This novel story of Chance’s personal journey commences in his 20s, when he suffers within the corporate morass of a job where competition is constrained by wokeism. Failing to conform, he quits the capitalist treadmill and goes back to university for a PhD to investigate risk-taking behaviour.  He meets Megan, a champion athlete, who is researching motivation in employment-seekers. 

Together they become absorbed in Heidegger’s phenomenology, which enables Megan to self-coach to success with elite performances.  But the ‘Spectacle’, described by Debord (1967) takes control in many fields, including sport, with competition transformed into profit-making and to gain political control by the nanny state. Chance and Megan resist, opposing mandatory vaccination during the Covid pandemic and ending with non-violent civil disobedience. Their examples advertise individualism based on the thinking of some famous philosophers.

The novel Turkeys Not Bees is available on Amazon. Reviews are at martinknox.com