As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer a light is shone into the very machinations and development of this type of economy in the crafted words. A good read - a well-crafted reflection of today's social monetary ills and the aged reasons behind governmental decisions to help the rich get richer and the poor poorer. Sustainability, plus our basic recognition of the enemy within; are the vital keys to making the changes necessary to end financial domination by the greedy "modern feudalists". This novel starts as a simple tale about a farmer who sees his tired soil and recognizes that he is stressing nature by the farming methods he was taught and funded to use. As he and his family explore the reasons for this physical and moral exhaustion and dig deeper and deeper into the history, background and effect of the limited reductive 'official' science that modern people use to understand and manage today's world; they come across the hidden mechanisms at work which makes life so increasingly difficult for the billions of the Ninety-Nine Percenters while giving more and more power to the super-rich until the system must snap - as it appears to be beginning to do in this year of 2011.