AMERITA Martin Medina Luke Medina Dianne Sloan Mia Mueller 9781520549569 Books
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Year 2051 - World War III left America in dystopian economic ruin. Support for the Democrat and Republican parties has dwindled and the Meritism Party has gained unwavering support from 70% of the populace. Currency has been replaced with Personal Merit. The goods and services citizens are allowed to possess are dependent on their objectively calculated productivity within the society. Careers that do not contribute to food, shelter, clothing, sanitation, education, healthcare, technology, art, or sport have been abolished. These abolished professions include investment banking, marketing and advertising, career politicians, and many others that were dependent on capitalism. Luke Medina, a Merit Agency Investigator, fights to uphold all that Meritism has accomplished. The Capitalist Party desperately conspires to bring back class divisions and a society of economic inequality based on a fiat currency. #amerita #meritism For the working class, AMERITA represents a new Utopia. For others, AMERITA is a dystopian nightmare. Meritism Manifesto We, the working women and men of our beautiful and plentiful land, declare in one voice to revoke all credence to economical systems based on subjective monetary representations of individual Merit. We, the contributors of food, shelter, clothing, sanitation, education, healthcare, technology, art, and sport, declare our vocations as necessary for advancing society. Vocations that do not contribute to the advancing of society are deemed not worthy of recognition. We, the laborers, believe the productivity of every valid vocation is objectively and accurately measurable. We, the mentors and parents of future generations, believe in equal education, equal nutrition, equal healthcare, and equal opportunity for all. We, the champions of equal prosperity for equal effort, believe all persons are gifted with talents and the ability to contribute meaningfully to society. We believe every individual has the right to choose how much or how little he or she contributes. The more an individual contributes, the more he or she shall be rewarded. The less an individual contributes, the less he or she shall be rewarded. If an individual contributes nothing, the individual shall have no place in the community. We, the people of the new Meritocracy, declare objective recognition of Merit for all.
AMERITA Martin Medina Luke Medina Dianne Sloan Mia Mueller 9781520549569 Books
**Minor Spoilers**If you ever wondered what communists of the 1920s and 30s would come up with if they were around today, look no further.
Overall, Amerita is not a hideous read. The prose is pretty sharp, the plot moves quickly, something is always happening, etc, which is about as much as one can expect in this day and age of semi “samizdat” ebooks which frequently suffer from light editing. However, the writing is not great as the characters are amazingly one dimensional.
The interesting part is, of course, the premise - an America that features a system where everyone is justly rewarded for whatever it is they do for an occupation. One’s compensation, which is basically everything they have (home, belongings, food, etc) is a function of the magnitude of what they do (e.g. doctors rate higher than truck drivers) and how well they do it (you get this feedback through a hi-tech rating system of some kind). You can gain or lose said compensation on an annual basis based on how well you do your job. The kicker is that there is this test that gives you some kind of coefficient as to what you are capable of doing so that even if you are not capable of doing something of great magnitude, you can still get compensated as much as anyone by doing whatever it is you do very well.
So, basically you have an updated form of communism in that:
1. The state ownes pretty much everything you have and can take it away whenever it sees fit
2. We have a command economy that can provide for the population to whatever the government sees as appropriate
3. An unelected group of some kind makes up all the rules. This part is a bit fuzzy but since we have no politicians or lawyers someone has to run things....
The fun part is this business of determining what your “potential” is. The way they do this is through your school reports (there is lots of Stazzi like observation) and a “secret” examination. The test is a higher form of you are being evaluated but you don’t know it/logic puzzles. The only way the test does not collapse is that EVERYONE is sworn to secrecy under some terrible threat of exile or whatever. And do you know what? It works!!! Nobody tells a soul, this includes the insane, the dying, the sociopathic, the ideological, etc.... Given how much trouble we have keeping secrets most people could care less about, known only by carefully vetted people, under threats more dire than anything offered in this book, this seems quite hysterical.
Is this book dystopia or utopia? Communism was a horrifying experiment that resulted in millions of people dead, the gulag, societal dysfunction we are dealing with to this day, etc. The fact that there are people out there who still believe it can work if we just apply a little math and technology certainly terrifies me. Dystopian indeed.
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AMERITA Martin Medina Luke Medina Dianne Sloan Mia Mueller 9781520549569 Books Reviews
This book was brilliant. That was before I found out a Kid wrote it. This makes an argument for a future society that is so possible with technology and yet so faraway with greed. Anyway I Digress, Book was good, just right mixture of action, mixture, drama and message. Make this into a movie.
