Greetings good citizen, difficult to say which is progressing faster, the destruction of our society or the strike to head that destruction off?
As a form of 'self-distraction' I spend the lottery and even that is 'educational'. I was looking at the local condo market and was, er, not necessarily surprised but taken aback considering all the recent 'happy talk' regarding the economy.
More than half of the units available were foreclosures! [locally]
My kids are both adults but they live with the wife and I. Being young, neither knows where they want to live so this act of mental masturbation is centered on where their friends are, here.
If I hit the lottery for a hundred million dollars they'd both expect Pappy to 'pony up'.
And I would, but more so as an exercise in personal responsibility. If the strike is successful, the ENTIRE real estate market goes 'poof' when housing becomes a 'gimme'.
Yes good citizen, as part of our departure from rapacious capitalism and in compliance with the H. A. E. law [where it is illegal for humans to 'earn a living' off of other humans, thus renting people property OR 'buying' their labor would become illegal!]
You can still give stuff away but there is no way to get 'cash' for your surplus junk. Most would prefer to 'trade' which is still acceptable although you have to 'register' what you trade with records to prevent being exiled for theft.
[Same goes for 'gifts'. If it's registered to you, it's your RESPONSIBILITY to make sure your records are up to date. Know what happens when that joke trophy you gave to an acquaintance because they asked for it turns into a MURDER WEAPON don't you?]
If you [wisely] eradicate your fingerprints from the item in question your innocence is undeniable, just because it was registered to you doesn't make you a murderer...but if your prints are on it and it turns up at a crime scene you're automatically an accomplice!
A pain to be sure but we are a species of opportunists where 'trust' is a commodity. decide you don't want that 'dust collector' your great aunt Tillie left you? Gotta notify records you 'recycled' it.
Did I mention the landfills will ALL be closed? EVERYTHING GETS RECYCLED [it will be recycling's responsibility to dispose of what can't be recycled. In the meantime we have to 'dot the i's and cross the t's' because the opportunists among us are RELENTLESS!]
Sad to say this but a 'cottage industry' will spring up around going through peoples trash and seeking discarded items if only to confound the justice system. Needless to say being caught sifting through someone else's trash will become an exile offense!
I think we've all gotten used to the 'better safe than sorry' mindset, we've been beaten hard enough with it since our original 'manufacture'.
[Parallel to Von Daniken's theory of 'ancient aliens', I 'theorize' we are abandoned 'tools' (possibly clones) used to mine minerals for profit of the renegades/pirates that originally visited this Imperial outpost roughly 150,000 years ago (when the oldest existing remains of homo sapiens first appear on this planet)]
The above is what we writers call 'foreshadowing', hinting at a future plot twist to tantalize the reader to keep them turning pages.
Left to all of our imaginations is whether or not this once forsaken outpost isn't now under Imperial control? If, er, Aliens were calling the shots it would explain much, especially their 'devil may care' attitude! How much worse could it be if our 'invisible overlords' are criminals, refugees from Imperial Justice?
Our 'salvation' isn't assured if the Empire discovers us. The likelihood we are illegal clones means we will be eradicated upon discovery.
Here we see the 'downside' of making life 'extraordinarily cheap'. [That said, cloning is likely illegal among the overlords as well, leading to the outlaw/pirate part of our 'origin theory'.]
Lots of wildcards in play here and regime change may not go well but chances are if the Empire has a rebel problem they may be too busy elsewhere to deal with an insignificant dust speck like Earth. [Only from the mind of a writer, eh?]
Um, I was going to ask if you're taking notes, some of this stuff is important but I ask much by letting YOU decide what is relevant and what is, er, mindless rambling.
THe whole thing has been posted dozens of times on the web under the title A Simple Plan, regrettably also the title of my original blog. I also posted it on Conceptual Guerilla back when I wrote for them [CG was generous when it can to content, bless him!]
Keeps disappearing, just as I suspect most of these posts land in a sealed coffin someplace on the web. Information that doesn't support the status quo is considered dangerous to/by those currently in power.
Either way it's good for the mind to exercise my 'thinking muscles'! [If you don't use it you're gonna lose it! (wanna prevent Alzheimer's, try thinking once in a while!] Sharing these mental exercises is also beneficial to the reader, we need to be exposed to ideas outside our comfort zones!
That said, A Simple Plan is real and viable! While it appears (at the moment anyway) to be an exercise in futility, I persist in championing social change for the salvation of our kind.
[Clones have rights too! (and there is zero 'shame' in being the descendant of a clone.)]
