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SESSIONS
0.00 INTRODUCTION 7

1.00 FREAK SHOW IS A HALF SQUARE 12
1.01 Big Bang Cycle 12
1.02 Half Square 13
1.03 Rio Grande Canal 14
1.04 Super Color 21
1.05 Nanopayment Virus 23
1.06 Syntarian 24
1.07 Virtuarian 25
1.08 Cyberplugs 25
1.09 United Americas 27
1.10 Head Steward 27
1.11 Erotron 33
1.12 Squares 33
1.13 Money Squares 33
1.14 Matriarch 34
1.15 Holocar 35
1.16 Holoprojector 35
1.17 Sloppy Squares 37
1.18 Hyperkinesic Perception 40
1.19 Tetrachromatic Vision 53
1.20 Pentachromatic Vision 54
1.21 Z-Rays 55
1.22 Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis 56
1.23 Memetic Map 60
1.24 Square Castes 69
1.25 Killer-Apes 69
1.26 Dolphins 72
1.27 Chihuahua Aztec Curse Theory 78
1.28 Chihuahua Tight Brain Theory 79
1.29 Cain the Half Square of Death 85
1.30 Jesus the Half Square of Love 85
1.31 Leonardo da Vinci the Half Square of Reason 88
1.32 Hitler the Half Square of Hate 89
1.33 Ronald Reagan the Half Square of Order 90
1.34 Triadic Evolution 93
1.35 Funeral Dream 95

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2.00 CYBERNETIC JAPAN 99
2.01 Cyberaddiction 104
2.02 Cyberzombies 105
2.03 Cyberlady 107
2.04 Macrohard 107
2.05 Reality Dolls 112
2.06 Homobot 114
2.07 Vampires 117
2.08 White Death 119
2.09 Red Death 122
2.10 Red Emperor 124
2.11 Ceremony of the Five Cuts 124
2.12 Master Roshi 129
2.13 Cyber-Buddhism 130
2.14 Transmigratory Brain Fingerprinting 133
2.15 E-Animals 137
2.16 Golden Tuna 138
2.17 Reality Doll Chess 143
2.18 Electronic Trainer 144
2.19 For the Love of Fluffy 145
2.20 Tombstone Dream 148

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3.00 METAMEMETIC EAST CHINA 152
3.01 E-Money 153
3.02 East versus West China 155
3.03 Asian Union 155
3.04 European Union 156
3.05 Triad 156
3.06 Trilateral Commission 158
3.07 Subship 162
3.08 Megatrain 165
3.09 Self-Replicating Systems Problem 166
3.10 Cyber-Lincoln Brigade 169
3.11 Combot 170
3.12 Tankbot 171
3.13 Robot Size Rule 171
3.14 The Hexagon 174
3.15 Tank Dome 174
3.16 Slicers 177
3.17 Drillers 177
3.18 Grabbers 178
3.19 Invasion of Taiwan 182
3.20 Bridge Ships 185
3.21 Metamemetics 187
3.22 Cospros 192
3.23 Virtualism 193
3.24 Enhanced, Muffled, Assistive and Corrective Reality 195
3.25 Reality Helmet 196
3.26 Rebirth 206
3.27 Buscoms 206
3.28 Artcol 207
3.29 Holo-Galleries 207
3.30 Holo-Labs 208
3.31 Scicom 210
3.32 Hyperconsciousness Project 213
3.33 William Door 215
3.34 Ying-Yang Kids 218
3.35 Sloppy-Divorce 221
3.36 Military Digital Assistants 224
3.37 Sneaky Squares 225
3.38 The Giant Bar Code Reader in the Sky 232
3.39 Dragon and Eagle Dream 235
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4.00 ULTRASONIC WEST CHINA 239
4.01 McMickey 246
4.02 Phoenix Corporation 254
4.03 Crab Dream 260

5.00 THE OMEGAS 263
5.01 Hell 264
5.02 Astral Maggots/Astral Crap 265
5.03 Spiral of Being 274
5.04 The 666 Phone Call 285
5.05 Baby God 287
5.06 Teenage God 288
5.07 Middle-aged God 288
5.08 Old Man God 288
5.09 Pre-God Universes 289
5.10 Anti-God 290
5.11 Square Earth Law 292
5.12 Recycling 301
5.13 Astral Noise 303
5.14 666 Degrees of Separation 303
5.15 Plasma Missiles 305
5.16 Anal Plethysmograph 308
5.17 Solarians 309
5.18 Encounters of the Fifth and Sixth Kind 310
5.19 The Gigatrain 311
5.20 Compurings 316
5.21 Goo 320
5.22 Metatechnology 322
5.23 Planetary Astrology 323
5.24 Rorschach Inkblot Test 327

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6.00 THE FINAL SESSION 331
6.01 Non-Square Earths 333
6.02 Trialism 336
6.03 Trialistic I Ching 338
6.04 Rampant Paranoia 353
6.05 Panpsychic Killers 353
6.06 Small Brain Syndrome 359
6.07 Macrotrend 361
6.08 The Devil 365
6.09 Reverse Recycling 377
6.10 Holo-lawn 379
6.11 The Patients Final Dream 381

7.00 DISCLAIMER FROM DR. DELTA 385
8.00 Message from the Author 386

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0.00 INTRODUCTION
Doctor Delta: This is the most dangerous meme in the transcript. The virulence level is very
dangerous (6.45). The meme is also highly contagious (7.4). The reader may consider not
reading this section of the transcript. Follow memetic infection countermeasures immediately
after reading this session. Infected hosts fall into a nihilistic depression and require immediate
treatment or the condition will become permanent.
FS: Yeah, the life stages of God are the big determinant of the overall pattern of the universe and
have a direct impact on the macrostructure of the universe. The fusion of cosmology and
theology is an understanding of the life stages of God but you left out the Anti-God.
DG: The Anti-God?
FS: Sure, each new Big Bang tends to create a duplicate of the last universe but randomness
enters into every system and the duplicate is just a little bit different than the last universe. This
is because nothing is certain.
DG: Thats for sure.
FS: I dont mean this as some sort of saying but that literally nothing is certain. A fundamental
property of being is uncertainty.
DG: Huh?
FS: This is the materialistic basis of the existential statement that existence precedes essence.
The only way you get certainty is to stick with nothingness. Each time the universe is reborn
there is a chance that a slightly different God will be reborn that just isnt into the whole cosmic
density management mission.
DG: So you think this can happen?
FS: God like every being generally wants to survive and have progeny. In the case of God
having progeny means taking on the whole cosmic density management mission and making sure
there is a duplicate of him in the next universe but there might be God that doesnt want to have
progeny and just wants to have fun.
DG: A slacker God.
FS: Right but a lazy God that doesnt want progeny isnt so bad since after billions and billions
of Big Bangs life will emerge again randomly and the process will start all over again. What
you need to watch out for is an Anti-God.
DG: Anti-God? Sounds heavy. What does this Anti-God do?
FS: It is heavy. The Anti-God decides its just time to end the whole Big Bang nonsense and use
cosmic density management to make sure there are no more Big Bangs or being of any sort and
just end the whole thing i.e. follow the credo nothing is certain to its logical extreme.
DG: Literally cosmic suicide.
FS: Right, Old man God invariably has these suicidal thoughts as his body i.e. the universe
starts to contract during the last 10 billion years of the universe but generally dismisses such
thoughts.
DG: So the universe will ultimately end?
FS: Maybe, but since God is a survivor and this is sort of the essence of the personality of God,
the emergence of the Anti-God is very unlikely. Unfortunately, it takes billions upon billions of
Gods to keep the living universe going. It only takes one Anti-God to stop the whole show.
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Dear Reader,

Has the above excerpt from this document left you totally confused? Okay, here is the
explanation; a graduate school classmate gave me the manuscript you now hold in your hands.
We were fellow graduate students at Texas A&M University were we both received a Masters.
We were taking a class in educational psychology about learning theory. I was getting a
Masters of English with a specialization in TESOL. Gamma was getting some sort of
educational psychology masters and was the favorite student of the teacher, a Dr. Castle. A
very intelligent and attractive professor but that is neither here nor there.

My classmate went on to get a doctorate in psychology at Harvard. I was under the impression
from reports, by fellow classmates, that he had a brilliant, if slightly mysterious career in
psychology. He worked at some sort of military think tank in San Antonio. Years later, my
classmate arrived at my apartment talking wildly about some sort of conspiracy and gave me a
floppy disc that contained this manuscript. I teach English as a foreign language (EFL) at a
university in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan is fairly far away from the US and I was very surprised my
friend came all the way out to Taipei in order to see me. He explained that he came to Taipei in
order to put some distance between himself and his mysterious pursuers. I share this manuscript
in the hope that the truth of the nature of this manuscript is eventually discovered.

I have no idea if this Dr. Delta is a real person or a delusion of my friend Gamma. As soon as I
got the document I did use Google to try to find the Meta-psychology Institute and found a site
dealing with the institute but the computer immediately shut down. I turned the computer back
on and when I tried to revisit the site I got a 404-error message. I have no idea whatsoever what
a 404-error message means. The first Google search yielded about ten references to meta-
psychology. A second search using Google was fruitless. All references to meta-psychology
that showed up in my first search had disappeared by the time I did my second search. Gamma
is of course not the real name of my friend but he wanted me to use this code name and I have
decided to respect his wishes. The document follows a transcript format and I have gone ahead
and added notes I made as I read the document. The document is not always the easiest read but
I assure the reader well worth the time and trouble. There are many interesting and novel ideas
in this document. I am positive there is no such thing as memetic infection or a memetic
infection control law. I would ignore the warning against reading the document without
appropriate security clearance. I would also skip the memetic infection counter measures
nonsense at the end of each chapter.

Hugo Ungaro
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YOU MUST HAVE AN APPROPRIATE SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL TO POSSES OR
READ THIS DOCUMENT. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SUCH CLEARANCE THEN
IMMEDIATELY STOP READING THIS DOCUMENT AND CONTACT THE FBI.
FAILURE TO FOLLOWS THESE INSTRUCTIONS MAY LEAD TO PROSECUTION
UNDER SECTION 3.33 OF THE MEMETIC INFECTION CONTROL ACT.

Dear Colleague,

The following document is a transcript of meta-psychology sessions with the mental patient code
named Freak Show. Both the patient and therapist used code names, during therapy, as is the
custom of our institute due to security concerns. Both patient and therapist picked their own
code names in order to foster a sense of empowerment. The therapist picked the name Gamma
because he was a fan of the comic book hero known as the Incredible Hulk and Gamma rays
were the source of the Hulks strength. The patient picked the name Freak Show since he felt he
was a freak and a show. A standard release form signed prior to therapy by both the patient and
therapist gave me permission to release the transcripts of their sessions for publication. The real
names of the therapist and patient are being withheld due to issues of confidentiality. I picked
the code name Delta due to my respect and admiration of the Delta Force that defends our nation
from terrorism.

I was a meta-psychologist. A meta-psychologist is a specialist. Some patients routinely cause
their therapists to lose their reality orientation and this was the case with Freak Show. A meta-
psychologist treats the untreatable. As the leading institute in meta-psychopathology, we were
asked to treat the patient. Two social trends have caused an increase in meta-psychopathology
disorders. Post-modern society has spawned a relativistic orientation towards reality and the line
between sanity and insanity has become blurred. More and more patients use memetic
knowledge consciously or unconsciously to infect their therapists.

Estimates suggest that at current rates, fifty percent of all health professionals will experience a
critical meta-psychopathology incident at some point in their professional career by the year
2020. This in turn will cause a melt down of the entire mental health care system and the war
between sanity and insanity will be lost and the insane will rule the world. Nevertheless, patients
that infect health professionals must be treated. The suggestion that patients suffering from
meta-psychopathologies should be terminated is too radical and unprofessional. However, there
is an obvious need to employ health care experts that are resistant to infection. I was the
Director of the Institute of Meta-psychopathology.

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The patient suffered from the particular disorder of meta-schizophrenia. A meta-schizophrenic
causes the therapist to become schizophrenic. Freak Show had already infected three other
therapists that had worked with him. Two of the therapists had level two training in memetic
countermeasures but this was obviously not sufficient to protect them from infection. Dr.
Gamma has level six training. Level six is the highest level of training currently available from
the Atlanta Center for Disease Control.

The patient claimed in his own words that he was telling the true story of the offspring of a
sexual union between a Homo erectus male and a Homo sapien female. The patient claimed he
was originally from what he called a Square Earth and that he had been reborn on a non-Square
Earth i.e. our Earth via macro recycling. The patient defined macro recycling as a process
whereby a person was reborn from a prior Big Bang cycle to a current Big Bang cycle at the
approximate same point of development of the latter Big Bang cycle. According to the patient,
such a person may or may not remember events from the other Earth. I know this description is
very confusing but dealing with Freak Show was always a confusing experience. The most
disturbing aspect of Freak Show was that he started to make sense despite my level six training.

The transcripts have been edited for purposes of clarity and confidentiality. I titled the sessions
in order to reflect the central theme of that session. The sections have also been broken down
into topical subsections. In the transcripts Dr. Gamma has been abbreviated to DG. Freak Show
has been abbreviated to FS.

Your professional opinion is valued and any suggestions as to how to deal with the Half Square
problem are appreciated. Anyone reading this manuscript is also assumed to have level three or
above counter memetic infection training. If this is not the case then discontinue reading this
manuscript immediately.

The overall virulence of this transcript is low (1.2) but the potential for infection is high (3.6).
Even thought the overall virulence of this transcript is low there are particular memes that are
dangerous and proper protocols must be followed to protect from infection. Virulence is
different from infectiousness. The speed of a memes transmission from host to host is a
measure of infectiousness. The degree of psychopathology caused by the meme is defined as
virulence. If a meme has a low level of infectiousness but high virulence then the overall
danger of the meme may not be that great. Conversely, a meme that is very contagious but not
very virulent is harmless. The institute focuses on the containment of memes that are both
highly contagious and highly virulent.

A one to ten scale is used to measure both virulence and infectiousness. The scale is logarithmic.
Another example of a logarithmic scale that most people are familiar with is the Richter scale,
used to measure earthquakes. A meme with a virulence level of 2.0 is not twice as strong as a
meme with a virulence level of 1.0 but ten times as strong. A meme with a virulence level of 3.0
would be 100 times as strong as a 1.0 level meme.
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Key memes in this transcript have been discussed in terms of their virulence, infectiousness and
other memetic properties. Some of the memes of this transcript have not been contained due to
the prior infection of therapists before the patient was brought to secure institute. If infection has
occurred then this is noted in the transcript.

THE TRANSCRIPT DOES CONTAIN POWERFUL MEMES OF A VIRULENT AND
INFECTIOUS NATURE. IN ORDER TO PREVENT MEMETIC INFECTION PLEASE
FOLLOW THE MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES AT THE END OF EACH
SESSION!

Sincerely,

Dr. Delta
Former Director
Meta-psychopathology Institute
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1.00 FREAK SHOW IS A HALF SQUARE
Dr. Gammas Notes: In this first session the patient appears to be strangely calm. He is of
medium height, medium build, and has blonde hair. His eyes are a very striking emerald
green. He also has some nearly invisible scars on his face. I would say he is in his mid
twenties. I have read his case file thoroughly and am aware of the particulars of his
delusions but will start from scratch regardless.

DG: This is our first session and I would like you to tell me something about yourself.
FS: I am from an alternate Earth.
DG: Really? Did you travel here using a space ship?
FS: No, my consciousness was moved from a prior Big Bang cycle and to a body on this Earth.
DG: What is a Big Bang cycle?
1.01 Big Bang Cycle
FS: You know the Big Bang, the universe starts out as a naked singularity, explodes, expands for
billions of years, contracts and then just does the whole darn thing all over again. I am from the
Earth from the last Big Bang cycle a lot like this Earth but just a little different.
DG: I think we can go into that later. How did you pick the body that you picked?
FS: Most people in my Big Bang cycle have a double in this Big Bang cycle and I took the body
of my double.
DG: Didnt you feel any guilt about stealing someones body?
FS: My double was in a permanent coma due to a droga (drug) overdose.
DG: Droga? Doesnt droga mean drug in Spanish?
FS: Yeah, the English from my world is a little different than the English of this country.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Records do indicate that Freak Show was in a drug-induced coma for
about three years. Freak Show did recover from this coma dramatically. The cause of his
psychopathology may be due to brain damage incurred during the drug overdose and
subsequent coma. The fiction may be a safe way of handling feelings that are being
repressed about the overdose. The patient uses a lot of Spanish words and I have included
the English version of the word in parentheses where he first does this.

DG: In what way are you different from your double on this planet?
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1.02 Half Square
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is low (1.1). The infection level this meme is also low
(1.3). This meme is not very dangerous.
FS: When I was forty my mam told me I was a Half Square!
DG: What in the world is a Half Square?
FS: The answer to that question is the answer to all questions and pretty much my whole story.
As my mama took a drag on her cigarette, she continued, You are the product of the sexual
union of a Sloppy Square mama, myself, and a Homo erectus father.
DG: Erection?
FS: Not erection, Homo erectus, Mama pushed a Bible into my hand and firmly stated, The
truth is in this Bible. In a coughing frenzy my mama passed away. She was wearing a worn
faded blue robe. Her hospital bed was huge and she seemed very small. Her hair was black and
I suspected she dyed it. The cause of death was officially lung cancer but I always suspected
otherwise.
DG: How did this make you feel?

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient has started this session with the creation of a fantasy with
an alternate Earth and the mention of the death of his mother. The two events must be
linked psychologically. The creation of this alternate Earth may be a way for the patient to
deal with the sense of overwhelming loss caused by the death of his mother. There is
surprisingly little background information about the patient despite extensive efforts to
find such information. Success with this patient is extremely important for the prestige of
the institute. Metaschizophrenia has a very low recovery rate and success with an extreme
metaschizophrenic will be of historical importance.

FS: When my mama died I was wearing a beer hat that I had sneaked into the hospital. A beer
hat has two cans of cerveza (beer) strapped to either side of the baseball cat and tubes that
allowed me to drink cerveza from the cans. The beer hat was kind of my trademark. The nurse
had confiscated the cerveza on the hat but I had a couple of tall boys in my backpack. I took a
long sip from the beer hat and pondered my mams message and decided to get high instead of
figuring out her mysterious words.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Beer can hat is obviously an unconscious symbol of some sort of
crown. The patient refers to the beers as tall boys and this may be an unconscious
reference to his own latent homosexuality.

DG: and what did you finally figure out?

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1.03 Rio Grande Canal
Dr. Delta: The virulence level of this meme is unknown. The infection level is high at 3.4 Anglo
populations in the Southwest US are especially prone to infection.
FS: Five years later I recovered from my drug and drinking binge in the hotel attached to the
Pantera Loca Club.
DG: Pantera Loca Club?
FS: My favorite strip club in the Rio Grande Canal.
DG: Rio Grande Canal?
FS: I had spent most of those intervening five years working on barges on the Rio Grande Canal.
FS: The Rio Grande is of course a giant river that acted as the border between Texas and
Mexico. On my Earth, the Rio Grande had been extended and deepened to connect the Atlantic,
via the Gulf of Mexico, with the Pacific in California. The RGC replaced the Panama Canal that
had been destroyed by terrorists during our 9/11. The RGC also acted as a border to keep out
illegal drogas, illegal immigrants and terrorists from Latin America. Finally, the RGC
connected Texas and California, the two fastest growing state economies in the US. Robots had
built the canal and robots piloted the barges.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is totally delusional. The Rio Grande Canal is probably a
symbol of a divide between the patient and society.

DG: Robots?
FS: The pay was good and robots did most of the work. Getting drogas into the canal from
Mexico wasnt a problem. The border guards in the US only cared if you tried to get the drogas
out of the canal area and into the US.
DG: Whatever. Would you say that drugs are an important part of your life?
FS: Reality is for people who cant handle hard drogas. Militarily, the RGC allowed the US to
move the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific quickly. The Chinese used EMP to knock out the Seventh
Fleet in the Pacific during the invasion of Taiwan had shown that the Seventh Fleet in the
Pacific was vulnerable to a single strategic ataque (attack).
DG: EMP?
FS: EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. This was not the first time the fleet in the Pacific had
been knocked out with a single blow. The US had already lost the pacific fleet once in World
War II at Pearl Harbor. With the RGC, the US was able to move the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific
and provide a back up to the Seventh Fleet stationed in the Pacific. Conversely the Seventh Fleet
could back up US forces in Europe. The RGC also allowed the European Union to move goods
and services to Asia and bypass the more vulnerable trade routes East of Western Europe. In
general, the RGC allowed the US to more flexibly project power in both Asia and Europe.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The attack on Pearl Harbor is true. Obsession with military
movements in the patients fantasy shows a preoccupation with danger and violence.

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DG: Where you some kind of soldier in this other Earth?
FS: I was an over glorified janitor but still the RGC was a great place to work. The RGC was a
DMZ in which all kinds of illegal activity happened. I drank cheap cerveza and Margaritas on
the Mexican side of the border with the US dlares (dollars) I made working for a US cargo
company. I was known on a first name basis at half a dozen strip joints in Tijuana.
DG: Sounds like you had it made in the shade.
FS: Almost, the problem was that I had totally destroyed the inside lining of my stomach.
Drinking alcohol caused me to spit up blood.
DG: Well thats pretty bad. Did you have a girlfriend?
FS: Sort of, my gal was named Zorra. She was a brown-skinned petite Aztec princess and would
just laugh showing her small even teeth and say, You need to lay off the booze. Really honey, I
love you and just tell you this for your own good.
DG: Did you try to stop drinking?
FS: Almost. I tried switching from my usual 190 Octane to sissy Margaritas minus the extra shot
of rum for a buck but this didnt do any good.
DG: What is a 190 Octane?
FS: A 190 Octane is a frozen drink with 190 proof grain alcohol and orange concentrate.
Figured I might as well get my Vitamin C while I was getting drunk.
DG: So did you stop drinking?
FS: Even a drag from cigarette sent me into a coughing jag that knocked me out for half an hour.
I looked at my bloodshot eyes and the blood shot eyes looked back at me. I needed a change.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The reference to the 190 Octane drink and associated health problems
is a clear indication of alcoholism. The choice of the drink may have less to do with the
patients stated need for vitamin C and more to do with the patients self identity. Octane
is the fuel of cars. Cars are a symbol of masculinity in modern industrial society. The
patient gravitates towards such a male sounding drink in order to emphasize his
masculinity and perhaps once again compensate for latent homosexuality.

DG: Would you consider yourself an alcoholic?
FS: No. Because when it gets to the point that I am coughing up blood, I stop drinking for a
couple of days.
DG: Dont you think this shows something?
FS: I think this shows I have my drinking under control. I was trying to find a stash of dope I
had hidden from myself.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Secret pocket may be a reference to the vagina of his mother. The
Bible may be a symbol of religious mania that allows the patient to deal with his Oedipus
complex. The mother of the patient is obviously a key to the metaschizophrenia of the
patient.

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FS: Zorra had been bugging me to find my stash in the first place. She looked at the Bible and
said, Maybe you hid it in the Biblia because thats the last place you would look. I soon found
out that the inside cover of the Bible had a secret pocket that contained a DVD disk.
When she saw the DVD she asked Who keeps a DVD in a Biblia?
DG: So what happened?
FS: Zorra was wearing bright read stockings with white anklet socks over the stockings and red
high heels and not much else. We had been smoking weed, Zorra didnt drink, but the weed was
gone. She grabbed the stilettos of her heels and pulled them towards her breasts, and at the very
same time, in perfect harmony with the raising of her legs, she smiled. She had very high
cheekbones and her smile made them seem even higher. She then turned over on her stomach
quickly and sprawled on the bed showing her perfect brown behind and grabbed the remote
control for the TV and turned on the TV. The TV was on the sex MTV channel. The TV was
always on the sex MTV channel.
DG: What was the sex MTV channel?
FS: The channel combined the porn genre with the MTV genre. Some of the stuff leaned more to
the porn side and some more to the MTV side but always there was at least an element of the
other genre. Zorra and I agreed this was the best channel around. Zorra got in front of the TV
and started dancing to the music. A very sexy Jennifer Lopez wannabe, minus everything but a
g-string, was singing on the TV. There was some sort of giant robot anime crap in the
background of the wannabe but I dont think this was the attraction of this particular video.
Zorra could watch any performer do any dance and learn the routine instantly. Zorra put on a
red bustier that matched her stockings. Zorra did have small breasts and was a little sensitive
about this, not that I gave a dam. She kept swaying to the music and put her black thong on.
Before I knew it she had put her skirt on, had her purse in hand and said in a soft, precise voice,
You know I think any DVD in a Biblia is probably important. Maybe its a message from Dios
but of course Dios is a woman so I mean the Diosa. Zorra then started laughing as though she
had told herself some very funny joke. Zorra took some pills out of her purse and tossed them to
me. These are super learning pills. I think you can use them. she said.
DG: Super learning pills?
FS: This type of pill was pretty common on my world. The pills caused neural connections to
form more easily. The pills were illegal in the US due to the long-term side effects but easy to
find in Mexico.
DG: What sort of side effects.
FS: One effect of the regular usage of super learning drugs was a permanent increase in
intelligence over time. I would estimate that the overall IQ level of my world was about ten to
twenty points higher than that of this world. That is to say the counterpart of anyone on this
Earth on my Earth would have an IQ about ten to twenty points higher. I didnt have a very high
IQ relative to others on my world but think my IQ would be relatively high on this world.
DG: Sounds like a positive side effect and the government would be for this.
FS: You must be joking. When have the rulers ever wanted the ruled to be smarter?
DG: I suppose so. I think I read about this somewhere. What was on the DVD?
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FS: I was getting thirsty and didnt have anything to drink in my hotel room so I took the DVD to
the Pantera Loca Internet bar.
DG: I dont think strip bars have Internet bars.
FS: They do in my world. The bar was filled with Mexican teenagers playing various Internet
sex games. They were too young to enter the strip joint itself but the sex games were a substitute
of sorts. Besides, the regular club waitresses provided smokes and sodas. Waitresses at the
Pantera Loca wore black bikinis and black high heels and a beret with black cat ears. You could
look but not touch but for teenagers that was plenty. The air was filled with smoke from
cigarettes.
DG: Do you smoke?
FS: Only when I drink.
DG: What was the bar like?
FS: The floor was sticky from spilled cokes. There was a large garish poster of the joker card of
a card deck on the wall of the Internet bar. The poster was a glow in the dark affair and a black
light was just over the poster. The black light and light of the computer screens gave the bar a
ghostly glow. Underneath someone had written, Are you feeling lucky? with a large black
marker.
DG: Do you feel lucky?
FS: Only when I am in strip clubs.
DG: Thats not what I meant.
FS: I know.
DG: So what did you do in the Internet bar?
FS: The guy at the front desk set me up with a computer in booth 22. I went to the bathroom first
and took some of the pills my gal had given me. I could feel the pills working as I walked out of
the bathroom. I sat down at the computer and put the disk in the computer.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Joker is probably an unconscious symbol of self and reflects how the
patient sees himself. A joker has the power to make people laugh but at the same time is
allowed to be apart from the normal rules of society. A joker can to some extent act
crazy but is allowed to do this within the context of social norms. The patient may see
himself as a joker that can be eccentric yet be accepted.

DG: Would it be easier to list what drugs you take or what drugs you dont take?
FS: Probably easier to list drogas I dont take.
DG: What drugs dont you take?
FS: I wont mess with anything that requires needles.
DG: So youve never shot up?
FS: Well never might be an overstatement. You do crazy things if you are high enough.
Generally speaking, no.
DG: So what was on the DVD?
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FS: The first picture on the DVD was a picture of a TV remote control. After staring at the
onscreen remote control for an hour, I suddenly realized that one of the numbers of the remote
control had the same barely visible number underneath, kind of like a subtitle, that had been
somehow been distorted.
DG: What did the subtitle say?
FS: I wasnt sure at first. I went ahead and stared at the images on the DVD disk over a one-
week period.
DG: You dont strike me as a guy with that kind of will power.
FS: You know I think you are right but Zorra would come over during her breaks. She often
brought an herbal tea she said her mother had made. She said the tea would make me smarter.
The tea did calm me down and helped me concentrate. Sometimes she would massage my back.
For a petite gal she had really strong hands and could really squeeze hard. I had told Zorra
how my mom had given me that Bible. She thought there might be a special message from my
mom on the DVD. I became kind of a fixture at the bar. The teenagers would walk buy and call
me the crazy gringo. After days of staring at the computer screen, I saw something incredible.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Perceiving a secret message on a computer or TV screen is a common
symptom of paranoia.

DG: What did you see?
FS: I pointed to the numbers on the remote control and asked Zorra if she saw the same distorted
numbers below. She could not perceive the numbers at all but she told me that maybe the
message was special and just for me. After a while, I realized that I saw color differences in the
picture that Zorra could not. This was the breakthrough.
DG: What did you do with this insight?
FS: As I went about my daily business of partying and watching TV, I started to see these
numbers all over the place. I saw the numbers in advertisements, on the web and most of all a
steady stream of these numbers were flashed on the bottom of the TV screen on all TV stations at
all times.
DG: Did it occur to you that you might be suffering from a delusion?
FS: I thought I might be losing it but Zorra told me that maybe my mama was trying to contact
me from beyond the grave. She gave me a small statuette of the Virgin Mary and told me it
would give me luck.
DG: Besides Zorra, what was the big attraction of the Pantera Loca Club?
FS: I am not sure if it was intentional or accidental but the girls tended to be darker at the
Pantera Loca that I liked.
DG: As the name of the club would suggest. Why do you like darker women?
FS: Too many times blondes in the States had broken my heart and I was in Mexico for coffee,
the darker the better, not milk.
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DG: According to your file, you spend most of your free time at the clinic watching TV. Are
you trying to decipher some secret message on the TV?
FS: As far as I can tell, there arent any secreto messages in TV programs on this Earth but
given some of those so-called reality based shows, you have to wonder. Besides in this body I no
longer have the ability to see secreto messages. Look I need to tell you my story before they
figure out what I am up to.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient by his own admission felt a need to tell me his story before
they came to get him. I decided that going along with the patient would be the best way
to figure out the source of his delusions. The other therapists had tried a more direct
approach and failed.

DG: Who are they?
FS: They can wait until later. The onscreen remote control was the interface for controlling
the rest of the disk. Zorra couldnt see the onscreen remote but suggested it might work like a
regular remote. She was right and there were one hundred channels that in actuality were video
clips that could be accessed via the onscreen remote control. You could vary the speed of the
video clips using the onscreen remote control. I would often freeze-frame a video clip and after
staring for hours, a word or a number would suddenly appear. The first channel taught
numbers.
DG: Numbers? And the other channels?
FS: The second channel seemed to teach basic distorted English and was alphabetical. It was
like someone had gone to a room and videotaped various objects and then added single word
subtitles.
DG: This DVD was some sort of instructional video?
FS: Absolutely. Channel Three seemed to just be a blank screen but actually contained
sequences of words.
DG: So how could you see the numbers?
FS: It was like words in white painted on a white canvas but the words were whiter than the
screen so that you could discern the words clearly with practice. I couldnt figure out Channels
3-10. I could see script but it wasnt English of any sort.
DG: What was it?
FS: I realized that channel 10 was Spanish.
DG: How did you know?
FS: I had learnt a little Spanish on the Canal and figured out that Channel 11 was numbers
again but distorted in a manner that was too difficult for me to figure out. Channel 12 was the
same as channel 2 but again distorted in a manner that I couldnt see except after staring at the
words for hours and hours. Channel 20 was Spanish again distorted in the same manner as
Channels 11 and 12. There were over one hundred channels that seemed to teach written
language. After Channel 100 there were video clips of actors.
DG: I dont think a DVD can hold one hundred video clips of the complexity you are describing.
FS: Technology on my Earth was much more advanced.
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DG: How much more advanced?
FS: I would say about fifty years ahead of technology in this Earth.
DG: So in a way you are from the future.
FS: Not the future, an alternate reality with one giant difference from this reality. The plus 100
channels had faces of persons that didnt seem to be doing anything but stare at the camera that
had filmed them.
DG: Sounds like a film by Andy Warhol.
FS: Andy Warhol had been the mayor of San Francisco on my Earth. Little by little, I realized
that the people were moving individual muscles of their face. The breakthrough came when I
saw a number formed on the cheek of one of the actors. I then noticed that other symbols were
formed on the cheeks of the actors in some sort of order.
DG: Did you tell anyone about your discovery?
FS: I dragged some of the Pantera Loca gals to the computer and pointed out the symbols to
them but they couldnt see anything. They laughed hilariously and told me that I was suffering
from the DTs. Only Zorra had faith in what I was doing.
DG: Did you consider that you might be suffering from the DTs. Given your self-described
drinking habits this seems like sensible possibility, wouldnt you agree?
FS: Sure, I have hallucinated the occasional bug trying to burrow into my skin but, all in all, I
was as sane as anyone or at least that is my opinion.
DG: So you have hallucinated before! How do you know you werent hallucinating this time?
FS: Look, I am an experienced drunk and know when I am hallucinating.
DG: Maybe you were suffering from flashbacks?
FS: Look I am also an experienced acidhead and know when I am suffering from flashbacks.
DG: Having a hallucination of a bug burrowing into your skin seems pretty serious to me. What
do you think?
FS: No sweat, when you hallucinate bugs then the best thing to do is not try to ignore the bugs,
which is impossible, but to imagine that the bugs are crawling away from your body and into a
big fire.
DG: I will try to remember this the next time I am hallucinating bugs all over my body. So what
was the DVD all about?
FS: I wasnt sure at that point but I had a lot of questions. Who had created this disk? Who had
my father been? I had looked up Homo erectus on the web at the local web bar but what I had
printed out didnt make any sense. Homo erectus was a long dead type of monkey man.
DG: Tell me about your father.
FS: I had never met my dad but the few pictures of me that I had showed a handsome man in a
top hat and cape not some sort of monkey man.
DG: What was your father like?
FS: My father had been a magician who specialized in mind reading. All had left me was a
matching pair of rattlesnake boots and belt. The boots had been too big but I still used the belt
after I added a notch to the belt. Had his mind reading ability been more than an act?

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Rattlesnake boots and belt are masculine totems being passed from
the father to the son in order to give the son masculine power or even supernatural powers
such as mind reading. The rattlesnake is a phallic symbol and thus a symbol of male
potency.

DG: What do you think?
FS: I was to learn the truth eventually. After the DVD learning experience, I could read the
secreto message hidden in the headers of the Bible. The headers told the story of some sort of
people that called themselves the people of the Square.
DG: So your Bible was different from normal Bibles?
1.04 Super Color
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is low (1.1) and the meme is slightly infectious (1.3).
Some hosts manifest infection in the form of seeing colors that do not exist.
FS: Ill say, my Bible was the reference section of their story in the headers of the book. You
could read the Bible by itself but the full meaning wouldnt be clear unless you had what I
started calling super color vision i.e. the ability to see and understand messages written in super
color ink. The Bible mentioned that one of the people of the Square had once mated with a
human. The offspring had been Jesus and he had been given incredible powers due to his unique
heritage. Jesus was the second Half Square.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Religious delusions are a common symptom of metaschizophrenia.

DG: Jesus? Are you religious?
FS: I am not religious in the traditional sense. The symbol of a Half Square was a Square in
super color with a black cross in the middle. This symbol was all over Tijuana but nobody
seemed to be able to perceive the super color square encapsulating the cross. Later I would find
out that the Asian Buddhist swastika, a mirror image of the Nazi swastika and having the
opposite meaning, also was often encapsulated in super color order to form a square. Both were
markers for a special population.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient has admitted to alcohol abuse and the use of LSD and this
may be the source of his delusions. Some users under the influence of LSD have purported
to see colors that they have never seen before.

DG: According to you, crosses and swastikas are not what they seem to be?
FS: Nothing was what it seemed to be on my Earth. My mam had called me a Half Square.
What exactly was a Half Square? Who were the people of the Square? Was I truly a Half
Square like Jesus? When I found out that I might be a Half Square then everything made sense.
DG: What was it that made sense?
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FS: My many visits to mental institutions, my inability to form lasting relationships or keep a
job. I realized that I had a heritage that I had to reconcile myself to. I had never known my
father. I had never known that I was part Homo erectus, whatever that really meant. I was
unique and had unique powers. In hindsight, I realized that my strange abilities had earned me
the name Freak Show.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The Half Square persona is a way for the patient to deal with his
Oedipus complex and feelings of alienation towards his father. Exposure to the patient of
the fiction of the Half Square persona may lead to either a breakthrough in therapy or a
total shutdown of the patient due to his inability to cope, which may cause him to enter a
comatose state. The patient was found in a comatose state that was assumed to have been
drug induced but may in fact been due to a prior inability of the patient to deal with his
feelings towards his parents. The patient emerged from his comatose statement after
creating this fiction while comatose as an elaborate defense mechanism.

DG: Been meaning to ask you about the code name you picked for our sessions. Does it have
any special meaning?
FS: As my friends have said, I am a freak and a show. I opened my e-mail account at the local
Internet bar and there was a picture of a pomegranate. I stared at the picture and realized that
there was a very long and intricate message in the picture most of which was too difficult for me
to understand. There seemed to be several super colors.
DG: Can I see these super colors?

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patients story begins in a border town. Patient does come from a
border town in Texas. Information about his parents is sketchy. The patient has been
observed speaking Spanish with other patients despite being from the US. Perhaps the
mother was from Mexico and the father was from the US or vice versa. Half Square may
be some variation of a half-breed complex in that the patient did not feel at home in
Hispanic or Anglo society in a border town and created the more glamorous Half Square
identity to deal with this bicultural internal conflict. This bilingual background would
explain the patients use of Spanish words in his daily speech. Most of the Spanish words
seem to have some sort of military or security function and this may be a verbal
externalization of the patients paranoia.

Dr. John Arrow, the other Assistant Director of the institute, has suggested my therapy
style needs to be more aggressive. Dr. Arrow has suggested that perhaps a combination of
directed electroshock done in conjunction with intravenous injections of megadoses of
traditional antidepressants might be useful in dealing with metaschizophrenia. I find such
advice from a milk toast like him amusing.

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FS: No, and actually no human in this Earth can, including myself. The pomegranate picture
told me that the answers to my questions were in Japan. Suddenly I felt someone squeezing my
shoulder. It was Zorra. She told me that someone had left me a first class ticket to Tokyo at the
bar. Zorra also said that she always had wanted to go to Asia and she would join me but travel
onwards once we go to Tokyo.
DG: So what did you decide to do?
FS: My mission was simple to go to Japan and find out the answers to my questions. I withdrew
enough money to handle my expenses in Japan. The account consisted of money I had borrowed
from the web using a nanopayment virus.
1.05 Nanopayment Virus
Dr. Delta: Virulence is high (3.3). The infection level is low (1.4). Populations with experience
with computers are at greater risk. Virulence is related the hosts prior hacking experience.
DG: What is a nanopayment virus?
FS: As mentioned my Earth was more technologically advanced. The web on my Earth subsisted
on micropayments.
DG: Okay, back up, what is a micropayment?
FS: Every time a user wanted some information the user paid a fraction of a cent to download
the information using a web payment credit card of one sort or another. Who was going to
quibble about paying .01 of cent for a recipe on the web?
DG: Can you make money from .01 percent of a cent?
FS: Yes, the fact was that the micropayments added up and many web sites actually made decent
money with millions of downloads a day. A nanopayment virus would travel around the web and
find micropayment systems that had programming weaknesses hack into the system and then
deposit the money into my bank account. My nanopayment virus usually took .001 percent of the
proceeds for that day before moving on to another site.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Like many thieves, the patient has resorted to the rationalization that
a small robbery is okay as opposed to a large robbery. This rationalization is consistent
with the relativistic morality that characterizes petty thieves. The nanopayment virus is an
externalization of this philosophy that the patient uses to rationalize his petty thievery. The
virus aspect of this externalization suggests that the patient does recognize that petty
thievery is a disease and pathological at some level.

DG: Thats robbery.
FS: Dont sweat it. The sums were so small that most sites never knew they had been robbed in
the first place. I had bought the nanopayment virus over the web a couple of years ago and paid
most of my girly bar bills with the money I made this way.
DG: Our records indicate that you never finished high school. How did you learn all this
computer stuff?
FS: On my Earth technology is so advanced that any idiot can use so-called advanced computer
technology and perhaps this is why my Earth ultimately destroyed itself.
DG: Your Earth has been destroyed?
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FS: Why do you think I am here? Why do you think I am bothering to tell you my story?
DG: Why are you here and why are you telling me your story?
FS: The number one reason is that I am bored and talking entertains me.
DG: Any other reasons?
FS: The number two reason is that I see the this Earth going down the same path as my Earth
but at a much slower rate and perhaps the people on this Earth can learn something from my
story. I have to be careful though.
DG: Okay, well be careful.
FS: Oh, theres an explanation.
DG: Cant wait to hear it.
FS: The flight from Tijuana to Tokyo was horrible.
DG: There is no such flight.
FS: There was on my Earth. I got sick on planes anyway and Mexico to Japan was the ultimate
sardine-can experience.
DG: So what happened on the plane?
FS: There were all sorts of Mexican-Japanese types.
DG: Such as?
FS: There were Japanese guys with Mexican girlfriends. There were Mexican guys with
Japanese girlfriends. There were people that were obviously half-Japanese and half-Mexican.
There were two sisters that were mixed and incredibly beautiful. I was seated next to two sisters.
The older sister had the innocent baby face of a Japanese doll but the full figure of a Mexican
beauty. Her breasts were probably larger than her head. The younger sister had large brown
eyes, high cheekbones and full lips of an Aztec but the delicate body of an anime model. I tried
to decide out which sister was more beautiful. The sisters were delicateness and voluptuousness
mixed in two topsy-turvy manners.
DG: Can you please talk about something besides women?
FS: How about food? On the flight, you had your choice of a Japanese dinner or a Mexican
dinner. The smells of the two types of food mixed in the air creating a third smell that was very
strange and not very pleasant. The menu offered the usual options - there was kosher,
vegetarian, syntarian and virtuarian.
1.06 Syntarian
Dr. Delta: Virulence is low (1.1). The infection level is also low (1.2). Populations with eating
disorders are at special risk of infection.
DG: What is syntarian?
FS: A syntarian only ate synthetic food, therefore avoiding killing any animal and/or plant. You
really couldnt tell the difference between most synthetic foods and their real counterparts except
for the price.
DG: What about the price?
FS: Synthetic food was extremely expensive. I ordered the syntarian option.
DG: Because of religious convictions.
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FS: I ordered the synthetic option not out of any religious conviction but because an attractive
girl sitting next to me had the syntarian option and I hoped to impress her with my dietary
choice.
1.07 Virtuarian
Dr. Delta: The level and pattern of virulence and infection is similar to that of the syntarian
meme.
DG: And virtu whatever?
FS: A virtuarian eats virtual meals. Virtual meals were even more expensive than standard
synthetic meals. Virtual meals were not absorbed by the body and ended up in the toilet. Many
medical problems were created if you ate too many virtual meals. A regular diet of first
generation virtual meals meant you spent a lot more time on the crapper.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Virtuarian meals are transcendent in that you transcend the need to
kill animals or vegetables but in the patients mind there is a price for such transcendence
in that virtuarian meals lead to more excrement. The virtuarian symbol may be a way for
the unconscious to tell the patient that transcendence always comes at a price in the real
world and that ultimately the transcendence of the patient as demonstrated in this delusion
is faulty.

DG: Sounds terrible!
FS: Progress will get people off the crapper. Second generation virtual meals used
nanotechnology to create more empty space between the molecules that was imperceptible to the
human sensory system but meant less substance was in fact digested and therefore less substance
had to be ejected later on.
DG: Not much better.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Need to develop rapport with the patient but not sure how to do this.
I am slightly preoccupied with my own problems but need to focus on the patient.
Thanksgiving dinner with my wife and mother last week was a total fiasco. My mother
gave me a scarf that she had knitted. My wife criticized the quality of the weave of the
scarf, and they had a huge fight.

1.08 Cyberplugs
Dr. Delta: This meme has medium virulence (2.3). The infection level is low (1.2). Populations
with sexual disorders and knowledge of computer hardware are especially at risk.
FS: Third generation virtual meals would probably dispense with the use of organic substance
all together and rely on direct stimulation of the brain via cyberplugs to simulate the eating of a
meal with holographic props.
DG: Cyberplugs?
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FS: A cyberplug was a device surgically inserted at the base of the skull that allowed the brain to
interface with computers directly via an artificial hippocampus. Across the aisle a lady in an
impeccable blue power suit ordered the virtuarian option. The meal was also synthetic but with
a difference that made the meal even less real and more virtual.
DG: How so?
FS: She looked like she was eating a steak and potato meal with a slice of cherry pie a la mode
on the side, but all the food was synthetic and would go in one end and out the other. The lady
was going through the act of eating but was not taking in any calories. The meal did include
vitamins and minerals.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The lady in the impeccable blue power suit is a symbol of female
authority. She derives sustenance from virtual meals suggests that her authority is derived
from higher, transcendental sources.

DG: Could you live on virtual meals?
FS: You couldnt live on virtual meals, but they made dieting a lot easier. You could see the
collarbone of the lady sticking out from her anorexic frame. The lady had obviously had virtual
meals on a regular basis.
DG: You know, I think virtual meals would actually make billions of dolares.
FS: I have no doubt somebody on this Earth will invent virtual meals and make those billions.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Further evidence of the patients trying to deal with the struggle
between transcendence and physicality. All human beings have animal needs such as the
need to eat and sexual needs. The fact that transcendent beauty and voluptuous i.e. more
sexual beauty are mixed up in the two sisters shows that the patient recognizes that
transcendence cannot be achieved except by dealing with lower order needs but is mixed up
about how to deal with this knowledge. Two sisters are symbols of two sides of woman
hood. This fantasy is related to the patients troubled relationship with his mother. The
patient is dealing with the sublimated sexuality that is appropriate relative to his mother
that in turn is in conflict with his incestuous feelings. Female characters dominate the
patients fantasies due to the patients mother fixation.

DG: So what is your own ethnic background?
FS: I am a citizen of two worlds. I tried to limber up and show off a little by doing some Wing-
Jutsu exercises in the aisle of the plane.
DG: What is Wing-Jutsu?
1.09 United Americas
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is unknown. The infection index is slightly high at 4.5.
This meme has already infected large populations in the Americas.
FS: Wing-Jutsu was a very popular hand-to-hand combat system on my Earth and will probably
be invented in this Earth soon. Wing-Jutsu combined the best boxing system with the best
wrestling system. Wing-Jutsu combined Wing Chung and Gracie Jiu Jitsu.
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DG: What is Wing Chung? Isnt there a rock band by that name?
FS: Maybe on this Earth, but not on my Earth. Wing Chung was a Chinese kung fu system that
was excellent for boxing purposes but had no wrestling system. Wing Chung guys just tried to
avoid ending up on the floor and generally succeeded but, hey, stuff happens.
DG: And Gracie whatever?
FS: Gracie Jiu-Jutsu was an excellent wrestling system but was second rate in the boxing area.
Wrestling was great against one opponent but when you are the ground the opponents buddies
may decide this a good time to play football with your head. UA Marines had developed Wing-
Jutsu when they observed that in real life boxing matches became wrestling matches and vice-
versa.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient has gotten out of his chair and is shadow boxing. I assume
this is a demonstration of Wing-Jutsu. Will discuss this with security later.

DG: UA?
FS: United Americas. I was really getting into practicing my moves when the stewardess asked
me to take my seat. She gave me a nasty look for no reason in particular. The sisters played
hard to get and avoided returning my wink. I thought, they had seen my martial arts prowess
and wanted me but didnt want me to know that they wanted me.
DG: There isnt any history of violence in your file. Would you consider yourself a violent
person?
1.10 Head Steward
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is low (1.0). The infection level this meme is also low
(1.2). This meme is not very dangerous.
FS: I am a sex addict not a fighter. Zorra grabbed my pinky and with one quick jerk pulled me
back into my seat. For a little thing she was pretty strong.
DG: Well, what did you expect? Do you consider jumping around the aisle acceptable behavior?
Would you please sit down and stop the shadow boxing?

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient followed directive, and this is a positive sign.

FS: I didnt expect such an extreme reaction. The Head Stewardess told me to behave or worse
would happen.
DG: This sounds like the behavior of a cop not a stewardess.
FS: After our 9/11 the Head Steward position had been created. The Head Stewardess handled
the software of the airline i.e. the people in the plane. Most people are strong in hardware or
software but not both.
DG: There was a 9/11 incident on in your Earth?
FS: Yes, but the people on my Earth were more advanced technologically. They pretty much
wiped out terrorismo (terrorism) in response to 9/11, unlike this Earth.
DG: What did the Head Steward do exactly?
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FS: The Head Steward handled passengers and seguridad (security). What people didnt realize
is that a security position does require high-level people skills.
DG: Why?
FS: A security person has to be able to read people, access the situation and come up with an
appropriate response. The response needs to be just right, not too extreme but not too lax.
Seguridad officers that can talk a suspect down are better for everyone rather than someone who
is trigger-happy.
DG: This actually seems like a good idea.
FS: There is a lot this Earth could learn from my Earth. Besides terrorismo, the Head Steward
also handled drunk and crazy passengers. The Head Steward could rely on the stewardesses for
back up.
DG: Who cares about stewardesses in a security situation?
FS: The stewardesses after appropriate screening and training were armed with a stun baton. If
the stewardess pulled out the stun baton then someone was going down. The policy was stun
first, and ask questions later.
DG: Stun batons dont sound too high tech. I thought your planet was more developed than this
planet.
FS: It was, the stun baton was collapsible but fully extended, resembled a two-foot policia
(police) baton that could deliver an electrical shock that would knock the passenger out. At the
press of a button, the stun element would shoot out of the end of the baton acting like a Taser.
You could press the button a second time and the stun element would reel in for a second shot or
you could use the fully extended stun element as the equivalent of a stun whip.
DG: What would prevent a terrorist from wrestling the stun baton away from the stewardess and
using the weapon against them?
FS: The stun element was only activated if you pressed the button with your thumb and only if
the correct thumb print was used. The stewardesses were taught how to fight with the stun batons
with or without the stun option on. The stun baton had plenty of reach and the stewardess could
take out a guy with a knife before he got too close. Furthermore, the new hires were taught how
to fight as a team in the narrow corridor of a plane. The team tactics were classified but one
group of terrorists had found out the hard way that the team tactics were very effective.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The stewardesses wield stun batons. A stewardess is a symbol of
female servitude in that stewardesses serve passengers. The stun batons are an obvious
phallic symbol and this suggests that the patient is scared that women that seem submissive
in fact wield masculine power. Patient once again shows his obsession with violence and
security issues.

DG: This sounds pretty extreme.
FS: A few more terrorist incidents in this Earth and these actions wont seem extreme. Before
the 9/11 bombing, the capitn was the pilot, handled passenger relations and was the de facto
head of seguridad on the plane.
DG: And after your 9/11?
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FS: On my Earth, after 9/11, the capitn was basically only trained as a pilot and had minimal
training in psychology and/or seguridad. The UA made the capitn a pilot, period. The capitn
(captain) now handled the hardware, only the plane itself.
DG: How was this done?
FS: The capitn was locked behind a cabin door that was bullet proof, bomb proof and every
other proof for the duration of the flight. The capitn was given clear instructions to stay put in
the cabin and bring the plane safely down come hell or high water. The door wasnt even
opened for meals. The capitn had his meals stored in a fridge in the cabin and a little
microwave to heat the meals.
DG: But he had to go to the bathroom.
FS: The capitns bathroom was a glorified jar.
DG: This is a contradiction in your story. If your Earth was so advanced, then why just use a jar
in the cabin?
FS: All that seguridad had led to a need for cost cutting somewhere. The jar had caused more
complaints from the captains than any other aspect of the new policy.
DG: So what was the captain supposed to do if passengers were being killed?
FS: In particular, the capitn was given instructions and training to ignore the killing of
hostages in the passenger area. Terrorists would probably threaten to kill passengers if the
capitn didnt open the door. The capitn was trained to believe that the best way he could save
life was by getting the plane landed safely as soon as possible.
DG: So, the captain was supposed to ignore the killing of passengers? As a psychologist, I can
tell you that this wouldnt be easy.
FS: The capitn did have one emergencia (emergency) option if passengers were being killed.
The cabin was airtight and had its own emergencia air supply. If passengers really were getting
killed then the passenger area could be flooded with knockout gas. The gas used a binary
system. There were two separate gases that had to be mixed for the gas to have a knockout
effect.
DG: Why the binary system?
FS: You used a binary system for better control of a weapons system. There was less chance of
the knockout gas accidentally knocking out all the passengers. Two separate gas systems would
have to break down for this to happen. For the short time after the bombing, UA Marshals were
used.
DG: Marshals do exist at least.
FS: UA Marshals were still used whenever there was a state of emergencia. The stewardesses
were trained to work with the UA Marshals and act as his deputies when needed. The fact that
you really cant fire a gun in a plane means that airplane situations ultimately end up in a hand-
to-hand in which numbers do matter. Pity the poor passenger that brought on the wrath of half a
dozen stewardesses armed with stun batons.
DG: You mentioned the UA again. What is the UA?
FS: The UA includes the US on my Earth, all the Americas, Australia and Great Britain. The
UA is a giant militar alliance.
DG: Militar?
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FS: Military in the English of this Earth. UA English is a little different from US English.
DG: Whatever or maybe you are bilingual and engaging in English/Spanish code switching.
Okay, more about the UA later, what happened after you were stunned?
FS: The plane touched down and I was released. The Head Steward gave me a strict warning.
You really didnt want to mess with Head Stewards. The sisters disappeared in the crowd as
soon as we got to the customs area. I showed my passport, swiped my passport card through the
card reader and typed in my national identity code number.
DG: Passport card?
FS: Its just a matter of time before you have passport cards on this Earth. Anyone can forge
passports. You want to have an ATM system with a card and code and a cross-referenced
biometric system in order to make sure the national really is who he says he is.
DG: Rampant paranoia seems to be a hallmark of your imaginary Earth.
FS: Rampant paranoia is a gift from God. My lack of a return ticket seemed to bother the
customs official slightly. He asked me if I had anything to declare and I smiled and said, My
genius.
DG: I dont know if you are a genius, but you are certainly imaginative.
FS: I am not imaginative. I just have a good memory. Zorra told me that if I behaved then she
would give me a reward for being a good little boy.
DG: What sort of reward?
FS: The Mile High Club.
DG: What nonsense. Its impossible to make love in the small bathrooms of an airplane. The
Mile High Club is pure urban legend.
FS: Things were a little different on my world.
DG: How so?
FS: You could rent a room on the plane.
DG: Huh?
FS: Sure I am amazed this isnt done in your world. This room was a huge moneymaker for the
airlines of my world. The airlines didnt necessarily endorse sexual conduct. You just got a
room with a bed and what you did in that room was your business.
DG: So what was this room like?
FS: Zorra was true to her word and took me to the special room. The room was pretty small and
just consisted of a bed. The bed was nice but that wasnt what you paid for. What you paid for
was the view!
DG: View in a bedroom?
FS: One window was directly above the bed and you could see the sky. I could clearly make out
the stars. I had never seen the stars before since air pollution had long ago obscured them. I
hate to say it but I wasnt too impressed. Just little pin pricks of light. Seven of them seemed to
stand out and make an askew pyramid.
DG: Wouldnt such a window be dangerous?
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FS: We had some pretty strong plastics on my world. Zorra and I did the mandatory ohs and
ahs about the view and then got down to business since the room was rented by the hour and
the Head Steward would ultimately kick you out forcibly. The room was generally booked back
to back, pun intended.
DG: Well its sound like it would beat twisting your back out of whack in the bathroom.
FS: Zorra was dressed in a tight black dress. I went over to kiss her and she pushed me towards
the bed. She told me, Youve been un muchacho muy bueno and deserve a reward. Yeah, I
had been a good little boy, I thought to myself. She was a stripper and had some skill in this
area. She leaned against one of the walls of the room and arched her back. This caused her
very short and tight dress to rise high enough that I could see her red thong. That was kind of
her trademark. If she was wearing red on the outside then she was wearing black on the inside
and vice-versa. Her hips swayed seductively and in such a manner that the skirt rose higher and
higher exposing more and more flesh. In a quick motion she grabbed the sides of her thong and
pulled her thong off. The sides of her thong were held together with Velcro, another Zorra
trademark. She turned around and gave me a broad smile and a quick wink and leaned forward
showing her small but well formed breasts. She never wore a bra and only a bustier so you
could see a lot. The dress was suddenly off. It was like magic. She kept the bustier on. I had
seen her do this before and never figured out how she did this.
DG: Maybe it was magic.
FS: Well I dont know about that but what happened next was magic. I was sitting on the edge of
the bed enjoying the show and she got down on all fours and crawled towards me.
DG: How demeaning.
FS: You know when she crawled she didnt seem to be demeaning herself. She was more like a
Black Panther coming towards her prey for the kill. Still the show was exciting. I tried to kiss
her again.
DG: Was she a good kisser?
FS: You know incredibly despite having done the wild thing many times I never got to kiss her.
She was funny about that.
DG: Maybe she had a boyfriend that she reserved that intimacy for.
FS: She claimed I was her boyfriend but you might be right and she had someone on the side.
DG: Well I think you did fine even without the kissing.
FS: I think so. She went ahead and pushed me down and straddled me. She still hard her high
heels on and actually generally kept them on. I had asked her about this and she had told me
they gave her more traction and height control. I quickly came. She grabbed me by the color
and pulled my face right next to hers. I thought I was about to get my first kiss but she started
laughing, pushed me down again, and said, The Diosa no want that. Zorra then got up and
got dressed.
DG: Well again, even without the kiss I think you did okay.
FS: I suppose so but I still felt something was missing in our relationship.
DG: Well duh! This may be a giant surprise to you but there is more to a relationship than lust.
FS: I suppose. Still I was feeling good and feel asleep in my seat and had strange dreams during
the flight.
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DG: What sort of dreams.
FS: A soft female voice said my name over and over again. We got to the Tokyo airport and got
to customs. The custom guy questioned my many trips to Colombia.
DG: Well why did you go to Colombia?
FS: Herbology
DG: Herbology?
FS: I made a lot of money from my RGC job and the nanopayment virus but I also spent a lot on
booze and broads and always seemed to need more.
DG: Let me guess. You smuggled drugs?
FS: Yes.
DG: By your own definition you have a stripper as a girlfriend and some very new buddies at
the Internet bar. This means you dont have any real friends, much less a gang. You would need
a gang to be a drug smuggler not to mention that your more technologically advanced world
would make smuggling even harder to do. Therefore, there was no drug smuggling. There was
no trip to Colombia. The whole world and all your actions in this world are made up.
FS: Advanced technology cuts both ways. New advances in protein biology had created new
methods of smuggling. I would eat some coke goop in Colombia. The coke goop was some sort
of mixture of cocana (cocaine) and a protein cocktail that rendered the cocana inert. When I
got back to the US, I would literally shit cocana.
DG: You have an answer for everything. Well what did you tell the customs guy?
FS: I told the customs guy that I was a big fan of Colombian Flamenco dancing which he seemed
to accept. I didnt think the customs guy needed to know about my interests in herbology.
DG: We have been talking less than ten minutes, and this is the third time we have discussed
bowel movements.
FS: Yeah, what is that all about? Get your mind out of the gutter. The method of smuggling was
murder on the system and you could die but the money was good and fairly foolproof. Some
users didnt like using shit coke - but when you needed to get high, you needed to get high.
DG: So you were a criminal in your Earth?
FS: I prefer to think of myself as a non-traditional, entrepreneurial capitalist. Zorra and I got off
the plane together. She told me it was time to say good bye. I could feel her bustier push into my
skin as she held me tight. She gave me a long kiss, a long look with her dark brown eyes, and
said. I think you are going to find your destiny in Japan. I tried to talk her into staying with
me in Tokyo and said I am sure you will find interesting female company in Tokyo and I think I
would just be in the way. She then turned away sharply and with surprising quickness was out
of one of the airport exits. She didnt look back. I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of a
tattoo of a stick or maybe a wand on the top on the back of her neck in super color. As I got out
the airport and made my way to the receiving area, a man in a chauffeurs cap held up a sign
with my name on it. He took my luggage and escorted me to a limousine. I entered the
limousine and met the most beautiful woman in the world.
DG: What was the woman like?
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FS: She was Asian but I think that maybe she had a little Western blood somewhere. She had
long black hair. Her black hair had an ever so slight a wave. Her skin was so pale that she
almost seemed translucent. Her face was oval shaped and she had high cheekbones. She moved
in quick, decisive, strong manner. Her expression was serious and she seemed to be
preoccupied. She wore a green dress with a floral pattern. There was something familiar about
her although I was quite sure I had never seen her before. The only jewelry she wore was a
necklace of gold pearls. Something told me the gold pearls were real.
DG: Gold pearls?
FS: Gold pearls were created from bioengineered clams.
DG: Bioengineered clams?
1.11 Erotron
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is high (3.0). The infection level this meme is also high
(3.3). This meme is dangerous.
FS: Sure, the clams had the ability to absorb gold and make it part of the pearl. The genetically
altered clams were incredibly delicate and only one out of ten thousand actually survived long
enough to create a gold pearl. Gold pearls were more expensive ounce for ounce than any other
type of jewelry. Her name was Erotron.
DG: Pretty weird name. Where did she get a name like that?
FS: The name was strange and I asked her about it. She said she had come up with the name on
her own for maximum memetic effectiveness.
DG: Sorry I asked. I notice you come from a blue-collar background. Did you disapprove of her
wealth?
1.12 Squares
Dr. Delta: The meme is slightly virulent (2.1). The infection level is high (4.4). The meme
spreads in a parasitic fashion. Many of the patients memes are parasitic and achieve symbiosis
with the existing memetic structures of the host. In this case this meme achieves symbiosis with
the memetic conspiracy structures of the hosts.
FS: Acquisitions are the things we spend our whole life accumulating so they can be sold for 50
cents at a garage sale when we die. Erotron told me she was a Square.
DG: Square?
FS: The Squares are a group that existed on my Earth and not your Earth and are the main
reason the two Earths evolved so differently.
DG: And Erotron was a Square?
1.13 Money Squares
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infection level is at least as high as the parent Square meme but
perhaps higher.
FS: Yes and Erotron also told she was one of the Money Squares, the leadership caste of the
Squares. She handed me her business card. She was the CEO of a leading company in Japan
but I noticed in super color there was a picture more a logo really of an orbed scepter.
DG: So Erotron was a leader of some sort. What was she like?
FS: I was driven to a five-star hotel. Erotron told me she would give me some time to freshen up
and come by later to drive me to her office.
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DG: And what happened later.
FS: Erotron was in the hotel lobby and dressed in a super short, super tight black leather dress.
Her top was also black and made up a silky material that was semi-transparent. Her lipstick had
been painted on delicately and she had used some sort of super color make up that she used to
highlight her lips and face. You could almost smell her sexuality. I was in love.
DG: How convenient, she just happened to be drop dead gorgeous. Okay, Ill play along. Were
you in love or in lust?
FS: Is there a difference? A beautiful face often hides a beautiful soul.
DG: I think there is a difference. That seems to contradict your earlier observation that beauty
interferes with personal development.
FS: I would say the beautiful are less likely to develop in the long run but getting things with a
smile rather than from sweat can make the beautiful strangely innocent like babies and angels. I
had never been in love. I believed in affairs rather than love and have often quipped that affairs
should be like bank robberies. In an affair, be ready to use muscle and have a getaway car
ready.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is superficial. The patient objectifies women to maintain an
illusion of control and superiority.

