Post Jonker

Blog #1 Post Jonker.

Writing this blog as I am now in 2014 September 23rd, on Heritage Day eve, I find myself looking back on to what I wrote and thinking how weird it is that in one way or another ideas and themes that formed part of the backwash scene setting display that runs like a thread through the story, are becoming mainstream ideas or are affairs that are pushing their way to the front row.
 

Starting with right now.
 

As I write this much of the city [Jozi] is without access to on-demand water. Part of the reason has to do with old and increasingly dilapidated infrastructure. To this is ascribed the widespread unhappiness with the state of affairs requiring citizens of all classes to queue up for a water supply from a passing [intermittent] tanker. Allegedly thieves have been stealing components necessary for the pumping of water from reservoirs to storage stations; or some other gobbledy gook explanations. I.o.w: The system broke down. We expect it and are not surprised and acceptance is bleak. Nonetheless: As always there is the inevitable Elephant in the room.
 

Gauteng: aka Zone One in the Jonker Memorandum has water issues… as does the country Mzansi. Some of Zone One’s water comes from a landlocked traditional albeit constitutional Monarchy tucked within a mountainous region inside Mzansi.
 

The place has been taken over in some as yet undefined coup and notwithstanding much huffing and puffing by worthy politicians is still unresolved as at today: and coincidentally we suddenly have water issues.
 

In the Jonker the keen listener would have noted that the entire region [Lesotho Kingdom and the Province called [currently] Free State] is called Bosigo [circa 2136 AD or Sometime AA]: and is a Sparta style military State, routinely at war over water rights with Zone One. Oh dear.
 

On another topic this past week the BBC announced that the Belgian court of appeals had granted a first ever precedent. A man serving a life sentence, for horrible crimes, has been granted the right to die in terms of the country’s Euthanasia laws. In the Jonker Memorandum this action is referred to as the “Socratic solution.” In effect we are witness to the modern world’s first State sanctioned suicide.
 

Then of course there has been the flurry of activity over the introduction, currently;y still on hold of a Transaction levy [as i call it] or Tax as Mrs Merkel likes to call it. When Mr Cameron of the UK condemned the idea as unworkable last year i chuckled merrily remembering that the reasons he gave for why it wouldn’t work were the same reasons i used to justify wiping out the present order in the story.I.o.w. why the “Apocalypse” became a necessary part of the plot.
 

And then the surprise of all, is that the Swiss are currently investigating the central idea of “Basic Pay” that threads through; and is a key part of Korinth Starr’s election campaign in the tale. The proposal to vote on the idea seems to be on hold presently but nonetheless the idea is out there.
 

As an author of a futuristic oriented work I have already been amazed at many of the things that have happened in the “real” world while I was podcasting my tale about the fictional world were part of my text already. On one level it was tsunamis that affected Japan [Keiretsu in the story], climate change resulting from “The Ringing” about which we may all still be in denial. And then there is the airliner that disappeared without trace one night and then came back again… which of course we hope remains fiction don’t we….?
 

I shall continue to note other events as I remember that they happened in the wake of the tale. And in the meantime I keep hoping that I do simply write fiction and am not some uncanny seer.
 

Enjoy.

Episode 84 JM Finale

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In this final episode we discover what it was that caused this story to be a Mythical tale.

 

Episode 83 JM penultimate

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In which It is the day of Korinth Starr’s final election rally. The Kriogenia tream are getting ready to go: Grommets, Kharma and the golden G Force girls. Meantime Marak is reunited with Heksi and has to make decisions.

Episode 83

Episode 82 JM

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What about Marak?

Episode 82

Episode 58 JM

Episode 58 JM

The name Stuurman comes back into the story – is this related to the missing Stuurman and what is the significance of the place called ‘Monte Christo’.

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Episode 51 JM

Episode 51 JM

What happened to the girl who was ambushed by the Kolektas

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