It’s been a rather productive month for the People Matter project- but you wouldn’t know it here. Secret deals requiring all kinds of anonymity and mysterious players have subsumed me. Twice I was offered inflated positions on the boards of major corporations–desperate acts of a dying epoch. I rejected them of course. Be wary of proposals made at the gallows.
As it turns out, the entire world has embraced gift economics, scarcity markets have completely collapsed and been replaced by a soft brand of willful social exchange. In some parts of the country you can buy groceries with Tweets, or request healthcare by updating your Facebook status. There are entire subcultures in which you can explicitly barter your emotional and physical needs by properly commenting on message boards and posting well lit photographs of your ‘equipment.’
I’ve been deluged with evidence of this radical shift. It is being carefully collected and catalogued in a secret physical file with a complex locking mechanism (designed by a rouge defector from Smith&Wesson!). No one should be surprised to learn that this information is highly sensitive and controversial.
Physical copies are important. I’ll balk at explaining the doomsday scenarios I’m sure you can conjure. Fear is the tactic of the fearful. Ramble on, good blogger.
Until recently this media project of mine had moseyed with a quaintly apolitical approach. There was a time, circa 2009, when one could remark casually on the methods and transfer of information–but that time has passed.
From here on in, brave reader, this journey grows wicked and strange.
On guard!
