FEATURE The Overseer - A novel by Jonathon Rabb What if a renaissance political theorist developed a perfect process to take over the world? What if this theory had been used by the Nazis? What if this theory was being used today?This is the story one might expect from a political scientist. Political scientists are about as useful in today's society as philosophers. No one cares about the careful building of a working society. There aren't any constitutions being written today. So a political scientist, Jonathon Rabb, wrote a story in which not only does a political scientist - Eisenreich, write a treatise outlining how to take over the world, but a political scientist stops a group of power mongers from using that treatise to attain power. The concepts in this book are highly unrealistic. In true form of a political scientist knowing too well how the government works, Rabb can't let any real agency play the key role, so Rabb creates a fake one, most likely to calm any problems of conscience in forcing a real agency to do things it isn't chartered to. This eases Rabb's conscience, but will most likely confuse the reader. Even if it would be 'technically' wrong, Rabb should have stuck with the FBI or CIA as the agency acting to stop The Overseer. In the same vein, Rabb has the political scientist's hope of a unified theory of government. Eisenreich's theory, spelled out in the appendix of the book, is a sincere desire to see issues of political behavior boiled down into quantifiable results. This is a great first attempt by Rabb, and I am looking forward to reading something else by him. But I only encourage people who can suspend disbelief well and who are able to keep track of a litany of characters to read this book. For everyone else it will seem too silly to really enjoy. |
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