DG: But this was different?
FS: Yes.
DG: So this beautiful rich gal had nothing better to do than observe a drunk from Tijuana?
FS: Sure, why dont you believe me?
DG: Because this is an obvious adolescent delusion. Dont you see this?
FS: Not at all.
DG: So why would she be watching you?
FS: She had been monitoring my progress on the DVD. The DVD secretly sent messages via the
Internet connection and these messages had been monitored by the Money Squares in Tokyo.
They were impressed by how much of the Square language I had taught myself.
DG: The DVD taught you something about the Squares?
1.14 Matriarch
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is high (3.1). The infection level this meme is also high
(3.4). This meme is dangerous.
FS: The DVD allowed me to understand the pomegranate picture. The pomegranate was the
traditional symbol used to signify an offer to join a Square tribe. In ancient times and actual
pomegranate was offered from the Matriarch of one tribe to the Matriarch of another tribe. Now
there was only one tribe of Squares and only one Matriarch.
DG: So this so-called Matriarch sent the message?
FS: The Matriarch had sent the message. The Matriarch knew that I would be unable to
understand most of the message immediately but hoped that eventually I would understand the
rest of the message after receiving more training.
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DG: The Matriarch?
FS: The spiritual leader of the Squares. Erotron told me, I am so sorry about the death of your
mother. I hadnt thought about my mam since finding the DVD in the Bible. We walked out
of the lobby to her waiting car. The car was a Rolls Royce with holocar capability.
1.15 Holocar
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is low (1.0). The infection level this meme is also high
(1.3). This meme is not dangerous.
DG: Holocar as in holographic? That has something to do with 3-D images and lasers.
FS: Right, I had read all about holocars in a car magazine. A holocar emits a holographic
image via holo emitters in the body of the car that make it look like another car when the
holographic image is turned on. The Rolls Royce looked like a Toyota on the outside. When
Erotron got in the Rolls, she turned of the holographic image and the real Rolls Royce body
emerged.
DG: Why would you use this technology this way?
1.16 Holoprojector
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme and infectiousness of this meme is similar to that of the
holocar meme.
FS: The holographic technology let you ride an expensive car but hide it from car thieves. There
were of course less expensive holo-cars than a Rolls Royce. Cheaper holo-cars were popular
among crooks since you could rob a bank with one car and turn the car into another one with the
flip of a switch in order to avoid the policia.
DG: Sounds like a terrible technology.
FS: For this reason, holocars were strictly licensed and the license cost a fortune. A Rolls Royce
cost a fortune, a Rolls Royce with holoprojectors cost even more and the license for the
holoprojector cost more still. The car was probably worth more than I would make in five
hundred years. Erotron had gold pearls and a holo Rolls Royce. Erotron must be loaded, I
thought to myself.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient has a 10
th
grade education. He has been in and out of schools
his whole life. I find his fantasies quite incredible. There is a level of technical detail far
beyond that of your typical schizophrenic. No wonder he has infected the other therapists.
Freak Show has created a fantasy with a beautiful woman and the beautiful woman is
driving him around in a Rolls Royce. This is a normal adolescent escapist fantasy that has
been taken to the next level.

DG: So you were taking a ride with the beautiful Erotron in a Rolls Royce.
FS: Yes, while we rode in the car, Erotron asked me what I knew about Homo erectus. I knew
plenty due to my earlier research.
DG: So what had your research delivered?
FS: Homo erectus was a humanlike primate that had died out millions of years ago. Erotron
told me that this wasnt true. She was in fact a female Homo erectus. She was a Square. Homo
erectus called themselves Squares.
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DG: Homo erectus lived on your Earth and called themselves Squares. Why did they call
themselves Squares?
1.17 Sloppy Squares
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme and infectiousness is low except for subpopulations with
low self esteem.
FS: As Erotron said, A member would draw a perfect square, in the air, with their index finger,
before a meeting began as proof of being a Square but this was largely symbolic at close range.
At close range two Squares would know the other was a Square instantly due to their unique
body language.
DG: So why did they draw the perfect square?
FS: The four points of the Square represent the four castes of the Squares. Also, two Squares
seeing each other from a distance might not be sure if the other person was a Square. One
Square would form the Square with his index finger clockwise and the other would respond with
the counter sign that was a square formed with the index finger but in a counterclockwise
fashion. Erotron traced a square on my forehead when she told me this.
DG: Okay, this is a flaw in your story. These guys are supposed to be secret. I think making
squares in the air would draw attention to themselves.
FS: During the signing, the arm was not moved but kept to the side of the body and the square
was formed quickly so that the untrained eye would barely perceive the movement. In some
situations the you are crazy sign was made, a circular turn of the index finger near the side of
the top of the skull and this in fact is the origin of this sign. Because of this, the you are crazy
sign is the only universal body language sign in the world.
DG: We have this sign so does our Earth have Squares?
FS: I dont think so. Maybe you have something like the Squares, but nowhere as organized as
the Squares on my world. Maybe the reason your world is so disorganized is that your
equivalent of the Squares is disorganized. The drive from the hotel to the office took about an
hour. I couldnt take my eyes off Erotron during the drive. I tried to pretend I was looking at the
Japanese scenery. In her office, Erotron had a picture of the Botticelli Venus in her office. I
noticed that Erotron looked like an Asian version of the Venus, but only if the Venus had the
fashion sense of a high-class call girl. She was totally different from me but somehow familiar.
DG: If Erotron is Asian and dressed in a totally different way then she is by definition not like
the Venus Botticelli.
FS: How would Venus dress in our century? The Venus was naked in the painting and perhaps
she would have dressed like Erotron if given a chance. I commented on the excellence of the
copy. Erotron answered, This is the original. The copy is hanging in a museum. There were
several people in her spacious office. I was introduced to an elderly lady who was the Matriarch
that Erotron had alluded to earlier.
DG: What was the Matriarch like?
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FS: I would say she was in her eighties but had a strong handshake and I got the feeling this
wasnt someone you would want to mess with. Her silver gray hair was piled high, almost like a
sculpture. She wore heavy gold jewelry with large gemstones. Her earrings seemed heavy
enough and large enough to threaten the health of her earlobes but somehow she managed to
keep her head erect. The gems in her necklace appeared to be rubies. The gemstones of her
earrings seemed to be green emeralds that matched her green eyes. The cut of both types of
gems matched despite their different color. The style of the gold setting of her earrings and
necklace were also the same. She wore a long flowing velvet dress that was robe like without
being a robe. The outfit was a deep red with a gold embroidered abstract pattern. The
Matriarch also gave me her business card. She was the CEO of yet another giant Japanese
company. One side of the card, in super color, there was a picture of a crown in the shape of a
horned orb. I could have sworn I had seen a very similar crown in my mothers closest, years
ago, when I was looking for some money to borrow. On the other side there was a square with
a coin in the center, also in super color.
DG: So the Matriarch reminded you of your mother?
FS: The Matriarch didnt act, dress, well maybe except for the crown, or look like my mam.
DG: Did the Matriarch inherit her office?
FS: No some Money Square offices were inherited but the Matriarch was elected in a manner
similar to the pope. The Matriarch mentioned that she had become the Matriarch around the
same time my mother had died.
DG: Anyone else at the meeting?
FS: There was a very fit and muscular man with a mustache was simply called Trent. I was told
he was a Knight of the War Squares.
DG: Knight?
FS: The ranks of the Squares had solidified in the Middle Ages. There was the Matriarch at the
top. Each of the four castes had a Queen, several Princesses under the Queens, several
Duchesses under each Princess and many, many Knights.
DG: What about Kings, Princes and Dukes?
FS: No such ranks, the Queen, Princess and Duchess ranks were closed to males.
DG: Well at least the men were the Knights.
FS: The Knights could be female or male but most of the Knights were female. Below the
Knights were the ten guilds and finally the common citizens.
DG: Guilds?
FS: A type of Square schooling. All the castes at all levels studied the guild skills at one time or
another.
DG: Interesting political system. Reminds me of something that I cant quite but my finger on.
Tell me more about this Knight.
FS: Trent had light blue eyes and wore a white suit. He had a military bearing that made the
suit seem like a uniform. Trent was probably in his forties but had a full head of short gray hair
that was perfectly combed. I would say this guy shaved twice a day and he had the faint scent of
cologne. His tiepin was gold and had an engraved square with a sword in the middle. The
engraving was so subtle I doubt anyone without tetrachromatic vision could have seen it.
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DG: Did he remind you of your father?
FS: No, and for that matter no one at the meeting reminded me of anyone in my family, and
anticipating your next question, Erotron didnt remind me of my mam, sister... or even a cousin
although I did once have an interesting evening with one of my female cousins. She
DG: We can deal with your cousin some other time. Was that everyone?
FS: No, there was a tall thin Asian Knight called Cord.
DG: What was Cord like?
FS: Kind of nondescript but he looked at me very carefully, Cord talked in a very slow manner
that distracted me and I had a hard time focusing. He told me that I resembled my papa more
than my mama. I guess he had seen some sort of file about me.
DG: What was the office like?
FS: The office was a regular museum. Erotron told me she regularly employed a real life tomb
raider named Clive Johnson. Erotron showed me a collection of quipas from Peru that he
had acquired for her. Erotron told me that quipas were knotted strings that the Incas used for
communication. Erotron told me that Incan civilization was a good example of a Square form of
society. Everyone had been fed until the Sloppy Square Spaniards had come in and screwed
everything up.
DG: You mention a guy named Cord and now you are bringing up string. Are you into light
bondage?
FS: Well, not on the first date.
DG: So, what did they talk about?
FS: After they introduced themselves to me, I was taken to a waiting room. The Colonel said he
expected big things from me. The Matriarch looked at me suspiciously. Cord just smiled
nervously and said very little. There was an air of conspiracy in the room.
DG: Why did you think this?
FS: Well, as they closed the door I noticed they all the members present made the square sign
with their fingers in unison at chest level except for Erotron. Erotron responded by making a
square in the air over her head.
DG: That would do it. This sounds like the Godfather. Are you sure you didnt get this from the
movie?
FS: Maybe, or the Godmother.
DG: So the Squares were mostly Japanese?
FS: Erotron had told me that the Squares migrated from China to Japan over the last
millennium.
DG: Why the move?
FS: The Sloppy Square population in China had become too large to easily control. Squares had
always been a very small part of the larger Sloppy Square population in China.
FS: Erotron told me that Japan had the largest percentage of Squares of any country in the
world.
DG: So the Japanese are so different because of some sort of conspiracy.
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FS: On my world this was the case. I have no explanation for the Japanese on this world.
Square dominance was reflected in the spatial orderliness that was so characteristic of Japanese
homes. Erotron told me that the Japanese were very neat because of the Squares. Erotron
further explained that the tea ceremony was actually a sacred Square ritual invented by one of
the guilds. This was considered the highest form of art among the Squares and usually Book
Squares studied with this guild but occasionally an artist with aptitude was found in other guilds.
The tea ceremony celebrates spatial constancy in everyday actions.
DG: The tea ceremony is a Square ceremony. Did your Squares have other ceremonies?
FS: The tea ceremony was only one of over a hundred daily actions that had been ritualized by
the Squares but was one of the few such rituals shared with the general Sloppy Square
population.
DG: So the tea ceremony was invented by Squares?
FS: The tea ceremony as shared with the Sloppy Squares was actually a version taught to
children to teach them the basics. This was also the case for most martial arts of Japan that in
fact were childrens versions of the adult version of the War Square martial art. War Squares
also added deliberate mistakes to the martial arts they taught Sloppy Squares.
DG: I find that hard to believe.
FS: I will give you an example. The most incredible disinformation was teaching the Sloppy
Squares to block a front kick with ones arm in Karate. Incredibly over hundreds of years, the
Sloppy Squares never figured out the arm would break rather than the much stronger leg.
Needless to say War Squares invariably used a kick to the groin to ataque the otherwise
formidable Karatekas.
DG: What is a Karateka?
FS: A person who practices Karate. The success of this deception was proof to the Squares that
the Sloppy Squares were a strange combination of genius and idiocy.
DG: You know a lot about martial arts. Why is this? Would you consider yourself a violent
person? Are you scared someone is trying to hurt you?
FS: Martial arts dont kill. People who use martial arts kill.
DG: I suppose. Did the Squares influence Japan in other ways?
FS: The Squares deliberately laid out Japanese cities in a seemingly random manner. Actually,
the city pattern was not a random pattern. Instead, the city followed a geometric algorithm that
was incredibly complex for Sloppy Squares and could only be discerned by other Squares.
DG: Why would the Squares do this?
FS: Squares would then have a military advantage in getting around such a city. This was why
Sloppy Squares were generally totally lost in Japanese cities. Japanese cities were designed for
another species altogether as many travelers suspected after living in Japan for a while. Japan
was not the only country with such cities but has the most cities like this.
DG: I have visited Japan and this is similar to the layout of Japan in our Earth. There are no
Squares on this Earth. Japan is laid out this way despite the lack of Squares therefore there must
be no Squares.
FS: Kind of makes you wonder.
DG: So how many of your Squares were out there?
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FS: Erotron explained to me over time that in the past Squares had lived in cities but generally
made up less than .001 percent of that city. The Squares were concentrated in the upper strata
of society so those Squares could control the Sloppy Squares. This did tend to give Squares the
illusion that they were more numerous than they actually were.
DG: .001 percent of a population means one out of a thousand. This means you would rarely
meet a Square.
FS: Yes, the Squares on my Earth were fairly invisible, even to someone like myself who knew
what to look for. Regardless, a relatively small Square population compared to Sloppy Squares
has been a hallmark of Square society since the great flood 10,000 years ago.
DG: You mean like the Biblical great flood?
FS: Yes, even the few Squares in a given geographic area generally belonged to the same tribe
and were all related to each other. A Square in a Sloppy Square Chinese city might not meet
another Square that wasnt a tribe member for months.
DG: Your Squares are a very interesting construct. Are the Squares after you?
FS: Maybe something like the Squares on this Earth are after me, but not on my Earth. Erotron
told me that in Japan for the first time, Squares had to live with other Squares that werent from
their tribe on a daily basis. Kyoto was basically the city with a large Square population.
Several other Japanese cities soon joined the ranks of Square cities.
DG: So according to you, Japan was the Grand Central Station of Squares on your constructed
Earth.
FS: Yes, but even in Japanese Square cities, the Squares were only around 1% of the total
population. Still, this was a Square population density that was 100 times greater than that found
in the rest of Asia.
DG: So were your so-called Squares in the West as well?
FS: There were even less Squares in the West than in Asia. The fundamental difference between
the East and the West was a result of the fact that Squares had had a much greater influence on
Eastern civilization than Western civilization due to their greater numbers in Asia.
DG: What was the cause of the difference between Eastern and Western civilization on our
Earth?
1.18 Hyperkinesic Perception
Dr. Delta: Virulence level is high (3.5). The infection level is low (1.2). The host manifests
infection by thinking he or she has HKP.
FS: I am not sure about this Earth. Erotron told me that the concentrations of Squares led to
two major problems. First there was the problem of tribal secretos. Squares had a hard time
keeping secretos from each other due to HKP.
DG: HKP?
FS: Squares had enhanced kinesic perception known as hyperkinesic perception or HKP for
short.
DG: Sounds like ESP.
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FS: HKP may be the correct explanation for most ESP. Squares could read the faces of the
Sloppy Squares with total accuracy. Squares could look at your face and tell what emotion you
were feeling by looking at the movements of your face. It is simply impossible for a Sloppy
Square to successfully lie to a Square.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: A kine is the technical term for a movement of the body. Kinesics is the study of body
language. A microkine is a very small and subtle body movement that is just below the threshold
of conscious perception. The face has forty facial muscles and therefore thousands of
combinations of movements are possible but only movements that communicate meaning are
considered a microkine.
DG: This is no big secret stuff. There is plenty of psychological research and therefore your
Squares wouldnt have any special knowledge in this area. Your Squares arent so special after
all.
FS: Psychologists in your Earth have identified twenty microkines, such as the dilation of your
pupils when you like someone. Squares can discern hundreds of microkines that Sloppy Squares
not even aware of.
DG: And what could they do with this awareness?
FS: Yes, the Squares could basically know what the Sloppy Squares were thinking and not vice
versa, and this gave them a huge survival advantage despite their lack of creativity but this could
lead to some problems.
DG: Problems?
FS: In rural and tribal situations HKP wasnt a problem since every Square in a given
geographical area was, more or less family, albeit part of an extended family, and there was
little shame in sharing secretos between family members. In Japan, Squares had to deal with
other Squares from other tribes, from all over Asia, for extended periods of time and felt shame
at letting them know family secretos.
DG: Do you have any secrets?
FS: Yes, but I am telling you all my secretos right now. All these faces talking all the time led to
an incredible amount of HKP noise. Squares werent used to this HKP noise level and literally
developed ulcers and other stress related diseases.
DG: Have you ever had an ulcer or stress related disease?
FS: Heck no, one cure to the HKP noise problem was to go to the countryside of Japan and live
in isolation until the patient recovered. However, this was a temporary solution and the patient
soon got sick again when returned to the city.
DG: This sounds like the Square equivalent of urban-induced stress.
FS: Except that different things stressed out Squares than Sloppy Squares.
DG: Such as?
FS: Regular noise pollution didnt affect Squares as much. HKP noise was another matter. All
Squares could agree that privacy and HKP noise reduction was important and some sort of
system should be developed for the unique urban conditions of Japan.
DG: So what did the Squares do?
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FS: Squares noticed that Sloppy Square used makeup to accentuate facial features. Sloppy
Square lipstick made lips look bigger. Mascara did the same with Sloppy Square eyes. Erotron
told me that Squares in the past created a type of traditional Japanese makeup system designed
to hide facial expressions rather than enhance features.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: Teeth were blackened so that the mouth would look smaller and would be easier to ignore.
Eyebrows were shaven and painted on a relatively immobile section of the face. Natural
eyebrow twitches were a huge source of uncontrolled HKP noise. A Square could control these
eyebrow twitches but this took a lot of control.
DG: I would think HKP would make this easy.
FS: Controlling eyebrow twitches was kind of like controlling hiccups. Faces were painted
white with a heavy paste to hide the face as much as possible. The out-and-out use of masks was
considered too extreme. The Squares wanted to reduce HKP noise but not be deaf altogether.
DG: Traditional Japanese makeup is a mask to hide HKP? I know for a fact that traditional
Japanese makeup is exactly the way you describe it. What function does makeup serve in our
Earth? If your story is true, then no Squares on our Earth should mean no such traditional
makeup.
FS: Yeah, kind of weird, especially the blackened teeth. On my Earth, general norms were
established in which Square members were taught to keep HKP noise to a minimum. The solemn
inscrutable Japanese face was created.
DG: How so?
FS: Over many generations, HKP yoga took the place of the clumsier makeup techniques. This
was a type of facial yoga that enabled a Square to learn how to control facial movements that
were normally autonomic. Bits of pieces of this facial yoga could be seen in Japanese martial
arts.
DG: What sort of facial yoga?
FS: Advanced students of Kendo, Japanese sword fighting, were taught how to control their
facial expressions during a duel.
DG: I have seen enough Samurai movies to know this goes on in our Earth as well despite no
Squares. How do you explain this?
FS: Pretty weird, Homo sapiens have kinesic perception but just to a lesser degree. I studied
Wing-Jutsu and we learned to fight with our fists not our faces and I think this is a shortcoming
of the system. If you can stop a fight with a look then that is better than actually having to get
into a fight. Wyatt Earp would stare a man down until he could get close enough to hit him over
the head with his gun butt.
DG: Maybe, Wyatt Earp was a Square?
FS: Maybe or just a more sensitive Sloppy Square.
DG: Are you a big student of martial arts?
FS: Martial arts on my Earth were more advanced and you could actually fight people with guns
with them, making them more useful. My world also had Capo Jutsu. It combines the Brazilian
art of Capoeira with Gracie Jiu Jutsu.
DG: Okay, you told me about Gracie whatever. What is Capoeira?
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FS: Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that focuses on kicking from a handstand position. The
legs are pretty powerful and Capoeira guys use the legs just like a boxer would. Capoeira guys
dont use nice predictable kicks but jab away with their feet.
DG: Who cares?
FS: Hey, its interesting stuff. They can jab from a handstand, except a jab with their legs is
three times more powerful. The biggest advantage of Capo Jutsu is that is that it is hard to shoot
a Capoeira student because the chest and face are not where most shooters are trained to shoot.
I would have studied Capo Jutsu but beer bellies interfere with handstands.
DG: Have you been in a lot of fights?
FS: I hung out at girlie bars in the Rio Grande Channel. What do you think?
DG: Pretty wild?
FS: Even wilder. The ability to control facial movement is very useful in a fight since the face
does give away a lot of information about the emotional state of a fighter that even a Sloppy
Square can read.
DG: So the Squares had a big influence on the social customs of the Sloppy Squares?
FS: Squares have noted that Sloppy Squares tended to imitate their rulers due to a strong sense
of hierarchy. Squares felt that they tended to rely more on empathy than hierarchy to make
decisions due to their HKP abilities. On the other hand, Sloppy Squares blindly followed leaders
due to their lack of HKP. The Squares noted with amusement how the Squares soon adopted the
same HKP reduction techniques in a monkey-see monkey-do fashion. To the Squares this
seemed one more example of how Sloppy Squares imitated behavior without any thought of the
function or cause of the behavior.
DG: You think so?
FS: Yes, I do. In the late twentieth century, Sloppy Square Japanese would be taking classes on
how to smile to make up for the facial muscle conditioning that was functional for Squares but
dysfunctional for Sloppy Squares.
DG: The Japanese in our Earth take the same smiling classes. Why is that?
FS: I can spot a Square a mile off, but I have been stuck in this clinic since I woke up from the
coma. I have met a very limited number of people since I traveled to this Earth. I can tell you
this much, if there are Squares in this Earth then they dont control the television programs to
the same extent they did on my Earth since I watch plenty of TV on this Earth.
DG: What was the agenda of the Squares?
FS: Members of Homo erectus did not hate creative thought but did fear creativity and had
created age old social mechanisms through trial and error in Asia to control creative thought as
much as was possible. They also tried to keep the spatial noise level down to acceptable levels.
Different countries in Asia had larger or smaller populations of Squares and to some extent this
was related to how much conformity won over creativity in that country.
DG: Squares were against creativity?
FS: Squares thought creativity should be tightly controlled.
DG: Why should creativity be controlled at all?
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FS: Squares thought creativity should be tightly controlled and even eliminated if at all possible
due to history. Erotron told me, Look at the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with
atomic weapons during World War II. God only knows were Sloppy Square creativity would
end. Japan was the modern political center of the Squares even then. Many Square properties
were destroyed.
DG: So Squares thought the Sloppy Squares were dangerous?
FS: Yes, the Asian Squares had created an educational system in Asia that favored Squares at
the expense of Sloppy Squares.
DG: How so?
FS: Asian students that were good at rote memory were rewarded and creative expression was
actively discouraged. Western Squares, perhaps due to their relative weakness, take a more
passive approach to the creativity of the Sloppy Squares.
DG: Your comments about Hiroshima are interesting. I suppose creativity is just like any other
form of power and a two-edged sword.
FS: Sure, Squares saw the Homo sapien creativity as a power that had to be offset by an even
greater power.
DG: What is this?
FS: Money! Squares had a thousand ways to make money. The numbers on the bottom of the TV
screen in super color were the stock quotes for the next day, i.e., what the stock prices would be
after Squares manipulated the prices.
DG: So these supposed Squares ran the stock market?
FS: They only manipulated about 1% of the stock prices, in a fairly random manner, with their
control of the computer seguridad systems of the world.
DG: Why didnt they just manipulate all the stocks?
FS: Squares didnt want to overplay their hand by manipulating all stocks all the time. Instead
Squares manipulated some of the stocks some of the time. This level of control was sufficient to
make sure that pretty much all Squares were millionaires.
DG: So the stock market was basically rigged in your Earth.
FS: The fact that Sloppy Squares never figured this out shows how stupid they were. The
Squares were behind the dotcom rise and fall. Squares made a bundle on that one. As a Money
Square, Erotron got a cut from every stock scam. Erotron had come up with the dotcom scam
and this showed unusual creativity for a Square. Even at this early stage in my acquaintance
with other Squares I noticed she was more human than the other Squares. I asked her about
this and she looked at me seriously, and then laughed and told me she took after her father in
this area.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Dr. Arrow has made a lot of money from the stock market lately. He
likes to drive his red Porsche to work and rub his success into everyones face. I think the
Porsche is ostentatious. Dr. Arrow is probably a latent homosexual.

DG: According to you, Squares caused the dotcom rise and fall. The same thing happened on
this Earth that has no Squares. I think this proves there are no Squares on any Earth.
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FS: Maybe, or it proves something else.
DG: Did one species have a bigger brain than the other species?
FS: The brains of Squares were about the same overall size as that of Sloppy Squares but the
relative size of different brain areas was very different.
DG: What brain areas?
FS: The specialized area of the brain responsible for spatial reasoning, the cerebellum, was
relatively larger than that of Sloppy Squares. The cerebellum of Square brains was also more
active than that of Sloppy Squares.
DG: How did the Squares know this?
FS: This conclusion was based on evidence from interspecies CAT-scan research. The
cerebellum was located at the base of the skull of both Squares and the Sloppy Squares. The
cerebellum of Squares showed more hemisphere specialization than that of Sloppy Squares.
DG: This would suggest that the Squares would have better spatial reasoning.
FS: This is precisely the case.
DG: You said the overall size of the brains was the same so what was smaller in the Square
brain?
FS: The frontal lobes of Square brains showed less hemisphere specialization. Squares members
were all ambidextrous. The frontal lobes of Squares were also relatively smaller than that of the
Brain of a Sloppy Square. Frontal lobes facilitate abstract reasoning.
DG: So basically Squares have a bigger cerebellum but smaller frontal lobes.
FS: Yes, the smaller frontal lobes of Squares probably explained their deficiencies in abstract
reasoning.
DG: Did the Squares feel inferior due to their smaller frontal lobes?
FS: On the contrary, the Squares reasoned that since spatial reasoning is more important,
Squares came out ahead, but Sloppy Squares do have abilities that Squares can exploit. Have
you ever heard of mirror neurons?

Dr. Gammas Notes: The cerebellum idea makes sense neurologically. In evolutionary
terms, Squares sacrificed the ability to create and reason abstractly, that seems to be a
function of frontal lobe hemisphere specialization and size, and developed greater spatial
reasoning and specific spatial abilities.

DG: They have something to do with learning.
FS: They are specialized neural networks in the frontal lobes of Sloppy Squares that allow
Sloppy Squares to imitate behavior unconsciously and quickly. Squares have more mirror
neurons in their cerebellum so they can quickly learn spatial tasks via imitation. Sloppy Squares
had relatively more mirror neurons in their frontal lobes.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Mirror neurons are real.

DG: The Homo erectus skulls I have seen in the museum dont look human.
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FS: One should distinguish between ancient Homo erectus, whose skulls are in museums, on this
Earth, and modern Homo erectus of my Earth.
DG: Whats the difference between the two?
FS: Ancient Homo erectus looked very different from Sloppy Squares and had a much smaller
brain. Modern Homo erectus was the product of symbiotic evolution.
DG: What sort of symbiotic evolution?
FS: Modern Homo erectus evolved within the context of communities of Sloppy Squares.
Modern Homo erectus looked like Sloppy Squares, and this change in appearance probably
evolved as a survival mechanism.
DG: This would make sense in that the outward physical appearance of a species can change
relatively quickly from an evolutionary point of view. There is a theory that the difference in
appearance between ethnic groups evolved in a relatively short period due to sexual selection.
FS: Appearance was pretty important. Homo erectus that could blend with Sloppy Squares
survived. Homo erectus that could not blend in with Sloppy Squares did not survive.
DG: Sounds like cuckoo birds. The cuckoo leaves its egg in the nest of another bird species.
The step mom just assumes any egg in the nest must be the same species. Sloppy Squares would
just assume that if it looks human it must be human.
FS: Not exactly correct but you get the idea that one species may fool another species about its
true species identity. Squares theorized that through natural selection, Homo erectus became
more similar in appearance to Homo sapiens over time. Nature affords many examples of a
species that mimics the appearance of another species in order to survive.
DG: Can you give some examples?
FS: For example, many non-poisonous snakes look almost identical to other species that were
poisonous in order to fool predators.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is obsessed with snakes due to their phallic nature and his own
feelings of masculine inadequacy.

DG: Dont other species do similar things?
FS: Yes, the monarch butterfly causes birds nausea when eaten. Another butterfly that is just
fine to eat looks resembles the monarch butterfly in order to fool birds.
DG: How did Squares interact with Homo sapiens?
FS: The specialized abilities of Homo erectus made them valued members of Sloppy Square
tribes. For example, Squares were excellent trackers and could sense the smallest deviation of a
blade of grass in a field with much greater skill than Sloppy Squares.
DG: This would be function of superior spatial reasoning.
FS: Superior spatial reasoning could mean the difference between life and death for a tribe. The
Square tracker could help a Sloppy Square tribe find game in difficult circumstances.
DG: I suppose the Sloppy Square tribe would take good care of this special tracker.
FS: Yes, this was similar to a wolf due to its specialized senses, superior hearing and smell,
being taken care of by humans and becoming the modern-day dog. Except that From a Square
point of view, Homo sapiens were the dogs and they were the humans.
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DG: You are saying that contact with Homo sapiens affected the evolution of Homo erectus.
FS: Modern Homo erectus was a product of symbiotic evolution,
DG: When two species evolve in a mutually beneficial manner.
FS: Right, the specialized spatial abilities of Squares as opposed to general spatial reasoning
may have only been possible, from an evolutionary point of view, within Sloppy Square societies.
DG: How so?
FS: An analogy is helpful. Ancient Homo erectus started out as a wolf in terms of its
relationship with Sloppy Square. A wolf is an animal that does not have a strong symbiotic
relationship with humans. The wolf is a generalist in evolutionary terms.
DG: I would agree with that.
FS: There are dogs that are faster, bigger or have a better sense of smell, but the wolf is pretty
good in all these areas. The wolf evolved into specialized dog breeds due to human contact. In
the same way ancient Homo erectus gradually evolved into a species that had a stronger
symbiotic relationship with Sloppy Square and more specialized abilities.
DG: Did the opposite occur?
FS: I think there is evidence that on my Earth Homo sapiens were more creative than their
counterparts on this Earth.
DG: I suspect this specialization would have a price.
FS: I agree and want to use the dog breed analogy again. Specialized dogs like a greyhound are
faster than a wolf but has sacrificed strength for that speed.
DG: Thats true. A wolf would tear a greyhound apart, if it could catch the greyhound.
FS: Sure and another example is the Saint Bernard that is bigger than a wolf and could tear
apart a wolf in a fight but is too slow to hunt most prey.
DG: And I suppose a bloodhound has a much better sense of smell than a wolf but is not as fast
or as strong as a wolf.
FS: Exactly, a mutt is a generalist like the wolf. A mutt may in fact be a better dog than a pure
breed. Humanoids on my Earth were more like pure breeds.
DG: So this is the mutt Earth?
FS: Yes, but mutts arent all bad. Homo erectus evolved into a species with specialized abilities
like the greyhound, Saint Bernard or a bloodhound. The down side was that modern Homo
erectus was probably even less creative than ancient Homo erectus.
DG: Why?
FS: Creativity didnt give Homo erectus a survival advantage in a Sloppy Square society since a
creative Homo erectus was still far behind in this area compared to a Sloppy Square. On the
other hand, modern Homo erectus had spatial reasoning abilities that would seem like magic to
ancient Homo erectus. Squares that excelled at spatial reasoning could take on specialist roles
in Sloppy Square society and thrive. In hindsight, the two humanoids had evolved into overly
specialized species. This specialization would ultimately destroy my world.
DG: How so?
FS: On my Earth the Squares had been the trackers, the hunters and most of all the warriors.
The Squares were the masters of violencia (violence).
DG: Are you saying that your Earth was more violent than our Earth?
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FS: Not just more violento (violent) but the Square Earth violence had become more
rationalized. A tribe with a Square warrior meant the tribe survived. The tribe also adopted
social habits that were more ruthless.
DG: Why?
FS: Killing Sloppy Squares wasnt murder to a Square. A Sloppy Square wasnt human and you
can only murder humans. This meant that Squares could kill Sloppy Squares more ruthlessly
than most other Sloppy Squares.
DG: Social evolution paralleled biological evolution.
FS: Yes, despite their small numbers Squares occupied a privileged position in the tribe. The
Square warrior got meat when the other members of the tribe didnt. The Square warrior got the
women. The Square warrior wanted the meat but not the women. Square men were generally
monogamous for several reasons.
DG: What were those?
FS: Squares had a lack of interest in Sloppy Square female due to biological reasons. The total
lack of HKP on the part of Sloppy Square females makes them much less attractive to Square
males. A Square male would rather have sex with a chimpanzee than a Sloppy Square female.
DG: Sloppy Square women arent that bad.
FS: HKP is a very important part of the sex of a Square. A survey among Squares asked what
they would prefer, A Square female without breasts or without HKP.
DG: What did they choose?
FS: Over 90% of the Square males said HKP was more important than breasts and Square males
did like breasts a lot.
DG: Must be a Freudian thing.
FS: Besides Sloppy Square often women smelled of rotting blood. Square women do menstruate
but far less often and not as copiously. Sloppy Square women are constantly menstruating and
stink when they do.
DG: I dont smell anything.
FS: Squares could smell things that the Sloppy Squares couldnt. Square men had a much more
sensitive sense of smell than Sloppy Square men and wouldnt have minded a Sloppy Square
female when she wasnt menstruating but you knew she was going to cuddle up 24/7 if you gave
her any attention.
DG: Kind of like dealing with someone with cyclical halitosis, but you couldnt bring up the
topic.
FS: Exactly, better to not mess with Sloppy Square women at all or create tribal rituals that
ostracize Square females when they are menstruating. Square males had tried both approaches
over the centuries.
DG: Were the mating habits of Homo erectus the same as those for Homo sapiens?
FS: There are key differences. Square males had fewer opportunities to meet and mate with
Square women than their Sloppy Square counterparts.
DG: Why?
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FS: This was because, Square women were more willing to engage in risk taking behavior than
Square men and as a result the mortality rate of Square women was higher than that for Square
men. This means that Square males outnumbered Square females.
DG: This is the opposite of men and women on this Earth.
FS: Yes and this was not good if you are a Square male. In addition there were very few Squares
overall and this exacerbated the shortage of Square women. There were so few Square females
that Square males would tend to be very possessive and focus on keeping the Square female mate
they have rather than looking for another one much less wasting energy on a less attractive
Sloppy Square female.
DG: So Square males were monogamous out of necessity rather than choice.
Yes, Square females called the shots. Square women discouraged polygamy. Square females did
occasionally engage in polyandry. Polyandry is when one female mates with several males.
DG: I know what polyandry is. This sounds like the reverse of our patriarchal world.
FS: Absolutely, many Square warriors were chaste. Generally a chaste Square warrior had no
opportunities to mate with a Square female. Such a Square warrior could mate with Sloppy
Square females but this might be an extremely distasteful option for a Square warrior that was
choosy. A Sloppy Square might find this chaste behavior of the part of a Square warrior very
puzzling. In contrast to a Square warrior, a successful Sloppy Square warrior would mate as
often as possible.
DG: I am with the Sloppy Squares on this one.
FS: Me too, the Square warrior came up with a rationalization in order to justify their behavior
to Sloppy Squares. The specious rationalization was that sex interfered with warrior skill
development. The Square warrior was chaste in order to be a better warrior. This was absolute
nonsense. A horny warrior is a dead warrior. A horny warrior is thinking about sex instead of
fighting and gets killed.
DG: Horniness can lead to death?
FS: Of course, to the end, the coaches on my Earth advised, the modern-day equivalent of
warriors, athletes, to abstain from sex based on a rationale that makes sense for Squares but not
Sloppy Squares.
DG: I thought that by not having sex they were supposed to saving their vital fluids, mojo,
orgone or whatever.
FS: Maybe this is correct on this Earth but on my Earth this was total nonsense invented by the
Squares. The warrior behavior of the Squares was copied and rationalized by the Sloppy
Squares. Sloppy Square warriors took on vows of chastity with no understanding whatsoever of
the truth behind this behavior. Ultimately the concept of romantic love in which every man is
assumed to have one woman that is their soul mate was created by the Squares in the Middle
Ages as a rationale for monogamy.
DG: So monogamy was invented by Squares because they couldnt get it up with Sloppy Square
women?
FS: Crude but basically correct.
DG: So why is there the concept of warrior chastity in our Earth?
FS: I am not sure.
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DG: I think the answer is that your explanation is wrong and this once again proves there are no
Squares.
FS: Actually, there is no good explanation for the existence of warrior chastity on this Earth.
DG: And you give a similar explanation for the existence of romantic love?
FS: On my Earth, the Square leadership had taken every chance to defend romantic love because
it provided a convenient mask for their actual monogamous behavior but not because they
actually believed in the concept.
DG: So you dont believe in monogamy?
FS: I used to believe in love, faithfulness and all that crap before I got my heart broken in
Europe but that is another story.
DG: So you think the fact there is no love means relationships are impossible?
FS: No I think relationships based on pragmatism can work. The high divorce rate among
Sloppy Squares on my Earth was probably due to the fact that they are trying to engage in
monogamous behavior that was totally inappropriate for their species rather than having
anything to do with love.
DG: So I take it that you are also not a big fan of marriage?
FS: Marriage is a zero sum game. There is no win/win scenario. There is only a win/lose
option.
DG: Having been a divorce counselor, I would have to agree.

Dr. Gammas Notes: I am MetaFreudian and feel that a system of psychotherapy that
combines the best of Freudian and Jungian analysis is especially useful for treating
metaschizophrenics. One MetaFreudian theory of metaschizophrenia is that the patient
has unresolved sexual conflicts that lend themselves to Freudian analysis but unlike a
typical schizophrenic, the patient has managed to create fantasies that incorporate
universal archetypes more effectively than common delusions and therefore these delusions
are more potent socially. The archetype nature of the metaschizophrenics fantasies mean
that these fantasies can easily become urban mythologies and thus the schizophrenic infects
other members of the social body.
The existence of archetypes cannot be denied but as a MetaFreudian I totally reject that
these archetypes spring from a universal unconscious. Instead MetaFreudians theorize
that the super ego developed a symbolic system of communication to communicate with the
ego and therefore compete successfully with the id. The fact that archetypes deal with
social issues of a tribal society suggests that they are newer than the sexual symbolism of
the id.

This theory of metaschizophrenia is at odds with the memetic theory of Dr. Delta but
metapsychology is still a new field and the definitive theory has not yet been found. There
are even highly speculative, and in my view highly suspect, theological theories of
metapsychology. Dr. Arrow thinks metaschizophrenia should be viewed as a biochemical
disorder and has privately said to fellow colleagues that talk therapy is a form of mutual
masturbation between the patient and therapist.
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Dealing with Dr. Arrow is a zero sum game. Despite the lack of professionalism of Dr.
Arrow, Dr. Delta seems to get along better with Dr. Arrow than myself. History will prove
that my position is correct and that Dr. Arrow is wrong.

FS: For once we agree. The symbiotic evolution of the Squares and Sloppy Squares was a
subject of many debates among Squares. Which species affected which first was difficult to
ascertain.
DG: Yeah, sure, that makes sense. Were there only two hominids on your Earth at this point?
FS: No, there were still some Neanderthals around. Neanderthals competed with Homo sapiens
head on in the areas of creativity and abstract reasoning and failed. Neanderthals did have
some physical advantages over Sloppy Squares. The Squares called Neanderthals Heavy-
Squares.
DG: Why?
FS: Neanderthals had a heavier musculature and heavier bones. In a fistfight with a Sloppy
Square, Neanderthal man would have won.
DG: So why did the Neanderthals lose?
FS: The problem was that even at the tribal level, the fight wasnt between individuals but
between packs of hominids. The hominid pack that figured out small stuff like how to smash
someones head in with a stick and how to make fire won. Neanderthals figured out the stick
stuff but never quite got the fire stuff figured out.
DG: You are saying they were poor at figuring out fire-making methods?
FS: They actually had to have a full time guy keeping the fire alive day in and day out because
they had a hard time starting a fire.
DG: Why did Neanderthals survive in your Earth?
FS: The Squares had secretly helped a few Neanderthal tribes survive.
DG: Why would the Squares do this?
FS: The two types of hominids had always had good relations and were united by a common fear
of Homo sapiens. Every once in awhile a Sloppy Square would see one of the Neanderthals and
flip out. The Neanderthals on my Earth were known as the Yeti in Tibet, Sasquatch in Canada
and Bigfoot in the US. Squares quickly relocated the Neanderthal tribe that was spotted to a
safer place.
DG: So the Neanderthals looked different from Homo sapiens unlike Homo erectus.
FS: Aside from being more muscular, the Neanderthals had hair all over their body like other
apes but body hair can be shaved.
DG: They shaved their body hair but why?
FS: The smaller females were sometimes shaved and used for muscle work by the Squares. The
shaved females actually looked like a very tough and muscular male Sloppy Square.
DG: So, how much muscle are we talking about?
FS: Female Neanderthals were about three times as strong as the same sized Sloppy Square
male. A female Neanderthal could easily lift a small car.
DG: I think I may have met one of these females in a bar.
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FS: Possible, a Neanderthal male could lift a midsize car but couldnt blend in like the female
due to his more apelike features and larger size.
DG: So Neanderthals did try to blend in?
FS: In ancient times Neanderthals would shave all their body hair in order to look more like
Homo sapiens. Squares in particular used shaved male Neanderthals in military situations in
the past and this is how troll like creatures entered into most folk stories and myths on my Earth.
DG: Once again, troll stories exist on this Earth despite the lack of Squares and this proves your
story is a delusion. Was there ever any breeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens?
FS: I think so and I think there is a Neanderthal strain in the Sloppy Square gene pool of both
our Earths.
DG: How can you recognize Sloppy Squares with this strain?
FS: Go to a US football game and study the players on the field.
DG: You may have a point.

Dr. Gammas Notes: There is actually some evidence that Neanderthals were assimilated
by Homo sapiens and the resulting hybridization led to our current superior intelligence.
This is probably where the patient got the Half Square idea.

FS: The Neanderthals were much stronger than Sloppy Squares but the Sloppy Squares were
smarter and this made all the difference.
DG: Why did Homo erectus do better than Neanderthals?
FS: Unlike the Neanderthal, Squares developed entirely different information processing
abilities from the Sloppy Squares.
DG: So Squares arent stronger than Sloppy Squares?
FS: Yes and no, Square males are about as strong as Sloppy Square males that are the same size.
Square females on the other hand generally had much greater upper body strength than a Sloppy
Square female of the same size.
DG: If Squares arent stronger, then why were Squares running the show?
FS: Teamwork.
DG: Not overall superior intelligence?
FS: Not really, Sloppy Squares were smarter in some areas and Squares were smarter in other
areas but the Square type of intelligence led to superior teamwork.
DG: Why?
FS: Squares were better at the whole teamwork thing because of their HKP. One on one, Sloppy
Squares could figure stuff out faster but were a little slow when it came to working as part of a
team. From this small difference, the two hominids evolved in a different manner. Ultimately
Squares taught Sloppy Squares how to really work like a team, or at least that was how the
Squares see the matter. Also, Squares were biologically superior to Sloppy Squares in one key
area.
DG: What was that?
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1.19 Tetrachromatic Vision
Dr. Delta: While this meme bears some relation to the super color meme, this meme is much
more virulent and has a higher infection level as well. Many hosts exposed to this meme begin
to believe they have tetrachromatic vision.
FS: The most important sensory difference between Squares and Sloppy Squares is their superior
vision. Squares had tetrachromatic vision as opposed to trichromatic vision.
DG: Tetra what?
FS: Tetra means four. Tri means three. Chromatic means color related. Sloppy Squares
have three-color cones. Squares had four types of color cones. I wont go into the technical
detail but Squares have better color vision than Sloppy Squares. This is not only true of Squares
but some birds have tetrachromatic vision and see better than humans because of this.
DG: So Squares can see more colors?
FS: In a way, Sloppy Squares had three-color sensors in the cones of their eyes including those
for red, green and blue. A Sloppy Square lacking one of these sensors is color-blind. Squares
had four-color sensors and therefore had superior color vision because of this.
DG: So the extra fourth cone means they had superior vision?
FS: Exactly! Squares were able to discern color in low-light environments, which would seem
black and white to a Sloppy Square, and that has the practical effect of improving overall night
vision.
DG: From an evolutionary point of view, why had Squares evolved this superior vision?
FS: Ancient Squares were nocturnal like most predators. Squares hunted at night.
DG: By implication, Homo sapiens are not predators.
FS: I would say early Homo sapiens were opportunistic predators, but mostly gatherers. While
Squares were opportunistic gatherers but mostly predators. Squares had avoided encounters
with Sloppy Square at first and then slowly merged with Sloppy Square bands.
DG: So there may have been earlier contacts between the two species before they merged.
FS: Yes, Book Squares theorized that the legends of vampires and werewolves had their origins
in ancient Sloppy Square encounters with Squares bands at night. Squares could also go into a
temporary state of torpor, a low level of hibernation, when food was scarce. This probably
accounted for the story of vampires that went into a deep sleep.
DG: Squares were less human-looking back then?
FS: Their canines were larger and they had more body hair.
DG: Did modern Squares have more body hair?
FS: Squares still had a little more body hair than Homo sapiens but the difference between the
two species was minimal. The Squares had unique communication systems.
DG: This sounds like an interesting topic.
FS: Squares were early masters of digital steganography. Steganography means, covered
writing in Greek. Herodotus in the 5
th
century BC described a hostage Greek ruler using a call
to arms tattooed on the scalp of his slave. You take a standard script and distort it using a
geometric algorithm.
DG: Isnt there software that does that nowadays?
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FS: Yes but Squares didnt need software to handle steganography.
DG: What had Squares done with this ability?
FS: Squares had placed thousands of digitized images on the web that had secreto messages that
could only be read by other Squares. Sloppy Squares on this Earth can do the same thing with
off-the-shelf software and unlock the message with a, software based, stegokey. Squares could
naturally create and/or read steganographic digital messages.

Dr. Gammas Notes: More use of technical detail by the patient to add realism to his
delusions.

DG: What purpose did these messages on the web serve?
FS: Mostly Squares used the web messages for covert commercial communication.
DG: So how would you know this was going on?
FS: The main way a Sloppy Square on this Earth could tell that digital steganography was
happening, was to perceive subtle differences in images on the web that seem to serve no
apparent purpose.
DG: Like what?
For example, if there was a snapshot of a car on a web auction site that changed the pixel image
every few days, then this was probably a Sloppy Square communicating to another Sloppy
Squares covertly.
DG: I have heard of this. So why werent the Squares caught?
FS: The Square image changes would be too subtle in terms of color for any Sloppy Square to
notice. Squares generally used banner ads to communicate with each other on the web.
Different banner ads were different Square chat rooms. Actually the fact that Sloppy Squares
never figured out something fishy was going on is pretty incredible since banner ads never made
a dime.
DG: I think you have proved there are no Squares in any Earth, since banner heads exist on this
Earth that is supposed to be Square free.
FS: You have to admit banner ads are a mystery on this Earth since they are a type of
advertising that is totally ignored, and this is contrary to the stated goal of advertising.
DG: You do have a point. Could Squares use this superior vision for other purposes?
1.20 Pentachromatic Vision
Dr. Delta: The infection level of the pentachromatic vision meme is lower than that of the
tetrachromatic vision meme but the virulence is higher. The infected host believes he or she can
see ghosts.
FS: Some Squares had pentachromatic vision and could actually see in the infrared and
ultraviolet spectrum. In some cases pentachromatic vision even allowed one to see spirits and
this was known as ghost vision
DG: Actually, various Asian cultures do make reference to ghost vision.
FS: Pentachromatic vision occasionally showed up in Homo sapiens on my Earth and was
assumed to be a mutation by the Squares.
DG: Is the mutation common?
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FS: The mutation may be common, but Homo sapiens have no psychological support system for
such a person, and seeing ghosts on a regular basis can lead to madness and even suicide.
DG: And Squares?
FS: Squares with ghost vision could communicate with the recently deceased and were valued
and supported by their fellow Squares.
DG: Why would you want to talk to ghosts?
1.21 Z-Rays
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme and infectiousness is low.
FS: In this manner, Squares would use their ancestors to find out what happened after death and
also help guide them based on the experience garnered from other communications.
DG: So you think ghosts exist?
FS: Well thats what the Squares said. In general, the deceased only stayed on this plane for a
brief period, less than a second did, before being absorbed into a white light did. The possessor
of ghost vision could not see into the white light. The Squares hoped that someday there would
be a Square with hexachromatic vision that could see z-rays and even see the past and even the
face of God.
DG: Z-Rays?
FS: Electromagnetic waves that had been theorized to have a smaller wavelength than x-rays and
even Gamma Rays, 10
-13
or smaller in size. The Squares had been told you could see a lot of
what passed for psychic phenomena if you saw z-rays.
DG: Are you talking about something like the akashic record in Asian philosophy that is some
sort of record of everything that has ever happened and can be accessed by some gurus?
FS: In theory extreme psychic events gave off z-rays and there were cosmic structures created by
God of such intense magnitude and high energy that they gave off z-rays. These structures had
been dubbed the face of God. A person who could see z-rays could literally see these incredible
structures by looking at the heavens.
DG: Your so-called Squares had special powers. What else did they do with their special
powers?
FS: Squares dominated the policia, militar and inteligencia (intelligence) community due to their
superior vision.
DG: How so?
FS: For example, microstereoscopic analysis is the use of a magnification system to look at a
picture for intelligence purposes. An analyst looks at pictures taken by satellites and
professional analysts look at a blob and try to figure out if the blob was a missile or a pipe.
Squares excelled at this type of worked.
DG: Who does microstereoscopic analysis?
FS: Intelligence agencias (agencies) do microstereoscopic analysis. Squares in the Bureau of
Intelligence Synthesis took one look at pictures of the Panama trail and knew that the UA had
lost the war in Colombia.
DG: Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis?
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1.22 Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis
Dr. Delta: Virulence level is unknown and the meme may be beneficial. The infection level is
high (3.8). The host manifests infection by either believing something like this meme exists or
expressing support for the creation of an organization like the Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis.
FS: Just as the United States created the United Americas, my Earths US inteligencia
(intelligence) agencias (agencies) created the United Americas super spy agencia known as the
Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis or BIS.
DG: Like the FBI or the CIA?
FS: Neither, once upon a time the different militar services didn't talk to each other, this was
known as interservice rivalry, and long term and short-term solutions were implemented that
have worked to a great extent. The First Gulf War showed this world what happens when your
different services work like one finely tuned machine. My Earth learned this lesson earlier and
to a greater extent.
DG: This is happening in our Earth as well.
FS: Ill believe it when I see it. One short-term solution to the interservice rivalry problem in the
militar of both Earths was the creation of the Green Berets.
DG: You got the best of the best from the different services and created a whole new militar
culture that was synergic rather than incremental. What does this have to do with the BIS?
FS: The UA decided to apply this same concept to their inteligencia community.
DG: A Green Berets of Intelligence so to speak.
FS: Exactly, like the Green Berets the BIS recruited from existing services. In order to join the
Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis, you had to have three years of experience in the CIA or FBI or
NSA.
DG: Why did they have to have this experience?
FS: This meant the agents brought experience and contacts to the new agencia right off the bat
but they had to work together. They resigned their old positions. You can't leave an exit door.
DG: Why not?
FS: The situation in your Earth where the CIA agents are assigned to the FBI and vice versa
wont work. Ultimately, the agents know where their home is at the end of the day and dont
have an interest in cooperating beyond a certain level with the agencia they have been
temporarily assigned to.
DG: So you think a new agency has to be created on this Earth?
FS: Yes, a new agencia, but more than that. It's the elite, so it actually is something that top
guys in their respective agencias want to join. This sends a message that synergy is good in a
very direct manner and integrates this into the professional goal structure of members of the
inteligencia community. This also means that everyone in this new agencia has very different
backgrounds, but you get the best of the best, so they have the ability to learn, adapt and create a
whole new synergic inteligencia culture.
DG: This would be a relatively small agency.
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FS: Sure, you keep the operation lean and mean. The BIS had a lot of discretion and could
access information from other inteligencia agencias in a more expedient manner and really were
hot on the trail of leads rather than passively waiting for the CIA or FBI or NSA to hand them
data. The BIS just showed up at the doorstep of any of these agencias and pursued leads across
the inteligencia community.
DG: What about training?
FS: The BIS kept the Green Beret cross-training concept. The guys in this group were constantly
learning new stuff and moving around and getting a breadth of experience that guys in other
agencias didnt get.
DG: Such as?
FS: They would have an internship with border patrol, a stint at customs, whatever. Even a
week of this kind of experience gave BIS agents a feel for the ground operation that no lecture or
book could give them.
DG: That would also be great fun for the right kind of person and one more incentive to join this
agency.
FS: Sure, if you didnt like learning then you didnt want to join this organization, but if you
liked a wide variety of experience then this was the place to be.
DG: This is the best and the brightest concept.
FS: Yes, but the agencia also focused on being bright in "connect-the-dot" intelligence.
DG: You know our Earth could use an intelligence agency that specialized in synthetic thinking.
The BIS agency could be staffed by guys that scored above a certain minimum on the Miller
Analogies test rather than the IQ test since the Miller's is better at measuring synthetic thinking
that is basically connect-the-dot thinking.
FS: Like I said before, I think a lot of ideas from my Earth can be applied to this Earth. The BIS
kept the trained trainers like the Green Berets.
DG: Whom did they train?
FS: This agencia did have the very specific duty to come up with innovative, synergic ways of
combating terrorismo and disseminating these techniques back to the other inteligencia agencias
as well. The BIS were the kind of guys that did an internship at NASA and then did an internship
at customs and suddenly realized there was some way to use NASA technology at customs.
There was even a science requirement.
DG: This would severely limit the number of candidates you had available.
FS: They didnt have to be rocket scientists but this agencia had a definite tech edge. Since very
few agents had a science background, the BIS agencia suggested very specific educational
remedies to potential applicants and told the applicant to come back after they had pursued
these remedies.
DG: Current agencias rely on technology experts with a science background but I agree that
having agents with their own science background would make this agency even more effective.
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FS: The FBI wanted lawyers and accountants when it started. That's great for old-style crime,
but what about the new style terrorist? You can rob a lot more banks with a computer than a
gun, and therefore you need guys who understand computers. Furthermore, the United
Americas had terrorists killing Americans with jetliners not guns. On this Earth, this tech edge
will only become more important over time.
DG: I agree, the terrorist attacks of the future will probably involve new technologies or old
technologies being used in new ways.
FS: Of course, one of the BIS missions was to come up with ways to better use existing
inteligencia assets across the inteligencia community in a more effective and creative manner.
You need all five fingers to form a fist! This mission kept them in contact with the existing
agencias and made them official cultural change agents.
DG: How would you compare the BIS with intelligence agencies in our Earth?
FS: No comparison, the Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis was the premiere inteligencia agencia
on the planet in the area of intelligence synthesis and pretty much wiped out terrorismo after the
9/11 incident of my Earth. Of course the global political situation was very different on my
Earth and this helped. Our 9/11 occurred about twenty years earlier when our Reagan was
President.

