Roc Hale
In 2055 humanity is confronting countless hardships inflicted on them by the powerful evil in control of the world. The Great Catastrophe had unfolded in waves that affected the environment, economy and society, and now enslaved the few hundred million survivors. As readers would expect from today’s trends, food was in short supply from runaway climate change, life support systems were overloaded with toxins, and ecosystems and the energy supply had collapsed. The story of three people living in one of a few remaining pockets of human reality is interwoven with chapters reaching back 33,000 years, when Earth was inhabited by two distinctly different hominids. The Neanderthal were nearly extinct. Homo sapiens, modern humans with advanced brains, were newcomers in Neanderthal territory. It soon became apparent that the species could interbreed. This short book aligns research showing that Neanderthal DNA is found in the human genome with findings from studies of the central nervous system. Approximately one to five percent of the population is born with brain anomalies correlated with psychopathy, a personality disorder marked by lack of compassion, conscience and remorse. Some researchers have concluded that psychopaths are a subspecies. Psychopaths’ behaviour reflects their experience of a different reality to humans’ and forces humans into their pathological reality. The book links recent findings in genetics with their manifestation in society, concluding that psychopaths have taken control of governments, big business, banks and other fundamental institutions. The survivors’ story is interwoven with vignettes illustrating the consequences of the merging of the two species, when Neanderthal personality traits were bred into the human genome. Most of us have asked, Why? Why all the unnecessary militarisation and wars, nuclear, chemical and germ warfare, environmental degradation, injustice, oppression, slavery, torture, aggressive violence, poverty, hunger and the
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