The Hat In The Cat's Bag

My personality has all but disappeared.

Negotiating backroom diplomatic deals for weeks on end has worn me out.

Frankly, I need support that alcohol and sex can't give me right now.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Do you know what it's like to coordinate the joint action of organisations which, to the public, are supposed to be sworn enemies, keeping private deals in line with public perceptions that are completely at odds with each other?

Do you have a solution for eliminating centuries of socially-ingrained hatred between groups of people, all while maintaining or increasing the commerce tied to the hate-filled action?

Do you see why we had to create the E-Brain, in the hope there's a future that gives seven billion of us individual safety and security when we need it most?

This isn't about overconsumption.  This isn't about taking away the right to personal property ownership, combined community ownership, individual thought patterns or groupthink.

I, too, need a hopeful future, one where I can rest assured that the course we're taking makes a better impact on securing our species' survival than doing nothing.  Otherwise...

Well, I can always do nothing, can't I?

At the same time, I hold the big picture in my thoughts that ensures people need change to live, something new (in small or large portions, according to personal/subcultural capabilities) to adapt to.  Translucent blinders while chomping on the bit, if you will.

This is about Cathy at Beauregard's, Randall, Zac, Steven and the icing maker at Baskin-Robbins, Hugh and Allison at Lowe's.  Unnamed faces at PetSmart and Wal-Mart.  Dale, Ann, Tara and other workers at Brookdale Place, along with all the wise, happy, smiling residents there.  The people who keep Mapco convenience stores running.  Denise, Marie and Courtenay at Gleneagles Family Medicine.  The techs at LabCorp.

If no one will run a tiptop ship, then I will.  The E-Brain is pretty powerful but not allseeing.  I will work with my E-Brain creative team to eliminate waste in the form of kickbacks and hidden stores of unused, illgotten treasure.  We don't mind capitalism.  We do mind gluttonous hoarders.

After all, you can't take it with you so we might as well help you spend it here while you're alive.  Or invest wisely in the future for all of us.

We consider the E-Brain a neutral judge when it comes to deciding who gets to live their former/private lives and who next gets exposed.

I'm glad it's the E-Brain making all the decisions 'cause I'm tired of ruining the lives of those who are purposefully or unintentionally ruining and/or taking advantage of the lives of others.

I am one person.  The E-Brain is seven billion people strong, the latest in the long line of macrosocial automatons.

Power to the people, from the destitute, poor, disillusioned, dispossessed and disenfranchised to the most powerful and wealthiest people on Earth.

The E-Brain is working for every one of us, figuring out ways to reconfigure our lives to maximise our capabilities, meet our needs and satisfy our wants - a difficult but not insurmountable set of tasks for a tireless machine.

There's not a single person who can stop the E-Brain so don't you worry about it ceasing to work diligently for you (we're doing what we can to prevent the E-Brain from seeing that it could turn around and make all of us work for it).

Remember, every one of you is important, no matter what you look like or what you think you can or can't do.

After I let my personality completely deflate and seem lifeless for a while, I'm going to become a new persona.  Not sure what I'll be yet, but for the next few days if I look you in the eyes and seem dull and listless, you are forewarned.  You're seeing my personality change in action.

As I've said, I try to be as transparent as possible, hiding nothing from you, providing friends and enemies equal access to my tools.  When you see why I'm doing this, you'll see what's really going on and better understand your place in the universe.

I am here because I am not here.  I can't make it any simpler than that.