Dr. Gammas Notes: BIS invention is further extension of the patients paranoia.

DG: Why would a 9/11 happen on two such totally different Earths?
FS: Things are a lot more predetermined than most people realize. Intelligence analysis on this
Earth uses deduction and linear methods. The FBI would be a good example of an agencia that
uses this system really well. Intelligence synthesis uses analogical reasoning, non-linear
methods and is ultimately preemptive.
DG: For example?
FS: The CIA would be an example of an agencia that uses a lot more intelligence synthesis than
the FBI but is still not too far from its analysis roots.
DG: Perhaps this is one of the many reasons the two agencies have had a culture clash. The
problem may be more rooted in a fundamental difference in cultures comparable to C.P. Snows
ideas of a clash between humanities and the sciences. What you say does make some sense.
FS: Glad you think so. Intelligence analysis grew out of an industrial society and emphasized
standardization of methodology, the use of rigorous scientific methods in the form of forensic
science and the application of a classical bureaucratic structure to the problem of intelligence.
Modern criminals such as the Mafia adapted industrial methods of organization to the business
of crime and therefore there was certain parallelism between the enforcers and the criminals
that made interactions predictable.
DG: Based on your logic, if an old style inteligencia uses industrial methods, then a new-style
inteligencia agencia would use information age methods.
FS: Right, the new enemy on this Earth has adapted to the information age more quickly than the
inteligencia community. The new enemy uses a web structure of organization.
DG: What do you mean web structure?
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FS: They are small, mobile and do not meet in space but in cyber-space or space in outlaw
countries. Most of all, the new enemy has an intuition of how to combine seemingly unrelated
technologies in brand new ways that are incredibly destructive.
DG: You mean the Internet?
FS: Yes, the new information age requires an organization that has excellent intelligence
analysis but can go beyond this. The information age provides a fast-moving environment where
actors and knowledge bases change exponentially faster than in an industrial age.
DG: So what is the answer?
FS: Adaptability and creativity are no longer luxuries but necessities in such a fast moving
environment. Dangers can arise quickly and agents have to be ahead of the wave not just
playing catch-up.
DG: Intelligence synthesis sounds like a more formal way of thinking about connect-the-dot
reasoning and its application to this fast-moving environment. What specific methods did the
BIS use to accomplish inteligencia goals?
FS: A premium was put on recruiting agents that that have the four inters including
interagency experience, interdisciplinary experience, international experience and interpersonal
skills.
DG: Can you give some examples?
FS: Sure, the CIA agents, on this Earth, currently being assigned to the FBI and vice versa are
examples of agents with interagency experience that would be at a premium. Interdisciplinary
experience would be persons that had formal education in different fields. Corporations have
done this for years.
DG: Really?
FS: For example, Macrohard generally preferred an upper level manager that had formal
education in robotics and business education to a candidate that was only strong in robotics.
MBAs and Law degrees are excellent but these soft disciplines are strengthened when allied
with a hard science background.
DG: Macrohard?
FS: Macrohard was the biggest and most successful corporation on my Earth.
DG: Anything else?
FS: International experience is so obvious, given the increasing globalization of crime and
terrorismo, that the need for this background need not be explored. The need for interpersonal
skills was important for the BIS interagency mission. The three inters were given new breadth
and depth as the career of the agente (agent) continued.
DG: How so?
FS: Advanced degrees were encouraged. A special emphasis was put on degrees in science and
this was the most scientifically literate inteligencia agencia on the planet. International
language and culture classes were taken throughout the career of the agente. Coursework that
developed analogical reasoning in applied settings was created and implemented.
DG: How about any common training?
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FS: Systems science was the core discipline that all agents had to study in a common setting.
The BIS agents used this common familiarity with systems science to communicate with each
other regardless of their particular technical background.
DG: How does systems science allow this?
FS: Problems have analogical similarities across disciplines, and this is one of the keys of
creative genius. And if you cant find the answer in the book, then you write a new book!
DG: Perhaps you are an analogical genius, since the universe you have created seems to be one
giant analogy.
FS: Again, I am creating nothing. I am just remembering. The BIS had particular duties and
responsibilities in the area of intelligence synthesis including developing interagency
cooperation and synergies. The BIS also was in charge of optimizing systems of data sharing
between agencias and creating new methods of intelligence synthesis. Finally the BIS focused
on the more theoretical problem of how to best integrate human intelligence known as HUMIT
and high tech resources in an optimal manner and create totally new technologies and methods
in the area of inteligencia.
DG: How do you know so much about a supposedly secret agency?
FS: The Squares made sure it had key agents in this agencia, and they reported to Erotron.
Erotron had shown me a flat screen monitor behind the Botticelli Venus. The monitor allowed
Erotron to watch the BIS headquarters. Erotron said, Who watches the watchers? She
started laughing and said, I do, of course
DG: What was she was watching?
FS: At that particular moment, she was watching the Director of the BIS and he was in the
Memetic Map room. He was a funny old guy. He had a white beard, wearing a black, double-
breasted, spider silk suit from Suzhou.
DG: Where is Suzhou?
FS: Next door to Shanghai.
DG: Spider silk sounds creepy. Why would anyone want a spider silk suit?
FS: Spider silk suits were snazzy but also bullet proof. Spider silk suits also ran over a grand
each.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The Director of the BIS is yet another father figure. The white beard
suggests a benevolent father figure. The spider silk suit suggests a sinister side. How can I
move forward and create rapport with the patient?

DG: Never heard of spider silk. What is a Memetic Map?
1.23 Memetic Map
Dr. Delta: The virulence level is low (1.2). The meme is has a low infection level (1.3).
FS: No such thing on this Earth yet. The BIS had decided to integrate the data from the National
Security Agency into a global information system so that that words intercepted were now placed
on a global map that showed the movement of words in real time.
DG: How can you track words?
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FS: The map also took all the semantic data from all the other UA inteligencia agencias and
placed it on a map.
DG: What kind of semantic data?
FS: Most of the semantic data was gathered electronically by tapping all e-mail and all
telephone conversations.
DG: Thats not so advanced. The NSA already does that on this Earth.
FS: A lot of the data was gathered by tapping into the video surveillance systems used by both
government and corporations, that had become ubiquitous, and having AI systems read the lips
of the persons talking. The map could literally portray the word on the street. All print data was
also added to the map. The purpose of the map was not to trace a particular phone call but to
get a big picture of the movement of memes from one region to another.
DG: For example?
FS: Any time a new word popped up with increasing frequency, the database would
automatically flag it. Most of the time this was a fad making its global rounds but sometimes a
more significant idea was making the rounds of the planet. A BIS agente could look up a word
and know the frequency that word was said at any point on the planet. The agente typed in the
code war used by terrorists and were this code word had been mentioned was represented
graphically on the map. The agente pressed another button and the map showed the ratio of
electronic vs. printed vs. conversational use of the word with pie charts.
DG: What difference does that make?
FS: If there was very little e-mail about this explosive but lots of conversations then this was
okay. On the other hand, e-mail usually meant something was being planned.
DG: The map was a map of word frequencies?
FS: More than that, the Memetic Map computer system automatically used structural analysis to
figure out if a word was being used in a new way, the structural equivalent of a new word, and if
the word was now being used to refer to a person.
DG: Sounds like some sort of linguistic map.
FS: Similar but the Memetic Map could trace patterns and real time and analyze the structure of
these patterns.
DG: What some sort of structures?
FS: A web pattern of meme dispersion suggested a social hierarchy of some sort would be
involved in this dispersion.
DG: What about something like a fad?
FS: Fad related words generally followed a pattern of dispersal that was more similar to the
way a storm system moved. Fads started in the United Americas and then blew into the AU and
finally settled in the European Union.
DG: How long did this dispersion take?
FS: A new word moving fast might take a week to make its way around the planet. If a word was
globally distributed, but information about this word was difficult to find, then this word was a
code word.
DG: Did the map figure out the code word?
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FS: The map system couldnt tell you what a new code word used by terrorists meant but could
tell you it was a code word in the first place. The Asian Union is short for Asian Union and was
one of the three unions including the UA and EU that dominated my Earth.
DG: Sounds like something the National Security Agency would come up with.
FS: Perhaps but our Memetic Map also correlated body temperature to memetic exposure.
DG: How?
FS: In the UA citizens were expected to take their temperature and send the data using their cell
phone at least once a day. Pandemics plagued my Earth. This daily temperature reading
considered a measure necessary for national security. The problem is you could get someone
else to take your temperature for you in order to fool the government. The AU had larger
problems with pandemics and had hardwired temperature sensors into the fiber optic network of
the AU. Body temperature was correlated to memetic exposure.
DG: What do you find out when you correlate memetic exposure and body temperature?
FS: You find out that certain memes raise body temperature and can be considered hot memes
that literally get people angry and/or excited. A very few memes lower body temperature and
are considered cold memes.
DG: How do you know what a hot meme is or a cold meme?
FS: The identification and classification of both hot memes and especially cold memes was a
major task of the BIS in the UA. The AU had its own similar agency. Over time both the UA and
AU had developed computer based models that could predict how certain hot or cold memes
would affect social, economic and/or political behavior. In general memes had no impact on
body temperature and if a meme did have such an impact then you knew that it was a good idea
to track it more closely.
DG: Body temperature fluctuates all day long.
FS: Yes but the average temperature of a large group of people with similar diet, culture and
lifestyle is remarkably stable. In general a rise in the average body temperature of a group was
not a good thing. Sometimes the BIS alerted the police if there was a temperature spike in a
group that was known for rioting and other anti-social behavior but this was not a clever
solution. The UA and the AU also inserted cold memes into the media to combat hot memes.
DG: I can understand how certain memes incite riots, in fact Blair seems to be in the process of
banning certain types of speech due to the London subway bombings. I suppose radical speech
from mullahs could be considered hot memes but what the heck is a cold meme?
FS: Certain types of music had charms that soothed the savage beast. Every social group had
some version of music that did this function and in general this music was characterized by
certain rhythms and tonalities regardless of the particular culture. Most church/temple type
music had cold memetic properties. Also, most mood music fit into this category and was less
obtrusive than piping religious music. Piping more cold music into the radio covertly was one
way to lower the memetic temperature of a social group.
DG: What if the angry teenagers about to riot werent listening to the radio?
FS: Angry teenagers are always listening to the radio but you could also fight hot memes with
hotter memes. The insertion of more erotic memes into the local media could distract those
teenagers and cause them to think about sex instead of violence.
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DG: Female primates do use sex to calm down angry male primates. Actually more than one
female human has figured out this tactic. I suppose its another version of bread and circuses.
You channel the social anger into another outlet. So why not just pipe erotic memes into the
neighborhood all the time?
FS: If you inserted the erotic memes all the time then habituation occurred and the erotic memes
would no longer work so you wanted to insert more erotic memes in a controlled manner.
DG: So you are using music and sex to seduce social groups instead of your date?
FS: The highest level of political leadership is the seduction of the masses.
DG: Ive heard that line before. The idea of hot versus cold memes is a little like Marshal
McLuhans idea of hot versus cold media and I might buy into the concept. I could see the
Memetic Map as some sort of memetic weather map. The big assumption in your idea is that
body temperature has some relationship to memes. Who knows? If there was such a
relationship then maybe somewhere down the road you could build a model that let you predict
memetic behavior. After all we do predict the weather. Control? No way! No government is
that smart. Enough about the Memetic Map, why did Erotron spy on the BIS?
FS: The Squares in the BIS used their knowledge to protect Squares on both sides of any conflict.
For example, there was a huge exodus of Iraq Squares from Iraq long before Desert Storm.
Erotron knew a lot about the secret history of the formation of the United Americas. I would like
to write about that sometime.
DG: I dont even want to ask about the AU. Squares put biology over nationality?
FS: Totally, as I mentioned Squares and Sloppy Squares also perceived space very differently.
Both Squares and Sloppy Squares had the concept of sloppiness vs. neatness, which was a type of
spatial aesthetic sense.
DG: But Homo sapiens have the concept of neatness.
FS: Both species agreed that objects should be in particular spatial relationships for a certain
amount of time and/or moved in some sort of correct order. The difference is that Squares were
much, much, more sensitive to such spatial relationships.
DG: Squares were neat.
FS: Squares were super neat. A noise analogy is helpful in this case as it was in the HKP case.
Both humans and dogs can hear noise but dogs are sensitive to noises humanoids couldnt even
perceive. The same noisy environment is much more likely to drive a dog crazy than drive a
human crazy. Squares hated the spatial noise that Sloppy Squares generated because they were
so insensitive.
DG: How so?
FS: Sloppy Squares were always moving things around. Sloppy Squares moved furniture,
decorations and even buildings around with no regard for spatial constancy.
DG: Anything else?
FS: Humans move their own bodies in random and spontaneous manners. They do the same task
a thousand different ways.
DG: So, Squares moved around like robots?
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FS: I wouldnt call them robots but they did like to move in a more ordered manner. The
children of Sloppy Squares were especially noisy in the spatial area. They were always jumping
up and down and running around. Square children were much better behaved than Sloppy
Square children were.
DG: Do you have any children?
FS: I had a son a long, long, long time ago, but it is a painful subject that I would rather not go
into right now.
DG: Why not?
FS: I just dont okay. Sloppy Squares also do not seem to derive pleasure from geometric,
ritualized forms to the same extent that Homo erectus members did. As Squares saw the
situation, Squares must try to govern Sloppy Squares, or be driven mad by them or worse be
destroyed by them. The Money Square organization has existed in one form or another since the
dawn of human civilization.
DG: The situation you describe is much worse than any conspiracy nut could ever imagine.
What did the Squares do with their power?
FS: Plenty! For example, great geometric monuments had been built whenever Squares were
dominant. Stonehenge was one of the earliest Square monuments. The Nazca Lines in Peru
were created by the Squares. The Pyramids were also the products of the Squares. Ley lines
connected the Old Square monuments.
DG: Ley lines?
FS: Ley lines are straight lines that connect ancient monuments. The Squares liked straight lines
and used a system of straight roads in straight lines to connect their monuments that acted as
social centers for the Squares. The roads themselves were clearly marked for someone with
tetrachromatic vision.
DG: A lot of people died to make those monuments.
FS: I am talking about the monuments on my Earth. I have no idea why these monuments were
built on this Earth. As far as the Squares were concerned, Sloppy Squares will use any excuse to
kill each other. At least while working on the monuments they werent killing each other.
DG: Tell me more about your father. Did he have HKP?
FS: Mind reading was a big part of my paps magician act. My mam had been his stage
assistant. She always assumed that he had some kind of trick to read minds. I thought at the
time that my pap was actually using his HKP ability in his act. My pap mysteriously
disappeared. At the time I thought that perhaps he had violated the code of hiding his HKP
abilities and paid the ultimate penalty.
DG: Your records indicate you come from a single parent household. There is very little
information about your father.
FS: I dont know who my paps counterpart on this Earth is or what he does or doesnt do.
DG: Why did your father break the rules? Didnt he know he would get killed?
FS: I think my pap was ambitious. I have no proof, but I think he had a dream of a world in
which Squares and Sloppy Squares lived together as equals. Mating between Squares and
Sloppy Squares wasnt common. I think that my pap must have had an ideological reason for
doing what he did.
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Dr. Gammas Notes: What accounts for Dr. Arrows hatred of me? I am more successful
than he is, and jealousy may be his main motivation. Dr. Arrows extreme interest in the
case of FS is also strange. I am the primary therapist in this case, yet whenever I see Dr.
Arrow he asks me many questions about FS.

DG: How do you know this if you never met him?
FS: Just an assumption. Squares could control facial vascularity to a much greater degree than
a Sloppy Square.
DG: Facial vascularity.
FS: Facial vascularity refers to the blood flow to the face. In laymans terms, a Square could
control blushing. Squares could deliver more or less blood to a sector of the face and make a
picture the size of a pinhead.
DG: If the pictures were so small then how could you see them?
FS: You are forgetting about superior Square vision. Early Square facial languages were
pictographic and the Square would form a picture of the object discussed on their cheek.
DG: I am sure so-called Sloppy Squares would notice little pictures on someones cheek.
FS: The picture would not be bright red but very subtle. Even if pointed out, a Sloppy Square
would barely be able to discern the picture on the cheek.
DG: So Squares talked to each other by making little pictures on their cheeks?
FS: Right, but the early picture languages became more abstract over time. The facial
pictographs had become facial ideographs. All square facial languages did share one common
trait. The subject of the sentence was generally formed on the right cheek. The object of the
sentence was generally formed on the left cheek.
DG: So as is the case in Sloppy Square verbal languages, your hyperkinesic languages have
grammatical rules that deal with the object or subject of the sentence. The right-to-left order
probably would in theory have something to do with the hemisphere specialization of their
cerebellum, if I bought into your theories. Did Squares have other parts of speech besides
subjects and objects?
FS: Other microkines such as eyebrow movement, nose twitching, lip movement, ear-twitching
and pupil dilation acted as adverbs and adjectives. Sentences generally followed a subject
adjective/adverb-object order.
DG: How could you have any kind of order with this kind of language?
FS: For example, the subject of the sentence was formed on the right cheek followed by say a
nose twitch, of which there were twenty distinct types, and the object word being formed on the
left cheek.
DG: So what did Squares talk about?
FS: Mostly death. Squares considered their current existence as a form of hell in since they live
in a world filled with Sloppy Squares. Squares believed that when they died then they went to
another world were there were no Sloppy Squares and Squares live alone in harmony with all
the other Squares that have ever lived.
DG: Always, death is in the back of our minds.
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FS: Maybe your mind. Sex is always in the back of my mind. What the Sloppy Squares call
death is considered birth by the Squares.
DG: You say that Squares see the world as hell, but at least they live in a world without lies since
you can tell when someone is lying by looking at his face.
FS: Not so, Squares could lie to each other. Some Squares had more facial language production
ability than other Squares. Some Squares were better liars than other Squares. Squares often
communicated to other Squares on television secretly. Most television newscasters on my Earth
were Squares and communicated secreto messages to other Squares on a daily level.
DG: Why didnt Sloppy Squares have this hyperkinesic ability?
FS: The facial muscle structure of Squares may be inherently different than that of Sloppy
Squares. Sloppy Squares certainly didnt have the ability to control facial vascularity to the
same extent as Squares.
DG: What about facial muscles?
FS: Sloppy Squares may have had the ability to control individual muscles in the face but never
developed this ability, because they had no facial language for which this was needed. Some
apes have fairly complex vocal cord systems but do not use them to their full potential.
DG: Did any Sloppy Squares show some HKP?
FS: Strangely, some schizophrenics could perceive what the Square television newscasters were
doing. One schizophrenic complained of psychic killers on the television after the Square TV
announcer listed who was to be eliminated that week, but of course no one believed her.
DG: The TV delusion you describe is a very common schizophrenic condition on this Earth.
There are no Squares in this Earth, therefore there should not be this condition therefore your
theory is not correct.
FS: Or maybe you should watch TV more carefully. If a Square had been in the room before,
and returned to the room then he would notice any changes in the room. This means it was
impossible for a Sloppy Square to secretly search the room of a Square. The desks of a Square
were super-tidy and they would spend twenty minutes putting the stapler in exactly the correct
place. One quick test to figure out if someone was a Square was to bump into his or her desk,
accidentally, and watch the Square flip out.
DG: Why are there so many more Sloppy Squares than Squares?
FS: Before the Flood, the numbers of Squares and Sloppy Squares were about equal. After the
flood, the Squares were vastly outnumbered and realized they had to join Sloppy Square
communities and learn their ways in order to survive.
DG: Why?
FS: The Square Bible explained how the Flood was a disaster to both species but the creative
powers of the Sloppy Squares enabled them to create new technologies in order to survive.
According to the Squares, Noahs Ark was only one example of a technology that the Sloppy
Squares created in order to survive.
DG: You think there was a Noahs Ark?
FS: Noahs Ark is a symbol of the first ship developed by the Sloppy Squares. Sloppy Squares
also developed fishing technologies and other marine technologies that the Squares could only
copy after they had joined Sloppy Square communities.
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DG: Were the Squares everywhere?
FS: As mentioned, Squares were mostly found in Asia but there were Squares in all countries
and among all groups. Squares could care less about race. Actually, race phenotype was less
stable among Squares than Sloppy Squares.
DG: As I recall genotype is the actual genes, while phenotype is how you look due to the genes.
What do you mean race phenotype was less stable among Squares than Sloppy Squares?
FS: For example, a Square with obviously Caucasian features could in theory have children that
looked fairly Asian or vice versa. This was especially true of mixed race marriages. Erotron
made a point of telling me this. I asked her if she was pure Asian and she refused to answer.
Erotron did tell me that Squares are a minority and reserve their prejudice for the majority of
Sloppy Squares.
DG: According to you, Squares had their own little private facial language but they also had
verbal language. So I guess they were bilingual like most minorities. They could talk the
minority language and the majority language.
FS: Squares werent totally bilingual. In general, they were pretty good at dealing with the form
of language but not the subtle meanings of Sloppy Square verbal languages.
DG: What sort of meanings?
FS: They had a very hard time with allusions, metaphors, symbols and other devices that played
with the meanings of words.
DG: So what language could they handle?
FS: Squares liked regularity in speech. They loved chants. They liked poems that rhyme.
Squares hated poems that didnt rhyme. They hated improvisational jazz.
DG: Certain types of music got Squares angry?
FS: Music hath charms that inflame the savage beast.
DG: Hard rock does that to me.
FS: Me too, Squares didnt really understand someone like Shakespeare with all his symbols and
allusions. Squares tended to be quite literal in their communication. Squares did like to use
forms and form letters. Squares liked jobs where forms were the dominant means of
communication, such as in the militar.
DG: Squares sound like they have autism or schizophrenia.
FS: Schizophrenics may be focusing on the spatial-temporal patterns in language, i.e., form at
the expense of meaning. Doing this in a creative manner gets you into trouble.
DG: That is true, some schizophrenics talk in rhyme and this suggests a preoccupation with the
form of language. Did Squares talk in rhyme?
FS: Speaking in rhyme all the time is totally beyond the ability of any Square because of the
creative ability needed.
DG: You seem to be unusually well informed about schizophrenia.
FS: Thanks, I guess. Many schizophrenics play around with the form of language to the point
that this game interferes with daily functioning. Schizophrenics generally have a high level of
verbal creativity, special perceptions of reality and a lack of social judgment.
DG: If I bought into your ideas then perhaps Squares would be in mental institutions, if they
hadnt created cultural adaptations that allowed them to function in Sloppy Square society.
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FS: I agree, a schizophrenic may be a Sloppy Square version of a Square without the social
support network of the Squares. Ritualism, of course, was a Square trait. An obsessive-
compulsive Sloppy Square had inherited the ritualistic Square trait without the ability to control
the trait.
Dr. Gammas Notes: Rational discussion of schizophrenia is a common symptom of
metaschizophrenia as opposed to normal schizophrenia.

DG: Do Squares learn verbal language differently than Sloppy Squares?
FS: Yes Squares do. There was a huge debate on my world about how you teach language. One
side favored phonics that focused on teaching basic literacy and sight-sound correspondence.
The other side favored whole language and wanted children to focus on the meaning of what
they read and make them lifelong readers.
DG: This is a language and literacy debate. What does this have to do with Squares?
FS: Well on my world the Squares were solidly behind phonics that Square children excel at.
Many whole language professors had been assassinated by the Squares.
DG: You mentioned symbiotic evolution but the two hominids had in fact evolved very
differently.
FS: In the Square Bible there is an explanation of why Squares have HKP but not Sloppy
Squares. According to the Square Bible, Sloppy Squares started to build a tower that would
reach God known as the Tower of Babel.
DG: I take it there is a Square version of the Tower of Babel.
FS: In the Square version, God punished the Sloppy Squares by taking away their universal
language i.e. God took away their HKP abilities. This meant that Sloppy Squares had to rely on
verbal language to communicate unlike Squares.
DG: So your Squares believed in the Tower of Babel.
FS: Erotron later explained to me that most Squares thought the tower of Babel wasnt an actual
tower but was a symbol of how Sloppy Squares create a technology that they then couldnt
control. Squares would have never created an atom bomb, unlike the Sloppy Squares.
DG: Maybe, limited nuclear warfare is the price of progress.
FS: A pretty high price, if you ask me. As far as Erotron was concerned, the Sloppy Squares
were children that liked to play with nuclear matches that needed to be governed for their own
good.
DG: What happened then?
FS: I sneaked back to the office building. I noticed a picture of my father in a golden frame on
her desk. The picture hadnt been there before. I guess she had gotten the picture to understand
me better. I had asked about Erotron about my father again and again.
DG: What did she tell you?
FS: She told me that information about my father was top secret but she could assure me that he
had been very, very special. Once when she was super drunk she told me that my father was one
very clever Hans.
DG: Who is Hans?
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FS: Probably some Square that was very clever. I was told that Erotron wasnt in, but one of her
assistants let me sleep off the jet lag on a sofa in one of the offices. I was awakened several
hours later. I had a dream about two people playing a card game. I tried to look at the cards,
but they were always just past my field of vision.
DG: So who was playing cards?
FS: I tried to see who was playing the card game but they always were just out of the range of
my eyes or in the shadows. There were thirteen cards and they were laid out is an equal armed
cross. I vaguely knew that the two players were very, very powerful and very similar.
DG: How were they different?
FS: One of the beings was older and one of the beings was younger. I have had this dream over
and over again throughout my life. A hand shook me. Ant even, soft voice said, Wake up! It
was Erotron and she was frowning and looking at my face carefully.
DG: Tell me about Erotron. How did she become a Money Square?
1.24 Square Castes
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is equivalent to the Square parent
meme.
FS: Squares were generally born into the War or Book caste and then members of that Caste
were promoted into the Money Square caste with some hereditary exceptions. The Money
Squares were 90% female.
DG: Why?
FS: Homo erectus culture was matriarchal because Homo erectus females were slightly more
creative than Homo erectus males. Homo erectus females also seemed to be a little more
comfortable with spatial noise than Homo erectus males.
DG: Interesting.
FS: Because of these mental qualities, Homo erectus females would generally handle delicate
interspecies assignments, and that was the single most important role of the Money Squares.
DG: Most researchers think women are slightly more creative than men, but I suppose this
wouldnt give you any interspecies advantage here, as it would in your so-called Earth.
1.25 Killer-Apes
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is difficult to measure.
FS: I suppose, Squares had four major interspecies rules known as the Killer-Ape Rules:
DG: What are the Killer-Apes?
FS: The Sloppy Squares were referred to as Killer-Apes in the Square Bible.
DG: Why keep the old term in the Bible?
FS: The old term for Sloppy Squares was kept in new translations in order for young Squares to
realize that these rules kept the Squares from being killed by the Sloppy Squares. Some Book
Squares derided the way current Squares had forgotten the past and underestimated the Sloppy
Squares.
DG: Do you think about killing a lot?
FS: I only kill with love.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Further evidence of the patients obsession with violence.
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DG: Glad to hear that.
FS: The fact is that most modern Squares noticed the sloppiness of Sloppy Squares more than
their homicidal tendencies. Squares long ago had witnessed the near final slaughter of
Neanderthal tribes and recorded this in the Square Bible but that was thousands of years ago.
DG: So Sloppy Squares in your Earth had made the transition from being perceived as psychos
to being disliked for their bad manners?
FS: Pretty much, Squares had ruled so long that Sloppy Squares were no longer seen as a daily
threat to many Squares but more as an abstract threat. Young Squares might kid around and
refer to the Sloppy Squares as Sloppy Killers i.e. not deserving the name of Killer-Apes. Each
rule had a shorthand version.
DG: So what were the rules?
FS: The first rule was Keep the existence of Squares hidden from the Killer-Apes.
The first rule was considered the most important rule and was called the Invisible Square Rule.
DG: What was the purpose of this rule?
FS: Staying hidden had kept the Squares alive for thousands of years. If a Square thought an
action by another Square would lead to the violation of the first rule then he might use HKP to
communicate, Invisible Square. Special Square abilities were kept hidden. Squares were not
to show off their HKP powers.
DG: So your father was killed for breaking the first rule?
FS: I thought so at the time. Alternately, Square weaknesses were to be hidden and materials
would be developed by Square society to fake creativity via alternate means whenever possible.
DG: How do you fake creativity?
FS: The systematic development of the equivalent of crib sheets was one of the main functions of
Book Squares.
DG: Another flaw in your story. How could they use these crib sheets without being spotted?
Did they write all this stuff on their shirtsleeves?
FS: Square crib sheets generally took the form of ties. Every conceivable form of information
was printed on neckties. A Square just picked the right tie for the job and glanced at it in the
mirror when he needed the information for a particular job
DG: Did all ties in your Earth have tetrachromatic stenographic information on them?
FS: Pretty much.
DG: This would explain a lot of ties on this Earth.
FS: No kidding, Rule Two was, Keep the Killer-Apes from killing Squares without violating the
first rule. Rules Two is known as the rule of death.
DG: How did stop Sloppy Squares from killing Squares?
FS: At a practical level this meant that the Squares did not generally start or stop wars. Starting
or stopping a war was too high profile.
DG: So what did they do?
FS: Instead, Squares made sure other Squares werent killed during a war, revolution or other
social upheaval.
DG: How could they do this?
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FS: Since Squares usually were high-level militar leaders on both sides, this was generally easy
to do. A Square wouldnt stop a bombing but would warn Squares in the city that the city was
about to be bombed.
DG: So I suppose they used the Square network to save Square lives.
FS: Yes, but networking requires work and a net. Sloppy Square casualties were totally
irrelevant one way or another to the Squares. Since Squares made up such a small percentage of
the population, migration was the main tool for safeguarding Square life and limb. Squares
were warned of an ataque and the effected Squares moved.
DG: Wouldnt Sloppy Squares notice this migration?
FS: Large migration might have aroused Sloppy Square attention. Since Square numbers were
so small, there was no possibility of large migrations. Sometimes smaller is better.
DG: So Squares were pretty mobile.
FS: Yes, they evaded rather than solved Sloppy Square disasters. On the other hand, Squares
did have tons of money. Moving tons of money could arouse attention. Squares went out of their
way to hide movement of money out of a country that they deemed unsafe.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: Squares favored any technology or policy that allowed for anonymous movement of money
from one country to another. Generally, Squares hated technological innovation but this was
one exception to their general dislike.
DG: So the Squares were the kings of money laundering?
FS: Absolutely, Squares had found that enough money made any country comfortable. The
Squares were not tied to geography but to a larger international Square society. As far as the
Squares were concerned, every country is beautiful in its own way.
DG: Obviously, the Squares have never been to Cleveland.
FS: Thats the exception to the rule. Rule Three was, Govern Killer-Apes with minimal
interference in order to accomplish goals one and two.
DG: So Squares had a hands-off policy.
FS: Yes, Squares did not initiate social and/or political action in Sloppy Square society. Squares
were conservatives in the most basic sense of the word. Squares preferred a Sloppy Square
society that changed as little as possible.
DG: And their own political systems?
FS: Squares had created systems of governance that had survived millennia and brought peace
to their people for centuries at a time.
DG: Squares didnt like changes in government.
FS: Why the Sloppy Square constantly changed their forms of government was totally beyond
Square understanding.
DG: What did the Squares want?
FS: Why couldnt Sloppy Squares pick one form of government and be done with it? Squares
hated -isms and just tried to make sure whatever Sloppy Square side won didnt kill Squares.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is political conservative.

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DG: Change is fun!
FS: Change is not fun but deadly! This brings us to Rule Four that was added after Hiroshima,
which was, Keep the Killer-Apes from destroying the world without violating the first rule.
Rule Four was called the Rule of Total Destruction.
DG: They really thought Homo sapiens would destroy the world?
FS: In the twentieth century, the Killer-Apes had developed technology that was so powerful that
the Killer-Apes could now destroy the world. Squares had been shocked. Sloppy Squares had
invented arrows, then guns and finally the atomic bomb.
DG: Well, even I have to admit the atomic bomb is a bad thing.
FS: Squares were amazed that Sloppy Squares thought creativity was a good thing even after
they invented the atom bomb when it was totally obvious to the stupidest Square that creativity
was a curse that would destroy the world. New is bad. Old is good.
DG: Why would they think this?
FS: The ultimate Sloppy Square menace Einstein wrote, The atomic bomb had changed
everything except how we think. The Squares would have responded loudly in unison, How
about not changing anything you dummy! Squares especially hated the sign THINK! That
was hung in so many corporate offices. Sounded like something Einstein would have come up
with.
DG: So what was their logo?
FS: Squares invariably wrote, DONT THINK directly underneath, with ink that Sloppy
Squares cant see.
DG: Squares have their own invisible ink?
FS: Several, actually. The most popular ink is a vegetable juice similar in appearance to milk
that had been discovered through trial and error about 100 years ago. All the inks had
tetrachromatic properties of course.
DG: Arent the Squares a little closed-minded about the Sloppy Squares?
FS: Squares considered themselves pretty open-minded. The Square inventor of this invisible ink
was considered one of the great Book Squares of all time and this was proof that not all
inventions were considered bad by Squares. In fact the logo of the Squares was a cup in honor
of this inventor.
DG: So who decides what is a good invention or bad invention?
1.26 Dolphins
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is low.
FS: The Squares thought that the Sloppy Squares should have created some sort of permanent
system like the Spanish Inquisition to decide which inventions were good and which were bad
and suppress the bad ones.
DG: So Squares didnt think that inventions are always bad?
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FS: Just 99% of the time. The fact that the Sloppy Squares thought Einstein was a great man
was further evidence of their madness as far as the Squares were concerned. Squares just tried
to make sure that 21
st
century wars didnt escalate into World War III. The Dolphins and the
Squares had watched with alarm at what the Killer-Apes were doing to the environment but
neither species was sure about what to do. Female Squares were the main agents used to
implement the Killer-Ape Rules.
DG: Whats that about the dolphins?
FS: The Squares and the Dolphins had established diplomatic relations thousands of years
earlier. The story of Jonah, in the Bible, was the story of a Square interspecies ambassador.
Jonahs mission was to establish diplomatic relations with the Dolphins long ago.
DG: Did the Squares believe that God had chosen Jonah?
FS: Jonah was picked by the Matriarchy not God. Jonah had been an HKP communication
genius even by Square standards and could figure out dolphin kinesics but he was also a coward.
DG: What was he scared of?
FS: He could drown or be eaten by sharks while looking for the Dolphins. Jonah was even a
little scared of the Dolphins themselves since there had been no prior contact with them.
DG: Did a whale swallow Jonah?
FS: The whale didnt swallow Jonah literally. The Dolphins referred to the Money Squares as
whales as a compliment. Wherever Jonah went, the matriarchy hunted his down and finally
forced him to complete his mission. Jonah was symbolically swallowed by the Matriarchy. In
the end his mission was a total success and relations between Squares and the Dolphins were
excellent. The moral of the story was clear.
DG: And the moral was?
FS: You cant escape the matriarchy!
DG: As opposed to God. So Squares are dolphin lovers?
FS: Totally, Squares have strict laws against killing Dolphins and have secretly tried to protect
them whenever possible.
DG: I suppose Squares were behind the movement to stop using gill nets that killed dolphins as
well as fish.
FS: Absolutely. How did you know?
DG: We have the same Save the Dolphins Movement despite having no Squares.
FS: In exchange the Squares had an agreement to be rescued by Dolphins during a shipwreck.
Sloppy Squares were not included in this agreement but the occasional Sloppy Square witnessed
a rescue of a Square and the legend of Dolphins helping humans emerged.
DG: So the dolphins always saved Squares?
FS: No, the Titanic was an especially great disaster to the Squares since the waters were too
cold for Dolphins to operate in effectively.
DG: How do the dolphins communicate?
FS: Dolphins mostly used sonar with other Dolphins but also used a complex body language that
combined movement of their whole body, their dorsal fins and clicking vocalizations in order to
communicate very complex ideas.
DG: Did all Squares know the language?
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FS: Squares like Jonah could use their superior HKP to learn the dolphin language with ease
but it was tough going for most Squares.
DG: Why dont dolphins appear to have any technology if they are so intelligent?
FS: Long ago the Dolphins had cities like ours that became ruins deep under the oceans.
Atlantean type artifacts were often remains from dolphin cities. The Dolphins evolved spiritually
past our type of materialism and lived in harmony with the environment.
DG: So did the dolphins have their own version of the Killer Ape rules?
FS: No, the Dolphins were strict pacifists and would not kill another intelligent being under any
circumstances, even self-defense, and that included other Dolphins, Sloppy Squares, and Homo
erectus.
DG: But dolphins fight sharks.
FS: The Dolphins would defend themselves from sharks since sharks were not considered a
sentient being.
DG: How do you know so much about the dolphins?
FS: I met the dolphin ambassador to the Squares.
DG: What was that like?
FS: Pretty weird. The Squares had created a tunnel connecting the sea with the Tokyo Square
headquarters. The tunnel in turn ended at a pool in the Tokyo Square headquarters
DG: So you met the dolphin ambassador in the Tokyo Square headquarters?
FS: Yes, the dolphin ambassador wanted to meet the latest Half Square. I hadnt been taught
dolphin HKP so Erotron acted as a translator. The dolphin did a whole series of gyrations and
dorsal movements. Erotron responded gyrated in response. She used her arm to imitate the
dorsal fin movements. Erotrons gyrations were very sexy.
DG: I think you find everything sexy.
FS: Well maybe everything about Erotron.
DG: What were they talking about?
FS: I caught that he was asking some sort of question about the relationship between myself and
Erotron but Erotron told me this was not the case. I could have sworn the dolphin asked Erotron
about our sex life and Erotron laughed and I thought she responded, Not yet.
DG: You think Erotron was going to seduce you?
FS: Maybe but to some extent all female Squares used sex to accomplish objectives.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: Erotron later told me that female Squares could use their HKP abilities to great effect on
Sloppy Square males. A female Square could read whether a Sloppy Square male found a
particular sexual behavior pleasant or unpleasant with total accuracy. This helped Square
females seduce Sloppy Square males.
DG: I thought Sloppy Squares stunk.
FS: Female Sloppy Squares stunk due to menstruation. Male Sloppy Squares smelled just fine.
Still their lack of HKP makes the male Sloppy Squares sexually clumsy and this is why many
female Squares chose to be the dominatrix.
DG: Dominatrix?
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FS: A dominatrix is a woman that is dominant during S&M games. The dominatrix is the
mistress during such games.
DG: I know what a dominatrix is but wonder what this has to do with the topic at hand.
FS: The Squares defined a dominatrix more specifically as a woman who used sexual
gratification to rule powerful Sloppy Square men from behind the scenes in order to implement
the Killer-Ape rules.
DG: How did a dominatrix do this?
FS: Sloppy Square males would do just about anything for the type of sexual gratification a
female with HKP could provide.
DG: So dominatrix Squares had been saving your world for centuries?
FS: Dominatrix Squares were the unsung heroes of my world but the dominatrix Squares didnt
do it alone. The dominatrix Squares enjoyed policia protection from all the Squares in policia
and seguridad departments.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient may have underlying S&M tendencies.

DG: What about the lack of creativity among female Money Squares? Wouldnt that interfere
with their being able to manipulate Homo sapien male leaders?
FS: A dominatrix needed HKP more than creativity and/or abstract reasoning. Powerful Sloppy
Squares seem to actually prefer ritualistic sex, such as S&M, more than less powerful Sloppy
Squares.
DG: Well did the dominatrix like rituals?
FS: Yes, spontaneous sex confused Squares. Squares preferred elaborate mating rituals. Many
Sloppy Square dances on my Earth were copies of particular mating rituals of Squares.
DG: What about the twist?
FS: There is an exception to every rule. Nothing can explain the twist.
DG: So Squares were good dancers?
FS: Yes, Squares could copy dances to perfection due to their spatial senses. A female Square
could instantly copy the dance moves of successful Sloppy Square dancers without any trouble.
Many in the dominatrix sisterhood were exotic dancers and courtesans. The power of Square
courtesans throughout history had been great.
DG: Really?
FS: Yes, for example, Salome, a dominatrix Square, easily convinced King Herod to have John
the Baptist killed after her dance of the seven veils.
DG: Any other famous examples?
FS: Delilah was the most famous Square dominatrix.
DG: Delilah as in the Bible?
FS: Yes, Delilah wrote an extensive essay about male Sloppy Square psychology. Samson of
course was a Sloppy Square of incredible strength that was nevertheless defeated through the
use of psychology by Delilah. The Square story of Delilah was also a cautionary tale.
DG: How so?
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FS: Samson though blinded and chained to the columns of the temple, manages to push the
columns apart and kill Delilah.
DG: I suppose there is the Square moral to this story?
FS: The moral of the Square version of this story was to go ahead and have a Sloppy Square
male killed as soon as they realized you were the enemy.
DG: So most of the Bible in your Earth is really the history of the Squares rather than a record of
Gods will?
FS: Absolutely, I hope this doesnt shatter any of your religious illusions.
DG: Well in theory the Bible in our Earth would have nothing to do with Squares but I am an
atheist anyway.
FS: Why?
DG: Atheism is a religion minus God and less is more.
FS: Maybe something will fill your spiritual void in the future. Female Squares had been the
power behind most male Sloppy Square thrones. Sometimes female Squares went ahead and
grabbed the throne.
DG: For example?
FS: Some famous female Squares that grabbed the throne were Cleopatra and the Dowager
Empress. Erotron was a big admirer of Cleopatra and said that she especially admired how
Cleopatra had dealt with her half brother.
DG: Lovely! As I recall Cleopatra had her half brother murdered. Did the other Squares help the
Square queens?
FS: Yes, the War Squares invariably helped female Squares grab and keep power. Female
squares were very meticulous.
DG: Were they different than other female leaders?
FS: Yes, female Squares loved embroidered fabrics, as did the three female leaders mentioned.
As mentioned, all Squares loved geometric patterns. Female Squares in particular loved to wear
clothes with intricate geometric patterns.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Dominatrix obsession is caused by the patients poor relationship with
his mother.

DG: Didnt the Square males get jealous?
FS: A Square male partner was generally not very jealous of his female Square partner when she
used sex as a tool to control a male Sloppy Square.
DG: Why not?
FS: The male Square saw the male Sloppy Square as less than human and not a threat. Male
Squares are generally only jealous of other male Squares. For Sloppy Square dominatrix types,
unintended pregnancy was a major danger before the advent of birth control. On the other
hand, Sloppy Square males generally could not impregnate female Squares.
DG: This meant that the children of the male Square, the true mate of the Square dominatrix,
would generally get the throne and/or power when he rather than the Sloppy Square impregnated
his female Square partner but wouldnt the Homo sapien male notice the child wasnt his?
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FS: Squares were amazed that throughout human history no one had noticed that almost all
kings and emperors resemble their mam and not their supposed Sloppy Square pap.
DG: Did the Square son know the truth?
FS: The mam could communicate to their Square child prince via HKP and the prince was told
at an early age the truth about his parentage. This was one reason that historically princes often
did not get along with their fathers but did get along with their mothers. I guess there is an
exception to every rule.
DG: How did you like Tokyo?
FS: Tokyo was a tricky city for me. As far as I could tell there were no prostitutes or droga
dealers operating openly and this was a great disappointment to me.
DG: Yeah, I can imagine. So how did you handle this disappointing state of affairs?
FS: I realized I would have to search Tokyo a little more thoroughly than Tijuana in order to
find entertainment. I was talking a walk in central Tokyo when I saw the beast.
DG: Beast?
FS: You know a Chihuahua. I grabbed the Chihuahua from the Japanese lady that was holding
it and clamped my fingers around the throat and began to squeeze.
DG: You were trying to kill the Chihuahua?
FS: For a little dog, it put up a pretty good fight, but in the end I won. I handed the limp body
back to the lady who was obviously in a state of grateful shock at my having done this
extermination service for free.
DG: How did the people around you react?
FS: The people on the bus got pretty rowdy. I dont know Japanese but I assumed the Japanese
were thankful for what I had done. Nevertheless, I felt it was a good time for me to exit.
DG: So you think your public execution of the Chihuahua elicited sympathy from the crowd
watching?
FS: What other emotion could this action elicit?
DG: Disgust, horror!

Dr. Gammas Notes: Delusion indicative of patients problems with his own father.

DG: Or big leaders tend to be mama boys.
FS: No kidding, Erotron told me that the Money Squares were very disturbed by one particular
fact in my personal history. The Money Squares had done a routine check of my policia record.
DG: What sort of record?
FS: The Money Squares noted my various scrapes with the law and said they showed spirit. One
type of criminal violation did puzzle them.
DG: What was that?
FS: I had a long history of assaulting Chihuahuas. I had been followed in Tokyo by the Squares
for my own protection and the Square observers had seen my little incident with the Chihuahua
during my walk around Tokyo. I told Erotron to sit down and let me tell her my story.
DG: I am also pretty curious about this issue. Why do you assault Chihuahuas?
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FS: Oh, dont get me started on Chihuahuas. Chihuahuas are the most senseless member of the,
otherwise sensible, canine family.
DG: So you hate Chihuahuas?
FS: Who doesnt? I propose that genetic testing be done to determine whether or not the
Chihuahua was a dog rather than some sort of mutant rat. Even the most casual observer
cannot help but notice that Chihuahuas as a breed are totally and absolutely insane.
DG: How do you figure that they are insane?
FS: How can you explain a dog that yips and yaps at a German shepherd that could tear it
apart without any effort?
DG: This proves insanity?
FS: No sense of self-preservation is de facto proof of insanity. There were many theories on my
Earth that try to explain the mysterious cause of Chihuahua insanity.
DG: There were theories of Chihuahua insanity in your Earth?
FS: Absolutely, I think the fact that no one has tried to explain Chihuahua insanity in this Earth
is further evidence that my Earth was much more developed than your Earth. The two most
common theories were the Aztec Curse Theory and the Tight Brain Theory.
1.27 Chihuahua Aztec Curse Theory
Dr. Delta: The meme has medium virulence (2.3). Th infection level is low (1.7). Small dog
owners are especially susceptible to infection.
DG: Okay, lets start with the Aztec Curse Theory.
FS: Leading theologians had pointed out that that the Aztecs fed Chihuahuas human flesh as
part of pagan rituals that were better not explored.
DG: As insane as that sounds I think I read about this but what does this have to do with
Chihuahua insanity?
FS: The theologians posited that God had cursed the Chihuahua and all its progeny with
insanity due to this unholy diet.
DG: Wouldnt the Aztec owners of the Chihuahuas be responsible and they would be the one
cursed with insanity?
FS: You may argue that the flesh eating was really the fault of their Aztec owners but
theologians say that if you ate human flesh then you suffer the consequences regardless of
particulars.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Aztec Curse Theory is very similar and probably derived from
theological theories of metapsychology. Some theologians posit that the current
exponential rise in metapsychology disorders is due to some sort of divine punishment for
the genocide that was unique to the 20
th
century. This is of course, ridiculous, since there is
no God.

DG: You know making up theories to justify antisocial behavior is one of the symptoms of
paranoid schizophrenia.
FS: You would have loved my counselor back in junior high.
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1.28 Chihuahua Tight Brain Theory
Dr. Delta: The memes virulence (1.2) and infection (1.4) levels are low. As in the case of the
Aztec Curse Theory, owners of small dogs are more susceptible to infection.
DG: And the Tight Brain Theory?
FS: The Tight Brain Theory is more scientific. The Tight Brain Theory suggested that the brain
of a dog could not easily fit into such a small skull. The result was a brain squeezed too tightly
into the skull and this led to insanity. The eclectic view states the two theories were not mutually
exclusive
DG: The eclectic theory of Chihuahua insanity?
FS: Yes, this may be why Chihuahua insanity was especially hard to treat. Even if you
transplanted the Chihuahua brain to a larger skull then you still had the eternal curse of God to
deal with. Other eclectics thought that the tight skull was a manifestation of the curse of God.
Leading researchers were working on this problem and perhaps someday a solution would be
found. This explains the dog but what about the owners?
DG: Do you ever feel that your own skull is too tight? Are you sure that you are talking about
Chihuahuas?
FS: Sometimes my underwear is too tight, but not my skull. Why do people own the canine
equivalent of a raving lunatic?
DG: What do you think?
FS: The owners of Chihuahuas are insane themselves and choose some warped version of a dog
as a reflection of their own warped nature.
DG: Maybe your Chihuahua stories are a reflection of your own nature?
FS: This isnt a story but the truth. I would suggest that whenever a Chihuahua owner visits you
then you had better lock up all the kitchen knives. A more generous view supposes that
Chihuahuas owners recognize that their pet was totally crazy but desperately hang on to the
hope that a cure will be found.
DG: I think Chihuahuas are cute.
FS: Cuteness does not excuse insanity except in the case of strippers. Perhaps there is a need
for the creation of the Chihuahua owner equivalent of Alanon.
DG: Alanon is the sister group to Alcoholics Anonymous and is a self-help group for people who
had a loved one with an alcohol problem. What would the Chihuahua owner equivalent of
Alanon do?
FS: The Chihuahua owners could get together and deal with the stress of having a troubled
canine in the family and develop coping strategies as a group.
DG: What sort of coping strategies?
FS: A typical meeting would start with a member standing up and stating, I am John and my
dog is totally insane. The other members would respond in unison, Hello John and with this
tentative step the healing could begin.
DG: You must be joking.
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FS: Chihuahuas are nothing to joke about. Family members probably take desperate measures
to get the owner to get rid of the Chihuahua and get a real dog or even a parakeet but the owner,
in stoic denial, still states firmly, Someday Paco will be all right. Deep down in his heart, he
knows this isnt true but he and Paco had gotten this far and there had been some real
breakthroughs in the area of canine psychopathology.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Attempt to debunk self-help groups may have to do with that
patients prior experience with self-help groups.

DG: Have you ever been in any self-help groups?
FS: You would be surprised how often joining a self-help group is a condition of parole. Self-
help groups arent so bad.
DG: Why not?
FS: You meet a lot of girls at self-help groups. They are usually all screwed up but a screwed up
lady is more likely to screw, if you know what I mean.
DG: You know women arent just pieces of meat. Why do you hate Chihuahuas?
FS: When I was born, Paco, my mams albino Chihuahua, had already been her favorite pet for
five years. Paco hated me, and I hated Paco.
DG: Why?
FS: Paco was jealous of me. Friends and relatives had told me that Paco tried to rip my throat
out while I was still in the crib several times. I had vague memories of a blur of fur, teeth and
claws ambushing me on a regular basis.
DG: So you had a terrible childhood?
FS: Yes but as Nietzsche wrote, Suffering that does not kill you, makes you stronger. Paco
made me strong.
DG: Strong or psychotic?
FS: Is there a difference? All major events in history have been the result of actions and plans of
intelligent psychos. The sane react to history but do not make history.
DG: So you and Paco had a bad relationship.
FS: To say the least! I had to fight that rodent every day for the first six years of my life and I
was a better man for the experience.
DG: Where was your mom while all this stuff was going on?
FS: My mama usually took Pacos side in these contests which shows that even then she
preferred other species to her own. The worst was the toy chest.
DG: Is your comment, She preferred other species to her own, a reference to your dad?
FS: Well my dad was Homo erectus and she was Homo sapien.
DG: Maybe Paco was an imaginary friend that you used to deal with your anger over the
abandonment by your father.
FS: Paco wasnt imaginary and I have the scars to prove it, and the fact I have scars shows Paco
was no friend.
DG: Tell me more about your mom.
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FS: My mama had these terrible migraine headaches. If Paco or I were noisy, then my mama
would lock us into a toy chest.
DG: Were you locked in the toy chest often?
FS: You bet. Paco was a pretty noisy dog, even by Chihuahua standards. Often I would end up
in the toy chest and Paco would be thrown in after me so that she could get some rest. I could
still hear my mom yelling, Shut Up, or both of you are going into the box!
DG: And did you behave?
FS: I tried. Paco and I would look at each other, and although we both hated each other, his
beady, pink eyes would silently communicate a truce. Neither Paco nor I wanted to end up in the
toy chest.
DG: So did the truce hold?
FS: When my mom got her migraines, it didnt take much to set her off. Once set off, she would
grab each of us and throw us into the toy chest.
DG: Maybe you have created this imaginary Earth, and Paco, to deal with abuse you suffered as
a child?

Dr. Gammas Notes: I doubt the patient ever had a Chihuahua. Chihuahua is probably a
symbol of the unconscious.

FS: And maybe we are both in somebodys dream and, when the dreamer wakes up, we will both
disappear.
DG: Yeah, yeah, the whole reality is relative thing. So what happened in the toy chest?
FS: The sound of the toy chest being padlocked was like a death knell. Air holes had been
drilled into the chest and you could see a little light stream through the holes. My mam was a
very forgetful person and sometimes we would be there for a whole day. It was almost as though
she led a totally different life. Raising me was an afterthought.
DG: Thats child abuse.
FS: Thats nothing. One time she went to visit her sister for the weekend and forgot all about us.
DG: So how did these events make you feel? How do you feel right now?
FS: I feel fine. Sometimes, we would try to make the best of the situation, and we would each
stay on our own side of the toy chest.
DG: What about food and water?
FS: Forget about food and water, we would usually have to go to the bathroom a few times all
over the stuffed toys and the air got fetid.
DG: Gross!
FS: After a few hours, we would try to kill each other just to break the monotony. The fights
were desperate and mortal. I have scars all over my body and face to this day. I think the scars
give me a rugged manly look. When I was three, I got the upper hand during one of our
struggles in the toy chest. I took a stuffed panda and pressed it against his face with all my
might and smothered him to death.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: As mentioned, the patient does display an unusual number of scars on
his body that may have been self inflicted or inflicted by a parent. Paco is obviously a
fiction.

DG: You killed your pet Chihuahua?
FS: The Chihuahua was my mams pet. For me, Paco was nemesis. When my mam opened
the toy chest and saw the dead body of Paco, she fainted immediately. My mom blamed me for
Pacos death.
DG: Did you get into trouble?
FS: The coroner, our vet, ruled that Pacos death was caused by a heart attack, and I was
exonerated. The funeral was open casket.
DG: Who is going to go to a Chihuahuas funeral?
FS: Over one hundred people attended. I guess I just never realized what a popular Chihuahua
Paco was but I was still secretly pleased at having killed him.
DG: So how did this affect you emotionally?
FS: To this day, I have a fear of enclosed places and an overwhelming homicidal urge to kill
Chihuahuas whenever I see one. This later urge has caused me some trouble in my life but its
nothing I cant handle.
DG: So what was your house like?
FS: It was a small two-bedroom place. The house was in a neighborhood near the LA airport
named Westchester. The neighborhood was working class, mostly folks that worked for the
airport.
DG: Never heard of this place.
FS: Its part of the LA airport runway system in both Earths. My mom was pretty happy. The
airport paid top dlar (dollar) for the property and she got to move to Vegas and pursue her life
long dream to be a professional poker player.
DG: That isnt a regular paying job.
FS: It was for her. My mom had a real knack for poker.
DG: Did you have any brothers or sisters?
FS: Not that I know of. I know my mom had been married before but didnt talk about it at all.
DG: Did she love your father?
FS: I think so. She once told me that she had searched the entire world to find my pap.
DG: The city you grew up in was gone? This must have made you sad.
FS: A little. I did visit the old neighborhood once before they tore all the houses down. The
houses were all abandoned. My old elementary school and middle school were empty. They had
started pulling out the shrubbery and trees so you just got raw empty buildings as scenery.
DG: Sounds like your neighborhood was a ghost town.
FS: I was just a ghost doing the rounds.
DG: So how did you handle the transition to a new place?
FS: Las Vegas was a 24- hour town. I liked the move. Mom was out of the house all night and
not just part of the night, and I could have more fun.
DG: Your lack of roots may explain a lot of your personality. What was your home life like?
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FS: Pretty typical, burnt oatmeal for breakfast. I would have lunch at school. I would make a
TV dinner when I got home.
DG: So your mom wasnt around very much.
FS: My mom was always busy. She was on the computer constantly. I think she was an e-mail
addict. She had friends all over the world that she e-mailed constantly. I was a latch key kid but
that was okay.
DG: Okay? Are you sure that you arent rationalizing?
FS: That meant I could have buddies over and had more freedom. Food was always a problem
but the rental fee I charged my buddies for hanging around my house was to BYOB.
DG: No wonder you are an alcoholic.
FS: I suppose my upbringing has something to do with my little habits.
DG: Lets get back to Erotron. What else did she tell you about the Squares?
FS: Erotron firmly believed in matriarchy. Erotron told me to read the story of Adam and Eve.
According to the Square Bible, God created Adam first. God had never made a human before
and made a lot of mistakes.
DG: What kind of mistakes?
FS: The first human wasnt too smart, clumsy and immature. God looked at Adam bumbling
about in the Garden of Eden and decided a better job needed to be done. God then created Eve.
Eve was given superior intelligence, greater grace and most of all greater emotional maturity.
DG: Well anthropologically it would make sense that a matriarchy would have myths that justify
the matriarchy. This story provides a biblical explanation of female superiority.
FS: Or the story is true.
DG: Any other differences between the Square version of Adam and Eve and the standard
version?
FS: In the Square Bible, God gave Adam and Eve the choice of staying in the Garden of Eden
forever or going forth and populating the world. This message was given to Eve via Gods
messenger in the form of a snake.
DG: So the snake in the Square version is a messenger of God and not the devil. Why would
God pick a nasty creature like a snake to be a messenger?
FS: Squares didnt think of snakes as nasty. The snake has the highest level of HKP of any
animal in the world. Snakes communicate via their bodies. Individual snakes werent
necessarily all that intelligent but many species of snakes formed a group mind at least once a
year.
DG: Group mind?
FS: The snakes of a particular species would congregate at a particular place and unite their
individual intellects into one giant intellect that was far beyond anything humanoids could
comprehend. Squares would watch the dance of the snakes when the group mind was formed in
order to learn their secretos.
DG: What sorts of secrets?
FS: The kinesic language of the snake group mind was particularly complex and subtle. Some
Book Squares devoted a lifetime of study to understand all the nuances of this kinesic language.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: In this fantasy the snakes join and gain HKP. This is a latent
homosexual fantasy on the part of the patient. The snakes represent penises and their
joining is symbolically a homosexual orgy.

