As he read The Peripheral by
Gibson
yanking a stub out of the Past and the interface with it
speculative scifi
he recognised that in the Future
people had to pay for their privacy if
they wanted any
Anonymity was being a
cash cow
Living was compliance with the dictates of the
sketchy society
and being available to any and all who
wanted access to you
even advertisements unfurled on
the streets in their windows inside the shoppes
were loaded up with your
personal preference to game you
and like
salesmen
who put their size
14 shoe in your doorway
you couldnt stomp their foot even
if you wanted to
everyone and everything had
access to you at home and in the public sphere
Solicitation
was the belligerent elephant in
the room or bull in the china shoppe of your lap
he supposed after all
it wasnt really speculative scifi
not with anonymity suspect these
days
Privacy
the Lamb slaughtered on the
trumped up Altar of September 11 and beyond
by the Project for the New American Century(PNAC)*
whose position papers he read in ’97
whose major tenants entered the White House with the Younger and Clueless
it
all coldly reminded him -- very naturally -- of
Mein Kampf
Then all anyone had to do was read its vileness to
recognise what Hitler would do if he came to power
his social intentions despicably apparent
Mein Kampf was as non-speculative
a text as ever written
he recognised that as a boy
bearing only a boys intellect and experience
Why
he couldnt remember now
he did remember asking his
parents if they had read it then
they
hadnt
when he asked why they hadnt
they
shrugged
probably the same shrugging that continues unabated to-day
1737, Wednesday,
22 4. 15
*Sen. Rubio’s presidential gambit
is named the New American Century
http://www.newsweek.com/marco-rubio-promises-new-american-century-launch-presidential-bid-322148
