this thing is not a matter of
international espionage, climbing the mountains of freedom and
good will unto men. you will not be asked to cross any oceans or rap on mighty doors with
iron fists. this is only, in the most subtle way,
defeat, because the defeat cannot exist in the open -
you are working almost entirely in
a world that cannot be seen.
this thing is not a matter of
assasination by chance, but it is a thing of destruction,
have no doubt, and to be able to co-exist,
the first requirement, you must have long ago destroyed any part of your own self that would hinder that. this means, in short, any relationship based on money, power, love, intelligence, or sex. this is not, by the way, recommended, it is simply, please remember,
a tutorial.
a matter of
social division is helpful,
social standing and
social upbringing.
social uprisal and
social upheaval. you are a well defined speaker of the nation you represent, having spent years upon decades
in a womb of print ads and buses, subway cars, sex-based television specials, holler and heartbreak.
development takes place and you emerge, sometimes willing and rarely able, to take on the impossible, the strongest and certainly
the most painful.
this person is not
your enemy. this person is only their own enemy and it is sometimes viewed as a matter of "re-programming," though we like to call it "re-rememberence." our colleagues who attempt to approach others as possible candidates for "re-programming" will find themselves forever increasing
defense budgets, forever developing new
aircraft, forever dropping new
bombs and beating on new
doors with new kinds of
fists. a person cannot be "re-programmed," a person can simply be
invited to remember another time when
life was something more for them.
and with that we hope that a seed can grow, replenishing
a soul. high hopes, for sure, but we are being led in the correct direction by
television, movies,
books and the like, as well as our own imaginations, the things we imagine while standing in line, the communicae we recieve and the inflection in the voice of the target and the target's similar structures. all we can hope for is
peaceful resolution, but in the case that this becomes impossible, we must prepare ourselves for
war.
and so it begins: making this happen is a matter of defeating personality, a matter of changing things backwards and working up the little pieces that are invariably
ignored, but clearly play their part. the painful memory, the loss of soul (be it in truth or in mind - a simple
carbon test can tell you this, though it is rarely necessary and often plays no
catalyst to the part of course of action), a general sense of immense self-hatred and very overdone self-love at the same time and somewhat canceling each other out, but only to
the untrained eye.
the stronger the person is, the stronger the fight and the worse the fall, as we were taught through our schooling. this is a fight in which
our loser will go down as their own martyr, but be aware that you will not be celebrated in your own time. soldiers are often considered
overzealous, overobsessed -- it is not a stance that one associates with strength and prosperity -- the strong and the prosperous prefer to never allow themselves so close to true danger. not the stray bullet, mind you, but if you're reading this, i assume you are already acquainted with what i mean when i say, "
true danger."
attack last and attack as
subtley as possible. methods of doing so include disinterest, mild disgust and a cleverly not-so-disguised attempt at hiding that. small words here and there to colleagues in civilian garb about a loss of faith in the neighboring nations. attack simply by copying,
maninpulating personality traits, the last reminders of a time when the target had something more than nothing to share with the world, and
most importantly, the things that the target
prided themselves in sharing.
these things
may seem futile, but there is strong precedent defending these actions, the last one in particular, for a person largely defeated already can become quite strong, where their weaknesses often lie only in the pieces they've maintained, somewhere in mind, from long before their
initial defeat -- not by you, of course, but by
the world at large around them.
this is meant to be a short
tutorial and the task is often much more dependent on the individual than the training -- national issues, cultural issues, pre-programming -- but if you are aware of your position in the world and it is worth it to fight for
tears of salvation, or tears of the bricks of the long, long stairway leading ultimately to something that resembles salvation, then this is meant as a first step,
a memoir, perhaps, and if nothing else, i wish you
good luck, good
life, and in the event of death, strong and full of the knowledge that you have tried salvation in a time when most
men and women would have never seen
the chance.