DG: Why not just pray?
FS: God was considered beyond form by the Squares but the Squares assumed that God takes on
the form of a snake when on Earth. The snake had Adam and Eve eat the pomegranate.
DG: As opposed to an apple and they knew shame.
FS: No, the pomegranate gave them HKP. After Eve and Adam ate the pomegranate, they could
sense what the other was thinking. At this point they became truly human and had the tools
necessary to go forth and populate the world. Sloppy Squares never understood the true
meaning of the story of Eve and Adam because of their ignorance of the existence of HKP.
DG: So the Squares worshipped snakes.
FS: Not so much worship as revere. Squares would never kill a snake since you could never tell
if that particular snake housed the spirit of God. The snake was revered throughout the world by
Squares before the flood. As mentioned before, the Squares had a global empire before the flood
and this was why ancient megaliths could be found with the symbol of the snake throughout the
world. The symbol of the flood was the encircled serpent.
DG: I have heard of the encircled serpent. Its a snake eating its own tail.
FS: Right, the encircled serpent represented divinity destroying the world. Since God created
the world, in a sense God was destroying itself.
DG: So what did the Squares use this symbol for?
FS: The encircled serpent was used by the Squares to mark sites that were important to the
Squares before the flood destroyed the site.
DG: The encircled serpent is a big symbol in this Earth and there are no Squares. Why is this
so?
FS: Coincidence. The symbol of the matriarchy was two snakes intertwined. The two snakes
represent the union of Eve and Adam under the leadership of Eve.
DG: But this symbol is the symbol of medicine and that has nothing to do with Squares.
FS: Female Squares were generally the healers in Square society and this symbol has migrated
to Sloppy Square society and become their symbol of the barber with a red and white stripe that
did surgery and ultimately the symbol became the Sloppy Square symbol of medicine.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient keeps mentioning snakes. The snake is an obvious phallic
symbol. The snakes are an externalization of latent homosexuality. The latent
homosexuality would partly explain the patients misogynist attitude.

DG: Lets continue discussing Erotron.
FS: Erotron explained that there had only been six recorded Half Squares including myself in
the entire history of the world. All Half Squares had been unable to produce offspring with
either a Homo erectus or a Homo sapien.
DG: I wonder if two hybrids could produce offspring?
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FS: I have no idea. Erotron told me that I probably didnt need to mess with contraception
because I was a Half Square. Now she tells me! All that money wasted on rubbers! Half
Squares had a huge impact on world history.
DG: So there were other Half Squares?
1.29 Cain the Half Square of Death
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is high.
FS: Erotron showed me a cartoon about the history of the Half Squares on a big screen
projection system that came out of the wall with the push of a button. A projectionist came with
the system and she cooed, Oh, youre the famous Half Square everybodys been talking about.
DG: How did Erotron respond?
FS: I could swear Erotron hissed at her but via HKP, a kind of a silent hiss. I have heard of
silent meows but never really seen a silent hiss.
DG: How did Erotrons jealousy make you feel?
FS: It was scary. Erotron told me there were other films that dealt with the more complex
aspects of the Half Squares effects on history but this cartoon was used with younger Squares
and might be more appropriate for me. The first Half Square had been Cain.
DG: Cain as in Cain and Abel? Do read the Bible a lot? Would you consider yourself religious?
FS: I never touched the Bible until I found that DVD in the Bible my mom gave me. Cain had
killed his half brother Abel that had been a Square.
DG: Cain offered God produce since he was a farmer. Abel was a shepherd and offered God
meat. God preferred the meat. Cain was jealous of Abel and killed him.
FS: Actually the mom of Cain and Abel was a Money Square that preferred. Abels meat dishes
to Cains salads. But most Squares thought this was just symptomatic of a deeper problem.
DG: Deeper problem?
FS: Presumably, Cain had been jealous of Abel because Abel had been given more privileges
due to his full Square status. In the future Half Squares were given minimal knowledge of their
family history to prevent such problems. The Squares had never committed murder before this.
DG: I thought Squares killed Sloppy Squares all the time?
FS: Killing Sloppy Squares was not considered murder. According to the Square Bible, God
didnt mark Cain.
DG: So what did happen to Cain?
FS: A mark was tattooed on the face of offender with a tattoo that only Squares could see. Cain
had been marked and ostracized from all the Square communities.
DG: So he was considered a bad guy?
FS: Yes and no, Cain had taught the Squares murder and this was a mixed accomplishment. The
projectionist had a Russian accent; blond hair cut in a short hairstyle. She wore a dark blue
office outfit, white pantyhose and white high shoes. She was much smaller than Erotron and had
a cupid smile. She smiled at me and I smiled back.
DG: I suppose you forgot that Erotron was in the room. And who was the second Half Square?
1.30 Jesus the Half Square of Love
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is high and higher for devout
Christians.
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FS: The second Half Square was Jesus and as mentioned he had been born with incredible
powers. Jesus had said that the first Half Square had brought murder to the world. The second
Half Square, himself, would conversely bring love to the world. I was trying to figure out a way
to dump Erotron temporarily and get to know the projectionist better but was drawing a total
blank.
DG: Yeah, yeah, your love life is fascinating. What else did Jesus predict?
FS: Jesus predicted that the third Half Square would bring reason to the world. Furthermore
the fourth Half Square would bring hatred to the world. The fifth Half Square would be a fool
that would bring unity to the world. Finally, the sixth Half Square would signal the end of the
world. The world would begin again after the sixth Half Square.
DG: Lets go back to Jesus.
FS: As mentioned, Jesus was the second Half Square of love. The mam, Mary was a Square.
The father of Jesus was a Sloppy Square.
DG: I thought Jesus was the Son of God.
FS: Symbolically the Squares considered the real father of Jesus to be God since the union of a
Square and a Sloppy Square hardly ever led to offspring. God had obviously intervened.
DG: And the Immaculate Conception?
FS: Mary was considered a virgin for she had never mated with another Square. Sex with
Sloppy Squares doesnt count.
DG: Okay, so Half Squares are men that change the course of history.
FS: Yes, Mary Magdalene had been the Square advisor to Jesus. Jesus was spreading a message
of love and brotherhood. The message of love and brotherhood intrigued the Matriarchy.
DG: Why?
FS: Could this message of love be extended to include love and brotherhood between Squares
and Sloppy Squares? Could this message civilize the Sloppy Squares? Could the killer apes be
taught not to kill?
DG: So what do you think about this message of love?
FS: I wasnt paying much attention to the film. The cartoon Magdalene in the flick was drawn
really sexy. The combination of the cartoon Magdalene, the projectionist and Erotron in the
same room got me pretty hot. I started fantasizing about having sex with the projectionist and
Erotron at the same time.
DG: Really interesting, you mentioned Cain was the first murderer. Why didnt Squares kill
each other before Cain?
FS: HKP seemed to create a heightened sense of empathy between Squares, or a heightened
sense of empathy led to HKP. The Book Squares had debated the issue of the relationship
between HKP and empathy for centuries. How could you hurt much less kill someone when their
body communicated their pain in a manner that was so much clearer than spoken language?
DG: What about Cain?
FS: Cain had figured out a method for blocking out HKP based empathy during the act of
murder.
DG: If the Squares had a hard time killing then how could they be soldiers?
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FS: The Squares had no problem killing Sloppy Squares. Sloppy Squares were animals that died
as sloppily as they lived. A Sloppy Square would die and make no attempt to dance a final death
dance. For the record, Squares created the Samurai death dance.
DG: I have heard of death dances. Some Native American tribes think this is a sign of
civilization. The idea is you do a dance prior to certain death to show your bravery.
FS: For Squares its a little different. The death dance is a final farewell song. In particular,
some Japanese samurai flicks show this death dance but Sloppy Squares cannot understand the
nuances of the death dance. Instead of doing the death dance, the Sloppy Square would yak and
yak about a bunch of stuff. A death dance was so much more than some stupid speech. To be or
not to be in the final moments of death could only be shown and not said.
DG: So Sloppy Squares died differently than Squares?
FS: The death of Sloppy Squares lacked all the physical grace of the death of a Square. Some
Book Squares argued that Sloppy Square felt pain the same way that Squares but could not
communicate this pain. Most Book Squares argued that Sloppy Squares, as a lower species were
not capable of feeling pain the same way Squares did.
DG: Lets get back to Mary Magdalene. Besides being well drawn, what else can you tell me
about her?
FS: Magdalene had been the Matriarch of that time period.
DG: Wouldnt the Money Squares use an agent rather than the leader?
FS: The Money Square leaders were usually the top agents as well.
DG: What was she supposed to do?
FS: Magdalene was sent to help Jesus develop his Square abilities so that he could more
effectively spread his message of love. According to the Square Bible. Magdalene was the
number one teacher of Jesus. As far as the Matriarchy was concerned, the Magdalene had
taught Christ everything he knew and then some.
DG: What was he taught?
FS: Magdalene had helped Christ develop his clairvoyant abilities. Clairvoyance was a
specialized Book Square skill that most Squares never developed.
DG: This is totally at odds with the role of Mary Magdalene I have read about.
FS: According to Erotron, the Sloppy Squares were inferior and therefore could not accept the
superior discipline and truth that Mary Magdalene had brought to their species. They had
wrongly slandered Magdalene as they had slandered Eve.
DG: Did Jesus, as a Half Square, have special powers that the Squares did not?
FS: Yes, the most amazing gift that Jesus possessed was a level of clairvoyance far beyond that
of any Square. Trained Squares could see spatial patterns that enabled them to predict the
future days and maybe at most a week into the future about very specific phenomena. Jesus
could see years and even centuries into the future and predict general events.
DG: Why would Jesus have this ability?
FS: This is one of the mysteries of Half Squares. This gift seemed to transcend the Square or
Sloppy Square heritage of Jesus. The Squares had used the secreto prophecies of Jesus to great
effect and much of this was written in super color in most Bibles in the world.
DG: Why were the Squares so interested in the prophecies of Jesus?
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FS: The prophecies of Jesus had helped the Squares achieve global dominance albeit secreto
global dominance. The most famous prophecy was that of the sixth Half Square that would give
birth to a New World when the Old World was destroyed.
DG: And this incredible sixth Half Square happens to be you?
FS: You must have the gift of prophecy yourself.
DG: You mentioned six Half Squares. Who were the other Half Squares?
1.31 Leonardo da Vinci the Half Square of Reason
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is not as high as the other Half Square
memes except for Da Vinci Code fanatics in which case the meme is more dangerous.
FS: Leonardo da Vinci was the third Half Square. Leonardo da Vinci was the prophesied Half
Square of reason.
DG: Did Leonardo da Vinci have special powers?
FS: Yes, Leonardo da Vinci was probably the most fortunate Half Square in the history of the
word.
DG: How so?
FS: He got the creativity from the Sloppy Square side and the spatial abilities of the Squares and
was able to use one set of abilities to augment the other set of abilities. Leonardo da Vinci also
had some ability to see the future but not to the extent Jesus had.
DG: For example?
FS: Leonardo da Vinci was an excellent painter. Squares could reproduce paintings with
incredible skill due to their superior spatial perception but usually couldnt create very original
works. Hitler was probably a good example of this. Hitler had some skill in drawing but his
drawings were not creative by Sloppy Square standards.
DG: Well you are right about the art of Hitler and Leonardo. Leonardo had technical skill but he
brought much more to the task.
FS: Creativity is relative and most Squares would have been quite happy to be as creative as
Hitler was in the area of art. Leonardo had the spatial drawing skill of a Square combined with
the creativity of a Sloppy Square.
DG: Did Leonardo inherit any HKP?
FS: Leonardo did not inherit any of the HKP skills from his Square side unlike all the other Half
Squares. Leonardo did inherent the incredible visualization skills of a Square but could
visualize totally new mechanical forms! Leonardo used mirror writing due to his Square
heritage.
DG: Mirror writing?
FS: Leonardos writing was reversed in a mirror like way. Squares routinely did a more
complex version of mirror writing were regular script was geometrically altered so that only
another Square could read it. This was a type of low-tech steganography that predates their use
of this method on the web. Many decorative motifs were in fact Square messages left for other
Squares.
DG: A novel explanation of decoration.
FS: Yeah but this system had limits. Not all Squares could read all geometrically altered scripts.
The Square would have to know the original language that had been geometrically altered.
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DG: Any examples?
FS: The Alhambra was an Arab palace in which every inch of the palace was filled with
decorations. Most of the decorations were sayings from the Koran in Arabic script, which in
turn had been geometrically altered. Squares in the Arab world knew Arabic script. Only
another Square that could read Arabic script could read these decorations.
DG: What about lets say a German Square?
FS: A German Square that didnt know Arabic could recognize that a Square had done the
decoration but would not be able to read the decorations.
DG: Did the Squares use mirror writing?
FS: Mirror writing was pretty primitive stuff for Squares and something that very young Squares
might fool around with just like children fool around with pig Latin but not something adult
Squares used.
DG: And the fourth Half Square?
1.32 Hitler the Half Square of Hate
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is extremely high.
FS: Hitler was the fourth Half Square. Hitler was the prophesied Half Square of hatred. The
Squares had been told by Jesus to stay far away from Hitler and to not share with him the
secreto of their existence.
DG: So Hitler didnt know about the Squares at all.
FS: Perhaps Hitler himself was probably dimly aware of his genetic origins and this would
explain his obsession with genetic purity.
DG: Are their more Squares among the Jews?
FS: Actually, there were no more or less Squares among the Jews than any other ethnic group.
Some Squares theorize that Hitler thought the Jews were in fact Homo erectus at some level.
Hitler was sterile, like almost all Half Squares, and in fact only had one testicle.
DG: What Square traits did Hitler have?
FS: Hitler was obsessed with planning the creation of imaginary geometrical cities with Albert
Speer in his bunker even as he was losing World War II. This geometrical obsession even when
danger threatens was a very Square trait.
DG: I have read Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer and your account of Hitlers obsession
with planning cities while the Allies were winning is correct but there are no Squares in our
world so how could this be?
FS: Yeah, pretty weird isnt it? Hitler was much more creative than other Squares and would be
a genius in this area by Square standards.
DG: You stated that all the Half Squares had HKP except Leonardo da Vinci. Did Hitler have
HKP?
FS: Hitler seemed to have the ability to read peoples faces to a greater extent than any Sloppy
Square but not to the same extent as a full breed Square.
DG: And his HKP production?
FS: The facial expressions that Hitler used during public speeches seem to include some
simplified catch phrases that were part of the full facial language used by most European
Squares.
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DG: Yeah, Hitler was pretty famous for his gesticulations during public speeches.
FS: Hitler had HKP but had not been taught a facial language but probably picked up some of
the facial language phrases unconsciously from other Squares he knew in his life. The vast
majority of young Squares generally pick up the facial language of their parents without any
formal study.
DG: But lack of formal study would make this language pretty simplistic.
FS: Perhaps, because the facial expressions were simplified HKP, the Sloppy Squares could
perceive them and this made Hitler such an effective orator.
DG: The fifth Half Square?
1.33 Ronald Reagan the Half Square of Order
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is extremely low.
FS: The fifth Half Square was Ronald Reagan.
DG: These Half Squares are quite an eclectic group.
FS: No kidding, Reagan was a fool yet he did great things. Reagan wasnt as lucky genetically
as the other Half Squares.
DG: How so?
FS: Ronald Reagan actually suffered from a diminished ability to reason symbolically due to his
genetic condition. He had trouble with abstract thoughts, mathematics and language beyond the
literal level.
DG: Are you sure that you are describing the Ronald Reagan of your Earth?
FS: I take it, you arent a big fan of Reagan?
DG: I think he was in fact a bit of a fool but not to the extent you describe. So what other
problems did your Reagan have?
FS: The Reagan of our world also lacked all capacity for original thought unlike the other Half
Squares.
DG: But what about all the great speeches he gave?
FS: He could read out loud with great skill but couldnt actually understood about 90% of the
words of an article written at a ninth grade level. He seemed able to understood concrete verbs,
nouns and adjectives but at a very basic level.
DG: For example?
FS: He could for example differentiate between a dog and a cat. If you asked him to point to a
black dog sitting next to a white dog, no problem. If you asked Reagan to tell the difference
between a big dog and a little dog, then no problem.
DG: So what was the problem?
FS: However, if you asked him to point to a big black dog in a group of dogs that were all sizes
and all colors then he would be confused. He could do arithmetic but was totally lost with word
problems but arent we all.
DG: Good point.
FS: I hope so. These handicaps alone would have doomed him to a job as a janitor or even
lifetime unemployment. Fortunately for him, he had some of the strengths of the Squares.
DG: Such as?
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FS: He could read people to an even greater extent than Hitler but still far below the skill level
of a full breed Square.
DG: Any other abilities?
FS: He also had an absolutely phenomenal verbal memory that must have been a function of his
unique hybrid brain.
DG: Did Squares have better memories than Sloppy Squares?
FS: Squares did seem to have better memories than Sloppy Squares but still needed crib sheets.
Squares absolutely did not have the phenomenal memory of Reagan.
DG: How phenomenal?
FS: Reagan could read and/or hear a speech once and memorize it. Reagan literally memorized
thousands of scripts that he used throughout his life.
DG: This is scary.
FS: Reagan was totally incapable of creating original speech utterances beyond that of what a
two-year old could create. This was to say he could create two to three word sentences using
concrete nouns and verbs. He had trouble formulating sentences that included adverbs and
adjectives.
DG: So how did he talk?
FS: He created the illusion of complex speech by putting together speeches that he had
memorized and then switched the speeches in a random fashion.
DG: Like the High School student who writes a paper by copying sections of different
Encyclopedias and pastes the results together. This is known as pseudo-writing.
FS: Right, Reagan may well be the best example of an individual using pseudo-talking as a life
long strategy.
DG: I disagree. I think pseudo-talking is quite common among New York literati but is socially
acceptable since this is reciprocated with pseudo-listening and is really more of a ritual than a
form of communication.
FS: You might have a point. Many of Reagans scripts were from movies and radio. He would
then change which speech he spoke, as he perceived the approval or disapproval of the person
he was talking with.
DG: How did he know this?
FS: Since Reagan did have pretty high HKP reception ability and he could sense if the speech
was working. Once he found a speech that the listener liked then he went ahead and continued
with that speech until he sensed disapproval again. Very early in his life he learned the art of
using speechwriters.
DG: Where did you learn all this?
FS: The Sneaky--Squares told Erotron and Erotron told me. Reagan used his HKP and good
looks to make friends. He would then have the friends create scripts for him to use in day-to-day
situations.
DG: How did he do this?
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FS: As one boy hood friend recounted in a biography, Reagan was in High School and wanted to
order a soda at a local diner. He told the friend he wanted soda. Reagans most common
sentence was, You write speech, O.K.? This was a standard sentence pattern he used in daily
life again and again and the people around him were used to it. Basically he would say, I want
X. You write speech. O.K. He would then substitute different concrete nouns for X. The
friend was of course flabbergasted when this same person later became President.
DG: As was I.
FS: Reagan seemed to have higher HKP reception and production abilities than Hitler did. The
HKP production level of Hitler would be the equivalent of what a Square would produce at the
age of two.
DG: And Reagans level?
FS: Reagan generally stayed at a two year-old Square HKP production level but occasionally
showed HKP production levels of a four-year old Square. Hitlers ability to read HKP was at
about the level of a one year-old Square and this accounts for his lack of empathy. Hitler could
sense lying but very little else.
DG: Well that might be enough for political purposes.
FS: Reagan was probably at an adult level in terms of HKP reception and could have learned to
understand someone communicating in HKP if he had been taught by a Square. This simplified
HKP production makes you seem like a moron to Squares but was actually more effective with
the Sloppy Squares than the fully developed HKP languages.
DG: You mentioned this fact when talking about Hitler. Why is this?
FS: I suppose that using adult HKP with the Sloppy Squares was like using a Mozart sonata to
get the attention of your dog. Clapping your hands would be more effective.
DG: Did Squares employ this simplified HKP production to persuade Sloppy Squares?
FS: Average Squares could probably simplify their HKP production but would feel like total
idiots in the process and this was just something they didnt do. One of the Money Squares
guilds taught simplified HKP and a big part of this class was helping the Money Square
overcome their embarrassment of taking like the Square equivalent of an idiot. This is a good
example of a guild that had members of both castes. Book Squares did the research in simplified
HKP while Money Squares actually used the skill to manipulate Sloppy Squares.
DG: How similar are the two Reagans?
FS: Reagan was also a B actor on my Earth. The fact he couldnt actually comprehend most
of what he was saying probably prevented him from being a top actor.
DG: But not from being President?
FS: No, Reagan could not substantially differentiate between real life situations and acting
situations. When the Hexagon specialists briefed him about the protocols for responding to a
nuclear ataque, they were horrified when he kept asking were the camera was so he could pose
appropriately.
DG: So how did the Hexagon handle this situation?
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FS: A few select White House handlers would give Reagan directions at key moments and hand
him scripts as needed. His reference to the Soviet Union as the evil empire came after he
watched Star Wars. Insiders knew that he actually thought the Soviet Union was an evil empire
and thought there was a Darth Vader and so on. He once commented that Gorbachev was the
best actor he had ever worked with and wondered who directed him.
DG: What did Reagan achieve politically in your Earth?
1.34 Triadic Evolution
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is low.
FS: Many historians felt that Ronald Reagan was responsible for the tripolar political system.
According to Jesus, the fifth Half Square would be the Half Square of Order.
DG: And what sort of order did your Reagan create?
FS: Reagan had expanded the North American Free Trade Area to be the Free Trade Area of the
Americas. A stipulation had been added that a common militar force would be created to
enforce neo-liberalism throughout the region. After our 9/11, during the Reagan administration,
the BIS and UA were created. In reaction the EU had admitted Russian into the EU and created
a much more powerful European Union militar force.
DG: So he had a huge influence on the political system of your world?
FS: Gigantic! In response to the EU and UA, the AU had beefed up its own AU militar force
and created a special seguridad zone around the Asian Union. As each union expanded the
scope and power of its own union the other unions followed until power gravitated away from
the member states and resided in the unions themselves. The historians named this escalation of
union authority triadic evolution.
DG: Was your Ronald Reagan married?
FS: Yes, one of the reasons, Reagan loved Nancy, his wife, so much was that she was aware of
his handicap and would go ahead and write little day to day speeches for him. She didnt seem
to mind his communication deficiencies.
DG: I did marriage counseling and cant imagine such a marriage.
FS: Well you are right to some extent. Nancy was Reagans second wife, his first wife thought he
was kidding until three months into their marriage and was horrified when she found out the
truth. A divorce followed. None of Reagans children were actually his. Cain, Jesus, Leonardo
da Vinci, Hitler and Reagan were all sterile.
DG: This makes sense since hybrids are almost always sterile. Hitler only had one testicle. Is
the one testicle a Half Square thing?
FS: I have two testicles. Not all Half Squares are sterile, as I found out one day. It was not even
known if Reagan could actually function sexually. I dont know how many testicles Reagan had.
DG: While your Reagan construct is very interesting and even amusing, I dont see how it is
possible. Wouldnt someone turn him in?
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FS: Sometimes he would get his scripts mixed up but no one really cared since his delivery was
so good and he was always open to learning new speeches as needed. What actually went on
inside Reagans mind was pretty much of mystery to most of the people who knew him. He was a
totally unique individual who had done incredible things despite his handicaps. Perhaps Reagan
thought that everyone was like him. In his mind, everyone was putting together memorized
scripts as needed. I suppose God in Reagans world was the grand writer behind all the
speeches.
DG: Your Reagan sounds autistic.
FS: There is a relationship. Some Homo erectus genes may have entered the Sloppy Square
gene pool. In particular, a recessive gene with Homo erectus origins may have caused autism.
The autistic children had many of the spatial obsessions of Homo erectus without the strengths
that allow these obsessions to be managed productively.
DG: How so?
FS: In addition, the autistic child perceives spatial noise but doesnt have the ability to tune it
out in a controlled manner like a Square. Spatial noise, that would only irritate a Square, would
cause an Autistic child to flip out.
DG: So why doesnt the Autistic handle the spatial noise like a Square?
FS: Basically, the autistic child has an on and off switch rather than a volume control when it
comes to spatial noise. The autistic child chooses to tune out spatial noise altogether and ends
up tuning out many spatial perceptions that were necessary for daily functioning.
DG: You actually provide a good description of autism. So what other Square traits do autistic
children have?
FS: Many autistic children also show the ritualism of the Squares. Autistic children were
sometimes idiot savants. They did certain tasks at a genius level while not being able to handle
everyday situations. The Square spatial abilities were a survival package. Individually, the
abilities were more of a hindrance than help.
DG: What about other mental conditions?
FS: Psychics may be Sloppy Squares that had some Homo erectus genes that allow for limited
hyperkinesic perception. They arent reading your mind but your body instead.
DG: I thought most psychics rely on Tarot cards, a crystal ball, etc., for their readings.
FS: As they did a reading, the psychic unconsciously reads your face. This was why many
psychics had great success during face-to-face encounters but fail when they try to become
phone psychics. They needed to see the face of the client to be successful.
DG: How could there be Square genes in the Homo sapien gene pool if the only products of such
unions are the six Half Squares?
FS: Half Squares are famous hybrids. There were probably some unknown hybrids and some of
them may not have been sterile. Some ethnic groups have more HKP reception ability than other
groups.
DG: Which groups?
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FS: For example, the ancient gypsies were one of the few Sloppy Square groups that knew about
Squares and in fact helped them during some dark times. There was a great deal of friendly
contact between gypsies and Squares in ancient times and therefore the gypsy gene pool might
have a disproportionate number of Homo erectus genes and therefore the hyperkinesic
perception ability was also disproportionately higher among gypsies.
DG: How about schizophrenia?
FS: Book Squares theorized that schizophrenia may have had something to did with Homo
erectus genes as evidenced by the ability of schizophrenics to perceive Square covert facial
communication on television. Due to their heightened spatial abilities, Squares could instantly
perceive many language patterns that a Sloppy Square cannot. For example given a sequence of
numbers, the Square would be able to see a mathematical pattern instantly.
DG: For example?
FS: Given a printout of 100 thousand words, the Square would be able to notice that the word
horse was repeated every 1,1245 times as soon as she/he had scanned the printout. This
ability means that many Squares in inteligencia agencias were code breakers but this ability had
a price.
DG: For example?
FS: Given a list of twenty words, the Square would be at a total loss, if asked to identify all the
words in the list that were related to a horse. Even a five-year old Sloppy Square would realize
that bridle, saddle and horseshoe go together but a Square would not.
DG: Wouldnt the schools notice this.
FS: Squares could memorize lists of categories and the parents of Squares provided this training
to their children so that they could appear to be normal in Sloppy Square society.
DG: Were Square/Sloppy Square marriages common?
FS: No, as mentioned Squares could spot Sloppy Squares and generally did not socialize with
Sloppy Squares much less marry them. Also, the spatial noise of a Sloppy Square mate drove the
Squares crazy.
DG: Whatever, have you had any vivid dreams lately?
1.35 Funeral Dream
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is unknown.
FS: I dreamed that I was at my mams funeral. There were many flowers on the graveside and
included Lilies, Irises, and Sunflowers.
DG: I am surprised by your detailed knowledge of these flowers. I know how a Sunflower looks
like but dont have any idea how a Lily or Iris looks like. Do the particular flowers have any
particular meaning?
FS: Well my mam told me that Lilies represented purity.
DG: I have to admit I know nothing about the symbolic significance of different flowers but
what is important is what you think they mean not what I think they mean. Is there anything
else?
FS: Well Sunflowers of course are related to the Sun
DG: When I say Sun what do comes to mind immediately?
FS: Mom
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DG: I mean Sun as in the Earth revolves around the Earth.
FS: Oh I thought you meant son as in the child of mom.
DG: Lets try again, son.
FS: Moon.
DG: Did you think I meant Sun or Son?
FS: I am not sure what son are you talking about?
DG: Never mind, tell me more about your dream.
FS: Butterflies swarmed all over the graveside. A swarm of bees attacked the butterflies. The
orange wings of the butterflies were ripped off and the bees turned the wings first into honey and
then into gold.
DG: When I say butterfly what do you think?
FS: Beautiful
DG: Bee?
FS: Industrious
DG: What else happened in the dream?
FS: Nothing I woke up.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The dream shows several major conflicts in the patient. The patient is
scared of death. The patient also has severe problems with his relationship with his
mother. The bees versus butterflies represent an inner conflict in the patient. The bees
seem to be exploiting the beauty of the butterfly. Butterflies may represent the sensitive
feminine side of the patient that he feels is in peril.

The patient suffers from a severe messiah complex. The so-called Half Squares are all
noted figures of history and this is an obvious attempt at self-aggrandizement.

Dr. Delta: Around the same time period I had a discussion with Dr. Gamma about his
relationships with Dr. Arrow. Dr. Gamma and Dr. Arrow were both Assistant Directors at the
institute. There was a lot of professional friction between the two due to their different
theoretical orientations. After the first session with Freak Show, Dr. Gamma had gotten into a
loud argument in the main office with Dr. Arrow about how metaschizophrenia should be
treated.

MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

The following is a simple affirmation that you should repeat at least twenty times in a low steady
manner almost chant like manner:

1) There are no Squares.
2) The Square world does not exist.
3) The Squares are a fantasy

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In addition, you should chant the above affirmation whenever, while you read the transcript, you
have the thought that something like the Squares may exist. If you begin to start thinking that
Squares do exist then immediately discontinue reading this manuscript. If after two weeks you
continue to have these thoughts then seek the help of a metaschizophrenic specialist.

Ungaro: Session one mentions this weird concept of HKP. I think Gamma got this idea from
Gardners multiple intelligence theory. Gardner mentions kinesic intelligence as one of seven
types of intelligences. Gamma and I took a learning theory class at Texas A&M together and
part of that class included taking a Gardner intelligence test and I vaguely recall he scored pretty
high in the kinesic area. There is also a right brain left brain flavor to this fantasy except that he
is contrasting the frontal lobes with the cerebellum. Maybe such people exist but no way
Squares exist.

My buddy obviously stole the idea of z-rays from the Legion of Superheroes. The Legion of
Superheroes was a comic book of a super hero group in the 30
th
century that included Super Boy.
In one of the issues z-rays were mentioned.

All in all the first session is a hard read. The first session is kind of technical. I realize this is not
a novel but something else. What the hell this document is I dont know but I think this isnt a
good way to start a story. The next session is a lot easier to read and frankly the best part of this
document. Yeah, Japan is a sexy session.

As to the Squares killing Kennedy, personally I think the Mafia was sick and tired of Bobby
Kennedy and realized that if they shot him then his brother the President would destroy them.
Instead they took out John and this neutralized Bobby. The Mafia will kill someone over 20
bucks. Bobby was costing them millions and really going after them. Hoover hated Bobby
Kennedy and basically had the FBI look the other way. The CIA was in cahoots with the Mafia
to kill Castro and the CIA also looked the other way as well. Government bureaucrats are not
going to risk their pension over an unauthorized killing but the Mafia kills people every day.
Looking the other way is not the same thing as actually killing the President but some assurances
along those lines might have emboldened the Mafia. Anyway thats my theory.

Around the time I was reading this part of the document, Gamma had been super nervous and
frankly a pain in the neck. The guy drank like a fish and slept during the day while keeping me
up at night with his ramblings about the conspiracy that is out to get him. He was a chain
smoker and was not even a smoker at all when I knew him. I forced him to smoke out on the
balcony. Gamma and I are both big time comic book fans and I asked him about his code name
that is derived from the comic book the Incredible Hulk. We started talking about the Hulk and
agreed that he was one of the more interesting characters of the Marvel Universe. There is the
very obvious Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde angle but the fact that an atomic bomb rather than a potion,
thinly disguised cocaine, turns Dr. Banner into the Hulk gives the story a modern feel. I wonder
if my old friend Gamma picked his name because he himself has two sides.
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Maybe Freak Show is some sort of alternate personality of Gamma. Could Gamma be flat-out
schizophrenic and have multiple personalities? I would kick him out except that I really think he
is potentially suicidal and I dont need that on my conscious? Freak Show is a hybrid.

Hybrids play a prominent role in myth and science fiction. You have the Greek Heroes that
invariably had one parent that was human and one parent that was divine. Achilles had a human
father, Peleus. The mother of Achilles was the god like Thetis. Hercules had Zeus as a father.
The mother of Hercules was Io and she was mortal. I think Freak Show probably got the idea for
his hybrid hero from Star Trek. Spock is of course half human and half Vulcan. There is also
the Marvel super hero the Submariner that is supposed to be half Homo Sapien and half Homo
Mermanus. Homo Mermanus are some sort of underwater humanoids that live in Atlantis.
There is a lame DC version of the Submariner called Aquaman that has the same ancestry as the
Submariner but slightly different powers.

The Submariner is much stronger than Aquaman but Aquaman has telepathic control over sea
creatures. What a totally lame power and why is it he can control sea creatures and not just
animals in general? I suppose you could argue that fish have a different nervous system than
mammals so Aquaman has a specialized telepathy that only works with fish but Aquaman can
communicate with whales and dolphins that are mammals. Incredibly Aquaman beat the
Submariner in the Marvel vs. DC universe series. Give me a break!

I kind of remember from a literary criticism class I took that there was this thinker called Derrida
and he went on an on about deconstruction. I only remember what the word deconstruction
meant. I think the word means breaking down the barriers between two concepts or something
like that. Ok, I got a C in that class, but I think the patient is doing something like
deconstruction. I will confess that I mostly read the comic book version about Derrida by Icon
Books. Maybe the patient is using the hybrid thing to deconstruct what it is to be human.

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2.00 CYBERNETIC JAPAN
Dr. Gammas Notes: About a month has passed since the first session. The patient seems a
little more agitated than the last time. The patients face flushed and he is to sweating
despite the air conditioning of the room.
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme cluster of memes is medium.
DG: Before we digressed with your fascinating story about the six Half Squares, you were
describing your experiences with the so-called Squares in Tokyo. Could you continue?
FS: Back in Tokyo, The chauffeur drove me to a section of Tokyo where I could easily find a
hotel. As I mentioned, Tokyo really was the capital of the Squares.
DG: Did you meet other Squares in Tokyo?
FS: Occasionally, I would see Squares talking to each other using a Japanese version of HKP
that I found pretty impossible to understand. Erotron had suggested I watch a Kabuki show.
DG: Why?
FS: According to Erotron, Kabuki was a form of traditional Japanese theater that was used to
teach very young Square children basic Japanese HKP.
DG: Kabuki as far as I could tell was a bunch of guys dressed in face paint whirling around in
ancient Japanese costumes.
FS: Well maybe this is the case on this Earth. The faces were color coded so that a Square child
could more easily develop their HKP. Different colors represented different categories of nouns,
verbs, adverbs and adjectives that the character would focus on during the story. Vascular color
changes were hidden by the face paint but the lesson was meant to teach basic grammar rather
than develop vocabulary. I went to a couple of shows but just couldnt hack it.

Dr. Gammas Notes: I have seen Kabuki and after twenty minutes was ready to run out the
door. My Japanese host would probably have been insulted and I smiled through the
whole performance. The explanation of Kabukis true purpose almost makes sense and I
can understand how the patient infected his three prior counselors.

DG: Kabuki is pretty weird but I dont think we have to invent a whole conspiracy to explain this
art form.
FS: Again this was the purpose of Kabuki on my Earth I have no idea why Kabuki exists on this
Earth.
DG: So were did you stay in Japan?
FS: I got a hotel near some sort of red-light district, or at least I thought it was some sort of red
light district. I had a nose for that sort of thing, but red light action was more underground in
Japan than Mexico or the United Americas. I drank a six-pack of a Japanese cerveza. The
cerveza was only 5.3% alcohol and not strong enough to get a good buzz after my forays into
190 Octane drinks.
DG: What a tragedy.
FS: Hey, Im a resourceful guy. I went ahead and stood in the bathtub. I then made a hole in
the bottom of an unopened can, put the can over my open mouth and then opened the cerveza.
The air pressure forced the cerveza out of the can and into my mouth and ultimately my stomach.
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DG: This is known as shooting a beer and only done by teenagers and alcoholics.
FS: I guess I am a teenager at heart. I had learned that this action wasnt accepted by all and
generally did it in private. I would buy a six-pack and finish it off in about two minutes.
Sometimes you puked your guts out but this was the price of feeling really good.
DG: Dont you think all this drinking might have had the long-term effect of impairing your
sense of reality?
DG: Any luck?
DG: So what other adventures did you have in Tokyo?
FS: That night Erotron and I went to the Sleeping Beauty Bar in Tokyo. Erotron was wearing
red latex bell-bottoms. She had a black latex halter top on that had red vinyl lipstick lips over
the nipples. Erotron walked across the lounge like a leopard stalking her prey. The Japanese
guys stared at her openly, their tongues hanging out like men who had been at a fat farm for a
month and just seen a steak.
DG: So she was pretty hot.
FS: Hotter, she twitched an eyebrow and somehow gave off an air of menace, power and
sexiness all in one flick. A Japanese guy quickly looked at his drink in fear. I knew what image
he was going to masturbate to that night.
DG: Erotron was the Square that was supposed to introduce to the world of the Squares. Why
would Erotron take you to a bar?
FS: At the time I was never sure why Erotron took me to various places but I later came to the
conclusion that she was trying to get to know me overall in order to further some Square plan. It
basically was just a bar with small gimmick.
DG: The gimmick being?
FS: The tables in the bar were Plexiglas display cases and a girl in a very skimpy bathing suit
appeared to be sleeping in the display case. So basically, as you drank your cerveza there was
this gal seemingly asleep under the tabletop. The gals were very pretty.
DG: So were they asleep?
FS: The main argument in the bar was whether they really were sleeping or just pretending.
DG: What girl would do a job like this?
FS: Some people say the girls were kidnapped by the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, from
countries like Vietnam and the Philippines and kept sedated against their will but this sounded
totally far out.
DG: Who would go to such a crazy place?
FS: I would say the crowd was a mix of Japanese and foreigners and I did hear some English
spoken in the background.
DG: So besides the girls under glass, what kind of place was it?
FS: The decor was a combination of high tech and gothic, kind of like a punk rock version of the
medieval period. There were a lot of suits of armor, which appear to be made out of fiberglass,
and the heraldic decorations had subtle erotic themes.
DG: Did you feel any need to help these girls?
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FS: Like I said, the problem was that you didnt really know if they were there against their will
or not. Erotron and I went upstairs. I positioned myself behind Erotron. I watched her slim
hips sway, encased in the tight red vinyl.
DG: What about the rest of the bar?
FS: There was a hall with a series of doors. The doors were made out of the same Plexiglas and
you could see girls on beds in various erotic outfits. All the girls were asleep. You could pick a
sleeping beauty to spend the night with. Once you picked a room, you could pull a curtain
across the door from the inside and get some privacy. Erotron watched my face as I peered into
the different rooms.
DG: Did she look at you with affection?
FS: That would be hard to say. Erotron was a master of HKP control. You could never tell what
she was thinking. I thought she liked me and I tried to sneak my arm around her waist but she
quickly pushed me away but then, almost as an afterthought she put her arm around my waist
and I did the same in response.
DG: How did this make you feel?
FS: Totally confused, that is basically how I always felt around her. She made me feel like a
total fool.
DG: So she made you feel bad.
FS: Not bad, just confused, but horny as well and confusion and horniness combine to make a
cocktail that goes down smoothly even if you do have one hell of a hangover later.
DG: Maybe you were in love?
FS: Maybe, I just know I felt something I never felt for my girlfriend Zorra at the Panther Club
in Tijuana.
DG: So you were walking down the hall then what happened?
FS: As we walked around the hall she pulled me into a private corner and kissed me. Her tongue
hungrily sought mine out. At the same time she massaged my crotch and the other hand
massaged my behind. My privates were sandwiched between her hot aggressive hands. She
knew what she was doing and I came in my pants almost immediately. It was as though she knew
exactly which pressure points to push down on.
DG: Yeah, this sounds like a real plausible story. Gorgeous rich gal just grabs you out of
nowhere. Well, why not? Its about as plausible as the rest of your story. What was the rest of
the bar like?
FS: I kind of was in my own little world after the experience with Erotron. Maybe I wasnt
floating on air but I was floating. The cerveza was a little pricey so I doubted I would be back.
On the same street there was a large sign for Eroticom. I made a mental note of the location and
promised myself to visit that place soon.
DG: Did you have sex that night?
FS: I should probably lie, but to tell you the truth Erotron dropped me of at the lobby of my
hotel. I had a major case of the blue balls. Which, if you have tetrachromatic vision then you
know the balls literally turn a little blue due to sexual frustration.
DG: So did you at least make a date?
FS: Erotron told me that the Money Squares would contact me not the other way around.
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DG: Too bad, so what other adventures did you have in Japan?
FS: I went to the Eroticom arcade that Friday.
DG: What sort of arcade.
FS: There were any number of people in all kinds of costumes and this was known as cosplay
that was short for costume play.
DG: They were like Trekkies dressed in Star Trek outfits when they go to a Star Trek
convention.
FS: Exactly, there was in fact a costume contest in the evening that was a lot of fun. The people
were dressed like the characters in sex software titles. They had Western medieval characters,
science fiction characters, samurai type characters and traditional Chinese characters.
DG: Is it possible you once went to a Star Trek conference and invented the similar Eroticom
conference?
FS: I would never attend a Star Trek conference in this Earth or my own. I hate Star Trek. The
whole premise of the show is too unbelievable.
DG: Star Trek is unbelievable! This is truly an example of the kettle calling the pot black. How
is Star Trek unbelievable?
FS: The people in the Federation, the good guys, are just too nice and human.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: Where are the cyborgs in the Federation? The good guys get their asses kicked by the Borg,
a group of cyborgs, but dont use cyborg armies in response. If an army is beaten by a
technology, then the first thing they would do is appropriate some of that technology and use it
against the enemy. Why wouldnt humans use technology to make themselves more powerful at
the individual level?
DG: I am a big fan, and the premise is that you have a hard time using Borg technology without
becoming a Borg yourself and losing little things like individuality and free will. Is this your
only objection?
FS: Hell no, where are the new drogas? Where are the transsexuals? Star Trek ignores every
controversial social trend of our century and just assumes only the moral majority stuff will be
amplified by technology.
DG: So you think Star Trek is too clean cut and therefore unrealistic?
FS: For sure.

Dr. Gammas Notes: My Christmas present from my wife was a scarf knitted correctly
as she put it, unlike my mothers knit cap, or at least according to my wife.

FS: I became a friend with one guy that called himself U-Kato that explained the cables to me.
He watched my shock and smiled. He said, Youre American, I got my bachelors in Computer
Science at Cal Tech. He let me examine the base of his skull and underneath the hair there was
a computer plug. The plug was very small, more like a coaxial cable plug than your normal
computer plug. He told me this was the latest thing and, Much, much better than even sex.
DG: Tell me more about these cyberplugs.
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FS: Cyberplugs were becoming more and more common. All the plugs had the same basic
design by were slightly modified for different purposes. You are fooling around with creating an
artificial hippocampus on this Earth. As I recall, this was the first step on my world that later
led to the creation of cyberplugs.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Cyberplug may be a symbol of the super ego that the patient is trying
to ignore but cannot since he cannot plug into the system or larger society until he gets a
cyberplug, i.e., reconciles his own conflicts between his id and super ego.

DG: I notice that in your Earth you dont to do mundane things like work. Dont you think this
is odd?
FS: Work is for dorks. Actually, I was running out of money. I had left my compucard on the
windowsill of the hotel in order to charge the nano-solar cells. The nano-solar cells were solar
cells that had been improved using nanotechnology. The nano-solar cells meant that I never had
to plug in my compucard for power. I wasnt too worried about a maid stealing the computer
since the seguridad function had been turned on.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Am I paranoid or is the institute board, under the instigation of Dr.
Arrow, out to get me?

DG: Why not?
FS: This meant that moving the computer would cause a high-pitched alarm to go off. Within 30
seconds a wireless web message would be sent to the policia and that message included the time
of movement, the GPS coordinates of the compucard, and how to contact the compucard owner
immediately. Most people refer to a compucard as a CC. Only entering my thumbprint at a pad
on the back of the CC prior to the 30-second time limit could stop the message from being
delivered. The fact that CC had this feature was common knowledge. Crooks would describe a
particularly hard theft with the saying, Like trying to steal a CC.
DG: Finally, some technology that doesnt involve sex! Okay, tell me more about this
compucard.
FS: The compucard was a computer that was exactly the same size as an old fashioned credit
card. I surfed the web, transferred money from my secreto offshore bank account. I then
deposited nanopayments into a regular bank account in Japan. I then took some money out of
my Japanese account using my compucard that doubled as an extra secure ATM card. My
offshore account couldnt be accessed directly from street ATM machines that increasingly were
broken into by teenage hackers.
DG: Theres just one little problem with your story, how do you type in information into such
teeny weenie computer?
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FS: As you pointed out, the only drawback was the super small keyboard and screen. I generally
typed stuff in with a pen on the road. The compucard had a small built in color LCD monitor
that was practically useless, but you could project a holograph of the screen image. The
holograph was semitransparent and was best projected unto a plain background. Similarly, a
holographic keyboard was also projected. A laser projector projected the holographic keyboard
and also acted as a laser sensor that reacted to any movement in the holographic keyboard area.
It took a little getting used to typing air but it beat lugging around computers the size of books!
There was no mouse, but instead the holographic screen projection acted like one giant laser
grid sensor and reacted like a touch screen when movement was detected. The union of
computer and holographic technology had created the ultimate portable computer.
DG: Sounds uncomfortable! What if you wanted the feel of a real keyboard?
FS: I could connect the CC to a PDA or even a portable computer if I really needed access to a
solid keyboard but this kind of defeated the purpose of having a compucard in the first place.
DG: By your own admission, you consume enormous amounts of drugs, especially alcohol. Are
you a drug addict?
2.01 Cyberaddiction
Dr. Delta: The virulence level (1.3) and infection level (1.5) are low.
FS: Well at least I am not a cyberaddict.
DG: You mentioned that term earlier. I almost hate to ask, what is a cyberaddict?
FS: A cyberaddict received direct stimulation to the medulla and liked it so much that they
wanted more and more. Some were in front of the computer playing games that supported
medulla stimulation all day and night. After awhile even this was not enough. They didnt care
about the game and just wanted the stimulation.
DG: So was cyberaddiction legal?
FS: The problem had become serious enough that, while cyberplugs were totally legal,
cyberaddiction was not.
DG: I am supposed to believe that there were people in your Earth that were willing to just waste
away in front of their computer.
FS: You have people like that in this Earth and they dont even have the excuse of
cyberaddiction.
DG: Good point!
FS: Anyway there was a gray market technology that used portable medulla stimulators. The
stimulator was about the size of a small cell phone.
DG: Another flaw in your story. Cyberaddicts just went running around your world with cables
sticking out of their head? If cyberaddiction was illegal then I dont think so.
FS: The user clipped the stimulator to his belt and then ran the wire under his shirt to the scalp
plug that connected to the medulla. Then user generally grew long hair in order to hide the wire
running from the back of the shirt to the base of the skull.
DG: There would still be some cable showing.
FS: Some users cut some of their own hair. They then wove and glued the cut hair over that part
of the cable that was exposed to outside observation.
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DG: This sounds like a benign addiction, since its cheap, but theres always a drawback to
addiction. Booze leads to DTs. Take LSD and you can get flashbacks. Whats the catch?
FS: A continuous stream of stimulation can cause seizures so the stimulation goes on and off
about once a second. The user has a tendency to rock back and forth as the stimulation goes on
and off.
DG: This would be a dead giveaway of cyberaddiction.
FS: They user tried to control this rocking but this was extremely difficult. The street term for
this behavior was rocking, and users that couldnt control their behavior were called rockers.
Many users also carried portable radios, and wore earplugs and this made it appear that they
were rocking to music.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Rocking is probably a reference to withdrawal symptoms the patient
experienced that may be related to his prior comatose state.

DG: So how bad was the rocking?
FS: Pretty bad, there was a type of portable cyber stimulator that looked like a radio and the
stimulation wire ran from one of the earplugs, under the hair and into the medulla connection.
The user could be so addicted that he did nothing but rock back and forth until he died of thirst
and/or hunger.
DG: This sounds as bad as it gets!
FS: No more than any red-blooded American. I accidentally walked past a cyberaddict alley.
DG: What was that like?
FS: There was one Japanese guy in his twenties rocking back and forth next to a garbage can.
His clothes were ragged. He had a little area cleared out and had put down a tarp and a box
that took up part of the tarp. He was rocking outside of the box, and I guess he just wanted to
spend some quality time on the front porch and absorb some of that life-giving neon light.
DG: So there were cyberaddict communities.
FS: In a way, the cyberaddicts tended to hang out together in particular alleys that were out of
the way and near 24-hour electronic stores. The worst thing that could happen to a rocker was
to be caught without the high-tech batteries you need to get the voltage for a really good high.
2.02 Cyberzombies
Dr. Delta: The virulence level is low (1.2). The infection level is low (1.6).
DG: Sounds pretty bad.
FS: There are worse things than rockers in the world of cyberstimulation. Human traffickers
sometimes created cyberzombies. The brains were deliberately fried in such a manner that the
person could do simple mechanical tasks but not much else.
DG: Why would anyone do this?
FS: Many young ladies were made into cyberzombies and stared blankly at the wall while men
mounted them.
DG: How would you know about this?
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FS: Well, maybe someone I know went to one of these places. He said it was cheap but not much
fun, kind of like masturbating all over a dead fish. There were cyber-zombie houses of
prostitution all over the Third World on my Earth. Some poor families in Africa even sold their
daughters for this purpose in order to have enough money to eat.
DG: A friend told you about cyberzombies? Didnt the police try to stop this activity?
FS: Even when the poor lady was found by the policia, she couldnt answer the most basic
questions about who she was and who did this to her. The movie Cyberzombie on my Earth was
sensationalistic but is accurate in terms of how the technology was depicted.
DG: So, a third party created cyberzombies?
FS: Not always. The average person in Africa could not afford the portable stimulator and got a
type of plug that was much bigger but could handle current directly from the outlet in the wall.
They were first generation plugs developed for early experiments with animals and were not
designed for humans, who had much more complex and delicate brains than animals. These first
generation plugs made a hole about three times bigger than the second-generation plugs at the
base of your scalp and were quite ugly.
DG: Why would anyone mess with primitive technology?
FS: It was cheap. The outlet current from Africa was not very stable and you could literally fry
your brain if too much electricity floods the plug. Some Africans tried using a strip plug as a
protective device, but I was told this provided no real protection from a serious electrical spike.
As mentioned before, the stimulation should go on and off about once a second. Plugging into
an outlet directly means that there was no oscillation of the stimulation.
DG: And no oscillation means what?
FS: Constant stimulation could cause seizures, and worse, a pleasure loop. The stimulation was
often so intense that the user could not gather the will power to pull the plug and stop the
stimulation.
DG: Sounds like cocaine.
FS: Much worse, every day cyberaddicts in Africa were found dead of malnutrition with their
brains still plugged into the outlet. The victims had an insane smile etched into their face and
this was known as the electric smile. The plugs were installed in black market clinics with
terrible sanitation and many died.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient exhibits incredible imagination. Like many
metaschizophrenics he has created a detailed fantasy world but the disturbing aspect is
how this world almost makes sense. His ability to create believable technologies is quite
good but I wonder if he has as good an imagination when it comes to characters in his
imaginary world.

