Dr. Liber Monad picks the Dreadlock
Your perusal of this Preview of ‘The Dreadlock Artifice’ essayed by Liber Monad, N.O.C. is mandatory and must be confirmed by your monotodal implant transceivers within seventy-two hours of your reception or your facilities will be temporarily disabled and your apathy duly reported to Hub Authority for remedial reformatting. The Dreadlock Artifice in its entirety will be up-linked to WEWEB for universal replication via downloading to your monotodal implants after it has been fully censored by Hub Authority.
THE DREADLOCK ARTIFICE
BY
LIBER MONAD, N.O.C.
I was terribly excited when I disinterred the Dreadlock Artifice, an articulately braided text entitled Big Brother is Everywhere, from the ruins of a Devolution Era rebel camp in Newfoundland, for it bears witness to the Cain Syndrome that swept the world just prior to the Great Implosion.
No doubt a subject of mere historical import such as this one is trivial in light of the progress that placed WE, the leader of world civilization, at history’s deadline. Yet unto retirement my profession calls me to uncover historical facts to that Happy Ending, and to convey the happy truths about those facts to the Members in a reasonable manner, that WE may, more sooner than later, realize the Total Happiness of Togetherness. Now if there are any individual traces of unhappiness lingering among us, it is far more efficient and humane to rid the Members of WE of the evil elements with periodic doses of communal reasoning than to submit each Member, one by one, for Singular Reformatation.
As WE know, I am the last of my profession. The time nears when my function as Histarcheological Truth Mediator will be rendered obsolete by our inevitable advance to the Now, where WE shall rest happily with absolute peace of mind. Indeed, I shall retire to Total Happiness knowing that none of you shall remember me.
A HAPPY PERSON NEEDS NO PAST OR FUTURE
At this very moment WE are on the Verge. Soon WE shall no longer need to study the past to master the future. WE shall render the past irrelevant except to glorify our perpetual present in Total Happiness! The High Time is nigh, when prevention and deterrence of evil will be unthinkable because there will be no evil thoughts. However, in the ever-shortening interim, I must remind the members of Totalitaria of certain unhappy incidents in the past and of how they were successfully addressed.
WE need not delve into the remote past to find relevant examples. WE may recall a more recent episode; for instance, the Guru Affair. Today is a happy day for doing so, for today is the birthday of Dr. Ricardo Chaseman, co-inventor of the FolkSystem that enables Hub Authority to monitor our thoughts and speech with implanted monotodes. You must remember that Chaseman perfected the technology that terminates the implantee if the device is illegally removed. Now WE have no difficulty observing the thoughts and speech of anyone, at any time or any place; therefore please wish Dr. Ricardo Chaseman a Happy Birthday!
THE GURU AFFAIR ENDED HAPPILY
The Guru Affair, also know as the Meditation Case, was, as every Member of WE must recall, a conspiracy contrived to evade the Universal Privacy Prohibition by means of nihilistic meditation. Their objective was to render the monotodal implants of bona fide Gurus inoperative for all WEWEB intents and purposes. But their technique was flawed, especially among the novitiates whose thoughts betrayed them, hence WEWEB was monitored for silent nodalities, and the Gurus were soon apprehended by Hub Authority’s Neural Net Force.
The Gurus’ defense team, led by Walter Davidson, Esq, raised an absurd defense: Meditation is a harmless, non-criminal activity, a senseless communion with an imaginary Other, whom the primitives called “God", but is nothing at all – no harm can be done by Nothing. The antisocial conspiracy, incidentally, gave rise to a popular demand for more holidays; subversive practices reappeared, such as the widespread observances of “a moment of silence" to remember the dead, obviously intended to disrupt production and consumption.
Although nothing was being communicated during the periods of meditative silence, Hub Authority, presided over by Madame Aliz Calomari, ruled that the very attempt at total silence constituted the High Crime of Treason, for it threatened to vacate WEWEB of content and therefore disintegrate WE. In fact the motto of the Guru Affair was “Silence is Death.”
The number of Gurus was small at first, but soon rose to four millions, creating a great deal of turmoil and some unhappiness in our Total Rank due to communication shortfalls. This was aggravated by another two millions who were sounding an open vowel as a carrier wave for espionage activities. To make conditions worse, another million or so were intentionally babbling incoherently; they called the absurd practice "talking in tongues.”
Hub Authority further ruled that "god" is not an identifiable or observable witness to communion, and held that, in the absence of a supreme, object-oriented, real-time utility, society would catabolize in short order. The Devolution Era''s final cycle was cited as a precedent. To refresh your memories: that vicious cycle was initiated during the late United States Period by globalization reactionaries, led by Dr. Darned Leon, who were opposed to Central Mandates. Power devolved to the particular states, and on down until life became a reduction to subparticulate absurdities.
Total Reformatation of the Gurus and their adherents was ordered by Hub Authority. The signal was issued in accordance with the Law of Immediate Execution. Nine millions were reformatted over a period of six months, thanks to rapidly developing technology.
