped even during minor conversations because of an essay she was supposed to write over the summer.

The essay in question: When did I realize I was a judgmental person? I got that one from a friend of mine whose friend’s daughter was forced to write an essay called, When did I realize I was racist? Yeah, straight outta a Leftist-fueled indoctrination center some call a university.

Oh, then, of course, there’s the entire shoving people who claim supernatural ability into vans and shunting them off to institutions. Sounds a hell of a lot like something that’d happen in a technocratic surveillance state, yeah? But I ain’t writing this to give Larry Ellison any more dangerous ideas than he already has.

So, in about five seconds, Cursed Mage and the entire Catenarian Chronicles went from a Gateway Trilogy-inspired work to one that bleeds libertarian themes. Lowercase ‘l’ libertarian, not those uppercase ‘L’ Gary Johnson Libertarians.

The two-party system in the Catenarian Chronicles sucks…

Enter Cursed Mage’s prequel, Deceived Mage, and you’ll know where I’m going with this one. It’s a book that readers who shoot for theme will know exactly where I’m headed, while those not bright enough to understand it will probably shelve the work early. But then again, they’re probably not my target market.

Anyway, you got two parties in power: The majority party, which is your Mercenary Party, and your minority party, or the Auguries. And both love to exert full-scale corruption if it means getting a point across or making the other party look bad.

And if it ruins a few civilian lives, even those who support them, so be it. It’s collateral damage the psychopaths in power who treat the hundreds of millions they pretend to care about like a bunch of ants. Know what you do with ants? You lure them in and poison them.

While the Catenarian Chronicles may not pack as much of a blatantly-themed punch early if you start with Cursed Mage as opposed to my other work, it’s definitely there for the taking if you read between the lines just a little.

And if you’re looking for a good deal on this dark paranormal fantasy, be sure to check it out at my new store, where you can clock in with a discount as opposed to what you’d get it for elsewhere.

👉 Grab Cursed Mage and spot that corruption within the system