DG: The last time you mentioned a person named otaku. Could you describe them?
FS: An otaku was a type of person who lives, eats and breathes Japanese pop culture. They were
especially obsessed with anime, a type of Japanese animation. A typical otaku spent hours in
front of the TV watching animated robots and monsters battle it out. The sex games were an
adult version of anime.
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DG: So they were TV addicts?
FS: Not totally, otaku were ditching the TV for the computer because of the greater interactivity
of this medium. Most of these guys were pale from only getting light from the tube and couldnt
run around the block if their life depended on it. Otaku had hygiene problems and could go for
days without changing their clothes or taking a shower.
DG: So these guys had no social life?
FS: For some mysterious reason, these Japanese guys had a hard time getting the babes. I
couldnt imagine why women didnt want to watch anime for days and years at a time with
stinky, overweight guys.
DG: I notice you are pretty pale yourself and according to your file, pretty much spend all day
and night watching TV. Would you describe yourself as an otaku?
FS: I think you have to be Japanese to be an otaku. Its written down as a requirement in their
union manual.
DG: They had a union?
2.03 Cyberlady
Dr. Delta: Virulence level is medium (2.3). The infection level is high (3.4). The infected host
actively seeks out software similar to this meme after exposure to the meme.
FS: On my Earth they did. U-Kato was a big fan of something called Cyberlady. According to
U-Kato, Cyberlady had solved the female problem to some extent.
DG: So what was Cyberlady?
FS: Cyberlady was an interface that could be attached to your computers operating system, in
order, to mimic a woman.
DG: I think there is something like this in real life.
FS: Cyberlady was a direct response to Atad a similar product put out by Macrohard, which was
a huge failure. Atad was an onscreen person that guided you through the Macrohard computer
operating system.
2.04 Macrohard
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is low.
DG: Yeah, yeah, now I remember. This sounds a lot like the failed Bob interface from
Microsoft.
FS: Similar in more ways than one. I told you there were counterparts to people and
organizations in our Earth that were similar to people and organizations in your Earth but
Macrohard would have eaten Microsoft for lunch.
DG: Why do you say that?
FS: The technology at Macrohard was fifty years ahead of anything Microsoft could even dream
of. I think your version of our Macrohard CEO is a far, far nicer person than our version.
DG: Then I wouldnt want to mess with your version.
FS: You bet! The Cyberladies were a lot better looking than Bob.
DG: How did Cyberlady work?
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FS: When you turned on the computer you got the face of a lady that came equipped with speech
recognition and speech generation capability. You then told her that you wanted to open a word
document or a particular game and the software proceeded to open the particular word
document.
DG: How many commands could Cyberlady handle?
FS: The software came with about 10,000 preprogrammed commands and responses that could
be customized by the user.
DG: Why so many commands?
FS: Many new household devices could be hooked up to a PC so you could have your Cyberlady
turn on the vacuum cleaner, dim the lights, handle the microwave cycle, etc.
DG: So Cyberlady ran household appliances?
FS: Actually, a commercial version of Cyberlady could run everything from a nuclear power
plant to a jet fighter. Men were just liked telling a woman what to do.
DG: What if you didnt like the Cyberlady? After all men have different tastes in real life ladies
I cant imagine Cyberladies would be any different.
FS: There were several versions of Cyberlady.
DG: Such as?
FS: For example, Sandy was bilingual, English-Japanese, American buxom, athletic, blonde that
had a real chipper voice and used American slang even when talking in Japanese and was
usually dressed in beach attire or sexy casual wear that varied randomly.
DG: Sandy was American but designed for Japanese audiences. Did U-Kato like Sandy?
FS: U-Kato felt that Sandy was a slut and mostly interacted with her in various S&M scenarios.
I noticed that a lot of Japanese men were super polite to Western women in public but reacted in
the opposite manner to their software equivalents.
DG: What was U-Kato like?
FS: U-Katos English was pretty poor and I relied heavily on my HKP to figure out what the
heck he was saying. I figured that U-Kato probably wanted a Western girlfriend but had a
snowballs chance in hell of getting one.
DG: So he used Sandy as an outlet for his real life frustrations? Who did U-Kato like?
FS: Keiko was U-Katos favorite. Keiko was a winsome, petite, geisha that wore various
traditional kimonos.
DG: Kimonos?
FS: Kimonos are a traditional Japanese style of dress.
DG: I know what they are. I just assumed guys would be interested in something sexier.
FS: Oh no, Keiko was all about kimonos. Her kimonos seemed to fit the various seasons. U-
Kato buddies theorized that the software must use the internal calendar of the computer to help
Keiko pick her outfits. Keiko had a very soft almost childlike voice. U-Kato told me that Keikos
Japanese was very polite.
DG: So were there other Cyberladies?
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FS: Yes, a favorite was Tomoko. Tomoko was a typical Japanese office lady. Tomoko wore
office outfits M-F but dressed in casual designer outfits on the weekend. Tomoko was the only
Cyberlady that had a commercial version that could run machines other than home appliances.
Tomoko seemed to have the most outfits and some Otaku swear that they had never seen her
wear the same outfit twice.
DG: Was an commercial version of Tomoko available due to her popularity?
FS: Tomoko was by far the most popular Cyberlady. U-Kato said that his boss at work reminded
him of Tomoko. All sexual features could be blocked by the systems administrator in the
industrial version of Tomoko since you really didnt want the guys running a nuclear power
plant to be distracted in this manner.
DG: Makes sense. What did U-Kato do for a living?
FS: U-Kato was a computer programmer.
FS: The software had various verbal modes that could be selected.
DG: Verbal modes?
FS: A verbal mode is roughly a set of verbal responses that have a common theme. For example,
in the curious mode the Cyberlady asked a lot of questions like an innocent schoolgirl. In the
masochistic mode, the Cyberlady objected to the commands in a tearful voice.
DG: Glad to know the finest software programmers in Japan in your Earth were hard at work
making the world a better place.
FS: Glad you approve.
DG: This really sounds like phone sex with animation tossed in.
FS: Good analogy. There was a nude option for all the programs, which interestingly, was not
used very much.
DG: Why not?
FS: Most otaku thought that this would be disrespectful.
DG: What about software for the ladies of Japan?
FS: There was supposed to be a Cyber-Gentleman for the ladies but you had generally had to
order that software program via the web since it wasnt stocked in most computer stores and I
had never actually observed this program.
DG: So the guys in your Earth spent all their time talking with Cyberladies?
FS: You couldnt really have a conversation with the Cyberlady since the software did not have
true AI capability and really couldnt learn. However, the number of commands/requests was so
large that you did get the feeling that there really was a lady living in the computer. For
example, all the Cyberlady versions asked how you were when you turned the computer on.
DG: Big deal.
FS: Well, if you said that you were sad then Sandra, Keiko and Tomoko had several
preprogrammed sympathy speeches that they delivered. You never knew which speech you
would get so the speech seemed original and genuine.
DG: No sympathy speech from Helga?
FS: Helga told you to stop sniveling and shape up or else in various different ways. Helga might
also order you to do things with a sex toy that are medically inadvisable.
DG: The main thing to remember is that it is often easier to put things in than to take them out.
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FS: Didnt know you had a sense of humor doc.
DG: So the Cyberladies were created using graphic software?
FS: Not exactly, all the programs were based on video shot with real life models, digitized and
the digitized video was used as a template. These models in turn were incredibly popular among
the otaku.
DG: I can imagine. The models were probably very happy about their popularity.
FS: Not totally, some of the models had complained about being stalked by fans. The fans didnt
seem to realize that the models were not in fact real life versions of the Cyberlady they played.
DG: I have a hard time having sympathy for people who are rich due to their fame and then
complain about their fame.
FS: I am with you on that one. U-Kato said that the models also complained that since they were
really actresses and that they should get residuals unlike models.
DG: Well, they could always make public appearances at conventions.
FS: Tomoko was the only model to regularly appear at anime festivals and was supposed to be
well compensated for her appearances.
DG: What happened to the winsome Keiko?
FS: According to U-Kato there were rumors that the real life Keiko the geisha was in fact a
cigarette smoking super modern gal in real life and thought being a Cyberlady was a big mistake
that had interfered with her serious acting career.
DG: Oh, so she was an actress.
FS: Not just any actress, there was also a rumor about some artsy Hong Kong film in which she
played a prostitute and the film was supposed to feature some pretty explicit sexual scenes.
DG: I imagine this didnt make her too popular with her fans.
FS: No it didnt. U-Kato said that one should be careful about telling this to a Keiko fan since
such talk had been known to lead to fist cuffs among the otherwise passive otaku.
Dr Gamma: So which Cyberlady did you like?
FS: That was a seemingly endless topic of conversation among the otaku that I hung out with.
Tomoko, as mentioned, was had the biggest following especially for S&M purposes but Keiko
the geisha seemed to generate more loyalty. A common saying among the otaku was that
Tomoko made you feel like a man but Keiko made you feel like a samurai
DG: Didnt otaku get bored with their Cyberlady after awhile?
FS: No, they just added new routines. Otaku spent hours adding new commands and responses
to the software so that the software would give preprogrammed verbal responses to any number
of questions and comments.
DG: So basically, Cyberlady was a high tech animated parrot and couldnt say anything that
wasnt preprogrammed.
FS: This lack or originality did not seem to bother most otaku.
DG: Why not?
FS: Many, otaku said that real women were cruel and inconsistent but they could always count
on their Cyberlady. You typed in the command and then typed in the response. The software
then converts the text into a speech using a speech generator similar to the ones used by the
phone companies on this Earth.
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DG: Would you say your Earth was more sexist than our Earth?
FS: How many women have been replaced by X-rated videos on this Earth? I had to admit that
the Cyberlady voices were all very sexy and the face and lips of the Cyberlady did move in a very
convincing manner. Some of the otaku created speeches I had heard were really well written.
DG: You are talking about sex. What do you think about love?
FS: One friend of U-Kato asked his Keiko, Do you love me? His Keiko would answer with a
different Japanese love poem every time he asked this question. He had gone ahead and typed in
an entire book of Japanese love poems and Keiko was programmed to randomly answer with one
of the hundreds of poems he had typed in whenever he asked, Do you love me?
DG: Sounds neurotic.
FS: Maybe but he said his Keikos response to his question always cheered him up. He typed
how in yet another book of poetry for Keiko to respond with to the question, Do you miss me?
He was a freelance programmer and worked out of his house and said loneliness was a major
problem until he got the Cyberlady software.
DG: A machine cant love you.
FS: No, but Cyberlady could be faithful which is more than you can say for most women. You
could program the Cyberlady to only respond to your voice and this in fact acted as a type of
seguridad function since no one else could operate your computer.
DG: What does a security function have to do with faithfulness?
FS: In my opinion, faithfulness is a biologically based seguridad function. Most otaku did in fact
use this seguridad function but I thought it has less to do with seguridad and more with a type of
possessiveness. They didnt want to share their Cyberlady with other men!
DG: So how was this done?
FS: You could turn the Cyberlady software off. Most otaku just the program to go to sleep.
DG: Sleep, not off?
FS: This seemed more natural and polite to the otaku than saying, Turn off Cyberlady
program, which was the other, preprogrammed response. I think the off option was a major
advantage of the Cyberlady over a real lady.
DG: I agree with you about the off option. Still this is just a fancy phone sex machine.
FS: Maybe, but you could get software that would allow the Cyberlady to operate the penile
vibratory stimulator on voice command. There was probably similar software for the cyberplug
but this would be black market stuff that I hadnt run into.
DG: So in a way you had sex with Cyberlady.
FS: Not just sex but meaningful sex, U-Kato said that the first time he had sex with his Cyberlady
was one of the most important sexual experiences of his life.
DG: Pathetic.
FS: Pathetic perhaps but loneliness was a big problem in my Japan. U-Kato felt like he had a
girlfriend at this point. Some otaku referred to the Cyberlady as their girl friend. More than one
Japanese mom had been shocked when she was introduced to her sons girlfriend and looked at
a computer screen.
DG: Yeah, I suppose that isnt exactly the daughter-in-law you want.
FS: One otaku even tried to marry a Keiko Cyberlady legally.
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DG: And did they have any kids?
FS: No kids, the Japanese courts threw out the case. Some of the otaku said that the judges were
old fashioned and just didnt understand their situation.
DG: This sounds like a talk show episode.
FS: I love talk shows. In the view of Japanese men, modern Japanese women were impossible to
get along with and didnt want to get married anyway.
DG: Why not buy a mail-order bride? Not that this is the best option but it beats marrying a
machine.
FS: The Cyberlady option was cheaper than going to the some country like the Philippines to get
a traditional wife. Cyberlady beat being alone.
DG: Still Cyberlady sounds like a poor substitute for a real woman.
FS: U-Kato hoped that with new developments in AI that there would be new heuristic Cyberlady
software that would learn just like a real woman.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient seems to be obsessed with technology and sex and I will
try to ask some questions in this area to see what the root of his delusion is.

DG: Was Cyberlady the main use of technology for sexual purposes?
2.05 Reality Dolls
Dr. Delta: The virulence level is high (3.6). The infection level is high (3.8). Male populations
are more at risk than female populations. The infected host actively seeks out or creates a love
doll for sexual pleasure.
FS: Not at all, the Japanese were big fans of Reality Dolls. Reality Dolls were life-sized,
anatomically correct dolls manufactured by a company in West China for sexual purposes.
DG: I think I read somewhere that we have something similar in our Earth. Sounds like a type of
love doll.
FS: Far superior to the love dolls on this Earth. If you run into anything like Reality Dolls on
this Earth then let me know since I was a big fan of Reality Dolls on my Earth. There were
twenty basic models you could choose from. The models ranged from super petite to voluptuous.
DG: Were the Reality Dolls made of silicone?
FS: Yes, a superior grade of silicone was used for the sexual orifices and this silicone was softer
and more pliant. The Reality Dolls had artificial PVC skeletons with steel joints so that they
bend in a lifelike manner. The Reality Doll was not always a true robot in that the basic model
had no electronic enhancements.
DG: I think I saw something like this on TV.
FS: As stated before there are some parallels between our Earths. A Reality Doll could be
customized at the factory and the owner chose their hair color, hairstyle, skin tone, eye shadow,
eyeliner, lipstick color, nail color, pubic hair color, and pubic hairstyle. Owners generally gave
the dolls particular names reasoning that each model was customized and therefore an
individual. There was even an online dollhouse were owners shared pictures and stories about
their particular Reality Dolls.
DG: I am positive there is some sort of web site like this in our, so-called, Earth.
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FS: Who knows, I am just a visitor. Japanese men had a small problem with their Reality Dolls
that Westerners didnt face. Space and privacy were at a premium in Japan.
DG: What was that?
FS: Even if a Japanese guy wanted to own a Reality Doll then he had to store it. You might be
able to hide a pornographic DVD in the sock drawer but this solution wont work with a 105-
pound, life sized sex doll. Besides storage issues, the Reality Dolls were fairly expensive at over
5,000 dlares a doll. Shipping from the factory in West China to Japan was also expensive. The
Japanese had come up with their own solution based on how they had solved similar problems in
the past.
DG: Japanese have had problems with sex robots in the past?
FS: The privacy problem not the sex robot problem. The Japanese rented rooms with stereo
systems and called them KTV rooms. The Japanese rented rooms with home-theater systems and
called them MTV rooms. A Japanese businessman probably had a video and stereo system at
home but not the privacy to enjoy this system with his buddies or girlfriend. What is less well
known was that the Japanese even rented torture chambers and other similar rooms for exotic
sex with prostitutes or girlfriends. Japanese had created these unique rental services as a
solution to the problem of overcrowding in Japan. Increasingly, the KTV Reality Dolls were
computer-enhanced unlike the Reality Dolls that were shipped straight from the factory.
DG: What sort of enhancements?
FS: Many of the rooms came with computers. The computers in the room had a wireless
connection to a speaker that had been placed in the head of the Reality Doll. Any audio output
from the computer was broadcast from the head of the Reality Doll rather than the computers
internal speakers that were turned off. This simple solution meant that the patron could use the
Dollhouses hardware but bring software that especially appealed to them.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Dr. Delta has indicated he wants his two Assistant Directors to get
along with each other. Dr. Arrow probably has a father fixation relative to Dr. Delta and
this accounts for his hostility to me.

DG: So basically you have to have a degree in computer science to have sex in the Japan of your
Earth?
FS: What can I say? The Japanese on my Earth were a computer-literate people. A patron
could bring a copy of a Cyberlady file that included the particular script of the patron, the
Cyberlady application was already installed on the computer, and had the Reality Doll speaking
the words rather than the onscreen image of one of the Cyberladies.
DG: Cyberlady software combined with Reality Doll hardware. The combination makes sense.
FS: Rooms with Reality Dolls made up to look like Cyberladies were commonplace. There was a
rumor that the Cyberlady Corporation and the Reality Doll Company were in negotiation to
create several Reality Dolls specifically for this purpose.
DG: Basically, Cyberlady provided the software and Reality Doll provided the hardware to make
the perfect artificial female?
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2.06 Homobot
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is low.
FS: Yeah, if you want a companion to take a walk with then you should get a dog. Sexbots were
a type of homobot.
DG: Homosexual robots?
FS: Homobots are not homosexual. Homo- in the homobot case is being used in the Latin
sense of man-like as in Homo sapien rather than in the Greek sense of the same as in
Homosexual. Homosexual of course means love of someone that is the same sex rather than love
of a man. Homobots are not homosexual robots but robots that are man-like in scale.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient shows an abnormal knowledge of English etymology for
someone with such a limited formal education.

DG: So homobots were all over your Earth?
FS: Yes and no, homobots could be found in the armies of the United Americas and on
construction sites but not in peoples homes. Except for sexbots, consumers didnt want human
size robots in their homes.
DG: Why not?
FS: Robots that were much smaller than humans were accepted but not robots that were the size
of humans or larger.
DG: I wonder why that would be?
FS: Some cyber-anthropologists suggested that this was similar to most people accepting a small
dog but not wanting a wolf in their house. Humans were a little scared of robots at some level
and felt more comfortable with a robot that was smaller than them and therefore less of a threat.
DG: I guess in this case small is beautiful.
FS: Yes, for example, pets are generally small because small animals cant eat us.
DG: So small robots were less dangerous.
FS: Actually some of the most lethal robots in the United Americas arsenal were minibots.
DG: What is a minibot?
FS: A minibot was smaller than a human was but bigger than an insect. Despite the lethalness
of minibots kids found them cute. One minibot could place antipersonnel mines in just about any
nook or cranny due to its small size and had probably been responsible for more deaths than
Stalin but people still thought the little guy was cute.
DG: So in this case small was deadly?
FS: Sure, there was a minibot that resembled a large tarantula and mimicked the behavior of a
tarantula.
DG: A robot tarantula?
FS: Yes. Actually pretty practical, if you think about it. The robot tarantula was attracted to
body heat, would crawl on the victim and deliver a paralytic poison before the victim knew what
was happening. Half a platoon would be paralyzed before anyone realized what was happening.
DG: Why not kill them instead of knocking them out?
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FS: This was a robot used for capturing prisoners for interrogation.
DG: Why not just give your paralyzed troops the antidote to the poison?
FS: Only the attacking army had the top-secret antidote. The remaining soldiers, if there were
remaining soldiers, had the option of killing their paralyzed comrades or fleeing the ataque that
was sure to follow. Still kids thought the tarantula robot was cute!
DG: You know I think a cartoon based on the tarantula robot would be a big hit with both the
little kids and the teenagers. Sexbots are human scale so why didnt this small is beautiful
apply to them?
FS: I dont think so. Some Japanese men actually wanted to talk to their sexbots rather than just
have sex with them. Cyberlady filled this need for home use but some men wanted to talk to
something other than a computer screen and wanted greater interactivity that Cyberlady did not
provide. Also, there was a common custom of Japanese businessmen entertaining several pretty
young hostesses at a table at the same time and enjoying the verbal interaction between the girls.
DG: Let me guess robotic hostesses.
FS: You got it. Moon Systems worked on a project that was an attempt to deal with this
consumer needed. Moon Systems was a leader in the creation of workstations. Moon Systems
looked at the enormous profits being made in the sensual entertainment industry, a euphemism
for sex industry, and decided to adapt its workstation for this lucrative area.
DG: What is a workstation?
FS: A workstation is more powerful than a personal computer but less powerful than a
mainframe. You needed a mainframe for natural speech between humans and this was still years
away for consumer robots but Moon Systems knew from their experience with sexbots that the
what made the experience real could be manipulated.
DG: How so?
FS: Cyber-anthropologists hired by Moon Systems found that Japanese hostess customs
provided a unique commercial opportunity. If two sexbots carried on a conversation that was
pre-scripted then there still was an illusion of actual meaningful speech since one robot seemed
to be asking questions and another answering them even though all the responses and counter
responses were already written by humans and required no artificial intelligence. The Cyber-
anthropologists found that more robots reinforced this illusion. Based on field research, the
optimal number for the Group Robot Speech Effect seemed to be five. More than five robots led
to minimal gains in the perceived realism of the verbal interactions.
DG: So this was like Cyberlady but with Cyberladies talking to each other in order to give the
illusion of speech.
FS: Exactly, five robots were given software that caused them to talk with each other.
Borrowing some tricks from Cyberlady, each robot had about ten thousand standard sentences it
only used when responding to a particular robot for a total of forty thousand responses. If robot
1 asked robot 2, What was the weather like, then robot 2 would respond, Its OKAY. On the
other hand if robot 1 asked robot 3 the same question then robot 3 would always respond, Its
lousy. The robots were given a personality.
DG: How do you give a robot personality?
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FS: For example, robot 3 was given a bank of responses that reflected a negative view towards
life. Robot 2 was given a set of responses that reflected a positive view about life. The Robots
would randomly ask and answer questions of each other. Some of the responses were very short
and some were very long as in real life.
DG: What did they talk about?
FS: The speech topics and responses were based on actual observation of successful hostesses.
The observers quickly noticed that male customers preferred small talk. The customers didnt
want to talk about politics, religion or anything deep.
DG: Any other consumer preferences?
FS: You did want a mix of personalities. In addition to a positive and negative robot, you also
wanted a domineering robot an innocent robot and finally a rebellious robot that seemed to
challenge the other robots and especially the domineering robot.
DG: So the robots were part of a soap opera.
FS: Yes, an undercurrent of attention and jealously was also built into the scripts. Robot 1 might
ask the man who was the prettiest one at the table. The rebellious robot would always answer,
No, shes ugly! no matter what the man said. Most Japanese businessmen seemed quite
content to listen to the robots banter among them selves and just smiled and got quietly drunk.
DG: Didnt the businessmen worry about their reputations?
FS: Reputation is what you had before happy hour. The table robots could only move from the
waist up and in fact were connected to a Moon workstation via a cable at the base of their spine
that was not visible from the perspective of the customer. The looks and mannerisms contributed
to the illusion of life. For example, the innocent robot looked younger and was smaller than the
domineering robot. In order to cut costs, the table robots were standardized and you saw the
same set of robots sitting together at the bar of any number of Dollhouses.
DG: Seeing the same set of robots at different locations probably turned off customers.
FS: This standardization was not a problem. Japanese men seemed to actually like the
consistent experience provided by having the same robots at different places. As one Japanese
consumer pointed out, I love McMickey, a global hamburger chain, because I know what to
expect and I love sexbots for the same reason.
DG: Are women hamburgers to you?
FS: Perhaps women themselves arent hamburgers but sex like food is a basic need and men will
fulfill this need one way or another. A best selling book had extrapolated from what was going
on sexually in Japan and came to the following conclusion: Modern society since at least the 19
th

century had given women more economic power and equality under the law at a steady pace.
DG: So whats the problem, Im all for womens lib.
FS: On the other hand, the same book stated that men were hard wired due to millions of years
of evolution to want to posses and control women. The basic contradiction between feminist
cultural trends and male sociobiology in post modern society would ultimately lead to a
segregation of the sexes in which most men would pick sexbots and other similar technologies
over their biological counterparts. When test tube babies could be conceived and raised without
the need of contact between the genders then this segregation would be complete and nations
would be divided by gender. At that point the true war of the sexes would occur.
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Dr. Gammas Notes: The imaginary book is an obvious attempt by the patient to
rationalize his own misogynist tendencies that are probably rooted in his poor relationship
with his mother.

DG: How was your relationship with Erotron progressing? Were you at war with her?
2.07 Vampires
Dr. Delta: The virulence and infectiousness of this meme is high.
FS: I spent my time in Tokyo like a Ping- Pong ball between Erotron and U-Kato. Erotron and I
finally started having sex at her place, no dates, just sex, kind of weird but I didnt complain.
She only had me over at her place at the same time of the month. The chauffeur would pick me
up from my apartment. We didnt talk much. She would pretty much pull me into the bedroom,
do it and then she kicked me out immediately afterwards. If I didnt know better I would swear
she didnt like me but if she didnt like me then why were we having sex on a regular basis? She
once told me she thought of me more as a younger brother than her lover. I mostly hung out
with U-Kato.
DG: So what did you and U-Kato do for fun?
FS: At a Tokyo comic book convention, U-Kato introduced me to a subgroup of otaku that were
known as vampires.
DG: I suppose it would be waste of time to point out that there is no thing as vampires.
FS: They were not really vampires but otaku who role-played being a vampire as part of a
group. The vampire movement started in the United Americas about ten years earlier on my
Earth. In the UA, groups of teenagers form vampire clans and engage in ritualized blood sports
among other things. Blood sports consisted of making small cuts and then drinking blood from
the cuts. For example, a man might cut his arm and let his girlfriend suck his blood and vice
versa. Blood sports were a type of fetish behavior that seemed to have been around for ages.
Not all people who did blood sports were necessarily vampires.
DG: I have heard about blood sports. Its a serious problem among teenagers with low self-
esteem. Why would vampires be at a comic book convention?
FS: The guest speaker was Alan Miller the creator of the comic book Swamp Bat. There was
no Batman comic book in my world but Swamp Bat was similar except that the Swamp Bat
operated out of New Orleans and derived his powers from the fact that his mom had been a
voodoo priestess while his dad was a vampire. Swamp Bat only had half the power of a regular
vampire but was also less vulnerable to sunlight and had access to the voodoo lore of mom.
DG: Never heard of this comic book. I notice that the Swamp Bat is a half-breed of sorts.
FS: Yeah, I guess you have a point. Swamp Bat does not exist on this Earth but was one of the
most popular comic books of my Earth and was especially popular with both United Americas
and Japanese vampires. The United Americas vampires added gothic ritual to the blood sports,
dressed in black, watched movies about vampires and hung around graveyards. This UA based
cultural trend had migrated to Japan but with some major differences.
DG: What sort of differences?
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FS: The Japanese vampires were not into blood sports with the exception of one clan that will be
discussed later. First of all, the Japanese were much more scared of AIDS than Americans and
theoretically blood sports could lead to the transmission of AIDS.
DG: So fear of AIDS is a major motivator in your Earth.
FS: Not just AIDS but disease in general. Biotechnology had gotten a little out of control on my
Earth. I would also think that most otaku were wimps and would probably faint if they saw any
blood. I also thought, Japan was simply not as violento a country as the UA and the sight of
blood could still shock the Japanese.
DG: Glad to hear it.
FS: When you saw people getting shot in front of you on the daily news, as you did in the United
Americas, a little blood wasnt going to shock you. For whatever reasons, the Japanese had
substituted the used of tetrodotoxin for blood in their vampiric rituals.
DG: Tetrodotoxin? Where do you come up with this stuff?
FS: I am not coming up with anything. Tetrodotoxin is a potent anesthetic that is found in some
puffer fish. Puffer fish could be found in many parts of the world but the ones with tetrodotoxin
were only eaten in some traditional Japan restaurants.
DG: A Japanese master chef that was certified by the Japanese government prepared the puffer
fish. If the Chef made a mistake then you died. I thought I saw a movie that mentioned
tetrodotoxin.
FS: Tetrodotoxin was also the active ingredient used in zombie powder by voodoo worshipers in
Haiti. The ethnobotanist, Wade Davis, discovered this in 1982 and wrote a book that was later
made into a movie titled The Serpent and the Rainbow on both our Earths.
DG: That is an actual book.
FS: Of course, I dont just make this stuff up.
DG: Yeah, right.
FS: Tetrodotoxin was widely synthesized only on my Earths as a recreational droga. You could
also make a home brew of tetrodotoxin using some techniques available on the web with a puffer
fish bought at a Japanese fish market, if you had the guts. Most people just bought the synthetic
stuff on the illegal droga market.
DG: How did tetrodotoxin effect a person?
FS: Tetrodotoxin put the person into a death like trance for about 12 hours. You could hear and
see everything but you were totally paralyzed and appeared dead. Even a doctor would think
you were dead.
DG: Why would anyone mess with something like that?
FS: Traditionally, to make zombies. The voodoo sorcerers of Haiti, known as bokors, blew this
droga on their victims. The victim was also given a powerful hallucinogen. The victim was
paralyzed and hallucinated heavily. Keep in mind this is the victims own funeral. Tetrodotoxin
was absorbed through the skin and was actually more dangerous if ingested. The victim was
then reawakened after having been buried and considered dead by friends and relatives. The
victim believed they had actually died, was shattered psychologically, ostracized by the living
and was psychologically manipulated to be a zombie slave of the bokor.
DG: What does this have to do with vampires?
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2.08 White Death
Dr. Delta: The virulence level of this meme is high (3.2). The infection level is very low (0.2).
The infected host actively tries to create White Death. Teen-age populations are especially at
risk.
FS: The vampires of Japan just took some of the techniques of the bokors and adapted them to
their own culture. In Japan you could buy this powder in small vials on the black market and the
powder was affectionately known as White Death.
DG: Couldnt Japanese on your Earth just stick with coke like everyone else?
FS: Most Japanese on my Earth preferred coke but vampires were different. In Japanese
vampiric rituals, the vampire leader known as the sire first put wax on his lips. He then smeared
the tetrodotoxin powder over the wax. The wax prevented the powder from being absorbed into
the body of the sire. The sire then kissed the initiate on the jugular vein. The powder was
quickly absorbed into the body of the initiate and he or she dies. This death was known as the
embrace and both Japanese and American vampires.
DG: What was the motivation to be embraced?
FS: Vampires were obsessed with death and this was a way to explore death as closely as one
could without actually dying. One was also supposed to get great mystical power and insight
from this experience. As one vampire told me, The shores of death contain sand that was gold
in the land of the living. In America the sire and the initiate would exchange blood instead of
using tetrodotoxin.
DG: How were vampires organized?
FS: Different vampire groups known as clans did different rituals. The most common ritual was
to put the initiate into an open coffin in the center of the room and do various occult ceremonies.
Usually the coffin was at the center of a pentagram, a five pointed star, created using red paint.
Candles were lit and placed at the five points of the star. This was the only light in the room and
gave the room a soft light. Mystical but pleasant, New Age music was played in the background
and there was often a good deal of chanting. Members laid hands on the initiate and tried to
give the initiate some of their life force. Some clans had the females of the clan strip the male
initiate and wash him down with a moist towel and then anoint the initiate with scented oil as a
rite of purification.
DG: And what happened next?
FS: The next day the initiate was kept in a room lit by a single candle in which no sunlight was
allowed the next day. It was explained to the initiate that contrary to the movies, vampires
couldnt be hurt by light but instead darkness was a powerful tool of a vampire. I thought this
day of darkness caused extreme temporal disorientation since day becomes night. The initiate
spent the day of darkness learning the ways and secretos of the particular clan. Clans that
follow the described rituals were known as White Vampires.
DG: White as in good?
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FS: Yes, the initiates said the room was filled with love and caring and that they felt extremely
comfortable. Being paralyzed means you had to trust the clan. The clan treated you with
respect even though you were helpless. This went on through the night and the droga was
usually given at such a time that the initiate was reborn at dawn. The ceremony was a little
different for female initiates.
DG: So the men got to hang around a totally paralyzed female during this ceremony?
FS: Strangely, women also purified female initiates rather than having men do the purification
ceremony. The women that went through this ceremony said that they preferred it this way and
this strengthened the sisterhood within the clan.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Matriarchy, sexbots and female vampire fantasies are all based in the
patients feelings of sexual inadequacy.

DG: Sounds like your Square matriarchy.
FS: Maybe the Squares had made society on my Earth more matriarchal in general. The women
who had goon through purification saw the ceremony as more sensual than sexual. The general
otaku population was almost 99% male.
DG: And the vampires?
FS: I would say that 20% of all Japanese vampires on my Earth were female and were some of
the sexiest women I ever met in Japan. In other words, if you were an otaku and you wanted to
meet women then you became a vampire.
DG: You mentioned how UA vampires dressed, how did Japanese vampires dress?
FS: Most Japanese female vampires went with the punk look, which included accessories like
black leather skirts, black leather boots, corsets, fetish-wear and/or super skimpy black dresses.
Another group of Japanese female vampires had a more gothic look and wore long flowing black
evening gowns.
DG: Punk or gothic. What a choice!
FS: The two looks were not totally exclusive and most Japanese female vampires mixed and
matched the two types. Japanese female vampires spent hours on putting on their makeup. They
were always super-pale and wore bright red or black lipstick. They say that they preferred
American makeup if they were in a hurry but Japanese makeup was better for the vampire look,
if you had the time. They had tried American stage makeup and thought it was absolute garbage
and couldnt believe that American female vampires messed with that stuff as they had heard.
DG: Not big fans of the natural look.
FS: The faces didnt have a natural look and did look painted on but they really were painted on
really well. The female vampires also used pheromone delivery jewelry. For example a skull
ring would contain pheromone that could be sprayed by pressing a stud on the ring. These were
really hot chicks!
DG: Did you get to know any of these beautiful girls?
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FS: No, most of them only spoke Japanese. U-Kato and I went to a vampire fiesta. The fiesta
was held in large greenhouse owned by a wealthy Japanese vampire. The greenhouse had
orchids that had been genetically crossed with Venus flytraps. The orchids didnt actually catch
flies like a Venus flytrap but the orchids would move if touched.
DG: You saw that in the movie Minority Report.
FS: The plants on my Earth move but they dont go around attacking people. Lots of plants
move and moving plants are cool. When the genes responsible for movement are identified then
you will have moving plants soon enough on this Earth.
DG: Something to look forward to.
FS: The greenhouse had also been decorated with Reality Dolls dressed in fetish clothing and
contorted in various positions.
DG: Some sculpture.
FS: No kidding, there were also very realistic plastic skeletons of every animal imaginable. The
skeleton of a whale was the centerpiece of the greenhouse and various reality dolls were inside
the whale. I saw the whale as he turned a corner and was so surprised that he backed up into an
orchid that drew back quickly. U-Kato watched me and found my discomfiture interesting. I
figured the party master was a fan of the Bible.
DG: How do you figure?
FS: Well the gals in the whale are obviously a modern version of Jonah being swallowed by the
whale.
DG: So what message are they supposed to deliver?
FS: That Eros lies in the belly of the beast Thanos.
DG: Explain.
FS: Eros is the life force and sex is its most potent manifestation. Thanos is the urge for death
and destruction and the skull is its most popular symbol.
DG: Have you ever been psychoanalyzed?
FS: Not consciously.
DG: Were you attracted to the female vampires?
FS: All in all in I felt that vampirism really did seem to agree with Japanese women. Think of all
the sexy female vampires you ever saw in the movies and then add Asian charm and youve got
Japanese vampires. The clans were one of the few places a Japanese lady could be overtly
sexual and feel that her behavior was appropriate. Female vampires were supposed to be sexy.
Unlike American clans, Japanese clans usually had a sisterhood that included all female
members of the clan and if you messed with one member of the sisterhood then you messed with
all the members of the sisterhood.
DG: Why do you think that was?
FS: I suspect women had a lot more power in Japanese clans than in American clans. I also got
the feeling there was a lot less actual sex going on in Japanese clans than in American clans. I
think that the sexual relationships that were formed in Japanese clans were more intense than
their American counterparts.
DG: So how did you become a vampire?
FS: There were also a much smaller group of vampires known as Red Vampires.
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DG: These Red Vampires sound ominous.
2.09 Red Death
Dr. Delta: The virulence level could be very high theoretically but so far no one has become
infected.
FS: They were, Red Vampires used the Red Death powder instead of the White Death powder.
Red death was a mixture of tetrodotoxin and LSD.
DG: Why was the powder red?
FS: The powder was dyed red so that it wouldnt be mixed up with the pure tetrodotoxin. Red
Death was a lot harder to buy on the black market than White Death since there was very little
demand for this droga,
DG: Gee, I wonder why? What did Red Death do to you?
FS: You are paralyzed by the tetrodotoxin but hallucinate heavily due to the LSD during the
twelve hours. I was told that the combination of paralysis of the body while the mind was
unleashed was an ordeal that was hard to imagine and very, very dangerous. Some of the more
extreme Red Death clans put you in a coffin that was buried under ground. A hose that was
connected to the surface was taped to your mouth so that you could breath.
DG: Why would Japanese put up with this nonsense?
FS: The Japanese were bored. Robots did all the work. Most Japanese spent the whole day
watching a robot do the same thing over and over again on a video monitor. There was no sense
of purpose. The vampire rituals provide insight into the basic nature of the universe. Snakes
were used in the rituals occasionally.
DG: Why snakes?
FS: Sometimes a small garter snake was put in the coffin and this was known as dancing with the
snake. In many occult systems, the snake was considered a powerful creature that could act as
an intermediary between man and primordial forces that governed the universe. The garter
snake couldnt really hurt you but the paralysis meant the snake could slither around you body
and there was nothing you could do about it.
DG: Sounds bad.
FS: It gets worse. Snakes liked warm, moist places and it was quite possible the snake would
enter one of your orifices and again there was nothing you could do about that either. Your
mouth was protected since the hose was taped to your mouth leaving no crevice for the snake to
enter. The other orifices were not protected.
DG: So this would be your bad luck?
FS: Strangely, if the snake did enter an orifice then this was considered a good sign that higher
powers had chosen to enter you, literally. The initiate had to request the snake and was given
greater status in the clan if he or she elected to dance with the snake. Dancing with the snake
was supposed to impart great power to the initiate.
DG: Doesnt anyone in your Japan have plain old normal sex? I mean you got the guys doing it
with sexbots. The girls are crawling into coffins with snakes. What happened to boy meets girl
and they just do it?
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FS: What can I say? The Japanese on my Earth were pretty jaded. I only hung out with one
clan of White Vampires although I did not join the clan. An ex-member of a Red Vampire clan
and now a White Vampire clan member warned me against seeking out the Red Vampires. Their
more extreme rituals seem to have a dramatic affect on their thinking. Many ended up
hallucinating about snakes and death endlessly and had to be hospitalized.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The snake is once again used as a phallic symbol and further
compensation for feelings of sexual inadequacy.

DG: What do you think about these rituals?
FS: The Red Vampire rituals shook the very core of the identity of the members but created
greater self-awareness.
DG: Did you go through this ceremony?
FS: I thought about how pleasant it would be to be buried alive and decided to pass.
DG: What was the biggest difference between the Red Vampires and the White Vampires?
FS: The Red Vampire clans had moved into a lot of criminal areas and had a lot more money
than White Vampire clans.
DG: Who became Red Vampires?
FS: The Red Vampire clans appealed to younger, more criminal Japanese who found the White
Vampire clans too boring. There were teenagers that saw the Yakuza as too square and the
otaku as too wimpy. They were pop culture addicts like the otaku but had criminal interests like
the Yakuza and didnt really fit in either world. The Red Vampire clans combined elements of
both these worlds. Japanese were not loners. Even criminal Japanese wanted to belong to some
larger organization and the Red Vampire clans fit a social niche that no other organization fit.
DG: I thought there wasnt a lot of crime in Japan?
FS: On my Earth, there had been a dramatic increase of violento crime among Japanese
teenagers and the White Vampires thought this was almost totally due to the increasing number
of Red Vampire members.
DG: What about the police?
FS: The problem was that the Japanese policia were pretty old fashioned. The Japanese policia
totally dismissed stories about Red Vampires as the product of some poor deranged teenagers
imagination. Therefore the Japanese public at large was totally ignorant of the pattern of
violencia and who was behind it.
DG: Was there some way to tell who was a Red Vampire?
FS: The symbol of the Red Vampires was a logo similar to the Swamp Bat logo but in red rather
than black. This symbol was often tattooed on the upper left arm of Red Vampires. The really
hard core Red Vampires had a tattoo on their neck that was pretty dangerous since the neck has
many veins that could be punctured during the tattooing process. If you saw someone with this
neck tattoo in Japan then you needed to avoid this person.
DG: Sounds like good advice.
FS: Advice can be a vice. There was one clan of Red Vampires that you really had to watch out
for. They were known as the Clan of the Red Sword and generally practiced Kenjutsu,
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DG: Ken what?
FS: A Japanese swords fighting system. The rumor was that a Yakuza boss that was even too
violento for the Yakuza, got kicked out of the Yakuza, saw the potential of having some mindless
Red Vampires as troops and created this Clan. They totally monopolized the Red Death trade
and even scared the other Red Vampire clans. It was rumored they did engage in blood rituals
using the katana, which no other vampire clan in Japan does. There were two major promotion
rituals.
DG: What is a katana?
FS: A medium sized Samurai sword. The clan used a paramilitary model for promotion not a
family model. This was extremely interesting because the Red Sword Clan has Yakuza roots and
the Yakuza always used a family model.
DG: How about other Japanese organizations?
2.10 Red Emperor
Dr. Delta: The virulence level of father figure memes tends to be high.
FS: The only Japanese underground organizations that used a paramilitary model were the ultra
rightists and terrorists. The first promotion was to capitn and the next one to general. They
did not call themselves a clan but a nation. The leader was called the Red Emperor.
2.11 Ceremony of the Five Cuts
Dr. Delta: A common mutilation meme.
DG: So what sort of hierarchy did they have?
FS: If you were promoted to capitn then you were bound to a cross in a Christ like manner. An
expert with the sword then did the ceremony of the five inside cuts to the potential capitn and
using a katana, quickly cut a star pattern unto your lower abdomen.
DG: Wouldnt the guy just bleed to death.
FS: If done correctly, the cuts healed over and you had a star made up of scar tissue on your
lower abdomen. If done incorrectly, you were dead.
DG: And who cut whom?
FS: A member of a rank higher than yourself must sponsor you. The sponsor performed the
ceremony. A general promoted a capitn. The emperor promoted generals. In the beginning
the emperor had to promote the first captains and later the first generals. Getting cut by the
Emperor was a special honor.
DG: Your Japanese had funny ideas about what an honor is. How could you be promoted twice?
Wouldnt your stomach be a scarred mess?
FS: The first ceremony made a star. In the second ceremony, the five points of the original star
were connected with five more cuts on the outside to form a pentagram. In a fight, you could
focus on the middle of the pentagram on your lower abdomen and draw ki, Japanese for life
force, from your hara. The hara was a point in the middle of your lower abdomen in which ki
was centered.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Further evidence of the patients latent homosexuality that is
repressed but manifest in compensatory fantasies. The sword is an obvious phallic symbol
and the ceremonies are symbolic of a homosexual orgy.
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DG: I have heard of the hara.
FS: All Japanese martial arts used the hara and ki to develop super human power. This
promotion system makes sure that the members took their Kenjutsu lessons very seriously. You
never knew when you had to promote someone. If you were not skillful then you would end up
killing a friend. In addition you would be expected to commit seppuku as the penalty for your
mistake. Seppuku is also known, incorrectly, as hara-kiri in the west. Seppuku was a type of
ritual suicide with Samurai origins in which you take your katana and cut into your own belly.
Afterwards, you were beheaded.
DG: What would be the rationale for such nonsense?
FS: The leader, whose true name was unknown, felt that Japan was becoming soft and that these
rituals would help Japan become strong again. The emperor had been quoted as saying, The
rising sun failed Japan. Japan would succeed with the darkness as an ally.
DG: So this is basically some ultra-nationalist movement?
FS: More of a cult, if you messed with them then if you were lucky they would cut you up into
little pieces with their swords. They used to cut and then bite their victims in a type of pseudo
cannibalism. This practice had stopped because some members were convicted by matching the
bite marks on the victims to the dental records of members.
DG: Any other lovely habits?
FS: They occasionally drank the blood of a bleeding enemy to absorb their strength. This was
actually a demonstration of respect. If you drank the blood of a weakling then you might absorb
their weakness. You only drank the blood of someone you thought was strong and brave.
DG: This is standard cannibal reasoning.
FS: If you were unlucky they would subject you to the Red Vampire burial ritual but with a
difference. A little bit of sugar water was poured down the hose used for air. They werent
trying to choke you with the sugar water.
DG: What were they trying to do?
FS: The sugar water was bait for red ants that were poured down the tube and follow the sugar
water trail down the tube, into your mouth and finally down your throat. You finally die choking
on red ants. This was supposed to be a very slow death. Remember they had given you a little
dose of Red Death in order to make the experience even more pleasant. I was warned that I had
shown a little too much interest in Red Vampires and told this little story.
DG: So what did they do to people they really liked?
FS: If you really pissed them off then they might throw a special type of tarantula or two into the
coffin to keep you company. There was supposed to be a type of tarantula that was not
poisonous, but still big, hairy and scary, that was sold in pet stores in Japan. Theoretically, the
Clan of the Red Sword had a spider farm in which they raised most of these tarantulas for sale in
Japan. One way you could recognize members of the Red Sword Nation was because they often
had these tarantulas on their shoulders. Another sign of this group were missing fingers among
the members. If you were a member and screwed up then you were expected to cut of a finger,
this was a leftover from the Yakuza roots of the clan.
DG: I have read about this.
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FS: Many members of the Red Sword Nation had their incisors, the teeth used for tearing meat,
sharpened to make them look more like vampires. This also meant that a bite from such a person
was especially deadly. Some members were rumored to slowly increase the dosage of a
traditional Japanese poison until they developed immunity to the poison.
DG: Homeopathy?
FS: Yes, they then smeared the same poison on their teeth just prior to a fight and their bite
becomes especially deadly. In addition, many members grew the nail on their index finger and
middle finger to an unusual length. They then smeared poison on these two nails as well.
Usually they tried to scratch your jugular with the poisoned nails but actually any part of your
body was vulnerable. If they wanted to capture an opponent then they used the Red Death
powder mixed with petroleum jelly and scratched the arm of the victim.
DG: What sort of martial arts did they know?
FS: A few members studied martial arts such as the Chinese snake and tiger systems. These
were hand to hand; combat systems that focused on using your hands to slash and tear like a
knife rather than hit with a fist like a club. They take years to be effective without poison since
your fingers had to become like steel knives after years of conditioning to do any real damage.
DG: What sort of conditioning?
FS: Serious students thrust their hands into a jar of sand that was replaced by a jar of beans and
finally a jar of gravel until they could thrust their hands with sufficient power that they could
penetrate flesh like a knife. The poison on the nails meant that you could do a lot of damage
minus the years of hand conditioning. This shows that the Red Vampires were more eclectic
culturally than their Yakuza cousins.
DG: How so?
FS: The Yakuza usually studied traditional Japanese hand-to-hand combat systems such as
karate and judo. Most karate moves center around the used of a fist. Long nails actually
interfere with the formation of a fist. A tightly clenched fist means that the poisoned nails could
dig into your own palm. Judo was a wrestling system and the Red Vampires preferred to slash
and tear rather than closing in on their opponent.
DG: Did they use any weapons?
FS: The nation had a few members that had taught themselves how to use a blowgun. Guns were
hard to come by in Japan and these members used the blowgun as a substitute for a real gun in
pinch. The dart was smeared with poison. Even a spit wad propelled by a simple straw was
fairly deadly if smeared with Red Death since the effects were instant upon contact with exposed
flesh.
DG: Sounds like a great weapon.
FS: Unfortunately, there was no way to develop immunity to Red Death. You could easily poison
yourself while applying Red Death to the projectile. Disposable surgical gloves provided some
protection from the Red Death but were very visible in Japan. Regular gloves were hopelessly
impregnated with Red Death. A third option was to use a thin film of wax on the hands when
handling Red Death in public but this was less effective than surgical gloves at keeping out Red
Death.
DG: So why did they use Red Death at all?
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FS: The traditional poison, to which the members were immune, was much slower than Red
Death and the opponent could shoot you several times before he went down. For these reasons,
guns were preferred over blowguns. The Red Sword Nation usually attacked their enemies at
night. They took Belladonna, a psychotropic herb, before the ataque.
DG: Why?
FS: Belladonna improved their night vision. Needless to say, no one messed with the Clan of the
Red Sword.
DG: Was their much contact between Japanese and United Americas vampires on your world?
FS: There really wasnt much direct contact between Japanese and UA vampires and most of the
similarities came from common pop culture roots and common social needs.
DG: Both groups seemed to be creating their own families because they were alienated from
their real life families.
FS: I agree, most Japanese vampires saw their clan as a type of substitute family. One of the
criticisms of the Red Vampires by the White Vampires was that the clan should protect their
members and the extreme rituals of the Red Vampires hurt rather than helped clan members.
Also, White Vampires argued that the Red Vampires were in trouble with the law to a greater
and greater extent. In the long run this could ultimately lead to a backlash against all vampires
similar to the backlash against many cults in Japan because of the activities of a few extremist
cults.
DG: So the White Vampires wanted the Red Vampires to show some restraint?
FS: I doubt the White Vampires would have ever said any of this to the face of a Red Vampire.
The truth was that the White Vampires, despite their greater numbers, were scared of the Red
Vampires. The United Americas vampires had gotten a lot more publicity than their
counterparts in Japan and many Japanese vampires liked it this way.
DG: Didnt it bother you that you were hanging out with people that were so weird?
FS: Yes, I was warned that some people had noticed me and that maybe I was exploring things in
Japan that were better not explored. I was not too worried about the White Vampires but I
thought I needed to watch my back a little when it came to the Red Vampires.
DG: Were the vampires Squares or Sloppy Squares?
FS: There were no more or less Squares among the vampires than among any other group but
Erotron liked a lot of their jewelry and outfits despite not being a vampire. Erotron really liked
pheromone delivery jewelry. Pheromone delivery jewelry is really effective stuff.
DG: What did the stuff smell like?
FS: You couldnt really smell the pheromones but they worked. Just before I came she would put
her ring under my nose and spray a whiff of pheromones. This intensified the orgasm.
Cheapskates substituted the pheromones with amyl nitrate and even perfume.
DG: You mentioned who became a Red Vampire. Who tended to become a White Vampire?
FS: The White Vampires, unlike the Red Vampires, were typical otaku. They were pop culture
junkies but were more into Western pop culture than other Japanese. In particular they loved
Western horror films.
DG: Did they have any other Western interests?
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FS: They loved Halloween type paraphernalia that was a little hard to find in Japan since
Halloween was not such a big deal in Japan. Many vampires went to the UA during winter
break, January to February, and bought tons of Halloween paraphernalia that was discounted
heavily around this time of the year at party stores. They also bought a lot of stuff at the few
stores in Japan that sold Christian stuff, especially crosses. Many of these stores were run by
missionary types, I think the owners would have been shocked if they knew what type of customer
they were dealing with.
DG: Arent crosses used to ward off vampires?
FS: Japanese vampires mixed and matched stuff from horror films about devil worship and
vampires in a haphazard way. I think they looked at Christian rituals as a type of magic rather
than as a meaningful philosophy. I would say this view of Christianity was not limited to the
vampires but reflected how most Japanese viewed Christianity.
DG: Did only the vampires use tetrodotoxin?
FS: Vampires werent the only Japanese that used tetrodotoxin. We have all had the fantasy of
attending our own funeral. Some Japanese teenagers had used tetrodotoxin to make this fantasy
a reality. They went ahead and took the tetrodotoxin and faked their own death.
DG: Attending your own funeral is in fact a typical teenage fantasy.
FS: Yes, for twelve hours the teenager got all the attention in the world at their own, open coffin,
funeral. The teenagers made sure to make their funeral wishes known ahead of time either
verbally and/or in writing. The three rules given to the parents were no cremation, no
formaldehyde and no burial for twenty-four hours. When they recover, mysteriously, 12 hours
later, no one was the wiser.
DG: Still it sounds pretty dangerous.
FS: Absolutely, the problem was that parents didnt know what was going on. In the case of
Miko Tanaka the parents went ahead and had the teenager cremated immediately despite the fact
that that Miko had told them over and over again how she wanted her funeral to be arranged.
Her best friend, who knew about the tetrodotoxin trick, went to the funeral expecting to see an
open coffin ceremony.
DG: And what happened instead?
FS: The friend was supposed to take lots of photos of the funeral for Miko. Instead, the friend
saw an urn with the ashes of the poor Miko and a large black and white photo of the now truly
dead Miko over the urn. Keep in mind that with tetrodotoxin, you were paralyzed but could
hear, feel and see everything around you. The best friend fainted and when she woke up she
tearfully told the parents about the terrible mix up.
DG: Poor Miko.
FS: Yes poor Miko, this case got a huge amount of publicity. The press portrayed Miko as victim
of her own selfishness. She had tricked her parents in order to got more attention and paid the
ultimate price. Many teenagers in Japan knew about this case and this did decrease the use of
tetrodotoxin among non-vampires. Now if a teenager even mentioned funeral plans or acted too
self-centered then the parents often respond with the comment, Well make sure you didnt end
up like poor Miko.
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DG: You mentioned that the Red Vampires didnt appreciate your attention did anything
happen?
FS: Oh yeah, I was followed by some Red Vampires. I spotted them following me a mile off and
figure it would be pretty easy to give them the slip but this was not the case. When I ran, they
released male bats that followed me wherever I went. The bats had a small radio-tracking
device attached to their legs. The bats tracked me and the goons tracked the bats.
DG: How could you get bats to do this? This part of your story doesnt make sense.
FS: They later explained that they had broken into my apartment the night before and
impregnated all my clothes with female bat hormone. They also told me that the East Germans
had used a similar tactic but used female dog hormone and found their prey with male German
shepherds. They liked the bats better since it really caused their opponents to flip out even
before they showed up.
DG: Yeah, I see how being swarmed by bats could be pretty bad.
FS: I had to admit that there was something pretty unsettling about being followed around by
half a dozen bats. The bats swarmed about me. I tried hitting them with my sawed off baseball
bat that I always carried in my backpack. Before the group got close enough for me to start
swinging, a dart hit my neck and then passed out.
DG: What did you do after the warning?
FS: When I woke up the Red Vampire explained that it was time I moved on. I left the vampire
community alone.
DG: Thats it?

Dr. Gammas Notes: The vampire construct is an obvious externalization of violent
impulses caused by early childhood trauma. The vampire is probably a Jungian shadow
and an aspect of the unconscious. The vampire is a personification of darker aspects of the
unconscious. Vampires represent dark erotic impulses that the patient cannot deal with
directly. Dr. Arrow wants to observe me via a two-way mirror during treatment sessions
in order to learn from me. Dr. Arrow doesnt fool me at all. I know the real motivation
behind Dr. Arrows request. I have denied his request.

FS: What can I say? I am naturally likable. The encounter with the Red Vampires convinced me
that I needed religion in my life. The big thing in Japan was the new Cyber-Buddhist Church
and I decided to check it out. My otaku friends had told me that the Cyber-Buddhist Church
combined Buddhist teaching with computer science concepts. I went to the main temple in
Tokyo.
DG: The Red Vampires are supposed to super dangerous. The Red Vampire let you go. This
incongruity proves there are no Red Vampires. So did you find religion?
2.12 Master Roshi
Dr. Delta: A counter father figure meme.
FS: Yes, I was taken down a long hall. Master Roshi looked to be about sixty, had a shaved head
and was about four feet tall.
DG: He probably started the religion to get over an inferiority complex about his height.
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FS: Maybe, Master Roshi led me to his office. Despite being a Buddhist, his office had a shelf
with two gold chalices rather than the Buddhist lotus.
DG: Why was that?
FS: Master Roshi explained to me that the two chalices were a very old symbol of temperance.
He thought temperance was the real essence of all great religions. The church revolved around
four truths.

Dr. Gammas Notes; Master Roshi is yet another father figure in the patients fantasy. The
two chalices are obviously phallic symbols that the patient associates with temperance.
Master Roshi is a father figure that will teach the patient how to deal with his mother
complex and homosexual tendencies in an appropriate manner.

DG: What were they?
FS: First, the world is filled with unpleasant stimuli.
DG: An obvious variant on the Buddhist truth that the world is filled with suffering.
FS: The second truth is that the cause of unpleasant stimuli is inefficient processing of input.
DG: A little different from the traditional Buddhist philosophy that the cause of suffering is ego.
FS: Right, the third truth is that the reprogramming of our mind/brain operating system would
allow for more efficient management of unpleasant input.
DG: So in your system ego is called the mind/brain operating system.
FS: Not my system, the Cyber-Buddhist system, the third truth is that reprogramming could
occur through the old way or the cyber-way.
DG: I hate to ask what is the difference between the old way and the cyber-way?
FS: The old way was learning the eight-fold path via study of the sutras and meditation. The
cyber-way was to keep the old way but also use computer software that combined music, text,
graphics, and direct stimulation of the brain via cyberplugs. The software took you through a
variety of traditional Buddhist meditation techniques in a controlled manner while giving the
appropriate electrical stimulation at the correct time.
DG: Kind of like the positive side of cyberaddiction. According to you, the solution to all the
worlds problems lies in electrical stimulation of the brain.
FS: Well, in my humble opinion, most problems of the world can in fact be solved via electrical
stimulation of the brain. Master Roshi thought beyond mere electrical stimulation of the brain.
DG: What else did he have up his sleeve?
FS: According to Master Roshi, the world would be saved by the creation of a computer-
enhanced sangha. A sangha is a Buddhist community. When the majority of humanity was
wired into a global computer system then humanity would become a single giant cyber-organism
and evolve to the next level.
DG: Sounds like the Borg on Star Trek.
2.13 Cyber-Buddhism
Dr. Delta: The virulence is unknown. The infection level is also unknown. A Cyber-Buddhist
church has been established covertly in Japan.
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FS: Yes, the reason the Borg are so popular is that they are a clairvoyant personification of what
eventually happens to all technological civilizations that do evolve rather than self-destruct.
DG: Did Master Roshi tell you this?
FS: No another group told me this later in my adventure. There would be no war since we would
all be one. There would be no poverty since all would share with themselves. There would be no
pollution and poverty
DG: Why not?
FS: Virtual materialism would replace simple materialism. Virtual materialism affects the
mind/brain operating system directly and efficiently. The church had done some experiments
along these lines already.
DG: What sort of experiments?
FS: The members used a wireless network to download information from the church computer as
needed, directly into their own brain via cyberplugs outfitted with wireless technology.
DG: Was the Cyber-Buddhism only in Japan?
FS: Cyber-Buddhism started in Japan about five years ago and has about ninety percent of the
members there.
DG: So the supposedly benign Cyber-Buddhists wanted to plug everyone into one giant
computer system?
FS: The plugging in was already happening. Cyber-Buddhism just wanted to speed the whole
process up by seeing the ancient problem of suffering in computer terms.
DG: The problem of suffering is part of the human condition. The problem of human suffering
is not a computer science project.
FS: I disagree, the computer provides a powerful analogy for understanding reality. Reality is a
giant system like a computer. Some of the same concepts that help us understand a computer
system can help us understand reality. The first concept was that like a computer, reality has
levels.
DG: What sort of levels?
FS: First, God is the grand programmer. Secondly, we dont see the source code of reality but
an interface. Even if we could see the source code it would be meaningless. Many people use
computers but very, very few users know the binary code at the bottom of the computer program.
Enlightenment was an understanding of the source code of reality. Our brains are carbon-based
computers. As humans we can only understood the code via our brain. The brain is the
hardware by which we understand reality. The brain has limitations, as does all hardware.
DG: Was the church very popular in your Japan?
FS: The church was pretty underground since many Japanese were very hostile to new religions
because of the misguided actions of some other cults. Cyber-Buddhism did not consider itself a
cult since it could trace its lineage to the original Buddha.
DG: I think its more a computer church than a Buddhist organization.
FS: The Cyber-Buddhist Church merely tried to meld the best of the old with the best of the new.
The church was growing fast in Japan but was very low-key. Most recruiting was done on a one
to one basis at computer related events. Many members seem to be traditional Buddhists that
also worked in the information age economy in one function or another.
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DG: So you liked the church?
FS: I had to say that I was very impressed by the church. I seriously thought of going to the
central church that could outfit me with their special cyberplug system. The church put
cyberplugs in various traditional acupuncture points in the skull and not just the base of the
skull. A single connection at the base of the skull only allowed the stimulation of the medulla for
sexual pleasure. The church also had some of the cables giving biofeedback back to the
computer which effects how the software interacted with the user. The cyber-sex software has no
biofeedback option. The multiple point cyberplug system allowed for a broader spectrum of
neurological stimulation that in turn could lead to enlightenment.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Cyber-Buddhist church construction fulfills patients need to belong
to a normal community. Patient is pacing back and forth nervously and the nervousness
is contagious.

DG: This seems to be an awfully simplistic way of reducing all of Buddhism to a series of
technology issues. What about something like Karma? Karma is the idea that your behavior in
your past lives directly effect your current life.
FS: I know about Karma, the Cyber-Buddhist Church had access to advanced Karma based
technology. They used three techniques to figure out your past lives including hypnotic
regression, transmigratory astrology and brain fingerprinting.
DG: The use of hypnotic regression to explore past lives is old hat stuff.
FS: The church had special software that let you do hypnotic regression in your own home.
DG: Hypnotic regression has tons of problems. You need a trained therapist to guide you
through the process.
FS: There was twist to this software. The software was a standard computer based hypnosis
program but special parts of your brain were electrically stimulated at key points in the
program.
DG: What sort of points?
These points had been a part of acupuncture lore for centuries and a needle was stuck deeply
into the scalp but not into the brain itself. The cyberplugs meant that an even greater degree of
stimulation could now be achieved than before. I wondered how the computer plugs would
interact with my particular Half Square brain.
DG: What is transmigratory astrology?
FS: Transmigratory astrology was a technique used by the Cyber-Buddhist church for the
purpose of self-discovery. Transmigratory astrology was a technique for figuring out your past
lives by using current astrological data. There was a giant computer with the chart of thousands
of famous persons and the computer could match your current chart with past charts based on
the concept of astrological progression.
DG: Astrological progression?
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FS: Some astrologers advanced a theory of zodiac progression were one starts out as an Aries in
one life and you were reborn a Taurus, your next life and so on and then go through all twelve
signs all over again. Carried to its logical conclusion, all your planets would advance in a
similar manner and very and few people would have exactly the same pattern of progression. A
person would have to have all seven planets in the same signs of the zodiac as you and this was
unlikely. A person with all seven planets in the same signs was probably a karmic twin. Your
soul divided at one point in the past and this was another version of yourself.
DG: Can you provide an example?
FS: For example, if your Sun sign was in Aries in this lifetime, then your Sun sign was Pisces in
your last lifetime. If your Moon was in Scorpio in this lifetime, then your Moon was in Libra the
last lifetime. This progression held true for all your planets. The computer could work
backwards and figure out what your chart was for the last ten lifetimes. The computer then
matched the charts of your past lives with charts of people who had lived in the past. You could
do a similar chart of your spouse and find out if you were together in a past life and were
therefore true soul mates.
DG: This is all based on the premise that this theory of astrological progression is correct.
FS: This is why the Cyber-Buddhist Church used more than one method. Plus charts were only
available for famous people in the past. What if you hadnt been famous in a past life?
DG: That is the problem I have with past life stuff. Everybody was somebody famous in a last
life. No one seems to remember being a janitor in a past life.
2.14 Transmigratory Brain Fingerprinting
Dr. Delta: The virulence is unknown. The infection level is also unknown. Transmigratory Brain
Fingerprinting research has started.
FS: Thats true, the other method to figure out your past lives was brain fingerprinting. Your
brain reacts to visual stimuli it has seen before by giving off certain brainwaves. In other words
visual recognition has a particular brainwave pattern that was different from the brain wave
pattern that you generate when you saw something for the first time.
DG: The FBI uses brain fingerprinting.
FS: Our BIS used brain fingerprinting as well but the church used it in a totally different way.
Young infants had their brain patterns measured while they were exposed to computer-generated
pictures and symbols of various cultures and historical periods that they had never seen in this
lifetime.
DG: Like what?
FS: For example, an American infant might be shown a kanji character, a Japanese character,
and if they showed a brain pattern of recognition then they were probably Japanese in their last
lifetime.
DG: And what was the next item shown?
FS: The software used computer adaptive testing so that the next item would also be Japan
related and the program would then narrow the search. After an hour a pretty clear picture
would emerge as to what places and historical periods you were familiar with in past lives.
DG: So what do you do with this knowledge? That is my second gripe with all this past life
stuff. What are you supposed to do with all this karmic knowledge?
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FS: This knowledge was then used in the Cyber-Buddhist kindergarten. Students could learn
languages that they knew in a past lifetime with much greater ease than students that did not
have this past lifetime experience could. The student was encouraged to study languages and
skills from a past life. Children in this special kindergarten generally remembered two to four
languages and a therefore could become multilingual by the time they were in first grade.
DG: What caused Master Roshi to come up with all these ideas?
FS: Master Roshi had been a Zen Buddhist master that was in charge of information system
operations of one of the larger Zen temples. Master Roshi also had a Ph.D. in computer science.
He was asked to leave the Zen temple that he belonged to due to his innovative ideas which was
when he decided to start his own church

Dr. Gammas Notes: Brain fingerprinting actually exists but the patient has come up with a
novel way to use this technology.

