Escape Plans (Day 2)
Dec 24th, 2009 | By Ben Peek | Category: UncategorizedDay Two
So, I saw this video today–
I saw a video today of Wall Street. In the video, they had Darth Vader and some Storm Troopers sitting up the front of the exchange, and ringing the day or some shit like that.
It kind of blew my mind. I mean, here was the focal point of our capitalist empire, and on the days before Christmas, they had Darth Vader come in, perhaps the most well known villain in our society, to ring the fucking day in.
One can only hope, but–
But given our current situation, I can’t help but think that the irony is a little lost.
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Christmas eve shopping. We ought to fucking know better.
We all ought to know fucking better.
We should start a business.
What’s your brilliant plan this time?
Like, remind people to go to the store and buy presents?
And some wrapping paper.
That’s a dumb idea.
We’re here, right now, standing amongst all these people. These over worked, angry people who are swamped with disease, and swamping each other with the diseases that they have. Look at them, holding cans of Coke, eating bad fast food, breathing in air that is polluted by the thousands of them, all packed together, trying to find a bargain.
I think I need to wash myself.
Fuck yeah. We should have used the internet for this stuff.
And here.
Right where this ad is, we put a poster, telling people that we offer them a wide range of holiday services.
I thought it was just about Christmas?
We would have too.
We would remind people about birthdays, public holidays, religious moments–the whole lot. We would remind them, and then, for a polite fee, we would have our staff go out and buy the presents and the items that they needed for this holiday.
That sounds we’d be living in perpetual holiday moment.
It sounds awful.
I’ve heard your crazy idea. The last thing I want to do is subject myself to this kind of behaviour all year round.
Islands?
So… like, we’d be free?
Motherfucking genius.
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Jesus Christ.
You realise that everyone around us heard your plan.
That little old lady, she has a note pad. I think she wrote it down.
That kid! That kid has a fucking phone! He recorded the whole thing!
And there’s a whole family over there! How will we fucking deal with eight of them! One of them has a t-shirt that says he knows Kung-Fu! What if it’s true! We’ll never stop them!
Shit! The dogs in the pet store! They’re a threat!
Haha.
As long as I have a bucket I’ll be fine.
(The 12 Days of Xmas. Day two. One day left!)