The Nation We Live In, a Collection of Essays and Short Stories

Congratulations, your growing city has now become a metropolis. Guess what comes next, the Homelessness problems and societal conundrums. As I read more and more online news these current days, I have noticed the continued prevalence of Major USA cities now facing amplifying Homelessness problems. The "tent city" issues and drab are now visually pervasive. Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York City, and now even Top 15 populated, Austin, Texas. Here's a quick personal insight story and perspective in homelessness. I, George Vance McGee was once on the doorstep and realization of homelessness. How? When? Why you ask?  Well, in the Winter of 2011, I had been removed from my non-income, non-salaried position as a Licensed Real Estate Agent at Citi-Habitats in New York City. Despite my valid New York State sales license, previous business and real estate experience, this job did NOT turn fruitful. It was a career working disaster! First off, the Citi-Habitat...

The ongoing Colin Kaepernick Saga is a surprisingly powerful, prominent, lingering, and controversial cross-mixing in American culture and history, involving sports, politics, civil rights, and even private commercial business.  It's interesting folks, and it keeps hanging around. It appears both sides of this issue appear stagnated into their respective opposite and nonmoving mindsets. Let me set the stage, in case you've been living under a rock with no access to Television, Talk Radio, Advertisements, Billboards, Sports, Politics and Commercials.  There is a former San Francisco 49'ers NFL, Super Bowl and NFC Champion Quarterback named Colin Kaepernick. What did he actually do? During the Pre-game singing of the United States Star-Spangled Banner National Anthem performance and song,  Colin Kaepernick simply KNEELED during the song's performance.  According to Wikipedia.  "His actions went unnoticed for two weeks before he  was ...

Remember that human interaction with voices, sound inflection, word emphasis, and friendly colloquialisms? Yea, that action called talking. Do you ever use it? Well, it seems to me, that talking, doesn't exist anymore. What happened? Within the general public, and in mid to larger to megacities, I've personally noticed, with the exception of required customer service jobs, people don't actually talk to each other anymore. It's kind of sad. Why is this perhaps the end of talking? Will talking make a comeback like the 1990's boy bands and dormant television sitcoms? I don't know, time will tell if the action of talking will return. Talking has been Missing in Action. Talking appears to have little upside. Society these days has too many feelings, insecurities, sexual harassment lawsuits, rules and societal issues for talking to be allowed. When people talk, the energy regardless of one's honest intentions is often misinterpreted.  One side of ...

I'm seeking a  LITERARY Agent or Publisher   that is willing to guide and work with me to get my 3rd book transcript officially and successfully published! I currently live and work in Austin, Texas. 512.657.9281 iphone, georgevance@gmail.com  Please email me for a 142-page working transcript, in which an almost majority of the book and chapters are written. Based on the literary online BLOG:  Liberating Rants. Here are some names and chapter topics: Is Freedom of Speech safe? The Modern Removal of the Confederacy, Peter Pan Syndrome, the Resistance, The Mental Reset Method, Are you Woke? Affordable Housing is a Myth, The Battle for your Attention, South Padre Island Times, the Nashville Experience, a Las Vegas Nevada Review.  Click here for the press release I sent to a list of Literary Agents & Agencies

Who gets your attention these days, whether deservedly or not? Is it the huge billboard adjacent to the busy road or highway? Is it your smartphone, or iPad? Is it cable, Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Roku or some other sort of Television programming? Face it folks, the world, marketers, friends, families and businesses are all striving and yearning for your attention. Why? Mainly because of the money. The bygone era of peaceful, non-digitally stimulating living and lifestyles may perhaps be over. There is a growing segment of society whom intrinsically wonder and would like to test living "off the grid." Do you currently live "off the grid". Would you ever consider living off the grid? If yes or maybe, how long of a duration do you honestly think you could make it sans digital, social media and entertainment? I predict it would challenging as hell for me, to completely abstain and go cold turkey on social media's constantly creating endorphin applications. The...

Long Live Abortion! From now until the death of humanity! Warning, if you are a conservative, republican, aging white male, on the tail end of your life; you might NOT enjoy reading this. My relatively youthful opinions on this subject like most folks are strong. I once aced a University of Texas undergraduate course containing this abortion topic with an A letter grade. The course was titled, "Contemporary Moral Problems." Yeehaw! From that now decades old course, our University professor taught us, pupils, that abortion pre-viable fetus in the mother's womb should be allowed . Pre-viable fetus means the organism is unable to live on it's own without the mother. Abortion with a living viable fetus should NOT be allowed. This occurs usually in the 3rd trimester of a woman's pregnancy. To reiterate post-viable fetus, abortion should NOT be allowed. It's pretty simple. This line of thinking, is to determine if the early life can survive on its own,...

Have you witnessed any 1960's and 1970's time period and hippie era culture resurrections lately? Why? Because I have. Since I myself was born in the year of 1981, I was never alive and able to with-hold the first-person experience of the actual flower power, peace proponents, fresh drugs, free love, Woodstock's music festival and feelings of actual hippie culture. Thus, in today's times, you and I, and all of us can only experience hippie culture when it is passed down, and like a turtle decides to poke its head out. An excellent example of a Hippie Culture Resurrection occurs in my hometown of Austin Texas. 1x a year in Pease Park circa downtown's 12th and Lamar Boulevard, a free and ALL welcoming daytime festival happens called Eeyore's birthday party. My actual hippie dad and his friends introduced me to it, as they have been attending it for decades. In essence, it's a day time party and freedom festival celebrating open-mind...