DG: Lets try to focus on your relationships instead of all these fanciful technologies you keep
bringing up. Tell me about Erotron.
FS: Erotron was almost as tall as me and was very tall by Japanese standards. This was one gal
that didnt blend in. The second date, after the Sleeping Beauty Bar date, didnt go very well at
first.
DG: Where did you go?
FS: Erotron wanted to see an opera. I had never been to an opera and went along with the plan.
We went Dutch of course. I figured you paid for hookers but you tried to get free sex from nice
girls. I fell asleep during the opera and was very well rested afterwards.
DG: Opera has the same effect on me.
FS: Yeah, but Erotron didnt seem too pleased with my nap. I suggested we go to my apartment
and she agreed. I showed off my large collection of erotic software that I had acquired during
my stay in Japan. I was going to demonstrate the Suckamatron but a little voice told me that
wasnt the right way to go.
DG: Well I think you need to learn to listen to this little voice a lot more often.
FS: You might be right. Erotron opened my fridge to get a soda and said, You have enough
cerveza here to start your own bar. I was glad that Erotron realized how well prepared I was.
DG: You are one smooth operator. What did you do next unzip your pants and show off your
manhood?
FS: That would be too obvious for a classy gal like Erotron. Instead I grabbed one of her
breasts. She told me I was crude and a drunk. I refused to be discouraged and kissed her hard
on the lips. She seemed to melt. I finally made out with Erotron. I noticed that she had little
pink flowers on her white cotton underwear.
DG: So obviously Erotron suffered from serious self esteem issues and this would explain her
attraction towards you. So how did the relationship progress?
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FS: On our third real date, Erotron decided to take me to a Japanese love hotel the next night
and find out what I was made up of once and for all. The room in the love hotel was designed
with one thing in mind: sex. There was a shower and extra large tub, pool, massage table and
giant bed. The floor was white marble. The walls had been done in black and white tile. The
room was color coordinated. We made love.
DG: OKAY, going to a love hotel is on my list of things to do. What happened afterwards?
FS: We rested a while on the bed. She sat up showing of her large breasts. Erotron was aware
of the allure of her breasts. I later found out that Erotron had not had implants but instead had
gene therapy to increase their size. This meant that her D cup breasts seemed totally natural.
DG: What is gene therapy?
FS: Gene therapy was originally created to cure genetically based diseases. Gene therapy
meant that an individual could change the genetic structure of their whole body. The genetic
structure in turn controls every aspect of the functioning and appearance of a biological
organism. The doctored genes anchor to the existing genes. The corrected gene slowly changes
the body.
DG: How could your world do this?
FS: The Genome Project is a map of all the genes in the human body and allowed for the cure of
many genetic diseases but also gave doctors an incredible amount of power over the genetic
structure of individuals. The Genome Project had been done about twenty years earlier on my
Earth than on this Earth.
DG: I have heard of gene therapy but never to make breasts bigger. Okay lets skip talking about
Erotron. Did you have any other friends other than U-Kato?
FS: I met U-Katos droga dealer named Evil-C. Evil-C had figured out a way to used cyber-
technology to monitor trends on the web using multiple cyberplugs. He had cyberplugs installed
throughout his brain. The brain is essentially very adaptable at the physiological level. The
brain doesnt really have any pain receptors but is designed to accept input and make sense of it
over time. At first Evil-C had started out like any other cyberaddict and had the bright idea to
add extra cyberplugs to the medulla in order to get more stimulation and more intense pleasure.
Most cyberaddicts die going this route. They couldnt handle the extra input and end up dying in
waves of pure pleasure, unable to eat or even turn off the current. Evil-C was different.
DG: How so?
FS: He lived. When asked by me why he had survived, Evil-C answered, Doing heroin in grade
school kills you or makes you stronger. Evil-C had so many cyber- plugs that one of my otaku
friends wondered if he could connect directly to the Global Cyber-Highway.
DG: What is that?
FS: Each country had followed the United Americas example and created a web Superhighway
and ultimately all these superhighways had linked up to created the Global Cyber-Highway or
GCH. This was the main route via which complex data traveled around the globe. This was also
the mother lode of all hackers. Corporations used quantum cryptography technology to make
the GCH impossible to hack. Quantum cryptography used photons.
DG: What happened if the hacker got into the system?
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FS: The very act of hacking into a quantum cryptography system altered the data. This was one
of the fundamental properties of photons.
DG: What about Evil-C?
FS: Evil-C went along with a buddy and was hooked up to the GCH. Evil-C got higher than he
had ever gotten in my life. He stayed hooked up for 72 hours straight. My otaku friend had been
worried since Evil-C had lost weight and was totally dehydrated. Evil-C looked older than he
was and the cyber-hacking experience left him sensitive to light or maybe his sensitivity to light
made him able to sense photon levels of activity. Generally, he used a single candle to
illuminate his room. Afterwards, Evil-C had a feeling that certain stocks would go up that week.
Evil-Cs feeling was totally correct.
DG: Why?
FS: Later on Evil-C realized that he couldnt actually read the data but he could make out the
intensity of the GCH. He could figure out if the GCH was more or less active. This was a pretty
unique ability. An active or inactive GCH could mean a lot depending on surrounding political
and/or economic events. As former President Reagan said, If your were about to declare war
on China then you were either real quiet or real noisy. Evil-C got a ton of money as a
consultant that said the GCH. Every morning he would give a GCH weather report and state
that GCH was not noisy, sort of noisy or real noisy. Every once in a while Evil-C told the world
that the GCH was quiet and thats when everybody really got scared and listened.
DG: So Evil-C was a noise meter?
FS: Exactly, Evil-C and I became good friends. Actually I was his only friend. Evil-C was what
is known as a hikikomori in Japanese.
DG: What is a hikikomori?
FS: Someone who stays at home 24/7 and only went out to buy drogas and porn and bought both
in quantity once a month.
DG: How can you be a drug dealer and never leave the house?
FS: Our Internet was a lot more developed than your Internet and even on this world drogas are
sold via the Internet.
DG: So why didnt this Evil-C just buy food and porn via the Internet and never leave the house?
FS: Guys who sell drogas on the Internet usually dont trust the Internet. We would often do
cyber-surfing together and plug up and wander around cyber-space as buddies. Evil-Cs place
had a row of books about the GCH. The Squares really hated quantum cryptography.
DG: Why?
FS: Tetrachromatic cryptography was one of their keys to controlling the Sloppy Squares and
quantum cryptography meant that the cryptography advantage they had was relatively smaller.
Most of all it was conceivable that Sloppy Squares could talk about the Squares secretly using
quantum cryptography. The Squares had access to the Memetic Map of the BIS but the Memetic
Map couldnt monitor messages sent via quantum cryptography.
DG: You obsession with cryptography suggests an obsession with secrets. Do you have
something to hide?
FS: Not really, but based on my experience I would say that one must ultimately understand that
reality is fundamentally cryptological in nature.
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DG: Yeah, yeah, life is a riddle. I get it.
FS: Given that life is a riddle then the big question in life is, Who is the riddler?
DG: I never was a very big Batman fan. So I guess if Evil-C could figure out the quantum
cryptography to some extent then he must have been a pretty smart guy at some level.
FS: He was a smart guy and taught me his basic rules of fighting.
DG: So what are the rules?
FS: Rule one: Hit them when and where they are vulnerable. For example, in the shower, from
behind or while they are sleeping
DG: This sounds like prison fighting.
FS: Where do you think he got his ideas?
DG: So I suppose hitting someone from behind in the shower is a good thing?
FS: It works. Rule two: Overkill is better than no kill. Do hit them while they are down. Do
shoot them thirty times in the head. Do kill all their buddies and family. Dont take prisoners
DG: Sounds overly ruthless. How does this apply to your Wing-Jutsu system?
FS: Actually, Wing-Jutsu emphasizes knocking the guy down and then killing the opponent with
Jiu-Jutsu groundwork once he is down.
DG: Lovely.
FS: Rule three: Fear is cheaper than combat.
DG: In other words, use intimidation rather than actual fighting.
FS: Yes, rule four: Over arm yourself. Always bring a knife to a fistfight or a gun to a knife
fight.
DG: Or a machine gun to a gunfight.
FS: Exactly, rule five: Always bring twice as many guys as you think you will need.
DG: I guess better safe than sorry. Were all your buddies psychopaths?
2.14 E-Animals
Dr Delta: Harmless meme.
FS: Yeah, I have to admit that Evil-C was something of a hermit and did have problems when in
it came to social interactions. Still he had great parties even though, like the character in The
Great Gatsby, he usually didnt attend his own parties. Always wondered why someone would
do that. Not all my friends were psychos. My best friend Fluffy was one of the nicest beings
around.
DG: Who is Fluffy?
FS: Not who but what. Erotron and I wandered into a pet store in Japan. A huge cat that was
just a giant fluff ball of orange fur stared at me. I suddenly realized the cat was talking to me
using HKP. The cat was an e-cat a type of e-animal

Dr. Gammas Notes: Evil-C is represents the dark animus of the patient and the difficult to
deal with male unconscious desires and impulses. Patient is swaying his head back and
forth in a strange hypnotic pattern. Is reverse transference neurosis possible? Normally
patients transfer attitudes from their therapist and become more like their therapist but
can the reverse be true?

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DG: E-animal?
FS: An animal that had its intelligence enhanced genetically. The cat had been too smart for it
owners.
DG: How so?
FS: Fluffy had figured out how to open the fridge and eaten the favorite sushi of her owners and
had been given away to the pet store. Most animals used body language to some extent but this
e-animal could communicate at about the level of a five-year old Square.
DG: So you could communicate?
FS: To some extent, Fluffy couldnt talk like a human since cats didnt have the right vocal cords
and this was pretty frustrating for Fluffy. Fluffy was wiggling around and basically saying via a
primitive version of combined Japanese HKP and cat HKP, Take me home, take me home,
please, please, please!
DG: So did you heed her plea?
FS: I was about to leave the pet store when Fluffy told me via HKP Take me home and I will
open your fridge and serve you cerveza. Maybe I got the message wrong. The message was in
pretty bad Japanese Square HKP as interpreted by a cat as read by someone who had just
learned Japanese Square HKP, so who knew.
DG: Yeah, I can see how you would have translation problems. Maybe the real problem is that
there is no Fluffy in the first place.
2.15 Golden Tuna
Dr Delta: Harmless meme.
FS: Yeah, on the other hand, what if I had gotten the message right? Now, who could resist a
cat like that!
DG: Not you thats for sure. What did Erotron think of your decision?
FS: I took Fluffy home despite Erotrons objections. Using my HKP, I could tell that the pet
owner would have given me the cat for free.
DG: Why would the pet owner be willing to do that?
FS: I later found out that Fluffy had eaten several of the fish in the fish tanks including a Golden
Tuna that had been displayed in the front window and in fact provided the name of the pet shop.
DG: Golden Tuna?
FS: The Chinese had figured out a way to create a tuna species that collected gold in their gills
from the ocean naturally. You then extracted the gold from the gills and sold the rest of the tuna
for food.
DG: Did the tuna actually look gold colored?
FS: Yes, the tuna had been given gold scales similar to that of a gold fish via genetic engineering
so that it could be readily identified. Gold Tuna was generally only found in captivity either in
pet stores or aqua-farms and were kind of expensive.
DG: So I guess eating the Gold Tuna didnt exactly endear Fluffy to the owner of the pet shop.
FS: Not really, actually now that I think about it, the pet shop owner would have probably paid
me to take Fluffy home.
DG: Another missed business opportunity.
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FS: Yes, I got home and I gave Fluffy her new job as the apartment bartender. Fluffy opened the
fridge without too much trouble. Fluffy had a hard time carrying the cerveza. Fluffy didnt have
opposable thumbs and thats really what you needed to carry cerveza around.
DG: Well yeah.
FS: Fluffy decided to roll the cerveza from the kitchen to the living room by pushing the can with
her head. I opened the cerveza and it just spurted out like crazy. That was the end of Fluffy as a
bartender.
DG: So go the best laid plans of mice and men.
FS: Hey, she could get my bag of dope from that very difficult to get hiding place and carry the
bag between her jaws. Furthermore, Fluffy didnt mind having a drag.
DG: I dont think I would want to have cat saliva on my joint.
FS: She would take nose hits rather than inhaling with her mouth. I would blow the dope into
her face and she would inhale with her nose. She usually sneezed two or three times but hey
thats part of the fun.
DG: So your cat was a dope fiend?
FS: No, Fluffy preferred catnip. At first I just kept the catnip in a shoebox that she could easily
get at but the catnip situation got out of hand after a while.
DG: What happened?
FS: After a couple of weeks, Fluffy was zonked on catnip 24/7. I really didnt care except she
didnt even want to go outside to do her business. I got sick of dragging her comatose body to
the park and coaxing her to take a shit. Fluffy was a pretty big cat. People at the park looked at
us kind of funny.
DG: What did you do?
FS: Finally, Erotron and I did a catnip intervention and we asked Fluffy if she just wanted to
spend her whole life stoned on catnip. Actually, Fluffy made it pretty clear that was fine with
her. In the end I had to lock the catnip up in a toolbox with a padlock. Fluffy really couldnt use
keys. This was one time I was happy she didnt have opposable thumbs.
DG: So that solved the problem?
FS: Not totally, I had caught her trying to jimmy the lock with a screwdriver. She would stick
the screwdriver into various parts of the padlock with her teeth and jump on the screwdriver.
Fluffy just didnt weigh enough to do any real damage to the padlock. The toolbox did go flying
into the air and crashed loudly unto the floor this was annoying at two in the morning that
seemed to be when her addiction really kicked in.
DG: So aside from the racket, you solved the catnip problem.
FS: Not totally, I started to get alarmed when I caught the cat talking with some suspicious
looking e-dogs in the park. Who knew what they were planning? Nothing good thats for sure.
Large dogs might have the muscle to break a padlock with a screwdriver. As it turns out the
whole situation resolved itself.
DG: E-dogs?
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FS: Genetically enhanced dogs. One happy day, Fluffy showed up with a bag of dope in her
mouth! She had stolen it from one of the apartment tenants. Fluffy had figured out I wasnt too
interested in dead birds as presents. She had tried talking to her less evolved cousins about the
whole present thing but they just meowed mindlessly.
DG: Where did she get the dope?
FS: Fluffy could sniff out dope a mile off and could sneak in and out via an open window. Fluffy
was the ultimate cat burglar. Fluffy wanted to negotiate a trade. I would get a bag of dope for a
bag of catnip. Sounded like a good trade to me.
DG: Why didnt she just steal catnip
FS: She told me dope was about a thousand times more plentiful than catnip in Tokyo. Most of
the catnip in Japan was in pet stores. The pet stores kept their catnip under lock and key to
prevent robberies by e-animals. Fluffy didnt want to end up being caught breaking into a pet
store and being put in a cage again or worse.
DG: Why wasnt catnip just outlawed altogether?
FS: Catnip as a reward was the only control most owners had over their e-cats. Thus began one
of the happiest periods of the live of my life. Fluffy and I liked all the same cartoons. Fluffy
especially loved films with talking animals.
DG: And how did Erotron fit into this totally decadent lifestyle?
FS: Erotron, on the other hand, was a snob and liked avant-garde French films. Erotron
dressed like a total slut but really was the product of an upper class family.
DG: So why do you think she acted like a slut?
FS: The slut thing was just to drive her family crazy. Erotron loved opera, fine food and art.
She didnt even like punk rock but it drove her mom and dad crazier than it drove her and that
made it all worth it.
DG: Sounds like you and Fluffy would drive Erotron nuts.
FS: Erotron wasnt in the house much since she had all sorts of mysterious Money Square
administrative duties. Erotron also had her own place, that was basically a palace, and spent
most of her time there but still insisted on keeping the fiction we were living together. She was
always taking me to Money Square functions and assuring them we were boyfriend and
girlfriend and really were living together. It was almost like being my girlfriend was some sort
of job for her.
DG: This hatred of her parents probably explains why she was with you in the first place.
FS: Maybe, she paid the rent and we did have sex once a month so I wasnt complaining. There
was also another reason she was with me. I will explain this some other time. Fluffy and I
humored Erotron and watched the French films but secretly amused ourselves by making fun of
the films using a private HKP language we had developed. It was our own secreto language and
combined elements of cat kinesics and Square kinesics. I used my hand to mimic the various
movements of a cats tail. It turns out that cats used their tail to communicate all kinds of stuff.
DG: Cats do this in our Earth.
FS: Fluffy used her tail in a more complex manner. Fluffy sniffed her catnip. I smoked my dope.
We were just two dumb blondes cruising through life and having fun.
DG: So did Erotron support you?
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FS: Just paid the rent and bought stuff for the apartment that she used more than me. Money
was a problem but I would sell a bag of dope now and then and got a little money out of my
nanopayment virus account to make ends meet.
DG: So you and Fluffy got along pretty well?
FS: Fluffy was a lady and a great companion. It was really too bad Fluffy was a cat. Erotron
turned out to be a real pain. Erotron said the place smelled terrible.
DG: I can only imagine.
FS: Actually I thought the dope and catnip smell kind of worked together pretty well and hid the
BO. I tried teaching Fluffy how to take a shower. Fluffy tried teaching me how to lick myself
clean. In the end we both decided the whole cleanliness thing was a waste of time and took away
valuable time from watching cartoons and taking drogas.
DG: Again with the drugs, dont you think you have a drug problem?
FS: Only when I dont have any. Erotron complained about not having enough sex. I pointed
out that she was rarely around, so how could she blame me? She complained that I never did
anything but get high.
DG: Well was she right?
FS: She might have had a point. Erotron said, You have one chore and only one chore and that
is to do the dishes and you dont even do that. The apartment came with a standard ultrasonic
dishwasher.
DG: And I suppose you had an ultrasonic shower?
FS: Ultrasonic showers had turned out to be a little rough on the skin over time but ultrasound
was perfect with dishes. You could use regular dishes in the ultrasonic dishwasher but there
were dishes made out of a ceramic that amplified the transduction process that cleaned the
grime off. You just stuck the special dishes in and the ultrasound did the rest but you did have to
stick the dishes in and this was way too much work for me.
DG: What about using a robot to do the work?
FS: There was a minibot that vacuumed the place on a regular basis but the model that also
loaded the dishwasher was almost twice as much and I had accidentally spent the extra money
Erotron had given me for the deluxe household minibot on a night on the town.
DG: Some accident.
FS: Hey, Erotron was loaded and I figured she would just break down and buy the better minibot
eventually but she refused and seemed to be making some sort of ethical point. Why she wanted
to play house at all was sort of a mystery to me at the time but who ever questioned a rent-free
apartment with a gorgeous gal?
DG: So what did you contribute to the relationship?
FS: Hey, I also took out the garbage, I had wondered if Fluffy could take out the garbage and do
the dishes but realized this would be pretty hard to do without opposable thumbs.
DG: Lucky Fluffy.
FS: What Fluffy had kept hidden from me was that she had bought some gloves specifically
designed to allow cats to do jobs that required opposable thumbs but Fluffy was smart enough to
keep the existence of these gloves top secreto from me.
DG: How did Erotron and your little imaginary friend Fluffy get along?
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FS: While Erotron nagged us, Fluffy and I would just look at each other and roll our eyes at the
same time in our own trademark manner. Usually this got us laughing pretty heavily. For the
record, cats laugh by purring. Cats had several totally distinct purrs.
DG: Such as?
FS: For example, there was the I am having a borderline orgasm purr. There was also the I
thought that was funny purr. Fluffy taught me the difference between these two purrs. Fluffy
even learned to pronounce a few human words but this made her throat hurt afterwards and used
this ability rarely. The first clouds in paradise started to appear after a couple of months.
DG: I am so surprised!
FS: Erotron and Fluffy werent getting along. Upon reflection I thought there were several
reasons for this. First of all, Erotron had started to develop an allergy to cat hair. Secondly,
Fluffy and Erotron were both female.
DG: Maybe there was a whole catfight thing going on.
FS: Maybe but Erotron claimed Fluffy and I had some sort of codependent droga habit. Finally,
Erotron came over one evening, her face turned red as a tomato, superior Square facial
vascularity I suppose, and yelled, I dont care what the Money Squares expect of me. This
lifestyle is a living hell. Choose! Fluffy or me! I am walking out that door unless you kick out
that cat.
DG: And what did you decide?
FS: This was a hard decision. Erotron provided sex and was paying the rent but looking around
the apartment I realized that there were a lot of high value items in the apartment that could be
hocked and I probably wouldnt have to work for ages even if Erotron did move out. Fluffy
provided great dope and also could probably be taught to steal cash.
DG: So what did you decide?
FS: In the end, I realized that great dope could replace sex but not vice versa. My experiences in
Japan had made me a wise man.
DG: So how did Erotron respond?
FS: Erotron packed her stuff and left. I didnt realize that my days of happiness were numbered.
Later that month, Evil-C invited me to a fiesta at his place. I decided that Fluffy could use a
change of scenery and decided to take her along. This was the beginning of our downfall.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Fluffy is an externalization of the patients anima. Fluffy represents
the female animal side. Patient chooses Fluffy over Erotron. In this choice, the patient
chooses to follow infantile patterns of thought and behavior instead of an adult relationship
with Erotron.

DG: Falling from the bottom isnt easy.
FS: But it can be done. The fiesta at Evil-Cs was beyond belief. There were otaku, Yakuza,
White and Red vampires; the whole Japanese zoo was there.
DG: So what group did you hang out with?
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FS: I was flirting big time with a gorgeous female vampire. Like most Japanese gals, her breasts
werent all that big but she had long thin legs that you could catch glimpses of via the slit of her
dress that was some sort of cross between a traditional Chinese dress and a gothic evening
gown. She bit my arm and drew blood. She smiled and I realized that her teeth were sharpened.
I was going to get lucky tonight! I hadnt even talked with a girl since Erotron had left me and I
was feeling pretty horny. I was having a great time.
DG: I guess bites are a turn on for some.
FS: Not so much the bite but what follows. We moved to the backyard were Evil-C was playing Reality Doll Chess.
2.16 Reality Doll Chess
Dr. Delta: Game memes are prominent in this patients memetic structure.
DG: Thats easy to figure out chess using Reality Dolls as the pieces but I thought your Reality
Dolls couldnt walk.
FS: Correct, they were strapped onto walking machines generally used by persons who had lost
the use of their legs. The walking machines were designed to be strapped to the legs and body of
a person that might even be paralyzed from the neck down so strapping the machines to the
Reality Dolls was no problem.
DG: Makes sense.
FS: The white pieces were dressed in white lingerie. The black pieces were dressed in black
leather. The walking machines were controlled via remote control.
DG: So who was Evil-C playing?
FS: Evil-C was playing a Czech named Liska that used computers rather than something like
Evil-Cs intuition to figure out what the Global Cyber-Highway was doing. Evil-C was still
more accurate but every year the computer programs that Liska developed to analyze X just got
better and better. Liska was using an Intelligence Augmentation chess program named Deep
Purple that had been developed by the Heuristic Augmentation Laboratories. Liska had
suggested the game.
DG: Was Evil-C a good chess player?
FS: No really and I thought his agreeing to play chess with Liska was a big mistake. Never play
another man's game. I suppose Evil-C felt he was smarter in everything including chess.
DG: So how could you tell what piece was what?
FS: Each Reality Doll wore a latex and plastic hat that resembled the top part of the chess piece.
There was of course no king and an empress was substituted for the king. No one seemed to
mind.
DG: I know a little bit about chess. How did the game begin?
FS: Evil-C began with what is called a Sicilian Defense.
DG: Thats an unusual opening.
FS: Yeah but Evil-C knew how to work with this defense. The pawn used was wearing a see
through body stocking. Her eyes were closed. She almost seemed alive.
DG: Who finally won?
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FS: Liska won. Deep Purple had suggested moves that made no sense at the time but gave Liska
a huge advantage during the end game. Liska was put in the position of doing what Deep Purple
suggested despite his lack of understanding of the suggestions or going with his own strategies.
The program could show thousands and even millions of games played based on a particular
move that it suggested that would illustrate the logic of its suggested move but this was
generally too much for any player to absorb. Like all IA programs, Deep Purple had settings to
control how many potential games the computer would show given such a prompting by the
programs master. Liska had his program set at showing him twenty to one hundred of the most
probable game scenarios that would occur due to a particular but even this relatively low setting
took time for him to go over and did interfere with the tempo of the game.
DG: I now understand the augmentation part of the program but there is a big difference between
being shown twenty and one hundred scenarios.
FS: If the program flagged a move as crucial then it showed Liska more scenarios automatically.
If the program thought a move was less crucial then less game scenarios were shown. The
program itself of course evaluated millions of scenarios.
DG: That just sound like playing chess with a standard chess program.
FS: The big difference between an IA program and an AI chess program is that the IA program
not only used past behavior to predict the behavior of your opponent but also took into account
your own playing style in order to suggest moves that fit your style of play. Still the player often
felt the machine was playing the game. Thats the way it always was with IA programs. Nothing
they suggested made sense until the end when they won.
DG: I suppose super intelligence would often be perceived this way. So how did Evil-C handle
the whole situation?
FS: Evil-C was pretty pissed about losing the chess game and went to his private gym and set the
electronic trainer to the max.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patients fantasy is a manifestation of his view that sex and
relationships are ultimately games. The patients overall fixation with games probably is
due to a childhood in which he felt his environment was out of control and was in fact a
game controlled by larger powers i.e. his mother.

2.17 Electronic Trainer
Dr. Delta: A possibly useful meme.
DG: Electronic trainer?
FS: Computer systems had long ago taken over the functions of a personal trainer on my planet.
All the exercise machines could accept an IC card that took track of how many reps and sets you
had done on the machine at what time during the week, month and year and in turn could
recommend adjustments to the weights, number of reps and number of sets. All the weight and
cardio machines in turn were wired to each other and could download an overall picture of your
workout routine to your PC and suggest the next step in your exercise routine.
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DG: You know I workout at a gym and nothing is wired. They have one set of Life Fitness
machines that electronically records the number of reps you do but doesnt even record the
number of sets you have done. I dont know about having the exercise machines talk to each
other but for sure a simple system could be set up so my reps, sets and weight settings were
saved on an IC card and automatically entered into the machine when I inserted the card. Beats
my having to enter all that data each and every time on all twelve machines. Also beats running
around with a notebook keeping track of all this stuff. This is record keeping 101 but who wants
to mess with record keeping when you are sweating? Funny that no one has thought of this
electronic trainer idea yet.
FS: Again, the difference between our worlds is not just technological but a difference in a
willingness to use technology. For example, the company that sold the electronic trainer also
got wireless updates on the usage of all its equipment all over the world and even had a website
that showed which of its machines was being used the most in real time. This was a marketing
tool pretty much used by all the companies selling all sorts of equipment. At any given moment
you could find out not only which machine sold the most but also which machine was used the
most. If the customer argued that they would never use a machine on sale the sales person could
instantly respond with data that in fact showed the machine was or was not used by customers
after sale. Of course not too many sales persons volunteered info about machines that werent
being used.
DG: Given all the gizmos and gadgets gathering dust in my garage, I might find such info useful.

Dr. Gammas Notes: In the chess and electronic trainer fantasies, the patient shows a basic
feeling of helplessness. The patient believes that outside forces control his environment.

2.18 For the Love of Fluffy
Dr. Delta: The Fluffy meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: Totally doable on this Earth and suppose it will happen eventually. After awhile I wondered
where Fluffy had gone. I started looking around the apartment for the bathroom. Then I saw a
sight that chilled me to the bone.
DG: What was the sight?
FS: Fluffy was in the middle of a giant mountain of coke.
DG: Oops!
FS: Evil-C always had a mountain of dope on that particular table for decorative effect.
Everyone knew the coke was there for decorative effect. Nobody would have been stupid enough
to even touch that coke. Fluffy was lying on her back. Her head arched to one side. Her legs
and arms were stretched all over the place. For a minute I thought she was dead.
DG: Poor Fluffy.
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FS: I soon realized that I wasnt that lucky. I saw that two thirds of the Coke Mountain was
gone. I had a pretty good idea where it had gone. I leaned over and put my ear against the
chest of Fluffy. Fluffy was still breathing but there was coke all over her mouth. Her stomach
was tight as a drum. Fluffy and I were in big trouble. Fluffy had eaten Evil-Cs coke! I grabbed
the stupid cat and made tracks. I thought that maybe Evil-C wouldnt figure out who had messed
with his coke. This was our only chance.
DG: Did you pull it off?
FS: I heard the bad news from an otako friend. The word on the street was that Evil-C has
figured out that Fluffy eaten his coke! I guessed that the orange hairs all over the crime scene
gave it away. The remaining coke had been given away since a big shot like Evil-C wasnt going
to snort coke with cat hair all over it. I knew I had forgotten something during the quick get
away.
DG: So I guess real cat burglars need to worry about cat hair.
FS: No kidding, Evil-C was going around saying he was going to have Fluffy dissected and show
the dissection live on a web cast in order to make Fluffy an example to other e-animal punks.
DG: What about the other e-animals?
FS: Fluffy wasnt the first e-animal that had pissed off the Japanese. The alleys of Tokyo were
starting to fill up with e-animals that were stealing food left and right. Turns out people didnt
really want super intelligent pets. Most e-animals ended up getting kicked out of the house
within three months. Most e-animals used all their intelligence for one and only one purpose:
food!
DG: Substitute sex for food and I think you have described most humans.
FS: Im not sure but if you substitute dope for sex then you describe most of my friends. The
basic problem was that e-animals were intelligent enough to get into a fridge or cupboard for
food but had absolutely no self-control. As the experts put it the e-animals had high IQ but low
impulse control.
DG: Are you sure that you are describing e-animals?
FS: You could talk to an e-animal all you wanted and the e-animal would nod its little head
furiously in agreement but as soon as you turned your back the little rascal was stealing food.
People didnt really like sitting down for a meal and finding out the cat or dog had eaten
everything in the house while they were gone. E-animals could get into an unlocked fridge in a
second. You could padlock the fridge and this would slow an e-cat down.
DG: Is that what you did?
FS: I personally never padlocked our fridge since there really wasnt any food in the fridge
anyway. There was also a fridge that had a pad in which you typed in a seguridad code but this
didnt really work.
DG: Why not?
FS: A cat would spend the whole day punching in one code after another with a pencil in her or
his mouth and after a week the cat was in. Dogs used less subtle approaches when faced with a
locked fridge. A large dog would just tip the whole fridge over and gnaw away at the plastic
back of the fridge. I would say any dog that did this had a 99% chance of getting kicked out of
the house that same day.
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DG: So who handled the errant e-animals?
FS: Nobody, animal control refused to touch e-animals with a twenty-foot pole. No one had
decided the legal status of e-animals.
DG: Legal status?
FS: Where they animals? Where they sentient beings deserving human rights? No court wanted
to say one way or another. Nobody in animal control wanted to be charged as a war criminal
down the road.
DG: What about the police?
FS: The policia didnt want to run around after cats and dogs that they really didnt have the
training or equipment to deal with. This meant that a homeless e-animal was left totally alone
by the authorities. Fluffy had been lucky to even get a home in a pet store since most pet stores
didnt want e-animals either.
DG: For a more technologically advanced Earth your Earth had a lot of problems.
FS: The Third Universal Law of Technology of my Earth states, That for every problem solved
by technology another problem is created by the same technology. Technology should always
be seen as problem substitution rather than as problem solution.
DG: So I take it the e-animals caused a lot of problems.
FS: You bet! The e-animals soon formed gangs of sorts. The traditional rivalry between cats and
dogs didnt exist among e-animals. The two species complemented each other pretty well.
DG: How so?
FS: The cats would sneak in via an open window or any sort of crack and let the dogs in. The
dogs in turn provided the muscle for carrying away the food. The e-animals soon figured out
how to get the dogs to wear messenger bags and the cats would push food into the bags. A big
dog could carry fifty pounds of food away without much trouble. There werent too many shops
a cat/dog team couldnt handle.
DG: Sounds like a deranged Disney film.
FS: Deranged being the key word. The whole thing was getting out of hand. The e-animals had
shown no interest in money at first. They very well couldnt go to a restaurant with a bill in their
mouth and order a meal.
DG: I can see how this would be problem.
FS: Yeah but after a while they realized they could use human intermediaries. School kids
started buying food for the e-animals in exchange for money. This meant that a shop wasnt just
burgled out of fifty pounds of food but was also liable to have the cash register emptied.
DG: How did Evil-C react to being burgled?
FS: Evil-C said this was a matter of showing human supremacy once and for all. Evil-C told
anyone that would listen that e-animals stealing food and money was one thing but once they
started stealing drogas, the end was near.
DG: So he was angry?
FS: Actually, I thought Evil-Cs pride had been hurt. A cat had ripped off the great Evil-C. I
didnt have the money to replace the coke. Anyway, Evil-C didnt care about restitution.
DG: What did he want?
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FS: This was a matter of honor and when Japanese gangsters starting talking about honor then
you were in big trouble. Evil-C wasnt Yakuza but he loved films about them. I figured that
Evil-C had probably had picked up an idea or two from his viewing of this particular genre.
DG: Sounds like you were in trouble.
FS: Double trouble. At my apartment, I shook Fluffy until fur filled the apartment. I yelled,
What the hell were you thinking you crazy cat! You ripped of the worst psychopath in Japan.
Fluffy just twitched her tail and using her HKP said, I cant believe I ate the whole thing. The
phone rang. Evil-C was on the line and in a low, strangely soft voice he said, Give me the head
of Fluffy or die!
DG: What did you say?
FS: I assured Evil-C that I would get right on the job. Fluffy was still unconscious and I started
to grab the kitchen knife. After all it was Fluffys head or mine.
DG: You chopped poor little Fluffys head off?
FS: No, because at the exact same moment Fluffy muttered, I love you. Fluffys throat would
hurt for a week because she said that phrase but it saved her from having her head cut off. I
realized that I couldnt hurt Fluffy after all we had been through together. Fluffy was more than
my cat.
DG: What else was she to you?
FS: She was my friend and most of all Fluffy was my droga connection.
DG: Sounds like love to me.
FS: Love is the overestimation of your pleasure connection. Regardless, it was time to get the
hell out of Japan!
DG: Where did you go?
FS: Shanghai!
2.19 Tombstone Dream
DG: Have you had any interesting dreams since our last session?
FS: I had the dream of my mams funeral again but I saw Paco. Paco and I played among the
tombstones.
DG: Well by your own admission you killed Paco. The tombstones are an obvious symbol of
death.
FS: Yeah, but I never played with Paco.
DG: Are you scared of death?
FS: I am more scared of rebirth.
DG: Why is that?
FS: It just goes on and on like a bad record.
DG: What else happened?
FS: I dreamed of Erotron was at the funeral. Erotron was wearing a White dress that made her
seem quite pure but she had a red rose in her hair.
DG: When I say rose what do you think immediately?
FS: Passion.
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DG: The white dress is obviously purity. You had Lilies in your last dream. So there is a
conflict between purity and passion when you interact with women. Perhaps you are more
conflicted about casual sex than you let on.
FS: Maybe not because she ripped off the dress and suddenly put on a purple robe and a crown.
She was nude except for the robe and crown.
DG: So what does the robe and crown mean to you?
FS: A queen obviously.
DG: Or your mom.
FS: Gross, no a queen literally. Her eyes were green in the dream despite the fact they were
actually brown in real life and she looked at me with love. She had a pomegranate in one hand a
key in the other.
DG: What did she do with the key?
FS: She handed me the key. She then turned into a black cat and ran into a path that led into a
dark forest.
DG: If I say cat what comes to mind?
FS: Feminine.
DG: Just like Fluffy and did you follow the cat?
FS: Yes, the path was lined with columns.
DG: Column.
FS: Gate.
DG: What was at the end of the path?
FS: Yes, I saw a strange creature waiting for me. The creature had three heads One head had
the face of an eagle. The second head had the face of a snake and finally the third head has the
face of a lion. The creature was carrying a bow and began firing flaming arrows at me.
DG: What did you do?
FS: I ran to avoid the arrows. Erotron appeared out of nowhere in her cat form and in a human
voice and told me to follow her in order to escape. We ran into a black fog and she turned back
into a woman and we made love in the fog.
DG: And then what happened?
FS: I woke up.
DG: Lets talk about Shanghai at the next session.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Paco represents the patients male animus and his romp with Paco in
the tombstones show that this side of his self is in danger. The Columns are phallic
symbols and perhaps a path to manhood. To become a man he must face a frightening
creature with three faces. The creature fires flaming arrows at him, another phallic
symbol and he must flee the creature. He fails the male test but finds comfort in the arms
of Erotron a symbol of the feminine. The cat is a symbol of the patients feminine side.
The cat appears both in the dream and in his fantasy about Fluffy. The patients
unconscious has created the story of Fluffy stealing drugs in order to act as a warning to
the patient that he needs to control his animalistic desires. Fluffy almost dies due to lack of
control and this shows the patient realizes he needs to control himself at some level.
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The second session focused on Japan and sexual technologies.
The Japan construct is a place in the patients psyche in which sex can be dealt with in an
amoral and misogynistic manner. The Japan construct provides the patient with an
outward justification of his socially unacceptable sexual attitudes.

Paco, the Chihuahua, and Fluffy, the cat, both are representations of the animalistic
unconscious. Paco is a representation of the male side, animus, of the patient and is a way
for the patient to deal with his violent impulses via externalization. The struggle between
Paco and the patient in the toy chest is especially interesting. The toy chest is obviously an
externalization of his mothers vagina and in killing Paco; the patient kills his own
inappropriate incestuous feelings towards his mother.

Fluffy, on the other hand, represents the anima or female side of the patients
unconsciousness. The patient maintains a nonsexual relationship with the anima and
rejects Erotron. Erotron is a symbol of a mature orgasmic relationship, and in choosing
Fluffy; the patient rejects a mature sexual relationship. This rejection of a relationship
with a mature woman is probably due to the patients mother complex.

Dr. Arrow plans to increase the patients Halidol dosage.

Dr. Delta: Shortly after the second session, the wife of Dr. Gamma called me. In confidence she
told me that she thought the sessions with Freak Show were upsetting her husband and she
wondered if I could hand the case of Freak Show over to another therapists using some
administrative excuse or another. I promised her that I would look into the matter. I talked with
Dr. Gamma and he assured me that everything was fine.

MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

The main memetic theme of this session is electrosexuality. Since these memes attack the reader
at the unconscious sexual level, mere affirmations will not work. Sit back and breathe slowly.
Now imagine a beautiful woman. A woman from your personal history that you think of in
erotic terms is preferable. Imagine this woman slowly undressing. Go ahead and have an erotic
fantasy about this woman. This fantasy will vary with the reader. Now imagine this woman is
slowly but surely becoming steel. Feel the cold steel skin. Think how terrible this feels
compared to the warm skin of an actual woman.

Electrosexuality poses a challenge to family values that are the core any society. As a people we
must say no to electrosexuality in general and sexbots in particular.

Ungaro: The above memetic infection countermeasure is of course total crap. If this session
could infect you then why couldnt any sexual fantasy in print infect people? Gammas Japan
fantasy is a lot of fun to read. I had no idea Gamma was such a sex pervert.
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I think he has seen one anime movie too many. I think the sexbots are a good idea and probably
will be built someday. I went ahead and reread the Derrida comic book. One thing that stuck in
my mind were the pictures of the zombie in the comic book and how the zombie deconstructs the
concepts of what is living and what is dead. The cyberzombies seem to deconstruct the concepts
of what it is to be a machine versus a living being. The cyber addiction has turned them into
machines.

I dragged Gamma out of the apartment. We went to CKS Memorial, a basic tourist must see in
Taipei. The CKS Memorial honors the memory of Chiang Kai-shek, the founder of modern
Taiwan. The centerpiece of the memorial is a giant brass statue of Chiang Kai-shek. There was
some kind of protest going on. There was rally protesting President Chens reelection. Chen
was shot in the stomach the day before the election. Chen won by two tenths of a percent and
most people figure the sympathy vote got him the election. A lot of people think Chen faked his
own shooting. Gamma eyed the protesting crowds nervously.

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3.00 METAMEMETIC EAST CHINA
Dr. Delta: The East China cluster of memes is highly infectious but not virulent.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient is not his usual cheery self. Eyes are slightly bloodshot.

DG: Tell me about Shanghai.
FS: I arrived in Shanghai the capital of East China with Erotron. China had split up about
twenty years earlier. A group of middle-aged members of the communist party, with support
from the economic elite in Shanghai, seized power. The new government actively sought out the
advice from business and economic experts from all over Asia.
DG: Were they socialist?
FS: No, the new system had been dubbed memetic politics. Memes are an intellectual construct.
A meme is an idea. Ideas are assumed to reproduce in a manner that is similar to genes at a
systems level.
DG: What is memetic politics?
FS: The central dictum of memetic politics was that the state had to create conditions for the
production of memes that served the interests of the state and the people. According to memetic
politics three memetic classes had controlled memes over the centuries.
DG: What are these classes?
FS: The three-memetic classes were the intellectual, commercial, and militar class. The
intellectual classes were the meme technicians. They understood how memes mutated and how
to control their lineage. The intellectual class was also responsible for creating new memes.
DG: And the memetic role of the other two classes?
FS: The commercial class controlled the physical means of memetic production. The militar
controlled the physical means of memetic destruction. No one-memetic class could truly control
the state.
DG: So in this view, what is the function of government?
FS: From a memetic political view, the main function of government was to mediate between
these three classes. The Asian Union had developed methods of intelligence synthesis that were
far subtler than those of the UA and used these methods to balance the three-memetic classes
and use these classes to serve the interests of the AU. However, East China has come to the
conclusion that Chinese culture had specific memetic problems that had to be addressed.
DG: What was that?
FS: All three classes in Chinese culture tend to be traditional relative to meme production. The
focus is not on creating new memes, particularly technological ones, but on focusing on creating
accurate copies of existing memes or what is technically known as copying fidelity. This
traditional outlook gave the Chinese a huge advantage for more than a thousand years since the
Chinese were better at keeping knowledge gained than just about any other culture. Fire was
probably reinvented a hundred times until someone figured out a way to keep that meme alive.
DG: So what changed?
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FS: The information age meant that memetic fidelity was not a problem due to the huge
sophistication of copying technologies. The information age meant that a society should focus
on being proactive about memetic mutation. The US for various socio-political reasons had a
proactive approach to memetic mutation and would always be ahead of East China due to this
fact. The East Chinese realized this and created a think tank that focused on the specific
problem of how to make East China proactive in terms of memetic mutation at every level and
they succeeded.
DG: This sounds like a fusion of Marxism and memetics.
FS: I wont go into the technical details but memetic politics agrees with Marx that there are
classes and history is dominated by class struggle but class struggle must be seen in memetic
terms.
DG: Why the change?
FS: The growing nuclear bomb club meant that any militar action could soon escalate into
World War III and therefore militar action was increasingly irrelevant. Memetic warfare
replaced traditional warfare as the dominant form of warfare in the 21
st
century of my Earth and
a new theory of class warfare had to be developed in order to accommodate this new historical
reality. The AU was the dominant economic power on my world.
DG: You havent explained how this economic dominance occurred?
3.01 E-Money
Dr. Delta: The E-money meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: The Asian Union dumped their own currencies and adopted e-money as their official
currency. E-money was totally electronic within the AU. There was simply no paper money
used in the Asian Union. All monetary transactions were done with an e-card, similar to a credit
card.
DG: Why this radical move?
FS: This made street crime very difficult since the AU central authority could easily analyze any
transaction done with an e-card. Both dlares and euros backed e-money. The euro and the
dlar were contra cyclical. If one currency went up then the other one went down. E-money was
the most stable currency on my world and this had special advantages.
DG: Paperless money? Sounds impossible.
FS: Money is the ultimate meme. Money is ultimately an idea. Backing the e-money with euro
and dlar reserves was more for psychological purposes than stability. Even my world wasnt
ready for true e- money and needed the crutch of paper moneys backing the e-money.
DG: So e-money was a giant memetic warfare strategy?
FS: One of many, the East Chinese government in Shanghai used their huge euro and dlar
reserves to manipulate the world money supply and thereby control the world economy. The AU
government used the reserves to buy goods and services outside the Asian Union but could and
did decide which currency to use for particular macroeconomic transactions such a big AU
government contracts. Deciding to use the euro or dlar for that transaction would dramatically
increase the relative supply of euros or dlares.
DG: Why did the Asian Union do this?
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FS: The maxim was He who controls the money supply of the world, controls the economy of
the world.
DG: So the AU was trying to control the money supply of the world?
FS: E-money didnt give the Asian Union total control over the money supply of the world since
the United Americas and European Union could still print more money but e-money did give the
AU more economic control domestically and internationally than paper money would have.
Several books had been written about monetary warfare and East Chinese economists were seen
as generals with a new weapon.
DG: Why did the China in your Earth focus so much on economic means?
FS: Revisionist Chinese historians claimed that imperial China had controlled the middle
kingdom primarily through economic rather than militar means and that the Chinese naturally
excelled at such types of control. Chinese had superior technology to their neighbors for
hundreds of years and this had translated into superior products and services that allowed for
Chinese dominance. The decline of China had begun with a decline in relative technological
progress compared to the West.
DG: Sounds like a reasonable view of Chinese history.
FS: Japan had correctly focused on technological development first, then economic progress but
had almost destroyed itself in World War II when it pursued a militaristic path. China had been
distracted by various social agendas but now was on the right path of economic superiority that
would lead to political control of the world. This view claimed that a study of Chinese history
taught the Chinese that economic imperialism was more effective than militar imperialism.
DG: So the goal is economic power?
FS: No, the goal is to control the means of memetic production through whatever means
necessary including economic means.
DG: My area of expertise has always been micro-memetics i.e. psychology rather than macro-
memetics i.e. social sciences. What do you know about micro-memetics?
FS: Not much, actually I just know that my Square Earth focused on memetic war more than this
Earth.
DG: What about good old fashioned none memetic war?
FS: Regardless, of arguments about the past, most agreed that every militar adventure since the
1970s by a major power had ultimately failed and there was a pattern to this failure. On my
Earth, UA militar action had failed in the long run in Vietnam, Serbia, the Gulf War and the
Colombian Droga War.
DG: How so?
FS: The huge militar budgets incurred by the United Americas in these conflicts had ultimately
contributed to the UA economy growing more slowly than the rest of the world and losing its
dominant economic position. The cost of these militar actions escalated to the point that the
major power injured the economic means that enabled militar action in the first place. The
United Americas economy had been so rich it took much, much longer for the cost of its militar
adventures to ultimately hurt the economy but eventually the fall came and the Asian Union sped
ahead.
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DG: I thought the military power of the US had made it number one in the 20
th
century.
FS: The US is of course different from the UA but I think the real lesson of the success of the US
is the success of the US economy. US militar actions by the US in Vietnam and the Middle East
have hurt the US not helped the US. In hindsight, the US had ultimately out spent the USSR and
defeated the USSR via economic means rather than militar means.
DG: And on your world?
FS: In my world, the relative prosperity of the AU was due to its low militar spending. The
relative lack of prosperity of the United Americas was due to its high rate of militar spending.
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese militar strategist had written that, One spy was worth a thousand
soldiers. A new saying arose on my Earth; One billionaire is worth a thousand spies since
money controlled spies.
DG: You mentioned Shanghai as being the capitol of East China. Was East China a separate
country?
3.02 East versus West China
FS: Yes, East China became incredibly wealthy and a giant middle class developed. On the
other hand, West China was rich in mineral resources but poor in water. The water in West
China was used up in order to get at the mineral resources that East Chinese factories needed.
Huge parts of West China became desert and millions of West Chinese farmers were displaced.
Ultrasonic technology was widely used in West China as a result of the water shortage. Dishes
were cleaned with ultrasonic dishwashers that I mentioned before but the West Chinese even
wore clothing made up of special fabrics that could be cleaned using ultrasound unlike normal
fabrics.
DG: So what ultimately happened to West China?
FS: This population became a huge unemployed nomadic population that flooded the cities of
East China. This population couldnt find work in East China due to their lack of skills and
became a permanent underclass. Finally, the East Chinese dominated government in Shanghai
and passed laws that prevented West Chinese from migrating to East China and created an
armed border between East and West China to keep this population out. This was a policia
action and not a militar action but many West Chinese did not see it this way. The West Chinese
complained but would have stayed a part of China except for another incredible political event.
DG: What was this event?
3.03 Asian Union
Doctor Delta: The virulence of this meme is currently unknown. The infection rate can be as
high as 6.3 in the Eastern part of China. If the meme turns out to be virulent then this meme will
be extremely dangerous.
FS: Japan had suffered a recession that had lasted over thirty years. The Japanese economy
was tied to the United Americas economy and as the United Americas economy declined so did
the Japanese economy. Japanese intellectuals looked at the incredible economic success of the
China and eventually a group of Japanese arose that argued Japan should quit the UA and join
the Asian Union that included China and ASEAN.
DG: Why the Japanese join the Asian Union?

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3.04 European Union
FS: These Japanese argued that the economic center of the world had shifted from the UA to AU
and that joining the AU would get Japan out of its recession. Japanese argued that the
European Union had admitted Turkey and Russia that were only marginally European
culturally.
DG: I have a hard time imagining Russia being part of the European Union.
FS: I had spent a summer in Europe and had managed get to Russia. Russia on my world was
much more economically developed than Russia on this planet. Maybe if Russia joined the EU
on this planet the same thing would happen here. Why couldnt the more culturally similar AU
admit Japan? Suddenly, Japanese historians were pointing out that Japanese culture had many
Chinese elements. For example, both cultures shared common Confucian values and even
similar ideographs in their languages.
DG: I thought Chinese hated the Japanese.
FS: Not on my Earth, the pop culture of the Chinese and the Japanese had long ago fused and
created an Asian cultural identity that the Asian Union formalized politically. Most Movies and
TV shows were aimed at both a Japanese and Chinese audience in order to make a greater
profit. Talent and capital flowed freely from Shanghai and Tokyo. Communication between the
Japanese and the East Chinese was no longer a problem.
DG: Why not?
FS: English had become the de facto language of the new Asia and saying someone didnt
knew English was equivalent to saying the person was uneducated. Educated Chinese and
educated Japanese teenagers communicated on a daily basis over the web creating a web of
friendships between the two cultures. New transportation technology that doesnt exist in this
Earth meant that travel between the two countries was commonplace. Middle-aged Chinese
would show off their Japanese friends at business cocktail parties and vice versa. The huge
middle class in East China saw a gigantic business opportunities in an AU that included Japan.
DG: What about Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese on the Chinese during World
War II?
3.05 Triad
Doctor Delta: The virulence of this meme is unknown. The meme is slightly infectious (2.3).
The meme does mutate internationalist memes in the infected host.
FS: Both sides agreed that the invasion of the Chinese by the Japanese was ancient history.
Chinese argued that the United Americas had the right idea and embracing Germany and Japan
after World War II had been practical and that the Chinese should also be practical. Many
Chinese felt that the World War II generation was no longer alive and a new generation should
create a new way. The Asian Union became the equal of the UA and EU with the addition of
Japan. Three major economic unions dominated the world on my Earth and were known as the
triad. The Union of the Americas or UA was made up of the countries of the Americas including
North, Central, and South America, Australia to the West and Great Britain to the East.
DG: I thought Great Britain was part of the European Union?
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FS: Not on my Earth, the fact was that the United Americas were really led by the US rather
than being true economic union of more or less equal members. The European Union had
finally admitted most East European nations and even Russia. Individual states in the EU had a
lot of power. The AU was somewhere in the middle. China had more power in the Asian Union
than big states in the EU but not as much power as the US within the UA.
DG: So the government of your Earth was tripolar?
FS: Exactly, the three giant transnational entities competed at the political level largely via
economic means. Each union had a different idea of what democracy meant. The AU put forth a
Confucian view of democracy in which the society had rights to a greater extent than the other
unions.
DG: And European Union democracy?
FS: The EU was more concerned about lifestyle issues. Liberalism with a capital L was
emphasized in the EU. The soft drogas were only legal in the EU. The UA felt that untrammeled
capitalism was the way to go. The European Union also saw itself as an intermediary between
the UA and AU. The EU saw itself as the premier representative of global justice. To emphasize
this role, the EU had added a scale to the middle of their flag.
DG: Was the tripolar system better or worse than the balance of power in this Earth?
FS: The trilateral relationship between the UA, AU and EU had brought stability to world
politics.
DG: Which union was the most powerful?
FS: The United Americas was the most powerful of the three militarily. The United Americas
was about strength and had made global justice a number two priority after our 9/11. The UA
was militarily powerful but not more powerful than the AU and EU together and the UA knew
this. The AU and EU both agreed that UA militar interventionism was a negative and used
economic and political means together to put pressure on the UA to not use militar means
outside of the UA borders.
DG: So the Asian Union was weak militarily?
FS: No, the Asian Union had its own multinational militar that it very, very rarely used. The
combined contribution of China and Japan to the AU made AU militar forces very formidable.
The AU slogan was, An Asia run by Asians.
DG: So, there were fewer wars in your Earth?
FS: Yes, partly because there were just fewer places to wage war. For example, the United
Americas militar intervention in the territories of the EU and AU was unthinkable. Russia had
joined the EU and lent its considerable militar muscle to EU forces.
DG: What about NATO?
FS: Protests in Europe and the election of new governments had lead to the gradual transfer of
NATO militar assets to the European Union militar. At the same time Latin American
terrorismo had engulfed half a dozen nations in Latin America and US forces were needed there
more badly than in Europe. Plus, the UA made huge amounts of money from selling the militar
equipment that the European Union absorbed. Finally, NATO had been abolished altogether.
DG: I cant see the US in this Earth ever abolishing NATO.
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FS: Whether or not a triad would work in this Earth is hard to say. No one wanted a war
between union forces. War had not been abolished. UA militar intervention still occurred on a
regular basis in nations outside of the three unions and this was especially true of the Middle
East. Africa was pretty much left alone by all three unions and conditions had deteriorated to a
point that most union nationals were advised to avoid Africa altogether.
DG: Why?
FS: Race riots in Zimbabwe and South Africa had led to the slaughter of the few whites that had
not emigrated long ago. AIDS was endemic to Africa and considered a hopeless cause. Africa
was a no mans land.
DG: Sounds like Africas future in this Earth as well.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The tripolar world the patient describes is obviously borrowed from
George Orwells 1984. Orwell presents a world divided into Oceania, Eurasia and
Eastasia. The UA is Oceania. The EU is more or less Eurasia. The AU is more or less
Eastasia. The patients version reflects the downfall of the Soviet bloc unlike Orwells
earlier tripolar vision. What is interesting is that the patient describes a positive version of
a tripolar world.

