58 - Phone

[ceasetoexist]

I lived through it. All of it.

I guess when I first got here I would have said that to brag, but now I guess I want to say....I dunno. That if that's their worst? It can still be beaten.

God. I don't know. I suck at being all "blah blah hope blah blah it'll be fine" since it's usually bullcrap. But I guess I'm just saying. What happened sucked, but it's not like...the most hopeless thing ever.

They're scared. That's what I think. It's why they went this far. I dunno if we're on to something but we must have done something right to make them do something that drastic.

Because you know what I think? They're demanding we be thankful? They need us to. I don't know why yet, but it's necessary for whatever system they've got going on. Think about it. The demand for conformity, the droning to what's desired if we don't. They need us to be here and act a specific way, because if we don't....well, I dunno. I think that it's that if we exist here for long enough, not doing what they want? We compromise their system. They need us to behave a certain way or something doesn't stick, or the stability of this place'll start going off, or something.

That's what I think.

Hey. Idiots. And I'm pretty sure you know which ones I'm talking to? Not that I care or anything, but call me if you can, y'know, manage to use the phone.

Comments

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Tell you what we'll save that one for a last resort.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Trump card. They'll never see it coming.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

No one sees it coming. That's part of why it's so bad.

Despite. Y'know. The obvious.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Shit all over the place yeah. Point made.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I think it's a sure fire plan, you ask me.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Yep. No one'll ever see it coming.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Especially not after we talked about it on a public line.

It's the best form of deception, man.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

They think we're just kidding. There's no way those kids would actually do it. It's just too bizarre.

Then bam. Face full of shit.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

Let's get to work on the pamphlets and handing 'em out so people know what's going down.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

First thing new arrivals should see when they get here.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Everyone needs to know about the great crap uprising.

It's part of the voice of the people.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Every revolution's gotta start somewhere.

Why not start this one with a steaming pile of feces.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

To be fair?

Is there any revolution that doesn't start with feces? I'd like to see it.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Not any revolution I want any part in.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought.

It lacks character. Flinging crap is just something you gotta do.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

They call it mud slinging for a reason.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You know it.

I guess I should be asking how you did during everyone's adventure through armageddon, but I'm expecting you're not going to give me a straight answer.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

[ he gives it some thought, before finally answering. ]

I did okay.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Just okay?

What you didn't paint a perfect poem of how awesome you are upon the scenery of post-nuclear despair?

[timetables.livejournal.com]

Nah. Thought about it. Just seemed kind of pointless. I mean, if everyone was about to keel over from radiation poisoning or something, no one would be around to admire such a fine piece of art.

And that would have been the real tragedy of this past week.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What, you don't make your art just for the sake of the beauty of it?

Sell-out.

[timetables.livejournal.com]

It's called performance art for a reason. You gotta perform. And a performance needs an audience.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What better audience is there then the futility of the end of all things?

[timetables.livejournal.com]

That's a little too abstract for my concrete sensibilities.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh sorry God forbid someone ask you maybe challenge your pre-conceived mindset on something.

That's how art dies. Or some crap. I dunno.

Art sucks.