A Message from Power, delivered through Emissary and inadequate Translation:
Okay, Humans, here’s the deal.
This planet exists for a finite time. Some of us have been
playing since the start, and we made sure along the way to provide for the next
generation of Us. We are not like you. We are better than you. We deserve what
we have because we have worked for it since the dawn of time. We hold an uneasy
truce among ourselves, some of the time, and engage each other in war, the rest
of the time, on many, many battlefields.
The field of The Economy is less bloody than making you fight
each other in numbers with weapons. You should thank us for enslaving you in
such a kind and benevolent way. But don’t mistake our attempts to improve your
lives and include you in decision making as equality. We have never been equal.
We will never be equal. We are better than you. We hold the power, and among
us, we now own every square inch of the world with the weapons to back that up. You should let go of your
delusions that you might own a piece of it. You are not worthy. We give you our scraps.
You are a worker ant, a drone. We keep you busy with our big
global game called The Economy, waging our wars as we’ve always done, shifting
around the piles of resources which include you. We let some of you have power
over others, to keep your systems and your attitudes mean and uncooperative. We love our game. Manipulating your participation is the joy of the play.
What are you whining about, when some of you suffer, when
some of you die? When have you ever had it so good? We give you TV’s, we give
you movies, we give you a man on the moon and plastic wrap and microwave ovens
and cell phones, trying to keep you busy and entertained enough to play your
small role in our armies. But we need to control all the resources to do that
well. We can’t have you demanding safety and happiness and fulfilled lives. We can't have you bugging us with all your demands. You're here to work. We're here to play. You need to be in play. So get back to work.