3.06 Trilateral Commission
Dr. Delta: This meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: Hard to say. The Asian Union felt that all three unions should approve any militar action
outside of their own territories via the Trilateral Commission.
DG: The Trilateral Commission?
FS: The Trilateral Commission was a permanent body that included representatives from all
three unions in order to deal with inter-union affairs. The United Americas totally disagreed. If
there were unilateral militar action on the part of the UA then generally the European Union
would take a hard line public stance against UA militar intervention. On the other hand, the AU
would use e-money to quietly hurt the UA economy. There were basically only two currencies in
the world anymore: the euro and the dlar. Other countries outside of the three unions had
currencies but they only worked within the country and were wildly unstable.
DG: Why?
FS: Counterfeiters had become so sophisticated that the United Americas and EU had to expend
huge sums of money on R&D to make currencies that were not easily counterfeited. At this point
both currencies used radio-frequency identification tags or RFIDS that allowed each and every
bill to be tracked as it flowed through the money stream.
DG: All the trouble for each and every bill?
FS: Money was made up of a durable paper enclosed in a super durable, holographic, plastic so
that a bill had a lifetime 1000 times longer than money on this Earth. New bills were much less
common on my Earth. In a sense the history of the bill provided authentication of the bill. The
fact that the unions could track the flow of money for criminal investigation purposes was also
an added bonus. In a sense all money was marked money. Criminals increasingly relied on a
barter economy on the streets.
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DG: Lovely!
FS: My Earth had a lot of good ideas. The triad was very similar to the US national system of
checks and balances but at the international level. In the US you had the executive, legislative
and judicial branches and each provided checks and balances for the other. The US had
provided stable government for its citizens for over two hundred years and this was more than
most national governments could claim. If the triad could last two hundred years then this
would be two hundred years of relative peace that the world had never known.
DG: Sounds like the triad was great. Were there any other advantages to the triad?
FS: Yes, ask any businessman what the best government is and they will invariably answer with
one phrase, A stable government. Businessmen don't care if the government is democratic,
authoritarian or even Islamic as long as the rules don't change and a business plan can be built
around those rules. A stable government allows for long term economic planning. A stable
system of international governance would be the single best thing that multinationals and the
growing global middle class could ask for.
DG: What about a US led world?
FS: This is a unipolar system. Unipolar systems are inherently unstable because no one country
or even group of countries can really run the world. The US at the height of its power on my
Earth could only react defensively to global crisis around the world. The US had ended up like
the little Dutch boy trying to plug all the holes in the dam. Militar intervention dealt with the
symptoms of terrorismo in a country but not the cause. The cause was economic disintegration
that led to political radicalism and ultimately terrorismo.
DG: How were trouble spots in our Earth handled in your Earth?
FS: The unions had more local knowledge of a nation in their region and a greater stake in
seeking a long-term solution. After all one cares more about ones back yard than a distant and
exotic place. In many cases a union had special regional ties with the people in a nation of their
region that they could work with.
DG: What about nationalism?
FS: Nationalism was still strong but an Asian could accept Asian intervention more readily than
intervention from a US Marine. At this point almost any country in the world united against the
United Americas when it intervened militarily. The UA had long ago used up any global
goodwill for its militar missions through over use of the militar option.
DG: You are a real fan of tripolar systems.
FS: Sure, Ill give you an example, Kosovo could have been solved more efficiently if the EU had
moved into Kosovo to do long term nation building. On my Earth, Kosovo was handled by the
European Union and became a very prosperous region unlike Kosovo in this Earth. Also in this
Earth, Afghanistan could have had been handled by the joint efforts of the EU and the AU rather
than US militar intervention that only provided short-term relief against terrorismo.
DG: Maybe.
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FS: Historians on my Earth realized that bipolar systems were the most dangerous ones of all.
The US/Soviet era was the prime example of a bipolar world at its worst. The US and the
Soviets came close to blowing it all up many times over. Historians on my Earth agreed that the
tripolar scheme had avoided the development of an US/China bipolar world that would have led
to World War III.
DG: How do you think this would have happened?
FS: China would have had to spend precious resources on meeting the US militar challenge and
would not have grown economically and the whole of China would have gone the route of West
China. A back wards China would have had the weapons to destroy the world but not the
elaborate safeguards to avoid a nuclear accident.
DG: Was there a deeper philosophy behind the triad?
FS: A postmodern Buddhist rationale for tripolarism had emerged that was widely quoted in the
Asian Union.
DG: Buddhism was obviously a more dominant philosophy on your Earth than our Earth.
FS: Buddhism seemed more able to handle the postmodern concerns caused by the accelerated
technological development of my Earth than Christianity. The first premise was that the globe is
filled with suffering.
DG: A variant of existence is filled with suffering.
FS: The second premise was that the main cause of global suffering is global chaos and its
ultimate manifestation: war.
DG: As opposed to ego as the cause of suffering for the individual.
FS: The third premise was that the emergence of a global order would solve the problem of
global chaos.
DG: As opposed to the traditional Buddhist eightfold path.
FS: The fourth premise was that tripolarism is a practical system of global order that meets
current historical conditions.
DG: Sounds more like a syllogism than a real Buddhist philosophy.
FS: Traditional Buddhism dealt with the problem of individual suffering but how could even an
enlightened being avoid suffering in a world beset with wars and terrorismo? Traditional
Buddhism had not dealt with the fact that World War III could destroy human life altogether and
therefore makes the possibility of human evolution impossible altogether.
DG: An interesting view but is a balance of power really so central to peace?
FS: Even on this Earth, the five-power European continental system of the 1800's was
considered one of the most stable international balances of power in world history. England had
a very simple foreign policy goal at that time; stop any one European power on the continent
from becoming too powerful. In other words maintain a balance of power regardless of such
superficialities as religion, culture and ideology. Historians agreed that five major groups may
have been better than three political groups but three provided the minimal number of
international actors you needed for a viable system of checks and balances.
DG: What was in it for countries like China and Japan?
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FS: China and Japan had followed the route of Germany in the EU. China and Japan had
agreed to work within a larger Asian framework. Some sovereignty had been given up but the
economic gains had been enormous.
DG: What gains?
FS: Could Japan become militaristic again? Could China have another Cultural Revolution?
Due to the AU this was impossible on my Earth. The idea was to get countries embedded into a
larger regional framework than could intervene at the more local level as situations developed
and not just when they were totally out of control.
DG: How did the UA get started?
FS: Our 9/11 had started the process but the United Americas had also been formed largely in
response to the growth of the AU and EU. The critical event had been the development of
terrorismo in Argentina. The Argentinean economy had gone bankrupt. Economic conditions
had led to terrorismo in Argentina that soon spread throughout the Americas. The US used the
existing Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA as the nucleus to create the UA. The UA had
all the missions of the FTAA but also had a policia mission. Terrorism was made a crime
against the newly founded United Americas. A multinational policia force was created to hunt
terrorists throughout the Americas.
DG: I thought your Earth focused on the roots of terrorism rather than military intervention.
FS: The UA favored a more heavy handed approach to social problems compared to the other
unions but the UA did use immigration as a macro tool to resolve problems within its union.
For example, immigration controls for Argentineans to other countries in the Americas were
lessened during their economic crisis so that the highly educated middle class could move to
more prosperous countries and send some of their earnings back to Argentina in order to finance
a recovery. Immigration within unions turned out to be the key to the success of the unions.
DG: How so?
FS: Allowing educated people to immigrate provided a country suffering from an economic
crisis with some breathing room. Educated persons that might have become radicals worked in
other countries instead. Money was sent back to the economically depressed country and this
provided some relief.
DG: So there was free immigration within a union?
FS: Immigration was less free in different unions. The European Union allowed for the easy
immigration of any EU citizen from one country to another. The Asian Union had fairly liberal
immigration policies but not as liberal as the EU. The immigration policies of the United
Americas were fairly restrictive but still much freer than what they had been before the
formation of the UA.
DG: This sounds like the total opposite of the immigration policy on this world.
FS: Immigration wasnt just a nation state concern but a union concern and this changed how
you looked at immigration. Each union tended to be more concerned about a particular global
issue than the other two unions.
DG: What issues?
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FS: The UA was always lecturing the Asian Union about human rights. The UA and EU tended
to agree about human rights. The European Union in turn was always lecturing the UA about
pollution. The European Union had many green parties within its member nation states and took
a leadership role in global environmental issues.
DG: The EU is the same in our Earth but what about the so-called AU?
FS: The AU lectured the United Americas about staying out of the business of the other unions.
The Asian Union strongly supported intra-union sovereignty. The unions should handle their
own affairs. As far as the Asian Union was concerned, If there was a dispute between two
member states of a union then this absolutely should be handled within a union. The AU
strongly supported the Trilateral Commission that had been set up to handle inter-union affairs.
DG: And the UA didnt agree?
FS: The UA regularly ignored the findings of the Trilateral Commission even though the UA was
represented on this commission. There was a saying that, The UA was mean. The European
Union was green. The AU was never seen. If one union got too powerful in any one area then
the other two would gang up against the union that was winning and a balance of sorts was
established. Technology was a major area of competition between the unions. The Asian Union
had subships and microbots. The United Americas had megatrains and gigabots.
3.07 Subship
Dr. Delta: This meme may be useful.
DG: I hate to ask. What is a subship?
FS: Rome created roads and the roads created Rome. The subship was the special chariot of the
AU. The United Americas dominance of the aerospace industry had been countered by the
creation of an entirely new technology. Converted oil tankers were used to house and lay the
tunnel at the bottom of the ocean. The tunnel was made up of a substance that was stronger than
the plastic Kevlar. Kevlar was about ten times stronger than steel. The new substance was
spider silk and had a similar molecular structure to a spider web that was pound for pound one
of the strongest substances known to man. Suzhou, in China, was the birth place of silk 3,000
years ago, and had genetically engineered a particular species of spiders to enhance their web
output a thousand fold plus so that it was now possible to use this substance to build the tunnel.
DG: Underwater? What about air for the passengers?
FS: No attempt was made to fill the underwater tunnels with air for breathing. Such a giant air
system would have been too costly and interfered with one of the giant advantages of an airless
environment. The airless tunnels meant that there was no friction and supersonic speeds could
be more easily achieved. The cable was hollow and big enough to accommodate a train.
Coaxial cables that connected the world are in every seabed on this Earth and this was just the
same technology on a much larger scale.
DG: So the subships were like a submarine?
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FS: Not exactly, subships were a cross between a maglev train and a submarine and had their
own life support system. A maglev train is a train that uses magnetic levitation to achieve
incredible speeds. Instead of going to outer space in space ships to escape the friction of air, the
AU went to inner space, under the ocean. The maglev train tracks and engines that allowed the
subships to achieve supersonic speeds had been refined by Japan that already had a long history
of designing and producing maglev trains. China created the subships themselves. The subship
from China incorporated many design features of the militar submarines that China had bought
from Russia. The Chinese had reverse engineered the submarine. The subship was proof that
the Asian Union could accomplish feats together that individual members could not.
DG: What cities were connected together?
FS: The first subship route connected Tokyo and Shanghai. A giant population effortlessly
commuted between these two cities. A second tunnel connected Shanghai and Taipei. A third
tunnel connected Busan in South Korea to Shanghai. North and South Korea had unified and
the iron Silk Road connected Busan to Europe via Russia. Shanghai became the hub of Asia.
All roads in the ancient world led to Rome. All roads in the new Asia led to Shanghai. Finally,
Shanghai and Los Angeles were connected.
DG: What would be the advantage of taking a subship over an airplane?
FS: One advantage of subships was that they could not be used as missile by terrorists as had
been done during our 9/11. The other advantage over airlines was that supersonic speeds could
be achieved without sonic booms. Finally there was no danger of a supersonic airplane
accidentally crashing into a populated city. Our supersonic passenger planes were four times
larger than the largest passenger plane in this Earth in order to achieve economies of scale. A
plane this size and traveling at supersonic speed could and did take out a whole city. The AU
decided that our 9/11 once and for all showed the need for fixed route supersonic transport such
as a subship. Smaller routes like the one between Tijuana and Tokyo were handled by subsonic
flights.
DG: What about regular ships in your Earth?
FS: The Asian Union created larger subships that took the place of cargo ships. The cargo
subships had one passenger, the pilot, so the expensive life support system could be minimized.
Eventually the cargo ships were totally computerized and no air supply was needed for these
cargo subships. The AU banned most commercial shipping in the China Sea and large tracts of
the Pacific.
DG: Why?
FS: This meant that droga smuggling, arms smuggling and human trafficking was almost
impossible in Asian Union waters. The Asian Union members hated drogas and guns that
seemed endemic to the EU and especially the UA. The subships allowed for a much greater level
of control of what came in and left the AU than cargo ships and airlines had allowed. The
narcotics industries of the golden triangle eventually evaporated as the cost of getting product
out of the AU and to the UA and EU just became to high.
DG: Why was the Asian Union so obsessed with control?
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FS: The AU was made up of countries that were basically more conservative than countries in
the EU or UA. The member countries had watched with alarm as droga use and AIDS exploded
in Asia and decimated social order and their economies. One could argue that the AU had been
formed largely in order to provide a more effective means of policing the region. Many of the
biggest droga and prostitution rings in the Asia had been multinational. The multinational Asian
Union policia could more effectively go after these multinational criminal rings.
DG: The AU police was different from the police of the other unions?
FS: The list of AU crimes was very different from the EU and UA list of crimes.
DG: How so?
FS: European Union crimes included crimes that consisted of violations of human rights by
member states. These were largely absent from the Asian Union list of crimes. Instead, the AU
focused on going after crimes that disrupted social order especially droga use and unlicensed
prostitution. A gangster could no longer flee from Taiwan to Mainland China or vice versa as
had been common in the past. The gangster would be found no matter were they were in the AU.
The gangster would also have a hard time leaving the AU since air space and ocean lanes were
more tightly controlled than in any other part of the world. The Asian Union member states
liked control. The United Americas had more laws pertaining to terrorismo.
DG: Was controlling the oceans the only reason the AU favored subships?
FS: No, the subships had an energy advantage. The Asian Union nation states generally had
very little oil. Electricity was generated via solar power, wind power, nuclear power and tide
power.
DG: Tide power?
FS: The subship tunnels had buoys attached to them. The buoys gathered the tidal energy of the
ocean above. The fixed costs of building the buoys that exploited tidal energy were high but
created clean energy and had almost no overhead costs after construction. As the AU needed
more energy, more buoys were created. The buoys were mass-produced. The per-unit cost of
the buoys dropped dramatically due to mass production. The subships meant that renewable
resources could be used for international mass transportation.
DG: What happened to airplanes and sea ships?
FS: Airplanes and sea ships relied on oil. No one had figured out how to create an electric sea
ship or airplane. The Middle East had long ago become radioactive due to terrorist use of dirty
bombs in Saudi Arabia.
DG: Dirty bombs?
FS: Dirty bombs didnt rely on a nuclear explosion but instead used conventional explosives in
order to spew radioactive material everywhere and oil from that region actually could cause
cancer due to radiation. The price of oil skyrocketed due to the dirty bombs and international
travel in the EU and UA suffered tremendously. The subships just kept on running.
DG: Were subships only used in the Asian Union?
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3.08 Megatrain
Dr. Delta: This meme may be useful in a manner similar to the subship meme.
FS: No, three giant subship systems connected the AU, UA and EU. I already mentioned the
Shanghai to LA subship route; a subship system was created to connect London to New York.
The Asian Union had built the system and then leased it to the UA and EU. The tunnel was laid
along the Atlantic seabed. A United Americas Megatrain connected New York to Los Angeles
already. The Megatrain was the slow part of the journey and most of the Megatrains did make
stops along the way. A subship on the other hand cruised at around 1,000 miles per hour, over
twice the speed of a fast airliner on this Earth, and was not subject to the vagaries of the
atmosphere and weather like a Megatrain was.
DG: Thats the second time you mentioned a Megatrain. What is a Megatrain?
FS: Ill explain in detail later, just think super fast trains. Megatrains were used for land routes.
Subships were used for underwater routes. The longest Megatrain route was the Trans-Siberian
route from Busan, Korea to Moscow, Russia. The most impressive Megatrain ride was the one
from Beijing to Tibet. The Chinese on the Square Earth figured out a unique way to make
tunnels through the Tangulashan Mountains of the Himalayas that were seemingly impossible to
tunnel through.
DG: What was this?
FS: They used the equivalent of a laser tipped plumbing snake to make a pinhole through
mountain rock.
DG: What good is a pinhole?
FS: The pinhole was then flushed with a bioengineered fungus that ate the rock and broke it
down. The broken down earth was not quite soil but close enough that a bioengineered
earthworm could digest it. The digestive range of both types of species had been extended so
that they could work in a symbiotic fashion to do incredible feats. If you extended the digestive
range of fungi and earthworms at the same time then you could create a fungus/earthworm
"system" that could turn some types of rock into useful soil.
DG: This system might actually work.
FS: Sure, this trick had been used extensively throughout Western China to make many land
areas arable. A species with an extended digestive range was capable of surviving in all sorts of
environments it previously could not. The pinhole was turned into a tunnel large enough for a
train to go through. This meant that the fungi and earthworms did all the work at a fraction of
the cost that traditional methods would have cost. The Himalayas were not the obstacle to train
route construction that they are on this Earth.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Subships, Megatrains and laser tipped plumbing snake are all phallic
symbols. The patient has generated these powerful phallic technologies in order to make
up for his own feelings of masculine inadequacy due to latent homosexual feelings.

DG: Why didnt the high tech fungus just end up eating the whole mountain.
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FS: The fungi and earthworms had been engineered to only live enough generations to make a
hole of the appropriate diameter. Still you bring up a general systems problem that plagued my
Earth.
DG: What problem is that?
3.09 Self-Replicating Systems Problem
Dr. Delta: This meme applies to memes and is therefore metamemetic and may have exponential
potential.
FS: The Self-Replicating Systems problem or SRS Problem. Any self-replicating system has
advantages of economy and power that make them very attractive to develop but a huge
disadvantage in the area of control.
DG: What are the economic advantages?
FS: A properly designed SRS requires the up front cost to design the system but requires minimal
maintenance afterwards. In almost any other production system, on going costs far outweigh
start up costs. The on going costs of factory operations during the lifetime of a factory may be
over one hundred times the initial cost of the factory.
DG: Are you sure?
FS: Yes, this explains why blowing up the factories of the Germans and Japanese during WWII
was almost a favor to these countries. The Germans and Japanese were forced to build factories
that were state of the art factories that could produce more for less. The initial cost was largely
irrelevant but sentiment causes people not to see this basic production fact.
DG: I think some businessmen see this. Andrew Carnegie, the famous steel producer of the 19
th

century, realized this when he had a factory torn down before it was ever used when an engineer
showed a design change would lower production costs.
FS: Many managers cant be this ruthless and need enemy bombs or bankruptcy to force them to
destroy the old in order to create the new.
DG: You are suggesting this is not just a factory rule but instead a more general rule?
FS: Absolutely, the maintenance of a computer system over its lifetime will cost several times the
start up costs to create the system. The economics of an SRS turn this cost equation upside
down. The start up costs of an SRS are initially high since they are very high tech and require
costs in the area of basic research. The pay off comes down the road. Life is a SRS except we
refer to this self-replication as reproduction.
DG: Sounds great!
FS: The basic problem is that life forms can mutate and systems created to control the original
life form dont work with the mutation. Any system that can self-replicate will eventually
replicate forms of itself that contain errors. The errors can be thought of as mutations. We
already discussed memetic mutation earlier. Biological mutation is obvious enough. The really
tricky concept is cybernetic mutation.
DG: Cybernetic mutation?
FS: This Earth has computer viruses. Computer viruses are self-replicating software programs
that effect some part of a computers operating system. Your Earth is already starting to
conceptualize cyber-warfare in which one nation uses computer viruses to disrupt the computer
systems of another nation. The next stage will be computer predators.
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DG: What do computer predators do?
FS: Sooner or later someone is going to realize that just disrupting an enemies computer system
is primitive and controlling the computer systems of another nation is a far more effective goal.
If you can control the computers of your enemies then to a great extent you can control most of
the infrastructure of your enemy.
DG: How do computer predators do this?
FS: Like their biological counterparts, computer predators can react in complex ways to any
counter measures taken to stop them. Computer predators replaced computer viruses on my
Earth. Computer viruses generally have less than a hundred lines of code. A computer predator
had thousands of lines of code and any error in their code replication could have unforeseen
consequences. The enemy used cyber-war countermeasures that deliberately tried to disrupt the
program of the computer predator, and often instead of disrupting the predator the means may
mutate the predator so that the predator become effectively autonomous and out of the control of
the government that created them.
DG: The SRS problem is a systems problem?
FS: Yes, the SRS Problem thus applies not only to biological systems but also to memetic systems
and cybernetic systems. In the long run the SRS Problem is what led to the destruction of my
Earth.
DG: I suppose our Earth will face the same problem down the road.
FS: But perhaps you can learn from our experience. The same fungus/earthworm system was
used to connect Chinese Kunming in South East Asia with Lhasa in Tibet. The Bangkok to Lhasa
ride through Kunming was considered the most interesting Megatrain ride on my Earth.
DG: From one side of the sublime to the other side of the sublime in one train ride.
FS: I regret that I never did this ride. The Shanghai to London trip via a subship to LA and a
megatrain to NY took ten hours if you were lucky. The combination of economic union and
global transportation systems created a new multinational professional class that was actively
hostile to old-fashioned ideas of nationalism. This class was still small but growing and very
influential.
DG: Sound like triadic yuppies. What was better the subship or Megatrain?
FS: The subship was better for transportation across oceans and the Pacific is the largest ocean
in the world. The history of China and Japan cannot be explained without looking at the basic
geographical fact that an ocean separates them. Subships made sense given the geography of
Asia. The Americas are a solid landmass. Megatrains made more sense for the Americas.
Megatrains were less energy efficient due to friction caused by air than subships but Megatrains
could double as weapons platforms and satellite launchers. The Americas were criss-crossed
with Megatrains that allowed for easy transportation between North and South America.
DG: I bet the weapons potential of the Megatrains was a big plus.
FS: Each system had pros and cons. There was trade off between flexibility and efficiency.
Megatrains had lower start up costs but were more expensive to maintain because of higher
energy consumption.
DG: The primary function of the Megatrains was military?
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FS: No, the United States used Megatrains for mass supersonic transport and to send satellites
into space on a daily basis. The subship was the direct response of the AU to the Megatrain.
The United States would dominate outer space but the AU would dominate inner space. I had
taken the Megatrain from New York to Los Angeles and had been impressed.
DG: So this was a maglev just like the subship?
FS: No, the United States used advanced rail technology that was developed at the Sandia
National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The propulsion technology had originally
been built to accelerate satellite-killing projectiles. A track was built that used magnetic
propulsion to propel objects at near light speed.
DG: Why are near light speeds needed?
FS: At near light speed the kinetic energy was so great that a car propelled at this speed would
have the explosive power of a nuclear bomb but was almost impossible to shoot down with a
missile defensa (defense) system due to the speed and mass of the projectile. The technology was
known as segmented rail phased induction motor system or Seraphim for short.
DG: What were the major Megatrain routes?
FS: The most important route was used to shuttle people back and forth from New York to Los
Angeles. About twice a year the same track was used to launch satellites. There was a special
track from Los Angeles to the Pacific that slowly raised the gradient so that the projectile went
straight into the atmosphere.
DG: I think sending your passengers into space instead of LA like they wanted wouldnt be too
good for business.
FS: This additional track was never used by the public and only existed to launch satellites. The
payload started in New York and emerged in the Pacific. If the launch was a failure then the
payload could be dumped into the Pacific.
DG: How is this better than standard missile technology?
FS: The biggest advantage was that payloads the size of a commuter train could be launched this
way. The cost of launching extremely large payload this way was about one-sixth the cost of
using traditional rocket technologies. Many countries and companies leased the track for one
billion dlares and hour!
DG: What was the target of this system?
FS: In theory the target was Shanghai but if the missile landed anywhere in East China then two
thirds of the country was basically obliterated instantly. Accuracy was not necessary. The best
part was that there was no radioactive fallout and the area could be occupied once the debris
shot into the atmosphere finally descended in about a year.
DG: Lovely.
FS: The biggest problem with the weapon was that it was too powerful. A supercomputer had
been used to calculate the exact size and speed of the projectile needed to destroy China and not
the world. The blast could be so powerful that Chinas neighbors would also be affected and the
weather of the whole world could be permanently changed for the worse. Again, the track was
used for commuters on a daily basis and hopefully would never be used for missiles. China
needless to say wasnt too happy about this and had assured United States that they would
destroy United States in turn. This may have been harder to do than most people realized.
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DG: The UA had a countermove?
FS: Monumental civil defensa. The New York to Los Angeles route ran through the Rocky
Mountains. The Rocky Mountains were huge and could not be penetrated by nuclear weapons.
The New York to Los Angeles route had massive bomb shelters adjoining it and about 50% of the
population could be evacuated to these bomb shelters using the Megatrain and connecting
trains. The UA Internet superhighway as well as, traditional electric lines, also ran along this
route and these lines were shielded from any electromagnetic magnetic pulse or EMP that would
follow an atomic ataque. EMP would disrupt electronics. The United Americas wanted to make
sure its command and control structure was protected from nuclear weapons. The UA had
stockpiled enough supplies to survive underground for two years which meant that they could
weather out a nuclear ataque, destroy China and then leave the now radioactive United States
and reclaim, a decimated but non-radioactive China.
DG: What if the European Union attacked?
FS: In theory, a similar scenario would play out if the EU attacked the US but the payload would
start in LA and shoot out of NY.
DG: Sounds risky.
FS: The people of my Earth were risk takers. The system had several redundancies. The United
States had created modular elevated tracks.
DG: Why?
FS: These modular tracks could be connected to any part of the line to allow for a makeshift
liftoff. This meant that China would have had to totally destroy both tracks in order to prevent
retaliation. A projectile from a subship would also do a ton of damage but bombing the
terminals of a subship shut it down so it was not a very good weapon.
DG: I cant imagine millions of people living underground without going nuts.
FS: The Megatrain complex had many aesthetic features including the use of natural light
underground. The Suncatcher was a combination of wind tower and sun pipe. The Suncatcher
trapped exterior light from a buildings roof and sent it down to an electrolytically enhanced,
anodized aluminum tube creating yellow-white daylight. The Suncatcher also provided fresh air.
The natural light was used to grow many plants for decorative purposes. The public areas of the
Megatrain complex were very bright and green.
DG: What Dr. Strangelove came up with this system?
3.10 Cyber-Lincoln Brigade
Dr. Delta: This meme has already actualized.
FS: The Megatrain was the brainchild of the Cyber-Lincoln Brigade. The United States Cyber-
Lincoln Brigade was an organization modeled after the first Lincoln Brigade that saw action in
the Spanish civil war just prior to WWII.
DG: Hemingway was a member.
FS: Hemingway was the most prominent member of the first Lincoln Brigade and drove an
ambulance during the civil war. The Lincoln Brigade was a group of expats who felt that
freedom was everyone business and fought the Francos fascists as volunteers.
DG: And the Cyber-Lincoln Brigade?
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FS: The Cyber-Lincoln Brigade felt that the UA was a bastion of freedom standing up against
the new fascism of the Asian Union. They decided that in modern times the UA needed brain
more than brawn and the second Cyber-Lincoln Brigade was a militar a think tank consisting of
some of the most brilliant minds on my planet.
DG: What was the cyber all about?
FS: The members got together in cyber-space in order to plan strategies and tactics that UA
could use for defensa. The members were anonymous and basically you were promoted purely
on the strength of the ideas you presented to the other members of the group. The Cyber-Lincoln
Brigade was an open source political group.
DG: The flaw in your subship story is that the labor costs would make the project impossible.
FS: Yeah and maybe we are both in a novel and when the reader stops reading then we no
longer exist. Anything is possible! You are right except that robotic technology was much more
advanced than in this Earth. Erotron had taken me to a robotics factory in the Tokyo area once.
DG: She took you to a factory for a date. Why?
FS: I dont know she was always visiting all sorts of totally not fun places for some business or
another. The head of the factory had given us a long-winded lecture about robotics and he said
that robotics had emerged as the other key to global dominance.
DG: How did this happen?
FS: The factory supervisor had told me that at first robots acted as helpers to troops. Bigger
robots mostly delivered material and large payloads such as missiles. Smaller robots enhanced
the sensory capability of the troops.
DG: So robots came in different sizes?
FS: Yes, the factory used the measures of the Global Robotics Institute. The institute had precise
measures but rough biological equivalents are used more often. Nanobots were smaller than a
virus. Microbots were a robot the size of a microbe to the size of an insect. Minibots were the
size of an insect but smaller than a human. Homobots as mentioned were not homosexual robots
but robots that were about the same size as a human. Megabots were the size of a large
mammal. Gigabots were larger than the largest dinosaur.
DG: All the unions had robots?
3.11 Combot
Dr. Delta: This meme is difficult to measure as are all the bot memes.
FS: The United Americas dominated the homobot, megabot and gigabot size range. The UA had
taken an early lead in the use of combots and tankbots.
DG: Combot?
FS: Combots resembled an infantry soldier in size and function. The factory didnt build any UA
robots but the director showed some pictures of the UA combots and tankbots during his
presentation. Anyway, I had seen them any number of times on TV.
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3.12 Tankbot
DG: And a tankbot?
FS: Tankbots resembled a tank with mechanical spider legs attached to it and was a megabot in
terms of size. A combot is a homobot due to its size and looked vaguely human. A combot could
use weapons and tools designed for humans due to its size and more or less human like arms and
legs. Unlike humans, the combots had their computer in the chest were it was protected with
heavy plating and had tentacles that came out of the chest that had sensors that could move
around and let it see.
DG: Why use tentacles?
FS: A combot would not move into the line of fire but instead would snake its sensor over into
the area of fire to figure out what was going on. If the sensor got shot up then no problem
because a combot usually had several of these tentacles and would just switch the sensory input
to another tentacle. In a really bad situation, the combot did the turtle thing and the tentacles
were withdrawn into the chest leaving only the much stronger arms and legs in danger. A
combot could walk like a human or on all fours with equal effectiveness and could still do twenty
miles and hour on all fours even if it lost one leg. Combots usually carried spare legs and arms
anyway and would just screw out the damaged component and screw in a new one. I had seen
combots do this on TV.
DG: Sound expensive.
FS: Absolutely but according to the factory supervisor, once you figured out the engine and
transportation system of one type of homobot then you can make all sorts of homobots for all
sorts of purposes.
DG: Such as?
FS: Soon the UA had all types of homobots in its factories and construction sights. The same
goes for a megabot. The engine and transportation specs for a tank sized robot mean that you
can easily make robots that can also do the job of heavy construction equipment. A tankbot and
megabot for construction were pretty similar. The tankbot had an artillery piece attached to its
body and a construction megabot might have anything from a wrecking ball to a shovel attached
to it but aside from the attachment, the two types of megabots were pretty similar.
DG: So robots built the Megatrains?
FS: Yes, soon homobots and megabots were being used to build Megatrains throughout the
Americas. The Rio Grande Canal would have been impossible to build without breakthroughs in
the area of homobot and megabot design. The United Americas was able to dominate the EU
and AU militarily due to this robotic technology dominance, well at first anyway.
DG: At first?
3.13 Robot Size Rule
Dr. Delta: This meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: According to the factory supervisor, the EU and AU had started a joint research project to
combat United Americas robotic dominance. It soon became obvious that the UA was too
ahead in homobot/ megabot technology for anyone to catch up with them. There were all kinds
of robots out there. Robots were generally classified by their size based on the Robot Size Rule.
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DG: Why?
FS: The Robot Size Rule states that when it comes to robots size does matter more than any other
body factor. Of course the computer in the robot was even more crucial but what made a robot a
robot and not a computer was the fact that a robot had a body. There are several corollaries
that follow from this rule.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Robot Size Rule may be related to some anxiety that the patient has
about the size of his own penis.

DG: What are the corollaries?
FS: Again, this is all according to the robot factory supervisor, there was almost no transfer in
technology of homobot/megabot technology to smaller robot designs.
DG: Why not?
FS: The engine specs and transportation specs of microbots and nanobots had to be totally
rethought due to simple physics. The first corollary of the Robot Size Rule is that a robot made
to a certain size class can be adapted for other functions for a fraction of the cost it takes to
make a robot of a certain size class in the first place.
DG: Any other corollaries?
FS: The second corollary is that there is approximately 50% transfer of technology between size
classes but almost no transfer of technology when you skip a size class. The exception to this
rule was later found to be nanobots. When it came to nanobots, quantum physics considerations
had to be taken into account that none of the other size classes had to worry about at all.
Making super small engines and transportation systems came naturally to a combined EU/AU
design team that was mostly made up of Swiss and Japanese engineers.
DG: It would seem to me that teeny-weeny, little robots wouldnt have much military potential.
FS: Well the supervisor told me that the opposite is true. The UA invaded Iraq for the umpteenth
time and unloaded thousands of combots and tankbots supported by the now totally automated
jet fighters and bombers of the UA. No one was stupid enough to fight this mechanical army
with mere humans.
DG: Why not?
FS: Unless you hit a combot or tankbot directly with the equivalent of an antitank weapon, they
just kept on coming. The combots could carry more ammunition than ten humans could. This
meant that the combots didnt have to be careful about managing their ample ammunition
supplies and would just tear up the countryside with giant gouts of firepower.
DG: I suppose barriers could slow them down.
FS: The tankbots walked or rather crawled, unlike earlier primitive tanks that used tracks, and
could get just about anywhere. More importantly, the tankbots jumped rather like a spider does.
DG: Why did they jump?
FS: A tankbots would jump over a standard tank and totally outflank it and hit it from behind.
Standard antitank weapons were also less effective against tankbots than standard tanks since
the tankbot would just jump out of range and then bring its superior long range weapons to
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bear on the offending party. You might get one tankbot if you hit it dead center but the rest
would get away and even up the score.
DG: How so?
FS: The combots were also fair jumpers. They would just jump over a human squad of soldiers
and hit the squad from behind. The combots could hitch a ride on a tankbot for a really long
jump. Standard antitank traps were jumped over. Trenches that would have stopped a human
army were simply jumped over. The jumping ability of the tankbots meant that they could also
match antitank helicopters in the area of maneuverability. The United Americas robots would
have just jumped over the defenses of Normandy at WWII and then turned around and attacked
the Nazis from behind.
DG: So what could stop UA robots?
FS: Not much, the robots were immune to atomic, chemical, biological ataque and therefore
could use all three against humans with impunity. The tankbots had shells filled with chemicals
and biologicals that they used as needed. A whole area could be sprayed with any number of
gases and the robots could operate with total impunity while humans had to wear bulky
protection suits. The robots were already stronger, faster and more agile than humans under
normal conditions. Humans hampered in heavy suits rarely even saw a robot before getting
killed. For really tough jobs the tankbot could always lob a tactical neutron bomb.
DG: Neutron bomb?
FS: There were no suits that could protect humans against neutron radiation and only soldiers in
special tanks could survive in this environment but only for a few hours. Every time someone
would come up with tanks with better shielding, the UA would create an even deadlier neutron
bomb. The neutron radiation was supposed to go away in a month or two or so the experts said.
DG: It didnt?
FS: Some people thought the rise in children born with two heads children in Iraq had something
to do with neutron radiation of past United Americas militar interventions but there was no
definitive proof of this. Besides the UA invariably sent teams of doctors after an intervention
and they happily removed one of the heads using the latest surgical techniques available.
DG: I am glad to see Americans were kind hearted even in the last Big Bang cycle.
FS: The use of these teams in no way constituted acceptance by the United Americas of
responsibility for the two headed crisis in the first place. After all any number of genetic or
environmental causes could be responsible for the rise in two headed children in Iraq and
further research was needed.
DG: Arabs are always blaming the US for every little problem.
FS: No kidding, the problem was that sometimes both heads were alive and this posed a dilemma
for the surgeon. Standard procedure was to give an IQ test to each head and detach the one with
the lower score. Unfortunately, the surgeons sent to Iraq soon noticed the head that took the test
second always had a higher score. The second head cheated and copied the correct answers of
the first head!
DG: Was there no honor among heads?
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FS: I guess not. With typical Yankee ingenuity, a special device had been created for just this
purpose. The test was administered by putting a box on one of the heads that was totally
soundproof. The head outside the box could not hear what the head inside the box was saying.
DG: So how could you communicate to the head in the box?
FS: There was a screen inside the box that presented the test and the program responded to
verbal stimuli from the head in the box. Millions had been spent on sending the surgical teams
to Iraq. More millions had been spent on creating the special IQ boxes. Despite all this the
people of Iraq still seemed to hate America, further proof that the mind of the Arab was a
mysterious one indeed.
DG: Mysterious indeed.
3.14 The Hexagon
Dr. Delta: This meme may actualize soon.
FS: According to the Hexagon the rise in the number of two headed children among United
Americas personnel stationed in Iraq was equally irrelevant statistically at least. As far as the
brass was concerned, UA troops who refused to be stationed in Iraq could not use the old, I
dont want to have two headed children, excuse. Still there were problems.
DG: Hexagon?
FS: As I stated before, our Pentagon and White House got wasted during our 9/11. At the time,
we had supersonic jets that were four times the size of your largest airliner and our DC area was
basically leveled due to the greater mass and speeds involved. Bigger is not better when you are
on the wrong side of bigger.
DG: Thats true unless you are female and bigger is your boyfriend.
FS: Good one, fortunately, our President Reagan was having a blast at Disney World at the
time. After our 9/11, NASA was incorporated into the Pentagon and the Hexagon was born.
NASA was needed to coordinate projects like the giant bar coder in the sky and had no time for
lesser tasks like space exploration. The UA contracted commercial outfits to take over the
civilian missions of NASA.
DG: I suppose, if space travel becomes routine then it would make sense for the government to
focus on military rather than commercial aspects of space travel.
3.15 Tank Dome
Dr. Delta: This meme may also actualize soon.
FS: Might happen on this Earth as well in a gradual manner. There had been some talk of
relocating the capital to NORAD but President Reagans advisors had decided that Washington
DC was the political center of the United Americas for better or worse and another solution had
been devised to the problem of extreme terrorist attacks. Two geodesic domes housed the
Hexagon. One dome was inside the other dome.
DG: Were the domes made of steel?
FS: Better than steel, the first dome was made out of reactive armor and Chobham and the dome
was basically made of super thick tank armor. There is a limit to how thick you can make tank
armor due to the negative effect of overly thick tank armor on mobility. The outer dome wasnt
going anywhere and was ten times thicker than the thickest tank armor.
DG: Again, this would be too expensive.
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FS: The tank domes were mass-produced at shipyards that had been put out of business by
subships. There is no such thing to a government as a vote that is too expensive. Jobs get votes.
The tank domes were put together like so many tinker toy sets by the megabots. In a matter of a
year, every major potential economic and militar target in the UA had a tank dome over it.
DG: For example?
FS: Macrohard was the first private company to buy a tank dome for Macrohards corporate
headquarters. Door was no fool. Unlike normal buildings, the Hexagon had a second smaller
inner dome was made of twenty inch armor.
DG: Why a second dome?
FS: The thicker geodesic panels of the inner dome were designed to resist nuclear ataque and
not just a terrorist ataque. There were checkpoints at the entrance of each dome. There were
constant patrols between the two domes. Both domes had cameras mounted throughout for
constant surveillance inside and out the domes. No car bomb was getting past both dome
checkpoints. A passenger jetliner aimed at the tank dome would barely have dented the first
dome much less the second dome inside.
DG: I guess that the Hexagon was snug as a bug inside both domes.
FS: Even more snug than you might think. The new White House was headquartered ten stories
below the Hexagon. The BIS headquarters was ten stories below the new White House. The UA
bunker was ten stories below the BIS headquarters.
DG: They had a bunker under everything else?
FS: Sure during an ataque, the Hexagon, White House and BIS could evacuate to the safety of
the United Americas bunker in less than an hour and plan a counterstrike.
DG: Why the overkill? Wouldnt the domes stop a nuclear weapon?
FS: The UA bunker was supposed to be able to withstand the latest weapons not just nuclear
weapons. Megabots had been used to make a Megatrain tunnel that connected the UA bunker to
NORAD.
DG: Have your ever thought of a career as an ultra-right wing, nutcase politician? I think you
would win by a landslide. Well sounds the like the United Americas was ready to take over the
world so who needs a tripolar world?
FS: Well let me finish my story, the robots could go nonstop 7/24 until they needed a recharge.
The robots all had multiple sensory systems in their tentacles so day and night were just
differences in their internal chronometers. For reasons beyond the comprehension of the leaders
of the UA, the world feared their robot armies. Didnt the world realize that this robot army had
been created to free them? How many wars would have to be fought until the world realized the
blessings of UA style democracy?
DG: We have the same problem on this Earth.
FS: No kidding, on the third day of the umpteenth Iraq invasion, all the UA robots just froze.
The AU/EU research team had come up with a class of microbots that were too small for the
United Americas robots to detect and these microbots had drilled into the United Americas
robots and released acid once inside the robot, destroying the innards of the attacked robot. The
factory I created microbots so I got to see this kind of robot first hand.
DG: Kind of like microbes attacking people.
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FS: Excellent analogy, the UA had started its own crash program in microbots and soon there
were even smaller second generation UA microbots that attacked first generation microbots by
crawling into their innards. Eventually this had lead to EU/AU nanobots. The nanobots
infected the microbots. Some crazy environmentalists wondered if nanobots could infect
humans. Nanobots made viruses look big. The Hexagon made its own militar nanobot that
wasnt quite as sophisticated as the EU/AU ones but did the job.
DG: A race to see who could make the smallest robot.
FS: Exactly, some crazy environmentalists wondered if this nanobot arms race would eventually
lead to a disease that hurt humans.
DG: Well would it?
FS: The Hexagon told the world that humans are carbon based and robots are silicone based. A
disease that destroys silicon cant destroy carbon. What the Hexagon hadnt told the public is
that the latest robots had carbon based wet-ware components and nanobots that attacked these
components already existed.
DG: So in theory these nanobots could infect humans?
FS: Just a matter of time. The third corollary of the Robot Size Rule is that you use a robot of
one size class to make a robot of the next size class. For example factory homobots were used to
make megabots. The AU and EU used microbots to mass-produce nanobots. The EU/AU team
made the first computer invisible to the naked eye using a factory of microbots. The keyboard
was too small for anyone but a microbot to use and this was considered cute until someone
realized that a keyboard for microbots might be useful in a microbot factory.
DG: What did microbots look like?
FS: First generation, microbots resembled dust mites more than anything else and their
transportation system had in fact been based on studying dust mites. A dust mite looks like what
happens when a spider mates with a crab. Second generation microbots looked more like
protozoa than dust mites.
DG: What did nanobots look like?
FS: Nanobots looked like cubist paintings with cilia grafted unto them. Some art critics noticed
a similarity in appearance between nanobots and early twentieth century modern art and
wondered if there was some sort of clairvoyant connection.
DG: Maybe there was.
FS: Maybe, strangely kids thought microbots were cute. Macrohard was theoretically a UA
company but really was a multinational that would work with any of the unions and soon was
building its compucards and later its compu-rings in AU and EU microbot factories.
DG: Were robots used in other areas?
FS: Developments in robotics meant that many parts of the human body had mechanical
replacements that were used on humans. Microbots could do surgery at the cellular level.
Nanobots were much smaller than a cell and didnt have the muscle to push cells around.
DG: So what good are nanobots?
FS: Nanobots were used for medical imaging instead. Millions of nanobots were released into
the human body once every five years. The nanobots recorded the entire structure of your body
at the cellular level.
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DG: Sounds like a CAT scan.
FS: Similar, the nano-scan provided a precise three-dimensional snapshot of your body that
made CAT-scans seem primitive. The microbots could then use the nano-scan information to
restore you to normal.
DG: So medicine was more advanced in your Earth?
FS: Much more advanced. The combination of microbot surgeons and nanobot observers had
allowed cancer to be cured. Almost everyone had a microbot cleaning once a year. Three types
of microbots were used for medical purposes: slicers, drillers and grabbers. The slicers would
go after cancerous cells and remove them mechanically from the body. The slicer would simply
slice the offending cancer cell and/or microbe in half.
DG: How?
3.16 Slicers
Dr. Delta: This meme is a bot meme and difficult to measure.
FS: The slicer had the equivalent of a cilia chain saw that it used to hack away at opponents.
The chain saw doubled in function as a type of propeller that let the slicer move around the
blood stream. Microbot design always aimed to combine functionality so that the tool could also
double as a transportation device.
DG: So what was the advantage of a slicer over the bodies natural defenses?
FS: The body had T-cells that went after diseases and killed them via chemical action. The
slicers went after any invaders that the T-Cells had missed and dealt with them via mechanical
means. The slicers attacked whole host of diseases.
DG: How was this done?
FS: The slicers were generally injected into the body once a year. The yearly slicing was
preventive medicine since many diseases were destroyed before they had a chance to grow and
do any damage. Microbes seemed to be incapable of developing immunity to the mechanical
rather than chemical ataque of the slicers.
DG: What about other diseases?
3.17 Drillers
FS: The slightly larger drillers guarded the subject against heart disease. Once every two or
three years, drillers would travel throughout the circulatory system and clean up the arteries by
literally scraping away the plaque that developed over the year using a miniature drill designed
for this purpose.
DG: I think a drill would do more damage than help.
FS: The drill was more like a fan that rotated flexible filaments similar to cilia. The drilling
function allowed mobility at a low speed. This yearly drilling dramatically lowered the number
of heart attacks.
DG: What about cleaning veins?
FS: In theory, even smaller microbots could have cleaned out the veins as well but clean arteries
seemed to naturally lead to clean veins. The routine slicing and drillings had led to the virtual
elimination of cancer, heart disease and a myriad of other diseases as causes of death.
DG: But you still had accidental deaths?
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FS: Routine microsurgery meant that death due to accidental injuries had also dramatically
fallen. For example, a gunshot to the head was curable. Slicers would go in and slice of dead
neurons. Grabbers looked like a spider.
DG: Why were they called grabbers?
3.18 Grabbers
FS: The grabber legs of the grabber were actually claws that allowed them to carry neurons that
had been harvested via cellular cloning and fuse them to the appropriate ganglia. The grabber
had a separate propeller and was the only microbot didnt use its tool for transportation.
Grabbers were much larger than the other microbots.
DG: Why?
FS: They also were expected to deliver drogas and were the packhorses of the microbot family.
The grabber would then carry the dead neuron to a nearby artery to be flushed out. Drillers
would clean out any arteries that were clogged with dead blood.
DG: How were the microbots delivered to the affected area?
FS: Medical microbots were inserted into the body via a plasma transfusion filled with the
appropriate microbot cocktail. The medical microbots were also controlled strategically via an
external signal. The microbots were programmed to go towards a particular electric frequency.
The patient was hooked up with an electrode on one side of the body and the microbots were
inserted at another point.
DG: I get it. The microbots would naturally move from the insertion point to the point were the
electrode was.
FS: Right, using electrodes, the microbots overall directionality could then be controlled. You
would try to make sure the tumor you were after was somewhere in the middle of their little
journey.
DG: Okay, they are in, how do you get them out?
FS: Getting the microbots out was more problematic.
DG: Yeah, how was that done?
FS: Solution number one was to make the microbots biodegradable and let the bodies natural
waste disposal systems take care of them. Solution number to was to insert an electrode in the
lower bowel.
DG: Did the electricity destroy the microbots?
FS: No, the microbots would then congregate towards the lower bowel and were excreted
naturally.
DG: Oh, I see.
FS: The two solutions were used in conjunction. Microbots that were able to make the long
journey were excreted. Microbots that broke down on the way were absorbed into the body of
the patient. One way or another the microbots were removed from the body after their
usefulness was at an end.
DG: Poor little microbots!
FS: Yes, poor little microbots! One priest had suggested that perhaps we were medical
microbots in the body of God and ultimately suffered a similar end. Biodegradation was heaven.
The journey to the lower bowel was hell. He was promptly expelled from his church.
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DG: Poor little priest!
FS: Yes, poor little priest. The microbots were programmed to replicate the neural structure you
had before the gunshot wound. The neural structure in turn translated into personality,
cognition and memory.
DG: Did you still have a soul after half your brain was reconstructed?
FS: No one knew where the soul resided well at least not on Earth. As mentioned, nanobots
made a three-dimensional molecular picture of your body once every five years and this included
a nano-scan of your brain.
DG: The nano-scan guided the microbots.
FS: Right, nanobots were too small to move neurons around but were great for observing
neurons since they were also too small too effect brain activity. You would lose five years of
memories since any neural structures that had developed since your last exam would be lost but
this beat being dead.
DG: Probably.
FS: Hopefully you hadnt gotten married since your last nano-scan.
DG: Yeah, not recognizing your spouse at all would interfere with domestic harmony.
FS: On the other hand many spouses took advantage of this memory loss to reprogram their
spouses.
DG: Reprogram?
FS: For example a ruthless wife might tell the husband that he did indeed develop a love of
opera a couple of years ago when in fact he had hated the activity. The worst cases were people
that had just finished four years of college and had all this education wiped out.
DG: Reprogram?
FS: Fortunately, the custom had developed to have a nano-scan right after graduation to guard
against just such an eventuality.
DG: Prudent. So how different were military and medical microbots?

Dr. Gammas Notes: This is the second time the patient has mentioned opera as an activity
forced upon a male by a female. Could the patient have had a wife we have no record of
that had forced him to go to opera or is opera symbolic of a deeper trauma in a prior
relationship?

FS: Militar microbots were pretty similar to medical drillers. A platoon of drillers would lay
dormant on the ground until someone stepped on them. They were too small to be crushed. The
bottom of a shoe was the Grand Canyon to them. The driller would make a hole into the
human/robot foot it was attacking. The drillers kept drilling until they emerged from your head
or wherever.
DG: But they too small to do any damage.
FS: Thousands of drillers were making thousands of holes at the same time and blood just
started spurting all over the place. The drillers alone didnt do the real damage. The drillers
were followed by a wave of grabbers that deposited poison in the case of humans and acid in the
case of robots. The poison or acid didnt make things much better.
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DG: Inventive story but how can such teeny tiny robots get around the battlefield?
FS: Militar microbots could be delivered to their target through a variety of means. You could
fire a bullet or shell filled with drillers and grabbers. The drillers and grabbers would then
emerge from the bullet/shell and start their damage from the center of system rather than from
the outside going in.
DG: That isnt a very original way to disperse microbots.
FS: Militar microbots could also be dispersed in the millions as a fine spray that started drilling
only the type of material they were programmed to go after. You could program them to only go
after human tissue and leave other organic tissue alone.
DG: What about enemy robots?
FS: You could program them to only go after metallic alloys associated with robots that your
enemy used and to leave your own robots alone. Microbots were generally used to fight
homobots and megabots since there were plenty of other weapons that could do damage to
humans.
DG: Why didnt the microbots just attack everything?
FS: Basically the driller would touch a macromolecule and then taste what it had touched. If
the macromolecule had the correct taste then it drilled away.
DG: Taste?
FS: I use the word taste in a special technical sense. The drill didnt really taste anything since
drillers didnt really feel anything but the robot experts had come out with a system that could
mimic taste i.e. the ability to distinguish macromolecules via direct mechanical contact.
DG: How could the microbots taste anything? Did they have itty-bitty tongues?
FS: Taste was built into the actual body of the microbot and was a function of the exoskeleton of
the microbot interacting or not interacting with a material due to a chemical reaction. In some
ways a militar microbot was a taste bud that could move around.
DG: Well how did you get different types of taste?
FS: Different exoskeletons allowed the microbot to taste different macromolecules and react
accordingly. Slicers and grabbers also had this taste function. In militar settings, the taste
function allowed the microbot to only go after appropriate targets. In medical settings, this taste
function meant that a slicer would slice a cancer cell and not a healthy cell. This also meant a
grabber carried away a dead neuron and not a live neuron.
DG: Guess youve thought of everything.
FS: Not me but the robot experts on my Earth. There was a reconnaissance microbot that was a
driller with communication equipment. The driller was programmed to drill into the subject for
a couple of inches and then stop. The drillers as a group formed an additive communications
array. More drillers meant a better signal. The driller then received sound or radio waves from
the subjects area and beamed this back to an observation post. The hole was so small that the
subject didnt even feel it and would carry the bugs around until special equipment was used to
detect the microbot transmissions.
DG: Why didnt the United Americas have as much success with microbots?
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FS: Unions had limited resources and decisions had been made at the highest level as to what
robot size levels to pursue. Due to a lack of technological expertise, the UA had larger
microbots than the Asian Union. The main purpose of UA microbots was not to ataque
homobots but to defend against enemy microbots. UA microbots were deployed to detect any AU
microbots in an area, report position and movement and then the area was napalmed. Napalm
melted the enemy microbots.
DG: Small robots have small computers for brains. How could such small computers contain the
complex instructions needed to do what you describe?
FS: The key to controlling microbots was keeping your commands simple. Microbots had very,
very, very little brains and could not handle complex commands. The first command a microbot
could handle was on and off. A driller would drill or not drill. A slicer would slice or not
slice. A grabber would grab or not grab.
DG: But you would need more commands.
FS: The second command that a microbot could handle was to move or not move. In a
medical setting, the microbots would move towards an electronic frequency until the frequency
was turned off. You could calculate how fast a microbot could travel and then turn off the
frequency at the appropriate time and figure most of the microbots were in the right place.
DG: How about in a military setting?
FS: In a militar setting, the driller moved up using a micro gyroscope to be able to distinguish
up from down. The third instruction a microbot could handle was the coordination of the first
instruction and the second instruction. For example, a slicer could be programmed not to slice
while moving so that it didnt start slicing until it got to the right place.
DG: But the microbots couldnt interact with each other.
FS: There was no intelligent coordination through communication between microbots. The
slicer sliced based on taste. The grabber just grabbed anything that happened to taste right with
no awareness of the slicer having made the material available in the first place. On the other
hand, you could program drillers to drill one type of material, slicers to slice yet another
material and finally grabbers would grab a third type of material for complex effects.
DG: I dont see how this could work.
FS: In order to treat bone marrow cancer, the drillers only drilled when they tasted bone. Once
they hit the marrow then they stopped. The slicers were directed by an electrode on the other
side of the bone and seeped through the holes of the drillers.
DG: How could the slicers find the holes?
FS: The slicers didnt recognize the holes but just keep swimming towards a particular direction
in a fuzzy manner until they hit a hole and arrived in the marrow. The slicers didnt stop slicing
until the frequency was turned off. The approximate speed of a slicer in this situation was
known, so that most of the slicers would be in the right place when the frequency was turned off.
The slicers sliced away at the cancerous cells while the grabbers deposited the appropriate
medicine to the marrow.
DG: Your story almost sounds plausible.
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FS: Its sound plausible because it is true. As far as the United Americas were concerned, the
Asian Union could have the dismal dark depths of the ocean with its subships. Also, as far as the
UA was concerned, the EU and AU could continue making little toys with their microbots and
nanobots.
DG: And the UAs goals?
FS: The UA would soar like an eagle into space and create a whole new class of gigabots that
could transform entire worlds and make them habitable to humans. First the Moon, then Mars,
and perhaps even Venus would become the new frontier for the United Americas.
DG: Eagles soar and dragons swim. I get it.
FS: Exactly, just as microbots made natural tools for creating nanobots, megabots became the
natural tools for creating gigabots. Megabots could easily lift and manipulate the giant
components that made up a gigabot.
DG: What were the gigabots for?
FS: There was talk of an ultimate gigabot system that was a gigabot that could land on a world
and move about the surface, unleashing armies of megabots to terraform a world. Giant domes
would be built to hold what little air there was on Mars.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Three unions and now three types of microbots, I would say the
patient is slightly fixated with the number three.

