The Futurist

JP Yates is a futurist, a high-priced motivational speaker hired by corporations and governments to speak to the minions and stroke their egos, and salve their concerns about where it’s all going. They pay him very well to have him tell them what they want to hear. Yates is the best in the field. Yet when he witnesses a deadly South African soccer riot and gets a little too tipsy on the honor bar back at the hotel, he succumbs to a sudden whim to speak Truth to Power. Suddenly, blistering satire erupts. Othmer takes his background as a former hotshot executive for a multinational PR firm, and kicks down with the view from a jaundiced eye evoked from the inherent frustrations that job must entail for a sentient person with a soul. While never exactly laugh-out-loud funny, the narrative and observations are consistently amusing and properly snarky.