Category: Farce

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

“Down the hill, attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos think they are the movers and the shakers. You have moved above them. Some appear to shake. I begin.”

Of the remaining nine lives beside the speaker, there was no fight left. Perhaps this meeting had had the effect of doing to the audience what Progressivism has done to society since, in the late 1800s, the undying evil cult that hates human freedom and self-governance had concocted the Progressive project to roll back all of the good done in the American Revolution.
The business of crushing the human spirit had been so much easier under absolute monarchy. Deriving a ruse like Progress, and perverting the intellectuals with the Utopian opiate of Marxism had proven a sickeningly easy vehicle for destroying Western culture.
The remaining members of the audience looked at the severed trophy decorating the table and knew that it referred to, accused, and ultimately hated them all. Distant muffled screams were audible. The speaker was moving toward a conclusion.

“Some of you look concerned. The means, as with sausage production, are indeed messy. You want a clean Newtonian view of society, and I have shocked you with the existential tragedy of quantum realpolitik.
The more idealistic among you, casting back your minds, may have misgivings about certain events. Shake it off.
We move past all of the aforementioned heat and strain required to smelt the metal of society.

We shall contrive to prove that we are benefactors who have restored to the rent and mangled Earth the true good and also freedom of the person, and therewith we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the condition, of course, of strict observance of all the laws established by us.
We shall make plain therewith that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right for everyone to promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and the like,
that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate oneself and others by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs,
and that true freedom consists in the inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes all the laws of life in common…

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

“Welcome, elite. The top six of the Human Union and the Committee To Harmonize Universal Law, today, form a new organization: CTHULHU,” he voiced each letter.

The nine survivors in the audience silently wondered who would go next, and how much longer the presentation could go on.
Various aromas from bodily functions began to mix with the smells of fear and death. The twelve original participants were now ten.
The other nine realized that their lives were as bankrupt as the world economy. There was no fight left in them.
There wasn’t much fight left in me, either, but I continue to make these notes with a sort of mad determination to ensure that someone else can read this and perhaps feel a glimmer of despair, too.

“Among the simplest expressions of the difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is the time frame in which we live.
Our targets, admittedly with our overwhelming, omnivorous, all-encompassing support, live in the present tense. If we can drive them to live at a frequency higher than paycheck-to-paycheck, we do. Progress in spraying credit wantonly about like a dog’s seed. Those working education have produced a particularly incompetent crop of ignoramuses. Bravo.
The proletariat, in a move claiming to aid the family, while producing additional demolition thereof, can now get sucked into mortgages effectively spanning generations. Those working the economics piece are to be commended for helping people pass on the chains.
In stark contrast to the external conditions,

…nowadays all internal loans are consolidated by so-called flying loans, that is, such as have terms of payment more or less near.

For the smarter member of the mob,

We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit institutions, the object of which will be to fix the price of industrial values in accordance with government views.

Government regulation will, of course, be used to worsen selectively overall conditions.
The fools don’t understand that the Federal Reserve Act, the Bretton Woods agreement, and then the move to abolish the gold standard have been the gradual abdication of economic sovereignty. There is no end to the amusement as some of the brighter amongst the cattle realize the true nature of the danger.”

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

The man spoke quickly, clearly, dispassionately, at the limit of what the recorder could write, thankful for previous experience with shorthand.

The Japanese man began to struggle, but the chair had a leg up on him. The struggle was brief.
The others in the room were now resigned to their fates. Hope had died with the Japanese man. It occurred to me that I may be rewarded for doing this writing by being allowed to keep my life. That life flashed before me, and the fragility of it all, the vanity of the material pursuits, suddenly hit me.
No, there wasn’t any hope. The speaker now ventured into a financiala note about CTHULHU.

