A hub for innovation … An entirely new model for sustainable living … For a new future … Changing how the world does business … Easing the way for entrepreneurial innovation … Remaking the way we look after nature and our planet … A prototype for a better future, a future for all.
Is this what it’s going to be like: the future? Like this?
These places. So neutral. So anywhere. All the buildings. so gargantuan. All these buildings. I hate them. I hate all this. Because it isn’t too offensive. Because it isn’t too obviously dreadful.
*Sheets of water over concrete. Slow rivulets down concrete runs.
These aren’t real rivers. These are engineered rivers.
Flowing water’s supposed to be calming.
Sure – it’s supposed to calm us, the populace. It’s supposed to drive revolutionary thoughts from our head. We’re supposed to feel soothed …
Fucking water. I thought I could depend on water. I thought it’d do its own thing, like in Tarkovsky films. Raining inside, and the like. I thought water was anarchic. Turns out water’s a traitor. Water’s a tart. Water just does whatever it’s told. I’m never going to drink again. Or bathe again. Or anything. Is there a god of water?
Poseidon.
Yeah, well, fuck Poseidon. Fuck you, Poseidon.
Dutch courage. Drinking from the bottle. Throwing the bottle at a building. Smashing it.
They’re watching you, idiot. They’ll know you did that. It’s surveillance 247. You’ll lose points from your social credit score. You’ve done yourself reputational damage.
You’re paranoid.
They’re watching us now. Not them, but the algorithms. They’re listening for keywords and patterns in our speech.
Come on, they don’t care about us. We’re already contained. They already have us figured out. We’re a type, a kind to them. It’s just a question of what kind of corral they want to drive us into. Which is what the Organisational Management move is all about.
Work in Progress 