Once I picked this book up I was not able to put it down! It is full of deeply insightful plot twists that keep you on your toes and keep you guessing. This book really got me thinking about our current political and economic systems and what it would actually be like if everything was based on merit alone. I would highly recommend this book to anyone!
But not the writing style (present tense). Ending was abrupt and minimally fulfilling -- wish the author had gone a little further with the "what happened, who done it?" explanations. Intrigued by the concept of meritocracy as a form of government.
I love to read post-apocalyptic reads. This one was a little different than most. The book was kind of middle of the road. It never really dragged but it wasn't very suspenseful either, until the end. There were a few good twists at the end, also. I enjoyed reading this book or I would not have stayed with it. I think it was a good solid three stars. I was given a free copy of Amerita from ReviewSt for an honest review.
Good story. I liked the premise about let merits and actions define and judge you. The fact that all you do define what you deserve is a nice proposal rather than money, luck, heritage, politics or others. I really enjoyed the book. Good narrative. The only thing I didn't enjoy too much was the "solo-hero" attitude about Luke, but almost all action heroes are solo-heroes right?
Excellent story. I seriously read the book in one sitting. I couldn't put it down! I absolutely loved the way the downfall of civilization took place. The characters were fantastic. This book reaffirmed that change isn't always easy...but it can be a very positive thing. The only question I was left with was, What happens next? I highly recommend Amerita for those that enjoy the post apocalyptic/dystopian genre.
The postscript says this book was a group effort plotted over several months. The effort put into plotting shows. Unfortunately no one on the team has the developed writing chops to pull it off, You could excuse the writing if this were presented as young adult fiction but there are enough adult situations and naughty words to make me uneasy thinking this was written for kids. Whoever edited was either over-kind to a new writer(s) or is just in the wrong vocation. The concept of meritism is interesting but has holes in it that were never explored or explained. I would love to see what a skilled, professional writer could have done with what is an interesting concept and plot outline. I could see this developed for the screen with a 20 year younger Tom Cruise in the lead ).
Despite the amateurish writing the concept and plot made this book worth reading.
**Minor Spoilers**
If you ever wondered what communists of the 1920s and 30s would come up with if they were around today, look no further.
Overall, Amerita is not a hideous read. The prose is pretty sharp, the plot moves quickly, something is always happening, etc, which is about as much as one can expect in this day and age of semi “samizdat” ebooks which frequently suffer from light editing. However, the writing is not great as the characters are amazingly one dimensional.
The interesting part is, of course, the premise - an America that features a system where everyone is justly rewarded for whatever it is they do for an occupation. One’s compensation, which is basically everything they have (home, belongings, food, etc) is a function of the magnitude of what they do (e.g. doctors rate higher than truck drivers) and how well they do it (you get this feedback through a hi-tech rating system of some kind). You can gain or lose said compensation on an annual basis based on how well you do your job. The kicker is that there is this test that gives you some kind of coefficient as to what you are capable of doing so that even if you are not capable of doing something of great magnitude, you can still get compensated as much as anyone by doing whatever it is you do very well.
So, basically you have an updated form of communism in that
1. The state ownes pretty much everything you have and can take it away whenever it sees fit
2. We have a command economy that can provide for the population to whatever the government sees as appropriate
3. An unelected group of some kind makes up all the rules. This part is a bit fuzzy but since we have no politicians or lawyers someone has to run things....
The fun part is this business of determining what your “potential” is. The way they do this is through your school reports (there is lots of Stazzi like observation) and a “secret” examination. The test is a higher form of you are being evaluated but you don’t know it/logic puzzles. The only way the test does not collapse is that EVERYONE is sworn to secrecy under some terrible threat of exile or whatever. And do you know what? It works!!! Nobody tells a soul, this includes the insane, the dying, the sociopathic, the ideological, etc.... Given how much trouble we have keeping secrets most people could care less about, known only by carefully vetted people, under threats more dire than anything offered in this book, this seems quite hysterical.
Is this book dystopia or utopia? Communism was a horrifying experiment that resulted in millions of people dead, the gulag, societal dysfunction we are dealing with to this day, etc. The fact that there are people out there who still believe it can work if we just apply a little math and technology certainly terrifies me. Dystopian indeed.
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