“The genius of the financial aspects of our program is the way we employ complexity itself as a tool.
We’re increasingly under attack from slowly awakening numbers of the proletariat that the Information Age has not had the desired leveling effect on society.
Things are still far more hierarchial than technically necessary. Also, goverments continue to staff up, as opposed to automate.
Our minions

…whom we once upon a time advised should be distracted from State occupations by representatives receptions, observances of etiquette, entertainments, were only a screen for our rule. The accounts of favourite courtiers who replaced them in the sphere of affairs were drawn up for them by our agents, and every time gave satisfaction to short-sighted minds by promises that in the future economies and improvements were foreseen…

Economies from what? From new taxes? — were questions that might have been but were not asked by those who read our accounts and projects…
You know to what they have been brought by this carelessness, to what pitch of financial disorder they have arrived, notwithstanding the astonishing industry of their peoples…”

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

His complexion was slightly darker than olive, his eyes hinting at epicanthic folds, his slightly broad nose and generous lips seeming to mention Africa, his straight black hair from anywhere.

The Japanese at the back of the room spoke in clear tones: “When is there a break in this? People here need relief.”
The others at the table turned to look at the man, then back to the speaker. The speaker paused briefly. The Japanese man tried to get up, but his chair, which had been made of frozen snakes, was no longer quite so frozen. The arms and legs of the chair encircled his limbs, and a snake from the back wrapped his head. And squeezed.
He had his relief.

“If we do not permit any independent dabbling in the political we shall on the other hand encourage every kind of report or petition with proposals for the government to examine into all kinds of projects for the amelioration of the condition of the people; this will reveal to us the defects or else the fantasies of our subjects…”
We do understand that actual liberty is the highest goal of any.
CTHULHU’s goals are dedicated to replacing the ‘best’ not just with the ‘good enough’ compromise but rather the truly marginal product.
Among the hallmarks of our minions will be the capacity for verbal legerdemain such that the truly awful will be sold as superior. We don’t just want the victim to be swindled and then efficiently disposing of themselves; we want them to be genuinely happy about the arrangement.
This is a crucial point, and bears repetition: we are here to take what is desirable by the reasonable, and give instead twice as much dreck.
There can be loss leaders, as when an entitlement is allowed to run as mandated for a couple of decades. Our shenanigans will kick in, and that entitlement seed will always, ALLWAYS grow into a variation on the theme of the Ponzi scheme.
Ponzi was truly a great servant of ours, one who could have grown into a threat…”

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

A man of completely undecidable race entered, dressed in a high-collared, dark robe, and moved to the head of the room, and began to speak.

Looking around the table, the fear of passing out appeared to be losing to the fear of continuing to take in the meeting in at least a couple of cases. At least two people were engaged in prayer, offering silent entreaty, or else they were mad.
The meeting had gone on for such an uncomfortable length of time that bodily functions, which these power brokers were so rarely in a position to have even bother them slightly, were becoming paramount.
And yet the presentation continued, noting the expendability of henchmen. The audience was not used to thinking of itself as henchmen. At the back of the table, a Japanese man started to speak.

“Fear is not a sign of strength. Fear, at the head of state level, is manifest in large bodyguard contingents. We underscore our strength by having our henchmen travel with thin retinues.
Granted, this increases the replacement rate, but of human fools there is never shortage.
Our minion

…will always among the people be surrounded by a mob of apparently curious men and women, who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all appearance by chance, and will restrain the ranks of the rest out of respect as it will appear for good order. This will sow an example of restraint also in others.

The appearance of accessibility must ever be maintained. You will know, when you hear reports of a town hall meeting or press conference with planted questions, which specific projects are poorly managed and likely to see a staffing change very soon.
Remember that any not aligned with us are to be cast as failures. Some of our lesser tools have published rule books for agitators and the like. Certain wiser members of the un-enslaved are begging to understand those writings, so beware.

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

Subtle motions from the African and the other ten occupants of the room, Asians, Europeans, Latin Americans, the whole rainbow, indicated both their discomfort and their abject fear, beneath the stoic silence.

The head at the head of the table was a turning point for the remaining eleven. The knowledge that, far from a select few chosen to attend the most elite offsite meeting to be held at the already elite World Economic Forum, they were instead walk-on participants in a show of diabolical horror was now inescapable.
As is so often the case in tragic human affairs, wisdom, in the end, brought no comfort.
A man, an industrial magnate from Russia, if memory serves, sitting at the front left, managed an audible whimper. The woman behind him, dazed as a diabetic in shock, managed a sound at the prompt.
The speaker carried on, though a hint of a smile may have played at the corner of his mouth.
“Those from more more…restrictive corners of the globe, i.e., where our minions are even now holding greater sway, know that whoever has the most spies wins.

