Too many transmissions taking terrible toll

By Brian Horstmann

As mankind straggles hazardously into the 21st Century, I can’t help but ponder the unthinkable horrors that will soon be offered up on the table of life, waiting to gnaw away our comforts and God-given freedoms one by one.

Opening up a newspaper, I have to fight the instinct to throw up and become some howling caricature of rage and fear. The only thing that keeps the same reaction from occurring while watching television is the low brain-wave feeling of sedation and only the mildest of concerns.

However, the resistance to soul-seizure in the face of channels broadcasting the news from Hell are what tipped me in on what was actually happening out there. The signals, the waves, the beams that trip out and bend through the air from projector to receiver right into the hallowed halls of our homes of human learning (our brains, mind you), well, those are the best tools yet in securing the reigns to mankind’s natural way of life.

Totally manufactured and wholly disturbing, the constant streams of information careening through the air and crashing into our collective conscious are slowly but surely driving people insane at a mass level, even if the slip into madness is fairly subtle at this point. But that’s why you see the clues all over in the media; once the fingers are pointed in the right directions and all of the sinners stand revealed, they will take comfort in saying that no wrong was done, as the results of their brain-tampering have been revealed for years, waiting to be realized. Guilt free, they will walk confidently through the streets, into a public court to ease the minds of the justice-hungry masses, and walk right back out into their mansions to continue the same old charade. While some cries of frustration and foul play will be heard, no further action will be done to reach a cosmic amends for the decades-long true crime against humanity. The damage has already been done, healing is more than likely impossible at this point. Like a wounded dog, the distraught beast known as the common man will crawl back under the porch of being heard. It’ll probably turn the TV back on, confused as to why its last few days have been so heavy, so full of drama. Convinced that the entire event was a fever dream of sorts, society would reenter the security blanket, convinced that the current way of life is the best for everyone involved.

History will prove human instinct correct, in the long run. Through some act of God, the flip will be switched sometime in the future, maybe sooner, maybe later, but that flip will be switched, and everything will simply turn off. The production of drug-saturated, coma-inducing chemicals and rays will be halted, releasing our inner-animal, and possibly even bringing about some strange physical alteration that had been suppressed through years of neglect and hopelessness.

Furious claws of adjudication will be unleashed, and everyone will suddenly remember why Thomas Jefferson felt that every true democracy must face a true revolution every two hundred years or so. Teeth gnashing, a swift and terrible march of pissed off real people will proceed to the centers of commerce and control, ready to take back their lives’ respective wheels. As the self-perceived herders of humankind make their varied and pathetic arguments in an attempt to justify their heinous actions, it will be realized that the only reason this hadn’t happened sooner was that the lie-filled broadcasts had been massaging the fight or flight part of everyone’s brain. It had been turned back on itself, making people feel an overwhelming fear of themselves and their brothers and sisters. This resulted in, of course, fighting or flying. Those who opted for fight self-destructed, filling up the suicide story slots on all the news networks. Those who went with flight were never heard of again, their minds shutting down from all-encompassing sources of fear. Of course, justice will win in the end. These realizations will all just sting a bit, then we all get the privilege of hunting our food again. God Bless America.