from: Bloodstone43956@i-mail.irs
to: Raventrap39996@i-mail.irs
date: 7518.24966
My Dear Raventrap ~
Your proposal for prompting our political clients to use scare tactics as a fund-raising strategy has merit. However, this procedure has already been approved, tested, and implemented by our Scam Techniques Division (STD). The technique has proven to be quite successful for clients who are more interested in winning than in demonstrating the merits of their case. Yes, as you wrote, it’s simple, but effective. Arrange for your clients’ organization to announce that unless it raises a certain amount of money in the next few days ~ or hours ~ the other side may “win” and there will be catastrophic consequences if they do. Then, make sure the other side does exactly the same thing!
While not as spectacular as a matter-antimatter collision, the resulting annihilation of funds, sometimes millions of currency units, is glorious to behold. Our Executive likes very few things more than watching the pathetic little moles run around and waste a lot of time and money only to end up in a near stalemate. As one of their bards wrote, “It was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” The only “winners” in such a scam are the fund-raisers and the media corporations, not those who advocate real ideas. The last things we want are rational debate, compromise, and agreement. I know I may sound a little repetitive, but again, keep the focus on the self, and everything else will fall into place.
There is much for The Corporation to gain if all our clients “look out for number one.” Many have been seduced into believing their own “happiness” is all-important. We need to keep steady pressure on them to move in this direction. Even an innocuous phrase, like “the pursuit of happiness,” asserted as a right “endowed by Our Competitor,” can easily be misunderstood. To be sure, Our Competitor likely would have the little rodents use their lives and liberties to “pursue” happiness, but even He does not guarantee it. As we well know, there is no such thing as a “right to happiness,” only a right to pursue it. We do this every day. Our happiness depends on the procurement of contracts, without which our freedoms, indeed our very existence would be meaningless and empty.
We must implant the belief that happiness (whatever in Hell that means) must be obtained at any cost. All sorts of self-delusion, self-gratification, and self-absorption are founded on this belief. At the very least, we can coax our clients to over-indulge themselves: over-spend, over-consume, and over-eat. Many will jump to the conclusion that their happiness depends on moving to a new city, buying a new house, or finding a new spouse. It doesn’t matter what the enticement, as long as their happiness alone will justify it. Just don’t let it enter their minds that achieving their happiness might result in someone else’s unhappiness. And, for Our Executive’s sake, don’t let them think for one minute Our Competitor wants them to understand happiness as a life-long achievement. If they discover money really can’t buy it and the real reward lies in making happiness possible for others, our influence over them will come to an abrupt end.
Perhaps the most attainable ground in the area of happiness isn’t the pursuit of it, but the avoidance of discomfort. Make damned sure the phrase, “No pain, no gain,” remains only a popular slogan. If your clients realize happiness, as most understand it, is fleeting, they may back down from actively indulging themselves in various temptations to purchase it or seek it at the expense of others. If so, you’ll need to propose it would be better to seek comfort by avoiding pain or hardship. Happiness can easily be equated with security. Then, your clients will be strongly motivated, not to pursue some kind of “bucket list,” but to “lay up treasures” on Earth. Of course, Our Competitor probably wants them to seek obnoxious treasures like wisdom, patience, fairness, self-control, faith, hope, and love. Our Executive would have none of these, preferring treasures that rot, rust, and decay. All He wants is their contracts, not their possessions. These are only a means to His ends.
So, focus their minds on security, comfort, and finding contentment. As we well know, contentment isn’t the same as happiness, but let it satisfy them. They will be no better off than cows ~ content to have a warm barn, green grass, and fair weather. Security works for us. The Corporation can thrive on humans who choose to be like cows if this prevents them from choosing to join Our Competitor’s Company.
Your Devoted Cousin,
Bloodstone
MurrayWorks 