It's a state of war of all against all after all
A messenger, wearing a green T-shirt with an insignia of TS with the "S" twisted around the T runs into the village square, waving a piece of paper. He looks as though he's been running for a while since the soles of his shoes have worn through and his feet are bleeding. He looks around, sees nobody there, pauses for a quick snack and a snog (we are a G-rated blog after all) with a union-affiliated line worker at the biscuits factory that recently opened up in the middle of the village. He then runs across the square to a nearby field.Messenger: It's been declared! Finally! It's been declared!!!
Random villager rooting about in the field: eh? what?
Messenger: The West has spoken. It's not colonialism! It's not development! It's War
RV: Who's this West you are on about?
M: You know. He was here just the other day. Helped dig the well and all that...
RV: Ohh...riiight! He was a good chap. Rather dim, though: Didn't understand we wanted him to take a picture of the elephant, not shoot it with a rifle. What are we going to do with a dead elephant in the middle of the field?
M: Didn't you hear me? That doesn't matter. It's War now. We've always been at war The West says.
RV: But, I rather liked democracy...d'you know you get to have blue ink on your fingers when you vote? I've always liked blue. I don't think I want to be at war.
M: Well, we are. Just get with the programme.
RV (to other RVs): Help! Help! I'm at War!!!
(With thanks to Thomas Hobbes and George Orwell, unfortunately dead, and MP, some if not all of whom are alive and kicking and with hopes that the later Witty, somewhere out there, would want to comment on the last bit)
(The Messenger's clothing designed by Theory Salon, a newly established boutique which has a good collection of fine clothing and serves critiques on philosophical matters)
posted by Priya @ 3:23 AM
7 Comments:
Wasn't it nice of TS to point that out for all the no-longer-culturally-tolerated masses?
Indeed. I think TS should start up an online boutique of its own.
Hey, if bird flu has its own cafe press site, why not the Theory Salon?
We could sell methodology bumper stickers, too.
lol...love the idea. Though (bringing together "private" and public conversations) TS was TheoryGuy's contribution (the name), not mine
I like TS as an online boutique...no one says these things have to be available in the "real" world: imagine how much fun we'd have inventing things for TS to put on its extensive catalogue (as if we don't do enough things already!)
So noted. He shall be compensated when the cash starts flowing in. Of course, by then we'll all be dead of H5N1. Because our leaders are idiots.
I actually shouted at the television. And it wasn't even a sporting event.
I'm taking my usual "head in the sand and pretend you're an ostrich" approach with regards to H5N1. Apart from when I"m hoping it doesn't spread too far before BigNameMeeting since my presentation there depends on it not being in the USA yet. Or I think it does. Actually, I'm not sure.
So, TS? I think we should get it going. I hear black turtlenecks are in high demand.
But not just any old black turtleneck, oh no. Specially designed TS turtlenecks, with weapons pockets and such.
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