HAVE FAITH IN THE GRAND PROJECT
That being made perfectly clear for history''s sake, I return to the unearthed Dreadlock Artifice. I confess that it was difficult for me to place it in its proper historical context in order to illustrate the unmitigated truth that WE must have in mind at all times. As is obvious from our latest revision of the recapitulation of the Devolutionary Era, WE have recovered the happy truth about it; nonetheless, many facts remain to be clarified.
My efforts were hampered by the antiquity of the era. That would not have been an obstacle if it were not for the Comet Wars that resulted in the destruction of early Totalitaria''s databases. Data recovery from the rebel''s personal devices is always severely impeded by the inadequacy of their magnetic media storage units and by the relevant chaotic proliferation of their programs, evidence of their mass insanity. But the disorder gives WE an occasion to rejoice in the present Total Systemic Unity, for anarchy of the Devolutionaries prompted the development of Total Reformatation technology.
Despite the nearly impossible interpretative task that faced me at the laboratory while examining the evidence from Newfoundland, I was not deterred for a single moment. WE never lose faith in the Grand Project encompassing our humble projects. Wherefore I was handsomely rewarded with an intoxicating clue that eventually enabled me to decipher the Dreadlock Artifice and thus place it in its correct historical context.
The decrypted term "Dreadlock" literally leaped out at me on the seventh day of my investigation. I lit my trusty pipe and settled down to peruse the scant remains before me. As Devolutionary buffs know perfectly well, the Dreadlocks were a Devolutionary band of Paranoids who dreaded being observed, so they took to living underground, communicating by means of illegal cable hijacks. For this they had developed a treasonous encryption code, dubbed “the Marley Lock” after their so-called “Saviourmahn”, Holyman Marley, aka Zimmer Man, the legendary cryptographer who disappeared in Kafka Territory. The Marley Lock was picked; the rebels who survived the Great Shaming that followed were subjected, along with the other unconfessed enemies of Totalitaria, to the First World Reformatation, which was, judging from the evidence recovered after the Great Atlantic Tsunami, a very messy affair.
Thus, in the term "Dreadlocks", I had in hand the key to the entire artifice and its relevant historical context. And what a revelation of Total Truth it was! For therein, Lo and Behold, was embedded Totalitaria''s Prime Declaration:
THE INNOCENT HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR
Much of the artifice was devoted to the advancing surveillance technology of the time, particularly the beta testing of the monotodal implants. The rebels complained that, "The technology will become a way of singling out those who do not belong and of taking preemptive action to exclude them."
What an absurd statement! As WE know very well, WE do not take preemptive action to exclude! WE take comprehensive action to include! WE do not exclude by recognition of separate identities. WE include by Recognation. The specious doctrine of recognition, that it is violently obtained by risking death to defeat others, and that the process results in the highest civilization, a civilization of slaves and masters, has been disposed of by Professor Robert Sigman, in his paper, "Mass Mastery". No, WE do not exclude by recognition: WE include by Recognation.
Another ridiculous rebel argument was provided in the Artifice, to the effect that Transparency precludes the secrecy individuals allegedly require for their existence as such, whether their thoughts and other behavior are lawful or not. As advanced as WE are, WE still hesitate to think that treasonous thought, even in order to refute it, but refute it WE must. Its demented authors were unaware of the truth, that the argument against Publacy is the strongest case for Publacy. The Destiny of Human, the Historic Mission of Humankind, is to thrive in the one environment most conducive to Social Unity, for our species is that of the social animal par excellence - WE who finds security in numbers as WE progress to the Mass.
FINAL PROGRESS
There can be no question of plural environments or of individual persons in the Final Stage of Progress. For WE are able to make our own Total Environment. WE have our nature, a social nature based on Mutual Approval, not on the perverse disassociative individualism that interrupted public intercourse. WE know ‘Human’ is a term of Total Unity, the single best environment for our Total Civilization of Totalitaria. This Great Achievement must be accomplished by Publacy. WE need WE to witness WE, a WE to observe and be observed by.
The Dreadlock Artifice, as you noticed when you received this file, shall soon be released in its decrypted entirety. I can say nothing more about it at this time, but you can rest assured that the release will include an appendix of my exhaustive interpretations.
Before WE close, WE want to honor all those who have been totally reformatted for our sake. Please have compassion most of all for those who were reformatted during the Devolutionary Era. People were obsessed with privacy in those days. They wore garments in warm weather to deceive each other, because they were rightly ashamed of their fictitious individuality, not knowing that there is no such thing as an individual self or central "I". As strange as it seems to us, they believed nudity was obscene, and were even afraid of full-body searches at checkup points. They lacked the comforting experience of communal observation, of the real All-Seeing Witness that can be seen by all. They were so afraid and confused that they devised a frightening "God" to watch over them and to crush them every once in awhile to keep them in line. They knew not what they did, so let us forgive them, and, at the same time, give our forbears credit for bringing us to realize the supreme need to be observed, and not by their sinister unknown "God", who might destroy US without Reason. WE give thanks to them for releasing WE to the realm of Total Law and Loving Order, where privacy is, as it should always be, a capital offense.
THE TOTAL END
Manhattan, 1994
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Whew! A very absorbing piece of writing. Gave me shivers and chills.
So many things happening in the news lately that make this story seem FAR closer to reality than fiction. Definitely too close for comfort.
Nicely done,
J