Um, thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
As a form of 'self-distraction' I spend the lottery and even that is 'educational'. I was looking at the local condo market and was, er, not necessarily surprised but taken aback considering all the recent 'happy talk' regarding the economy.
More than half of the units available were foreclosures! [locally]
My kids are both adults but they live with the wife and I. Being young, neither knows where they want to live so this act of mental masturbation is centered on where their friends are, here.
If I hit the lottery for a hundred million dollars they'd both expect Pappy to 'pony up'.
And I would, but more so as an exercise in personal responsibility. If the strike is successful, the ENTIRE real estate market goes 'poof' when housing becomes a 'gimme'.
Yes good citizen, as part of our departure from rapacious capitalism and in compliance with the H. A. E. law [where it is illegal for humans to 'earn a living' off of other humans, thus renting people property OR 'buying' their labor would become illegal!]
You can still give stuff away but there is no way to get 'cash' for your surplus junk. Most would prefer to 'trade' which is still acceptable although you have to 'register' what you trade with records to prevent being exiled for theft.
[Same goes for 'gifts'. If it's registered to you, it's your RESPONSIBILITY to make sure your records are up to date. Know what happens when that joke trophy you gave to an acquaintance because they asked for it turns into a MURDER WEAPON don't you?]
If you [wisely] eradicate your fingerprints from the item in question your innocence is undeniable, just because it was registered to you doesn't make you a murderer...but if your prints are on it and it turns up at a crime scene you're automatically an accomplice!
A pain to be sure but we are a species of opportunists where 'trust' is a commodity. decide you don't want that 'dust collector' your great aunt Tillie left you? Gotta notify records you 'recycled' it.
Did I mention the landfills will ALL be closed? EVERYTHING GETS RECYCLED [it will be recycling's responsibility to dispose of what can't be recycled. In the meantime we have to 'dot the i's and cross the t's' because the opportunists among us are RELENTLESS!]
Sad to say this but a 'cottage industry' will spring up around going through peoples trash and seeking discarded items if only to confound the justice system. Needless to say being caught sifting through someone else's trash will become an exile offense!
I think we've all gotten used to the 'better safe than sorry' mindset, we've been beaten hard enough with it since our original 'manufacture'.
[Parallel to Von Daniken's theory of 'ancient aliens', I 'theorize' we are abandoned 'tools' (possibly clones) used to mine minerals for profit of the renegades/pirates that originally visited this Imperial outpost roughly 150,000 years ago (when the oldest existing remains of homo sapiens first appear on this planet)]
The above is what we writers call 'foreshadowing', hinting at a future plot twist to tantalize the reader to keep them turning pages.
Left to all of our imaginations is whether or not this once forsaken outpost isn't now under Imperial control? If, er, Aliens were calling the shots it would explain much, especially their 'devil may care' attitude! How much worse could it be if our 'invisible overlords' are criminals, refugees from Imperial Justice?
Our 'salvation' isn't assured if the Empire discovers us. The likelihood we are illegal clones means we will be eradicated upon discovery.
Here we see the 'downside' of making life 'extraordinarily cheap'. [That said, cloning is likely illegal among the overlords as well, leading to the outlaw/pirate part of our 'origin theory'.]
Lots of wildcards in play here and regime change may not go well but chances are if the Empire has a rebel problem they may be too busy elsewhere to deal with an insignificant dust speck like Earth. [Only from the mind of a writer, eh?]
Um, I was going to ask if you're taking notes, some of this stuff is important but I ask much by letting YOU decide what is relevant and what is, er, mindless rambling.
THe whole thing has been posted dozens of times on the web under the title A Simple Plan, regrettably also the title of my original blog. I also posted it on Conceptual Guerilla back when I wrote for them [CG was generous when it can to content, bless him!]
Keeps disappearing, just as I suspect most of these posts land in a sealed coffin someplace on the web. Information that doesn't support the status quo is considered dangerous to/by those currently in power.
Either way it's good for the mind to exercise my 'thinking muscles'! [If you don't use it you're gonna lose it! (wanna prevent Alzheimer's, try thinking once in a while!] Sharing these mental exercises is also beneficial to the reader, we need to be exposed to ideas outside our comfort zones!
That said, A Simple Plan is real and viable! While it appears (at the moment anyway) to be an exercise in futility, I persist in championing social change for the salvation of our kind.
[Clones have rights too! (and there is zero 'shame' in being the descendant of a clone.)]
Um, thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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