draft/in progress
At 2AM last night, I
walked out onto my patio to check on my garden, where to my surprise
I saw that the nearby hills were on fire. A layer of smoke lay over
the valley. “Is this the time, Oh Lord”, I thought to myself,
“Is now when the world will be cleansed of the sins of the wicked
biped mammals who have turned away from the path of righteousness and wallow in the filth of self-aggrandizement and narcissism?”
As I watched a fire
seemed to explode on a hill to my left. When I ran to get my camera
and returned it had diminished to nothing much. So will the wicked
explode, I thought with grim satisfaction, when they are touched by
the vengeance of the Lord. A burst of flame and then nothing much.
Is this a sign that the End is near?
As I watched the
hills burn down around me, my thoughts turned to happier times, years
ago, when I consulted for Viacom in New York. There I made friends
with a beautiful woman who was consulting for Human Resources on a special project. Although we did not know it, Cindy and I were working on different pieces of a much larger, more important, project than the one we were nominally working on.
We both thought we were on very different aspects of the Interactive Television AT&T Castro Valley Test but in fact those differences were irrelevant. There was a real project that underlay the apparent project, and this was the project that was truly driving events. You see, Viacom is a cable company, it exists and profits in a beautiful monopoly ordained by the Lord and granted by Our Government to those who are Worthy. And in the interests of the Public, these monopolies are reviewed from time to time by the specific agencies of our government that hand out these monopolies to the rich. Viacom's monopoly was up for review and as part of that review we demonstrated advanced technology in the public's interest, we had Sumner Redstone speaking at the Washington Press Club, I even contributed to the signage of a third party industrial press firm who was working on the publicity for this event.
But soon this very long process that the three of us, Cindy, Sumner and myself, had been involved in would be over and the monopolies given by certain agencies of our government would have been reaffirmed, the little theatre of interactive television having played its part, the forms having been observed, the lobbyists paid. Then the blessed bloodletting could begin to sacrifice those who would through their wretched jobs stand in the way of the profits that rightfully belonged to the shareholders.
Some might think that because these types of companies are in fact government created monopolies in their region and sector, that there might be some rules such that some of the money extracted from the consumer might also trickle down to the workers, perhaps in the form of employment. But such a thing would be anathema in America. The poor can go fuck themselves for all the government cares as long as they pay the taxes on their pathetic wages. That is the way it has always been, that is the way it must always be. Anything else would be to turn away from the values that have made this country great.
Because Cindy liked me, she let me see the real Human Resource manuals, not the ones that they let the uninitiated see, but the secret one, the one reserved for the Elect. She turned to the section on Layoffs and told me that it foretold the future and talked about the end times. She asked me to read it to her out loud.
We both thought we were on very different aspects of the Interactive Television AT&T Castro Valley Test but in fact those differences were irrelevant. There was a real project that underlay the apparent project, and this was the project that was truly driving events. You see, Viacom is a cable company, it exists and profits in a beautiful monopoly ordained by the Lord and granted by Our Government to those who are Worthy. And in the interests of the Public, these monopolies are reviewed from time to time by the specific agencies of our government that hand out these monopolies to the rich. Viacom's monopoly was up for review and as part of that review we demonstrated advanced technology in the public's interest, we had Sumner Redstone speaking at the Washington Press Club, I even contributed to the signage of a third party industrial press firm who was working on the publicity for this event.
But soon this very long process that the three of us, Cindy, Sumner and myself, had been involved in would be over and the monopolies given by certain agencies of our government would have been reaffirmed, the little theatre of interactive television having played its part, the forms having been observed, the lobbyists paid. Then the blessed bloodletting could begin to sacrifice those who would through their wretched jobs stand in the way of the profits that rightfully belonged to the shareholders.
Some might think that because these types of companies are in fact government created monopolies in their region and sector, that there might be some rules such that some of the money extracted from the consumer might also trickle down to the workers, perhaps in the form of employment. But such a thing would be anathema in America. The poor can go fuck themselves for all the government cares as long as they pay the taxes on their pathetic wages. That is the way it has always been, that is the way it must always be. Anything else would be to turn away from the values that have made this country great.
Because Cindy liked me, she let me see the real Human Resource manuals, not the ones that they let the uninitiated see, but the secret one, the one reserved for the Elect. She turned to the section on Layoffs and told me that it foretold the future and talked about the end times. She asked me to read it to her out loud.
I turned to the
first page and read
The fire of God's vengeance will burn away the corrupt flesh from the body.
“Hallelujah!”,
she said, and laughed.
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