In our programme one third of our subjects will keep the rest under observation. It will then be no disgrace to be a spy and an informer, but a merit: unfounded denunciations, however, will be cruelly punished that there may be no development of abuses of this right.

It is not that the room under the bus is less than copious, or that we suddenly frown upon dishonesty: lying is as facile a tool as any. Just not to us. Permitting anyone to lie up or down the internal chain of command is detrimental to the organization, and will trigger instant openings, both in the org chart and the liar.
We shall too own all of the judges and lawyers, which will help filtering out legacy notions such as ‘justice’ from our grand vision for humanity.”

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

There was a legal pad and pen in front of me, there at the corner of the table away from the window and the head. Apparently I was the recorder for the meeting. Yes, I’d been a stenographer.

Before that second light bulb, or anyone else for that matter, died, the speaker paused a moment. He surveyed the room; the squid on the table; the eleven remaining movers and shakers of the world shivering in shock, misery and horror at the magnitude of the plan unfolding.
The scope of the global destruction that the protocols had already sketched, combined with their personal agony at being present to hear it all, not to mention that these were not young men and women anymore, had them at their breaking point.
“This portion of the discussion is going to offend some, perhaps. Universities are one thread common to you all.” And with that, he re-launched, until interrupted by an entrace.

“In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of collectivism–the universities. Their officials and professorrs will be prepared for their business by detailed secret programmes of action from which they will not with immunity diverge, not by one iota.
…
The universities must no longer send out from their halls milksops concocting plans for a constitution, like a comedy or a tragedy, busing themselves with questions of policy in which even their own fathers never had any power of thought.
…
We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict call the errors of the governments…”
preceding our own.
…
In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries that people live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our own use the last scintilla of independence of thought…”

As the word ‘thought’ faded from the ear, the door opened again, and a silver charger bearing the head of a man, wild-eyed in death, carried by another hooded functionary. The new functionary halted and stood at attention.
The speaker acknowledged him: “So, you are the one who decided to promote himself. An excellent ploy, except from the standpoint of your predecessor. Set him down, and pick up the Master, who now wills to be moved.”
And the functionary did, leaving the head at the head of the stable, staring down at 11 people silently wishing it was all not happening. The squid may have been rippling with laughter at them, or it was the functionary silently picking up the tray under the fishbowl.
In any case, it was by now twice the size it had been merely an hour ago.

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by Smitty (INTRODUCTION)

His own chair was a torture device made of small yellow-white objects…teeth. The chair fought with the air to steal the most heat from his body.

The speaker seemed to pay no heed to the functionary until his regular path brought him in arm’s reach of the hooded one. “Your failure to maintain this place has marred the perfection of my presentation. At the next failure, your assistant will bring me your head on a charger. Go.”
Wordlessly, the functionary did an about face and departed the room. The speaker continued, having moved from the topic of debasing human religions in preparation for their replacement to discussing the nature of using organizations to eradicate each other and further the goals of CTHULHU.
Later, a second light bulb failed.

“Murder is a straightforward thing, often requiring little that is remarkable or memorable beyond a victim.
The artist, however, seeking the full experience, would know the victim, encourage the victim in the direction of suicide, and assume front rank at the funural.
Victims can be enjoined to manage the demise of other victims before handling their own case, of course; economy of style is a hallmark of art.
Thus, given the vast quilt of existing organizations under the sun that predate our current effort, the most artistic thing to do would be to use them against each other.
We are certain in the singularity of our purpose, with the final merger of the Human Union and the Committee To Harmonize Universal Law.
So we will find their victim-leaders, and subvert them.

You cannnot imagine to what extent the wisest of the [proletariat] can be brought to a state of unconscious naïveté in the presence of this condition of high conceit of themselves, and at the same time how easy it is to take the heart out of them by the slightest ill-success, though it be nothing morer than the stoppage of the applause thtey had, and to reduce them to a slavish submission for the sake of winning a renewal of success.

The world’s biggest ideoloigcal loser is our winner, and there is none greater than…”

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