DG: So the other unions gave up on space?
FS: Not totally, the Asian Union had already started terraforming Mars but used an entirely
different approach.
DG: What was the AU approach?
FS: Microbot had terraformed Mars at the molecular level. The microbots planted various fungi
that had been bioengineered to survive the Martian environment. The fungi were descended
from the fungus that had been used to make arable land out of rock soil in West China.
DG: And made the tunnels in Tibet.
FS: Right, the second-generation fungi had its digestive range expanded so that it could eat just
about anything. The fungi for terraforming had its temperature range expanded so it could live
in incredibly hot and incredibly cold climates. Instead of collecting oxygen, oxygen would be
created by the fungi. A small Martian colony had thus been created.
DG: And the United Americas rejected this small is beautiful approach?
FS: A crazy UA scientist had suggested going further than the AU and using nanobots as a
means of terraforming planets at the subatomic level. The UA scientist was promptly fired. The
UA liked to think big!
3.19 Invasion of Taiwan
Dr. Delta: The virulence of this meme is unknown. The infection level has been very high in
China (4.2).
DG: In our very first session you mentioned an invasion of Taiwan. Theres been a lot of talk
about Taiwan being invaded and am curious what happened in your Earth?
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FS: Mainland China had invaded Taiwan several years ago on my Earth. The invasion had
started with an EMP bomb over the Seventh Fleet of the United Americas. The bomb fried the
electronics of most of the Seventh Fleet but left the personnel unharmed. The Chinese reasoned
that crippling the UA in Asia without actually killing anyone would be less likely to lead to
WWIII between the UA and China.
DG: Did it work?
FS: The war stayed conventional so I guess so. The Chinese needed a quick victory since it was
just a matter of days before the Seventh Fleet would fix its electronics and other forces were
being moved into the area. The Chinese bypassed the formidable coastal defenses on the West
Coast of Taiwan that were closest to China. The Chinese attacked the East Coast.
DG: But there still had to be some East Coast defenses.
FS: The Chinese had been given very detailed information about weaknesses in the East Coast
defensa system by fifth columnists in Taiwan. Policemen from Taiwan engaged in smuggling
prostitutes from Mainland China to Taiwan.
DG: So what?
FS: China put pressure on the Chinese prostitution gangs and the Chinese prostitution gangs in
turn blackmailed the Taiwanese policemen with videos of them having sex with prostitutes.
China now had an army of Taiwanese policemen running around the island and gathering the
most sensitive material available. The blackmail scheme was expanded.
DG: How so?
FS: Most important Taiwanese led a double life. They were respectable husbands by day but at
night they frequented KTV places were they met their prostitute girlfriends. The Taiwanese
policemen had always known about such activities.
DG: So what?
FS: Under orders from Shanghai, the Taiwanese policia gathered videos of most the major
leaders and seguridad personnel in Taiwan fooling around with prostitutes. The leaders thus
caught were given a simple choice: cooperate or be publicly humiliated with the release of the
videos to the Taiwanese press that was notorious for their hunger for such material.
DG: Well I am sure the Taiwanese refused to cooperate.
FS: No, most Taiwanese men were found more willing to betray their country than risk the
shame that the release of these videos would have brought upon them.
DG: I find this hard to believe.
FS: Well the mainland Chinese always made sure that the first act of treason was always a small
one. Later the Mainland Chinese could threaten to expose this act of treason as well, no matter
how small. The Chinese had for centuries excelled at using blackmail against their opponents.
The Taiwanese had forgotten the old ways of fighting and this had been their undoing.
DG: So, China won through blackmail.
FS: Yes, but perhaps the blackmail scheme had not been even necessary. Many Taiwanese felt
annexation by mainland China was inevitable and preferred having a place in a new greater
China as opposed to being put in concentration camps by a victorious mainland China.
DG: And what would the cooperating Taiwanese get?
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FS: It had been agreed that a prominent Taiwan leader would be the Vice-President of the
Greater China and that the property rights of those who cooperated would be respected.
DG: And what happened to those that didnt cooperate?
FS: Those who did not cooperate would have their property confiscated and given to the fifth
columnists. The Mainland Chinese had rightly gauged that many Taiwanese were businessmen
first and nationalists second.
DG: So what did the Taiwanese do?
FS: The Taiwanese opened the doors to the Chinese. There was barely a struggle. The
Taiwanese troops were ordered to surrender by generals loyal to Mainland China whether due
to blackmail and/or promises of a place in the greater China. A few missiles lobbed around the
major cities soon cowed the population.
DG: Why didnt the Taiwanese go into bunkers and withstand the missiles?
FS: Incredibly, the Taiwanese had responded to the growth of missiles aimed at it not with an
increase in civil defensa measures but with flowery speeches from Taiwanese politicians that
denounced the missiles. The flowery speeches got votes but of course were quite useless as a
missile defensa system.
DG: Maybe Taiwan didnt have the money to afford such expensive weapons systems.
FS: Taiwan in the five years previously had spent billions to make a high speed rail that no one
used and the tallest building in the world that never rented even a quarter of its office space.
Over ninety percent of the college age students of Taiwan went to college largely at the expense
of the government. Soldiers had guns but no one bothered to buy bullets. The jet fighters only
had enough missiles to fight for hours not days.
DG: How could anyone be so stupid?
FS: In hindsight the Taiwanese went down in the history of our planet as the magpie people. The
magpie is a bird attracted to shiny things regardless of their utility.
DG: Well if ninety percent of the college age population went to college then at least they would
have the education to understand the situation.
FS: The higher education system of Taiwan was all show and no substance. The Taiwanese
would spend millions on world class art, TV stations for their universities and luxurious offices
for administration. On the other hand very little was spent on the actual task of teaching and
learning.
DG: For example?
The administration that worked in the luxurious offices would not spend one penny for
workrooms or computers for their faculty or even bookstores that ordered books. The campuses
were beautiful but actually very little learning and teaching was going on. The soliders had no
bullets and the faculty had no support but as long as things looked shiny on the outside no one
cared. In fact many Taiwanese students went to college in mainland China because they realized
they were wasting their money in Taiwan.
DG: Well you must be talking about another world such a stupid people could not exist on this
one.
FS: Well I would hope not.
DG: Didnt the United Americas respond?
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3.20 Bridge Ships
Dr. Delta: This meme has low virulence and infectiousness.
FS: On the day of the invasion, mainland China unveiled a brand new fleet that had been
secretly built and could have fought the Seventh Fleet of the UA even if the Seventh Fleet had not
been knocked out with EMP weapons. The secreto fleet was smaller than the Seventh Fleet but
had been totally adapted for cross-straits warfare unlike a normal fleet. The most remarkable
ship was a bridge ship.
DG: Bridge ship?
FS: This deck of the ship was designed to act as a span of bridge. A series of these bridge ships
created a bridge linking Mainland China to Taiwan that allowed thousands of Chinese troops to
stream into Taiwan from Mainland China.
DG: I think it would be pretty hard to get your ships lined up just right when being shot at by
other ships and attacked by airplanes.
FS: The bridge ship deck was hexagonal and had spokes on the outer rim. The bridge ship could
connect to other bridge ships via any side.
DG: Doesnt sound like a traditional bridge.
FS: The finished bridge looked more like flattened beehive than a traditional bridge. The design
of the bridge ships was robust and the Chinese figured any line between Taiwan and Mainland
China was a good line, not just a straight line like a traditional civilian bridge.
DG: What sort of obsessive-compulsive, monomaniac maniac would come up with something
like a bridge ship?
FS: A Chinese general had gotten the idea while looking at the irregular footpath of a Chinese
garden that had been done with hexagonal tiles.
DG: I understand how the bridge ships would connect. Even if they were connected then
wouldnt it be fairly easy for jet aircraft to sink these sitting ducks of ships?
FS: The bridge ship hull was filled with a specially designed plastic that was filled with air
pockets. It was almost impossible to sink a bridge ship. The bridge ship was rather like a piece
of soap that refuses to sink no matter how many pieces you break the ship into.
DG: What kept the bridge ship in place?
FS: Anchors along the entire rim of the ship hull sank into the seabed and anchored the ship to a
particular piece of seabed. You had to destroy almost 85% of the ship to really destroy its
bridge capability. The United Americas had never planned for a secreto fleet much less a fleet
specifically designed for the specific conditions of cross-straits warfare.
DG: What did China do once it won the battle?
FS: China installed a new president and new cabinet. The new President of Taiwan told the UA
in no uncertain terms to stay out of Taiwan.
DG: How did the UA respond?
FS: The United Americas was prepared to save an embattled Taiwan but not the Taiwanese from
other Taiwanese. Besides the pro-independence forces had been ruthlessly massacred. The
Taiwanese policia loyal to China rounded up the diehard supporters of Taiwanese independence
on trumped up charges, a few days before the invasion.
DG: What about the police outside of Chinese control?
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FS: The loyal policia suspected something was wrong but Taiwanese are an obedient lot and
obeyed orders no matter how suspicious such orders were. The Chinese knew the Taiwanese
were essentially passive when it came to authority and this understanding was an essential part
of their plan. Taiwan was democratic on the outside but authoritarian on the inside. The
arrested pro-independence Taiwanese were shot in the basements of Taiwanese policia stations
a few days after the invasion. Even more thousands were arrested and killed in the weeks after
the invasion.
DG: Horrible.
FS: Maybe not so much horrible as inevitable. There was a saying on my Earth that was widely
quoted as the cause of Taiwans demise, Taiwan is a small island, with small people, with small
minds.
DG: Why was this said about Taiwan?
FS: Before, during and even shortly after the invasion, the Taiwanese engaged in the most petty
political games imaginable and ignored repeated advice from the Cyber-Lincoln Brigade to take
the most fundamental militar precautions. As mentioned, civil defensa was non-existent despite
constant typhoons, earthquakes and the giant increase in the number of missiles aimed at
Taiwan but this was just one of many problems.
DG: What were some other problems?
FS: The Chinese could also have starved out the Taiwanese under certain conditions. Droughts
in Taiwan were commonplace despite subtropical rainfalls.
DG: But if there is plenty of rain how can you not have enough water?
FS: There was plenty of rain but not enough reservoirs.
DG: Incredible!
FS: Also, Taiwan had oil stockpiles that were less than those of any other country in Asia did.
All signs of the exponential growth of Chinese militar, political and economic power were
ignored.
DG: Wasnt there a pro-independence movement, surely they tried to prepare Taiwan to resist an
invasion.
FS: No, the pro-independence movement concentrated on speeches that got votes but ironically
had led to the decision by Chinese hard-liners to ataque Taiwan in the first place. These same
pro-independence forces totally neglected the defensa of the island. Instead of speaking softly
and carrying a big stick, the Taiwanese decided to speak loudly and get rid of their stick.
DG: When did Taiwan fall?
FS: On Ten-Ten-Ten Day.
DG: What is Ten-Ten-Ten Day?
FS: October 10, 2010. I was sent slightly in the past of this Big Bang cycle. Perhaps history will
repeat itself and the Taiwan of this Big Bang cycle will fall on the same date.
DG: I doubt it. I dont think the Taiwanese of this Earth are as stupid. What happened after
Taiwan was conquered?
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FS: After the invasion, Taiwan was treated as a semiautonomous region of East China. The
Taiwanese were allowed limited self-rule but had to follow the Shanghai line when it came to
foreign policy. Most of the semiconductor plants in Taiwan were dismantled and shipped to
Shanghai.
DG: Why?
FS: The logic was twofold. Removing the plants meant they wouldnt be damaged in any UA
ataque to free Taiwan. Removing the plants also meant the UA had very little reason to free
Taiwan since Taiwans semiconductor industry is what gave the island a strategic significance in
the first place. This move sealed Shanghais supremacy in chip design and creation once and for
all.
DG: Was there a huge resistance movement in Taiwan after the invasion?
3.21 Metamemetics
Dr. Delta: This meme is a metametic meme with exponential potential.
FS: The Chinese were masters of metamemetic warfare on my Earth and used this knowledge to
suppress any resistance movement.
DG: I have heard of memetic warfare but what is metamemetic warfare?
FS: Meta means basic and some examples are metaphysics, metadata, and
metacognitive. This establishes a record of how this prefix should be used.
DG: Metanalysis, metamathematic, metapsychology, I get it.
FS: I would define metamemetics as the study of memes that have as their primary function the
control of memes. Control can be defined as the enhancement/inhibition of meme reproduction
or the enhancement/inhibition of meme mutation. In common language: ideas that in themselves
effect the reproduction of ideas. This is not the study of memetic reproduction since this is
memetics itself.
DG: And the key difference?
FS: The key concept of metamemetics is that some memes control other memes
disproportionately. Memes that have as their primary function the control of other memes are
metamemes. This was a key area of study in memetics on my world. I would say that this
technology already exists in various fields including political science, education, communication
theory and other social sciences in this Earth but a memetic perspective allows for huge
interdisciplinary insights.
DG: Interesting, you know for someone with absolutely no higher education you really know
how to talk the academic BS.
FS: Thanks, I guess. Taboos are an example of metamemes. The main function of taboos is to
regulate and generally reduce meme reproduction of ideas like incest. Could one even begin to
examine something like taboos from a replication viewpoint and figure out how taboos can be
consciously manipulated? This might be pretty powerful stuff in the hands of a social engineer.
DG: Did you have social engineers in your Earth?
FS: Every society has social engineers, a class that has as their function an understanding of the
history of a meme i.e. the lineage of the meme. Whether Pharisee, witch doctor or modern
scholar, their job is be aware of the various mutations of a meme and probably have some idea
of how a mutation worked or did not work out under actual historical conditions.
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DG: Why?
FS: It isn't enough to just condemn all mutations of a meme under the name of heresy. A society
needs some memetic experts that can figure out which mutations can be allowed to exist and
which mutations must be wiped out before the mutant memes do great damage to the society.
DG: For example?
FS: The Spanish Inquisition didn't root out heresy just by condemning all mutations of
Christianity.
DG: I thought that is exactly what it did?
FS: Well maybe mostly but the Spanish Inquisition also needed some Jesuits on the panel that
have knowledge of different views of Christianity over the centuries and can spot those mutations
that have been especially virulent in the past versus more harmless mutations that can be
ignored. If you try to kill all the mutations then you may not have enough resources to focus on
the really deadly mutants.
DG: Kind of like lineage experts in dog breeding.
FS: Exactly, the lineage experts may also be called on to guide a society in mutating a meme just
enough to meet new historical conditions rather than allowing a brand new meme to overcome
the existing meme system. Lineage experts generally prefer evolution to revolution and use their
knowledge of the lineage of a meme to recommend incremental memetic mutation.
DG: Why not just let memes run their course?
FS: Uncontrolled mutation is bad! Why take chances! Who knows what sort of mutant memes
will over run a population if mutation of any sort is allowed?
DG: Memetic mutation sounds like the heresy of your Earth.
FS: The concept of heresy could be an example of meme that tries to control the mutation of
especially important memes such as religion or political orthodoxy. Radical Islam is a mutation
of moderate Islam and the label of heresy did not succeed in stopping this mutation. Why?
DG: Free will?
FS: Almost, freedom is a persistent metameme that meme reproduction is good and should be
allowed. A memetic rationale of freedom is that the free flow of memes allows them to compete
and only the fittest memes survive.
DG: Sounds like old-fashioned liberalism with new language.
FS: Liberalism is often used in conjunction with the freedom meme but with a focus on mutation.
Meme mutation is good as long as it is incremental and controlled to some extent.
DG: So you are a liberal?
FS: Not really, I buy into memetics and look for memetic truths in whatever political philosophy
that has them. For example, Marx wrote, He who controls the means of production controls
the society. Marx certainly wasnt a liberal but he did have some handle on memetics. He got
it right but I would go one step further, He who controls the means of metamemetic
reproduction controls the society.
DG: I think education is the main form of social control.
FS: Education mainly relies on the metameme of lineage to control mutation.
DG: What do you mean?
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FS: Educators are the gatekeepers and only those who have contracted the right memes are
allowed to graduate.
DG: A genetic model of memes is generally used. You dont contract genes.
FS: I think a disease transmission model is better in some cases.
DG: The military is also a major tool of social control.
FS: The militar usually focus on the physical means of production in order to control meme
mutation and reproduction such as transportation and communication systems i.e. control of
infrastructure. However, all infrastructures may not be equal.
DG: How so?
FS: Infrastructure that supports enemy metamemetic reproduction is a better target than
infrastructure that supports mere meme reproduction.
DG: This mirrors my intuitive thinking that the US is winning the ground war against terrorism
but losing the war of ideas i.e. the memetic war. The world is more radicalized ideologically
since our actions in Afghanistan and Iraq than before. The current global environment favors the
replication of terrorist memes more than before the actions in Afghanistan. I know the ghost of
Vietnam is always in the background of every US military action but there is a reason for this.
The Vietnamese lost the ground war but managed to win the memetic war. The US could afford
to lose Vietnam. The US can't afford to lose the world.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient describes a tripolar world similar to George Orwells
1984. I would say his metamemetic ideas are a more sophisticated version of Orwells
Newspeak. In both cases language is used to control ideas.

FS: On this Earth, the militar are relative amateurs in area of memetics.
DG: From your view the goal of the war of terrorism cannot be to just kill terrorists but instead
the goal must be to disrupt and ultimately eliminate the replication of the memes of terrorism.
FS: Absolutely.
DG: Sounds like ideological warfare.
FS: The problem is that ideological warfare has always been really tricky to analyze. Memetics
may provide a more precise and less value-laden way of looking at ideological warfare.
DG: Could you apply memetics to the current war on terrorism?
FS: Right off the bat, I have an idea from biology that could be applied to the war on terrorismo.
One way you put down a pest you don't like is to introduce another organism that competes for
the same resources or even a predatory organism that preys on the pest. You have to be careful
since the introduced organism can become a bigger problem than the original pest. This is how
Texas got started.
DG: Really?
FS: Yes, the Mexicans thought the introduction of Americans would drive out the Comanches
and provide a buffer state between them and the Comanches. The Texans turned out to be a
bigger pest than the Comanches ever were.
DG: And now?
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FS: Support of moderate Muslims is one application of this principle. Radical Muslims travel
everywhere spreading their ideas. Since one organism can infect many other organisms that in
turn replicate the meme in an exponential manner, a single cell, in the intelligence not biological
sense of the word, in a country can soon radicalize a Muslim country. Moderate Muslims tend to
stay in their particular range. They tend to do their business in one country.
DG: So what can the US do?
FS: One could through artificial means allow moderate Muslims access to a greater global
range. The US dominated global media is closed to Muslim extremists but it is not necessarily
very open to moderate Muslims. A global moderate Muslim movement might affect radical
Muslims in a manner that is far greater than normal means of analysis would suggest. I would
add a secondary memetic argument to this particular strategy.
DG: What would that be?
FS: Fecundity of organisms also seems to be effected adversely by similar organisms more than
dissimilar organisms. This is because similar organism competes for the same ecological niches
in the environment. Would the same be true for memes? Are there memetic niches? For
example, support for moderate Muslims in Central Asia might bring about rewards that support
for secular democratic movements would not, since moderate Muslims and radical Muslims
compete for similar populations and resources. Secular democratic movements compete for an
entirely different social niche.
DG: Makes sense.
FS: Some interesting articles about memetics on the web that make the point that to some extent
the CIA took the relatively small and nascent meme of radical Islam and mutated it into an anti-
Soviet militar doctrine. They also trained the same radical Islamic groups how to make bombs,
hand-to-hand, and subversion, you name it. One article described Al Qaeda as a US
Frankenstein.
DG: Why?
FS: The very same skills and the kill the infidel philosophy were turned against the US once the
Soviets were defeated. I dont blame the CIA. The US was in the middle of a giant cold war with
the Soviet Union and expedient decisions were made.
DG: So what lessons can be learned?
FS: I think the number one lesson is that the transmission of militar technology memes is a very,
very dangerous procedure since once these skills are learned they can't necessarily be controlled
and can replicate more quickly than most people realize. Most armies are very careful about
who they select, do indoctrination during training and have strict supervision of their militar
personnel after the transmission of militar skills but the US isnt doing this.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: There is a tendency in many covert operations to train locals of questionable loyalty and to
short change indoctrination. I would say that the basic tactical mistake in this situation is to
look at militar memes and political memes in isolation. In other words the common wisdom that
the indoctrination of your armed forces is every bit as important as the militar skills they learn
can be put in memetic terms.
DG: I am sure the US military has taken this into account.
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FS: Not really, the US is currently teaching militar skills to troops in the Philippines, Georgia,
and Afghanistan minus indoctrination. The lesson from the Al Qaeda experience would be that
while teaching militar skills to these troops, some political memes must also be transmitted to
maintain control over the militar memes.
DG: Makes sense.
FS: I think there is good historical experience that indoctrination works best in a total social
environment while militar skills are of a psychomotor nature and do not require a total
environment.
DG: What do you mean a total social environment?
FS: At the practical level, the foreign troops should study in a base in the US. Expediency may
cause militar skills to be transmitted at the expense of this total environment and this is less
important in the short run but this also means you can potentially lose control of the militar
memes transmitted.
DG: This sounds like common military wisdom.
FS: Memetics doesn't change common militar wisdom but gives you a way of looking at it.
DG: Sounds too abstract.
FS: Okay an example, the British Empire was very careful to put locals through the whole
militar process including indoctrination before teaching militar skills. Even to this day the
commonwealth still exists.
DG: Dont all militaries do this?
FS: No, other empires such as the French empire were less careful and faced the consequence of
having these locals turn on them and use the militar skills they learned from the French against
the French. Does a little place called Vietnam sound familiar? There is no equivalent of a
French commonwealth.
DG: I am sure military indoctrination policies were just one reason.
FS: Probably, but the US can learn from this experience and make a point of tying militar skill
training to political indoctrination and not allow situational expediency to be used as an excuse
to down play indoctrination.
DG: So what are your specific suggestions?
FS: One might want to consider the transmission of cultural memes for key locals. Foreign
troops, that are going to learn especially deadly militar skills, should study in the US. In the US
cultural memes will be transmitted in a natural way.
DG: I think a historical case can be made that cultural memes reinforce political memes.
FS: Yes, in particular, special attention should be paid to foreign militar trainers since they have
the ability to transmit militar memes. A guy who has access to dangerous militar skills is bad
enough but there is more dangerous person still.
DG: Whos more dangerous?
FS: The really dangerous guy is the one who can teach these dangerous militar skills. The really
dangerous guy is the trainer of the trainers. Training trainers allows the exponential
transmission of militar memes and can lead to the creation of armies overnight but this
exponential transmission needs to be under strict control.
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DG: Wasnt Bin Laden a military trainer during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan? I thought
I read somewhere that he was.
FS: I dont know. Training key foreign militar in the home country has been a custom among
armies for centuries and memetics only provides an explanation for this custom.
DG: I think this a common custom but not sure what the rationale is.
FS: What is really interesting is that a lot of militar customs don't really have an explanation.
That is the running theme of any number of novels about the militar. Catch-22 is the best novel
of this type. However, contrary to what Joseph Heller wrote, just because you can't explain a
militar custom doesn't mean it's totally nuts.
DG: I think that over the centuries, armies found that some customs worked and some didn't.
We do many things based on empirical evidence alone despite the absence of an explanation.
You don't know why it works. You just know from historical experience certain customs lead to
great armies.
FS: At another level you can ask the question how can you best ataque the copying-fidelity,
fecundity and longevity of the opposing ideology? In short, how can memetic warfare be waged
effectively?
DG: Sounds like you have it all figured out. Have you ever heard of George Orwell?
FS: George who? I havent figured out anything. I am just telling me about my Earth.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient shows an advanced knowledge of memetics and this is
consistent with his metaschizophrenic condition. Where and how he learned about
memetics is unknown. The patient may not be as uneducated as his file suggests.

DG: Such an advanced philosophy. You mentioned a type of yuppie in your Earth. Would
you consider yourself a yuppie?
FS: They werent yuppies. The triad had created a class that called themselves cosmopolitan
proletarians.
DG: As in the proletariat mentioned by Marx?

3.22 Cospros
Dr. Delta: This meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: In a way, the Cospros joked that they were the new working-class. They also joked that a
proletariat with historical, transnational consciousness had indeed arisen as predicted by Marx
and they were it. They called themselves cospros for short. Cospros had their own philosophies.
Many cospros rejected minimalism that is the philosophy that less is more. Instead cospros
loudly talked about maximalism.
DG: Maximalism?
FS: More is more! A full life meant more travel, more types of food, more sex and overall more
types of experience of every sort. Above all a cospro wanted to have one apartment in one union
and another apartment in another union.
DG: Why?
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FS: Living in two unions was kind of the entry-level requirement for being considered a cospro.
Better still have a job that required travel between two unions and vacation in a third union.
Austerity and temperance were for suckers and low brows. Live big and live loud!
DG: Sounds vulgar to me.
FS: Vulgar rhymes with vulva. Bicultural holo-art was especially popular among cospros. For
example, cospros bought holo-art that looked like 13
th
century Japanese from one angle and 16
th

century country English from another angle. The idea was to have you whole house done in two
national styles via holo-art that reflected the two countries you did business in. For some reason
the Andy Warhol/Gainsborough pieces sold especially well.
DG: Perhaps the consumer liked the incongruity.
FS: Maybe, from one angle you were looking at a painting of Marylyn Monroe by Warhol and
from another angle you were looking at a country squire by Gainsborough.
DG: Again, this is vulgar. These two artists have nothing in common.
FS: The fact that these two artists had nothing in common made the whole experience that much
more fun. One would of course get other holo-art pieces that matched these two artists so there
was a sort of aesthetic unity to the house.
DG: Still sounds terrible.
FS: Well I guess you wouldnt like tricultural art that actually confused people and wasnt as
popular. One piece of holo-furniture that changed from a Frank Lloyd Wright chair, to a Zen
mat and then to a baroque throne was actually very hard to sit on since the true form of the chair
was totally hidden by the complex holo-effect on the chair. Not everyone liked holo-art and
some people claimed to get splitting headaches after being in a house filled with holo-art.
DG: Seems like a minor use of technology rather than a true cultural difference.
3.23 Virtualism
Dr. Delta: This meme is infectious but not virulent.
FS: The holo-art is representative of the larger philosophy among the cospros called maximal
virtualism. One should try to experience all aspects of reality but if you couldnt have the real
experience then go for a virtual substitute in a systematic manner.
DG: Can you give some examples?
FS: Sure original antiques were great but have fun with some holo-furniture if you couldnt
afford the real thing. Troilism, sex between three persons at the same time, is a blast but if you
couldnt find two willing partners then get the software and hardware to do it on your on in the
comfort of your own home.
DG: Why was virtualism so popular?
FS: Cospros were well-paid professionals but wanted to live the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Cospros found that virtual technology made this possible and this was smart not fake. Part of
the trick was to be up on the latest virtual technologies and be hip about making trade-off
between the real experience and the virtual experience.
DG: Can you give an example?
FS: Sure, memory implants were a process by which memories of a vacation would be
programmed directly into the brain via your cyberplug. This was super cheap and just required
a quick trip to a Memotron outlet but no cospro would go this route.
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DG: Why not?
FS: Memory implants were working class as far as cospros were concerned. On the other hand,
a cospro might prefer a simulated vacation to space since the real thing was just way too
expensive. A Cospro would consider a simulated vacation to Vietnam was stupid since the real
thing just cost a little more. Similarly, cospros looked down on cyberaddiction.
DG: I would think they would love cyberaddiction.
FS: No, drogas were unreal anyway and virtual drogas were just too much. A cospro heroin
addict would be considered fashionable but not a cospro cyberaddict.
DG: If cospros didnt believe in memory implants then how did this Memotron company stay in
business.
FS: Memotron was an Asian Union company. Virtualism came in a lot of different flavors. For
the more developed countries virtual technologies were used for reality substitution. Cospros
generally used virtual technology to enhance reality not substitute reality. Most of all the
cospros were NTV
DG: NTV?
FS: No television! Television was seen as a passive none interactive medium that was hopelessly
lower class. Virtual and interactive was good. TV was bad
DG: So, Different groups used virtual technology differently?
FS: Exactly, the general AU population applied virtualism in a very different way than cospros.
DG: Why?
FS: The AU found itself with billions of new urban consumers that were educated and potentially
a revolutionary class.
DG: I thought the Asian Union had caught up with the United Americas?
FS: The total GDP of the AU was equivalent to that of the UA but per capita income was still far
behind since the AU had a much larger population than the United Americas. The problem was
that the AU urban consumers wanted the same lifestyle as the United Americas population.
DG: The solution?
FS: The deal between the Asian Union government and the AU citizens was simple: Gives us a
better material situation and we will give you our political loyalty. The AU government accepted
that meeting consumer needs was part of its job in a way that the UA government never had.
The UA route to meeting consumer needs wouldnt work for the AU.
DG: Why not?
FS: The physical resources to satisfy the billions in the Asian Union simply did not exist in the
whole planet much less relatively resource poor Asia.
DG: So, what did the AU do?
FS: The AU used memetic surveys to measure the happiness level of this huge urban class in
consumer areas. When a nexus of unhappiness was identified then government research was
done to identify potential solutions that were cost effective. Often times a virtual solution did the
job.
DG: For example?
FS: Asian Union citizens wanted to travel around the world on a yearly basis like their United
Americas counterparts but this just wasnt economically possible for most AU citizens.
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DG: So what did the AU citizens do?
FS: The AU used memetic techniques to convince its population that the virtual travel of
Memotron was just as good and showed shrewd economic judgment on the part of the consumer.
Memotron was an Asian Union company and had been created through the use of low interest
government loans to the appropriate AU entrepreneurs.
DG: Sounds like a modern version of the old Roman circuses and bread to keep the population
happy.
FS: Thats exactly what it was but the question should be asked why did Rome survive so long
rather than why did it decline? AU populations already had a tradition of using Internet bars as
a cheap way to be entertained. As virtual technologies developed these Internet bars evolved
into sophisticated centers where every conceivable consumer fantasy could be satisfied virtually.
3.24 Enhanced, Muffled, Assistive and Corrective Reality
Dr. Delta: This meme is infectious and perhaps useful.
DG: How does virtual reality compare with enhanced reality?
FS: Enhanced reality is not a total immersion experience. In this Earth, you generally use
goggles to introduce on-screen objects that give you more information about an environment.
For example a fireman might have a digital temperature display pop up whenever he was
looking at an extremely hot surface area even if there were no smoke or flames. Enhanced
reality gives new information to the user in a direct perceptual manner. On my Earth, enhanced
reality was mostly used to help soldiers in combat environments but something similar referred
to as muffled reality was widely used in the Asian Union among civilian populations.
DG: Muffled reality?
FS: What does the muffler of your car do?
DG: The muffler decreases the amount of noise coming from the car engine.
FS: Muffled reality technologies decreased the amount of aversive stimuli that the user
perceived. The AU had become a very crowded place. At the same time there was a relative
amount of prosperity so people could afford high-tech gizmos but there was no getting around
the fact that some of the highest population densities in the history of the world were affecting
the quality of life. For example, An AU citizen could choose to wear electronic earmuffs that
would filter out unpleasant sounds. This could include any sounds above a certain decibel level.
DG: Why not use low-tech earmuffs?
FS: Have you ever tried to listen to a conversation with earmuffs on?
DG: It isnt easy.
FS: Exactly, muffled reality earmuffs would take ambient sound and only decrease certain
sounds that were preprogrammed. Sounds you liked could in fact be increased. The sound of
traffic could be blocked out to a level you wanted. The sound of your girl friends voice could be
increased but given some girlfriends you might not want to do this. Muffled reality extended to
all five senses.
DG: For example?
FS: Muffled reality goggles made the visual environment more monochromatic. Muffled reality
goggles were basically like a high tech version of sunglasses but instead of keeping out the sun
kept out all the garish neon that had become the trademark of Asian Union cities.
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DG: And the other senses?
FS: The most popular muffled option was in the area of smell. AU cities had multi-Asian
populations. The smells of Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, India, Japanese and Western food all
blended together.
DG: Doesnt sound so bad.
FS: This wasnt so bad but sometimes the smells of Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, India,
Japanese and Western garbage all blended together as well. Muffled reality masks could mute
smell in general or mute certain smells such as the smell of garbage or a particular food type.
DG: Actually, Asians do often wear surgical masks to avoid getting a cold. I suppose a high tech
electronic version would be the next step.
3.25 Reality Helmet
FS: Muffled reality technology had a basis in history at a lot of levels. Perfume probably began
not as a technology to enhance smell but to mask the horrible smells our ancestors had to deal
with.
DG: Well certainly in the West were baths were considered bad for your health until the 18
th

century. Are there any other historical examples?
FS: Spice was valued in the West in the Middle Ages as much for its ability to make rotten food
seem palatable as for the purpose of making food taste better. Many AU citizens chose to wear a
reality helmet that resembled a motorcycle helmet and muffled auditory, visual and olfactory
stimuli at the same time
DG: You know I have been to Asia myself and I think you are describing some products that
would sell in this Earth as well. So in general civilians didnt mess with enhanced reality but
preferred muffled reality.
FS: Not totally, language input was routinely enhanced. The reality helmet often came with a
natural language translator function. You could look at script in a foreign language and the
OCR system would kick in and use a computer generated video feed to provide word for word
translation. The word would appear as a subtitle on the visor of your helmet that in fact was a
type of screen for the user to look through. This was not a true translation since word for word
translation isnt true translation but you could understand street signs, advertisements and basic
textual messages without having to pull out a dictionary.
DG: Just a high tech dictionary.
FS: True but more sophisticated systems had object recognition capability and could tell you the
name of an object you were looking at in the foreign language. You could stare at a hamburger
in Mexico and you would get either script or audio input that would tell you the Spanish word
for hamburger and you then ordered a hamburger in Spanish.
DG: That would be useful while traveling.
FS: The reality helmet was especially popular among world travelers since it lessened the
sensory shock of travel and provided translations services as well as other seguridad and
directional functions.
DG: What security and directional functions?
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FS: The reality helmet was made of a super-light but super-tough plastic similar to Kevlar that
provided some bullet proof protection not to mention protection against someone hitting you on
the back of your head when you werent looking.
DG: And the directional functions?
FS: Some reality helmets had a GPS function that tied in with onscreen maps and even street
level maps for some cities. The helmet could also be bought with a function to filter out noxious
fumes such as carbon monoxide. Most importantly, the reality helmet could filter out black goo.
DG: Black goo?
FS: A disease in my dimension that I will discuss some other time. Finally, a helmet could have
a limited cooling/heating function.
DG: Cooling and heating?
FS: A little known fact is that 90% of the blood of your body passes through your head every
minute.
DG: This is why the old axiom keep your head warm applies. If you wear a cap and keep your
head warm then this will have a disproportionate affect on your overall body temperature.
FS: Conversely, cold water poured on your head will cool your body down much more quickly
than the same treatment on any other part of your body. A reality helmet with very limited
heating/cooling capability changed overall body temperature very quickly. You had to be
careful since the head is very sensitive and you didnt want to overheat or overcool this part of
the body.
DG: Wasnt it uncomfortable running around with a helmet all the time.
FS: I suppose comparing the reality helmet with a motorcycle helmet was misleading on my part.
The plastics on my Earth were much more advanced and the reality helmet weighed a fraction of
what a plastic helmet of this sort would in this Earth.
DG: I dont know if I would like a society were everyone was wearing a helmet. I think this
would literally affect face-to-face relations.
FS: Yes, the reality helmet also gave you some anonymity although most nations required some
sort of bar code on the helmet so that the government itself could identify you via monitors and
computer systems.
DG: Sounds like a license plate.
FS: The bar code was more or less the license plate of the reality helmet but at least your wife
couldnt recognize you when you emerged from a hotel room with your mistress.
DG: So the reality helmet was like a mask.
FS: Not the first time masks have been used for day- to-day activities. The book Rostro de La
Patria, by the author Lucia Lockert, describes how upper class Peruvian ladies in the colonial
period would use the equivalent of a body length scarf to hide their identities. Besides a reality
helmet was more of a necessity for a small part of the population.
DG: Hows that?
FS: There was a technology called assistive reality.
DG: As in assistive technology for handicapped persons?
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FS: Yes, assistive reality tried to help handicapped people lead normal lives generally using
onscreen objects that annotated reality. The good news was that people led longer lives than
ever on my Earth due to microbots and nanobots but there was a bad side to this.
DG: And the bad side?
FS: The bad news is that all sorts of cognitive disorders started to show up after you reached one
hundred that are totally new since this was the first time in human history you had large
populations reaching these ages. The most common problem was a host of memory disorders.
DG: And the reality helmet role in all this?
FS: A reality helmet would provide a series of reminders to a person suffering from a memory
disorder.
DG: Why not just use notes on the refrigerator?
FS: The program provided real time reminders. The user could tell the reality helmet to remind
him of the name of his wife the next time that he saw her. You could even program the helmet to
remind you who you were every twenty minutes or so. Cyberplugs could also be used to provide
the reminder.
DG: Still all this virtual stuff isnt real.
FS: But radical virtualism would disagree.
DG: What is radical virtualism?
FS: Some computer programmers argued that it was just a matter of time before virtual
constructs would become aware as they became more and more complex and interacted with
their users in more sophisticated ways. What if these virtual constructs in turn created more
virtual realities? There were thousands upon thousands of virtual reality programs and what if
each one of those realities created thousands upon thousands of virtual realities? The number of
virtual realities would soon outnumber the original base reality by a million to one. Statistically
it would just be more likely that you are in a virtual reality and that was probably the case with
us. Sooner or later we would find the backdoor that would enable us to contact the creators of
our reality and there was no reason to believe the creators themselves were not virtual as well.
DG: That would give the worlds within worlds idea a new meaning. Plato, Hinduism and
Buddhism all refer to reality as commonly perceived as being an illusion maybe some mystics
find the backdoor via meditation but dont have the computer background to fully understand
what they perceive.
FS: That is what radical virtualism would argue.
DG: Some programmers keep a log. I wouldnt mind reading the programmers log of our
reality. Oh this is such nonsense there is nothing virtual about our reality.
FS: You have to careful about thinking about radical virtualism too much. The idea can drive
you a little crazy.
Dr. Gammas Notes: Ancient people would bore a hole in the head of the patient in order to
let demons escape and thus cure the patient. The cyberplugs remind me of this practice.

DG: Sounds horrible, wouldnt a natural death be better?
FS: You would think so but the old survival instinct is pretty strong. Besides most people
suffered from the breakeven syndrome.
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DG: What is the breakeven syndrome?
FS: The breakeven syndrome is a version of the breakeven point.
DG: I have heard of this, the breakeven point was the postulation that as you lived longer, you
lived long enough for technology to develop that would allow you to live even longer so there
was a chance that you could get immortality incrementally.
FS: The breakeven syndrome is the belief that in a similar manner whatever ailed you might also
be cured if you lived long enough and you wouldnt just get immortality if you hung in there but
a healthy immortality.
DG: Was there any other major population that used reality helmets?
FS: Reality helmets were often used with ex-con populations. A corrective reality program was
specifically created for this population. You know the little cartoon were you have an angel on
one shoulder and a devil on the other shoulder?
DG: Sure
FS: The corrective reality program was like having the little angel minus the little devil. If the
wrong brain activity were detected then the helmet would initiate an appropriate talk therapy
program. For example, a sex offender getting sexually excited while seeing a young girl would
be given a lecture of how such thoughts are wrong and suggestions of how to deal with such
thoughts. A lot of the programs were based on rational emotive therapy and tried to
rationally help the ex-offender redirect their thoughts.
DG: I have treated sex offenders and most of them dont think they have a problem so I would
imagine they would just take the helmet off.
FS: Wearing the helmet was generally a condition of parole. The parolee could only remove the
helmet at certain prearranged times and places such as showering in the bathroom. The reality
helmet could monitor when and were the helmet was being removed and this information was
beamed to the local policia station computer in real time.
DG: What would happen?
FS: If the ex-con took of the helmet at the wrong place and wrong time then he could expect a
visit from the policia within the hour for violating his conditions of parole.
DG: We do something similar with in house imprisonment using an electronic shackle. Sounds
like a great system. You deal with the whole issue of changing criminal cognition and therefore
criminal behavior in a real life setting rather than an artificial therapy setting. What about when
the parolee was sleeping? Did the offender take the helmet off?
FS: Oh, you slept with the helmet on. Research showed that focusing on inappropriate brain
activity while asleep with the proper subliminal cues had dramatic effects. Your brain goes into
something called REM.
DG: REM is short for rapid eye movement, and this generally means you are dreaming. What
does this have to do with corrective reality?
FS: Well ex-cons have inappropriate dreams! The helmet could monitor REM levels in addition
to inappropriate brain activity. Different verbal stimuli had been created for optimal effect with
different REM levels. Corrective reality generally worked best with ex-cons that had a condition
that responded to talk therapy.
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FS: Yes, but they had their limitations. Someone wrote a corrective reality program for the
purposes of weight loss that failed totally.
DG: How did it work?
FS: The program kept a tally of what foods you ate by noting which foods were aimed at the
mouth. The helmet didnt actually measure food consumed just food that was grabbed by your
hand and came towards your mouth but this was good enough. Whenever you tried to eat the
wrong food or too much food per day, the user received a verbal reprimand. A running tally of
the calories consumed that day was shown on the helmet screen.
DG: Sounds great what went wrong?
FS: People just took the helmet off.
DG: Who else used reality helmets?
FS: Reality helmets came out of militar research and the militar were the biggest users of reality
helmets.
DG: What was the main difference between military reality helmets and civilian reality helmets?
FS: Militar reality helmets were used to control weapons systems. In particular, reality helmets
were used for No Hand Firing systems or NHF systems.
DG: What?
FS: NHF, the militar on my world had to face small terrorist groups just like this world and
soldiers had their hands full, pun intended. NHF systems let them use their hands for other
functions.
DG: I thought you used robots. Why not just give the robots extra hands?
FS: Good idea and some robots had more hands than others depending on the job but robots
were used for large-scale wars between nation states in which firepower was more important
than judgment. Humans were generally used for SWAT type situations were greater judgment
was needed, especially hostage situations.
DG: Why was that?
FS: Robots always had trouble distinguishing between good guys and bad guys which is fine in a
total war situation but not in a hostage situation. A favorite technique was to insert small
squads through the use of parasailing.
DG: Our Special Forces use parasailing.
FS: Parasailing on my Earth included jetpacks to provide additional mobility. The jetpack could
be used to increase the speed of descent from a high altitude.
DG: Why bother?
FS: So you could come in over radar and air defenses, get past the dangerous 500 to 2,000 feet
range were air defenses are particularly dangerous and then stop your descent on a dime with
the jet pack and deploy your chute.
DG: Why not just stick with the jetpack all the way?
FS: Jetpacks never had enough power to provide long-term flight but were great for controlling
the direction and speed of a jump but there was still one big disadvantage to jumping into a
hostile situation
DG: What was that?
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FS: You were still a sitting duck while in the air. Jetpacks meant you were more mobile in the
air and your time in the air could be controlled with greater precision. You didnt want to just
dodge bullets but shoot bullets.
DG: The best defense is an offense.
FS: Absolutely, complex jumps using jet assisted parasailing just meant you were in the air that
much longer. The jumper needed to use his hands to control the parasailing and needed some
way to fire artillery from the air for tactical defensa.
DG: So what is the solution?
FS: The energy weapons of my Earth were about the size of an Uzi submachine but much lighter
and some could be temporarily plugged into the top of the reality helmet. Early systems used
voice commands to swivel the weapon and fire on targets on the ground.
DG: Wouldnt the kick back of the weapon be a major problem?
FS: Energy discharge weapons have no kickback and this was one of their major advantages.
Energy discharge weapons dried up a battery pretty quickly but you just needed something that
could fire a dozen rounds while you were in the air until you hit the ground and pull out the more
traditional gunpowder based weapon.
DG: How did the jumper control the weapon?
FS: The reality helmet used a voice recognition system so that it would only respond to
commands from the user. The first command was arm system. The firearm would
automatically target whatever the user happened to be looking at. The second command was
fire system and the third command was disarm system.
DG: Pretty basic for such a high tech world.
FS: Later voice recognition was replaced with direct cybernetic control via cyberplugs in the
brain of the user. Eventually policia and militar on my Earth got into the habit of having some
sort of energy discharge weapon on their reality helmets 24/7.
DG: Why?
FS: Research showed you could fire this type of weapon faster than you could pull out a weapon
from his holster. Once armed, the user just had to say, Fire system.
DG: I would think the speeds would be about the same.
FS: The reaction speed was even higher with cyberplugs that allowed direct mental control of
the weapon. You could set the energy discharge weapon at a stun level for policia situations.
Policia on my Earth were constantly stunning innocents by accident because of this but better
safe than sorry.
DG: Any other energy weapons?
FS: The militar developed electromagnetic pulse weapons that were controlled by the reality
helmet that could knock out electronics of whatever you looked at in a second and this left the
hands free for standard artillery. This was especially useful against robotic defensa systems that
could take a beating from standard artillery but were very vulnerable to tactical EMP weapons.
DG: I thought I read something about EMP grenades.
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FS: Hey, my Earth is your Earth in the future, well, more or less. In terrorist situations were no
robots were expected a laser could be substituted that could cut through a wall and hit a
terrorist on the other side in a precise manner. Lobbing grenades at fortified positions often
lead to the deaths of hostages.
DG: I suppose.
FS: Sure, lasers were often a better option. The main thing was that energy discharge weapons
were on your head and gunpowder was in your hands. This dual weapons system allowed
greater offensive flexibility and a drastic increase in per person firepower that were of course
one of the historical keys to victory on the battlefield.
DG: So humans used energy weapons and robots didnt?
FS: Nothing so simple. United Americas robots had derived their power from miniature nuclear
reactors and could fire multiple ion shots before having to recharge.
DG: Is an ion shot better than a laser beam?
FS: An ion charge was more powerful than a laser and didnt dissipate in the atmosphere as
quickly as a laser. Lasers were used for short range shooting. The heavier but more powerful
ion guns were used for medium term ranges.
DG: The whole thing sounds like Buck Rogers.
FS: Yeah, but as usual the Buck Rogers warrior of my Earth evolved incrementally using existing
technologies rather than through the use of some magic system that allowed for true individual
flight. Buck Rogers had the jetpack but no one ever tried to figure out how he could control the
jetpack and fire a gun at the same time.
DG: What would the energy source of the jetpack be? The source would have to incredibly
compact and powerful.
FS: Even on this Earth much more compact and powerful power systems will be developed that
can handle this task within the next twenty years.
DG: I am still unclear how the jets worked with the parasailing equipment.
FS: The jets were mounted on your back like a backpack, under the chute, and could rotate 180
degrees. If the jets were aimed towards the sky then thrust towards the ground was provided. If
there was no chute and you could speed through a kill zone. Once the chute was deployed then
aiming the jets skyward towards the chute provided lift in a manner similar to a hot air balloon.
DG: But wouldnt the jets burn the chute?
FS: Even high tech plastics on this Earth can be devised that are sufficiently fire resistant for
this trick.
DG: How did you run this contraption?
FS: Pointing the jets towards the ground acted as brakes. Pointing the jets at a ninety- degree
angle provided forward thrust and the soldier could fly over ground obstacles and/or enemy
controlled territory. The jets provided a huge amount of control over the chute and allowed for
pinpoint drops, even from the stratosphere, since the user could adjust where they landed
dramatically once they entered the proximal target zone.
DG: So aside from the NHF system the military/paramilitary reality helmets and the civilian
reality helmets were pretty similar.
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FS: Yes and no, militar/paramilitary helmets both displayed information but different types of
information.
DG: Such as?
FS: For example, policia helmets could come with a fingerprint system that allowed the user to
look at a fingerprint, have it magnified, tie into the BIS database and compare that fingerprint
with other fingerprints on the spot. A policeman could look at a suspect and compare his face
with mug shots using a facial recognition system.
DG: Sounds like a great idea. Muffled reality suggests that material comfort was an important
part of your Earth.
FS: I would say that our materialism had evolved to a form of sophisticated hedonism. For
example, Cospros used something like the Big Mac index on this Earth to compare prices
between nations on my Earth.
DG: What was that?
FS: Cospros used the hedonist index to compare the prices of countries. The hedonist index was
a composite of the price of cerveza, sex and drogas in various countries. The European Union
was the best value for a hedonist based on this index.
DG: Why?
FS: Cerveza was cheap. The hookers were reasonably priced. Illegal drogas mostly controlled
rather than illegal and therefore reasonably priced. Robotic sex was cheaper in the Asian
Union, especially Japan, but the AU had managed to stamp out illegal droga use. In the UA,
cerveza, sex and drogas were all available but expensive.
DG: Sounds like the perv index not the hedonist index. Been to Europe and sounds like this
Earth. So I guess the cospros were big international travelers.
FS: Yes but the Cospros traveled differently. The grand tour had been a rite of passage during
the 19
th
century when anybody that was anyone traveled across Europe. This was also meant to
be a major shopping excursion and you were expected to return with a few roomfuls of antiques
and souvenirs.
DG: The grand tour has been largely replaced by the backpackers journey through South East
Asia. The backpacker is minimalist and tries to experience a lot but buy very little.
FS: The cospros would have none of that and combined the grand tour and backpacking with the
big walk.
DG: The big walk?
FS: It was assumed you saw Europe as a teenager and Asia in your twenties but this was just
normal traveling, nothing special. You usually waited until you were in your thirties or forties to
take the big walk. The big walk usually took about a year.
DG: I think you wouldnt have a job when you came back.
FS: Most employers of cospros were sympathetic to the big walk. Your job would be waiting for
you when you got back. If fact, many companies would only consider giving an upper
management job to a person after they had done the big walk.
DG: Why?
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FS: The big walk was part of the maturation process of cospros. The idea was that you traveled
around the world and spent some serious bucks to get stuff to fill out your pad with. Hopefully
you had learned something from the European and Asian traveling and now were ready make
some serious purchases. Purchases before your thirties where temporary and reflected the fact
that you were still a kid.
DG: And your thirties were different?
FS: Yes, in your thirties it was assumed and had the maturity to understand the intricacies of
serious shopping. Shopping was an art form that took a lifetime to learn.

Dr. Gammas Notes: In some societies the man ritually abducts his wife. I met my wife in
graduate school.

DG: What about the stuff you did have?
FS: You would rent a storage place ahead of time for just such a purpose and stores would send
your purchases to the storage place as you traveled and bought. The management would put
your purchases in the storage place for you as you sent stuff from your travels. The storage
place also acted as your mailing address. This way you could travel light like a backpacker but
have something to show for all your traveling when you got back.
DG: Storage places dont provide these services.
FS: They should. No sense paying an apartment fee/house payment while you were living in
hotels anyway.
DG: Did you do this rite of passage alone?
FS: No, the big walk was usually done with someone you were serious about. It was assumed
that your first marriage was temporary and not permanent. You shouldnt buy too much
property since it would just make the divorce that much messier.
DG: Having been a divorce counselor, I can agree with this idea.
FS: The idea was to put your money in liquid investments and postpone purchases of furniture
other less easily divided assets until you were older and more mature.
DG: Sounds expensive.
It was, hopefully you werent a total loser and had saved enough to do the big walk after you
divorced your first spouse.
DG: You did this trip with your second spouse?
FS: Yes, hopefully, you had also had the forethought to have a partner lined up for the big walk.
The big walk was done with the person you had thought about being your second marriage
partner. You learned a lot about a person after traveling around the world together for a year.
DG: Sounds like what many couples are doing in this Earth.
FS: I agree, mostly you learned if you like to shop for the same things at the same places.
Studies had determined that different shopping styles were the real reason people got divorced.
Couples that shopped together stayed together.
DG: You think so?
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FS: Sure, arguments about sex and money were symptoms of an underlying hostility about
different patterns of consumption. Anthropologists on my Earth had discovered that humans
were gatherers or hunters and this affected their shopping style. A simple test was devised to
figure out who was who.
DG: What sort of test?
FS: When faced with a shopping experience, gatherers savored the experience and would look at
many objects. Hunters focused on one object and blocked out other stimuli. Virtual reality
shopping experiences combined with measures of eye movement could differentiate hunters and
gatherers.
DG: People in your Earth were just way too much into technology.
FS: Maybe, gatherers like to buy lots of little things to create and overall pattern of
consumption. Hunters looked for that very special object and pounce on it.
DG: What is the basic difference between the two types of consumers?
FS: Would you rather spend your money on lots of little knick-knacks or forego this pleasure for
one big purchase? Dont answer both since money is limited and people do end up choosing
one style or another or go bankrupt.
DG: I thought women were the big shoppers.
FS: A common mistake. Shopping is central to the lives of both men and women but in different
ways. On my Earth, women in general were gatherers. Men in general were hunters but this
was not always the case. A man might eat crap and wear horrible clothes but save his money for
that very special sports car.
DG: The being the prey in this case.
FS: Exactly, a hunter married to a gatherer would feel that the gatherer was wasting a lot of
time and money on inconsequential purchases. In fact when men said they didnt like to shop
they were in fact saying they didnt like to gather when in fact they did like to shop but as a
hunter.
DG: But gatherers didnt mind hunters.
FS: No, the gatherer would be disconcerted by the lack of a lot of little purchases and feel
abandoned when the man decided to sit down and wait on a bench outside the mall not realizing
that the hunter was waiting for the big kill.
DG: What about two hunters?
FS: Two hunters might get along but hunters usually collected different things and would need to
learn how to take turns hunting or hunt separately and then hook up later.
DG: And two gatherers?
FS: Two gatherers were probably the happiest but this could also be a little boring since the
intensity of the hunt was lost. There was no perfect combination but most marriage experts
agreed that if patterns of consumption were not reconciled then divorce was inevitable. A global
shopping experience was good way to iron out the consumption patterns of the relationship.
DG: I would think a sex-addict like you would put more emphasis on sex in relationships?
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FS: How could a woman be expected to have sex with a man when she basically didnt like the
clothes he bought or the type of car he drove? If you like the same stores and the same
restaurants then you probably stayed married. The big walk was ultimately a walk of discovery
since you are what you buy but most of us dont really know what we want to buy until we have
achieved a certain level of maturity.
DG: We are what we buy? What a pathetic consumer based philosophy!
FS: Realistic not pathetic.
DG: So cospros did everything differently?
FS: Yes, cospros even retired differently. The average age of a citizen in a developed country
had shoot up to 100. The increase in life span had been accompanied by a social trend towards
early retirement.
DG: How early?
FS: If you were working a standard 9-5 job past 50 then people looked at you funny. Many
people retired even earlier. This meant that you had a huge population that had the next fifty
years of life on their hands.
DG: So how did people handle this extra free time?
3.26 Rebirth
Dr. Delta: This meme and the other community memes that follow are infectious and perhaps
useful.
FS: A third category of lifestyle that was a cross between retirement and work was created and
called rebirth. During rebirth, a cospro would typically move to a community that was designed
for this purpose.
DG: What sort of community?
FS: These planned rebirth communities allowed the cospro the ability to use their high level
professional skills but in a less structured and more autonomous environment.

Dr. Gammas Notes: My daughter heard about the cap and scarf knitted by my mother
and wife respectively and knitted me some mittens. She gave me the mittens on Easter
Sunday.

DG: Sounds like yuppie heaven. How did these communities start?
FS: The trend had really started in the United Americas. At first planned community developers
targeted retired high-level business managers. They advertised their rebirth communities, as
places were one could be reborn not retired. Retired was what mid-management types did.
Rebirth is what successes did.
DG: So what did these successes do?
3.27 Buscoms
FS: Top business executive moved to exclusive gated communities that had super deluxe country
clubs. Most of all, the houses, mansions actually, were wired to the max to allow for easy
telecommuting.
DG: So the community was geared to provide professional services.
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FS: Yes, the community also had the equivalent of an executive job center that allowed
companies to easily hire members of the community as consultants. The community always had
a high profile buscom website in which high profile community members were advertised on a
regular basis.
DG: Buscoms?
FS: The buscoms, short for business communities also had a community center but the
community centers were more geared towards providing the most sophisticated online investing
hardware and software than shuffleboard. Buscoms were also great places to network and soon
non-retired business types moved into buscoms, often as a first step towards planning their
rebirth.
DG: Beats the home my grandmother is stuck in.
3.28 Artcol
FS: Probably, retirement sucks on this Earth. A visual artists version of the buscoms soon
followed. The rebirth communities for artists were called an artcol, short for artist colony. The
houses had artists studios built in but the centerpiece of such an artcol was the virtual gallery.
An artist could exhibit their work in the holo-gallery.
3.29 Holo-Galleries
DG: Holo-gallery?
FS: An exact visual replica of their work could be shown in all the other virtual galleries around
the world. That meant that thousands of persons around the world could wander around dozens
of virtual galleries, at member artcols, and see your work at the same time. Only one gallery
had the real items but you couldnt touch art on display anyway so who cared.
DG: Why not just list stuff online like E-Bay does?
FS: The virtual exhibition was also online but it soon became apparent that most of the bids
came from people that went to the holo-gallery shows.
DG: I wonder why this would be true. Perhaps the cheese snacks at a gallery show elicit some
buying response that online shows do not.
FS: Anthropologists on my Earth suggested that buying expensive art was a essentially a social
ritual in which a person could display social dominance through the acquisition of expensive and
non-utilitarian objects in a group setting that online buying did not allow.
DG: So traditional galleries were no longer used?
FS: No, art galleries around the world received the holographic input from the virtual galleries
data storage center and could display all the works of an artist three dimensionally without
having to invest in the overhead of storing the actual arts in the store. This was basically a high
tech version of ordering art from a catalog. Exposure was the name of the game in the visual
arts world and artcols provided this in a high tech/high touch manner.
DG: Not all artists are visual artists.
FS: True, there was some attempt to make a community of writers similar to the visual art
communities. Online writing workstations were built into the houses.
DG: I think a simple PC would be good enough for most writers.
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FS: With a workstation, writers could do holo-conferencing, three-dimensional
videoconferencing, with each other and teach creative writing classes from the comfort of their
own homes.
DG: In theory, this would be great for writers since most writers like to write at home. This way
they could teach and/or lead writing workshops for steady money, spend less time commuting,
and have more time to write.
FS: Great in theory. The writing community didnt work. The writers always argued.
Invariably one writer didnt like the writer that lived next door and sometimes these dislikes
were manifested violently. Shootouts were not uncommon. The policia at these communities had
to deal with constant domestic squabbles.
DG: What kind of squabbles?
FS: Mostly alcohol related. The writers community center was soon littered with cerveza cans
and whiskey bottles despite a clearly posted ban on drinking in the community center. Alcohol
related problems ate into the profit margins of these communities.
DG: I do think there is something to that truism that most writers are heavy drinkers.
FS: I think so. Finally, a shoot out between neo-realists and metafiction writers at one of the
community bars escalated into a community level civil war in which the National Guard had to
be called out.
DG: Well the debate about metafiction is an important one and I can see how things can get out
of hand. Fact is fact and fiction is fiction and one shouldnt blur the lines between these types of
writing. I would even say that metafiction is one of the causes of meta-psychopathology. I
especially dislike the experimental formats that metafiction often uses. I especially dislike
novels with a Chinese box construction.
FS: Whats a Chinese box construction?
DG: A story within a story within a story.
FS: I agree that would be a very confusing way to construct a novel. A neorealist novelist at a
bar had said that experimental writing that blurred the line between reality and fiction was elitist
nonsense and the biggest hoax since the Piltdown man. A leading metafiction writer had
responded by pouring cerveza on the head of the neorealist and all hell broke out. The writers
community hobbled on but no new communities were planned after the shoot out. Science
communities on the other hand did work out.
DG: Well good for the neo-realist. Can you imagine if this metafiction trend continued and
some unwitting reader would pick up the transcript of this session and think it was fiction? What
were the science communities like?
3.30 Holo-Labs
Dr. Delta: This meme is in the process of being actualized.
FS: Science communities had holo-labs. Holo-labs existed in most high tech companies. A holo-
lab combined supercomputers with holographic technology to mimic any type of laboratory
imaginable, given that you had the right software. The congruence between a virtual lab and an
actual lab was about 99.9% in most fields.
DG: Congruence?
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FS: That is to say an experiment done in a virtual lab would probably turn out identically if
replicated in an actual lab 99.9% of the time.
DG: So virtual research replaced hands on research.
FS: You still wanted to do your final experiments in an actual lab but a lot of preliminary
research could be done in the holo-lab. Holographic projections were basically a light show
and holographic objects had no actual mass and only could mimic mass. The holographic test
tubes were not solid and only responded to being touched by your hand if you wore gloves
hooked up to the computer.
DG: Why keep the fiction of test tubes at all? There must be more efficient ways to input data
into a computer.
FS: You often get some creative insights from messing with real test tubes rather than just
typing the data in.
DG: Why not buy our own hololab?
FS: The holo-labs were expensive and out of reach for most individuals. A bright real estate
developer realized that a community that offered virtual labs as part of the rebirth deal would be
very attractive to scientists that would rather be reborn than retire.
DG: Why were the virtual labs so important?
FS: Scientists could do consulting for major companies using the holo-labs of the community.
You still had to schedule time in the holo-lab and rent the lab for a fee but this allowed many
researchers to do research that had commercial possibilities on an individual basis. The
community was filled with other scientists and you were of course free to form your own little
company with a neighbor and work together.
DG: Doesnt sound like retirement at all.
FS: The irony of all the rebirth communities was that many members ended up becoming
entrepreneurs and working harder than they ever had for any company. Some joked that rebirth
was really when you started working. The time you spent working for a company before rebirth
was really company paid for education. Technology had turned the traditional cycle of life that
had existed for millennia on its head.
DG: So only the United Americas had these communities.
FS: The communities started in the UA but soon East China realized this was an excellent tool
for attracting the best and the brightest from around the world and reverse the brain drain that
had allowed UA dominance in the first place.
DG: So East China built a rebirth community?
FS: Yes, the East China government in partnership with rebirth United Americas companies
built a buscom, artcol and scicom just outside Shanghai. The three communities were separate
but there was a transportation system that connected them while keeping out none rebirth
community members. Exclusivity was one of the benefits of being in a rebirth community.
DG: And the rest of the world?
FS: The vast majority of the world was not being reborn and just spent the extra fifty years of
their life in humdrum second jobs or watched TV.
DG: Fifty years of reruns doesnt sound too great.
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FS: I personally love reruns. The biggest rebirth community company in the UA was Sunny City.
They jumped at the chance to expand into Asia when made an offer by East China. Unlike the
Sunny City communities in the UA, the East Chinese government insisted that synergies be
created between the three rebirth communities.
DG: How so?
FS: The members of the buscom were the VIP guests at the holo-gallery presentations at the
artcol.
DG: Why?
3.31 Scicom
FS: Artists need patrons. The artcol members thus got buscom patrons and the buscom members
got a chance to network with members of their community and members of the scicom
community that were also invited.
DG: I can understand the buscom invites but the scicom invites?
FS: The buscom members could also easily consult with scientists about the technical feasibility
of various ideas. The sciencom members could network with the buscom members for venture
capital. East Chinese officials always hovered about these gatherings, always ready to offer
East Chinese government assistance to projects that sounded particularly attractive. The East
Chinese added one last twist to the rebirth community idea.
DG: What was that?
FS: All three communities had many members that taught virtual courses that were broadcast to
colleges and universities throughout East China and even other states of the AU. This allowed
the quality level of higher education in East China to be dramatically increased. Shanghai was
considered the most attractive city in the world to most Cospros.
DG: The scary part is that some of your ideas almost make sense.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is obviously using the rebirth fantasy to deal with his own fear
of old age and death. Need to get away from the technological fantasies of the patient and
explore how he relates to other people. A further exploration of the Erotron fantasy may
provide some insight into the patients interpersonal conflicts.

DG: Did you ever see Erotron after the Fluffy incident?
FS: Yes, I ran into her in Shanghai. I was walking along a street in Shanghai and I saw Erotron
on her bright red motorbike. She was wearing a tight red leather skirt, matching red boots, a
red bra and a red leather jacket. You just had to love her fashion sense.
DG: Well I guess she would be your type. Still you say she was gorgeous.
FS: Well she had gained a little weight around the waist, probably due to going on an eating
binge because I left her. Still she was pretty hot.
DG: How did this situation make you feel?
FS: I was in a state of shock and thought maybe I was having a flashback of some sort but went
ahead and waved. I have noticed that when you treat you hallucinations with respect, the
hallucinations treat you with respect.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Discussion of hallucination within a giant hallucination. Why in the
world did I pick this profession?

DG: Did she wave back?
FS: Not exactly, she gave me the finger. I smiled back.
DG: Well thats very mature on your part.
FS: I think so. A lot of time had passed since the Tokyo and I thought that we could still be
friends.
DG: Kudos for you! So did you become friends?
FS: We didnt exactly become friends. She speedup and some sixth sense told me that she was
going to run me over. I started running away.
DG: Well was your sixth sense right?
FS: I could hear the motorbike directly behind me. I could almost feel her hot breath. I ducked
and barely missed getting hit as she sped by me. I ran towards a park. I caught a glimpse of her
face and could tell she had drunk a lot of green tea. Green tea affects different women
differently. Some got happy. Some start crying. Some just got mean. Erotron belonged to the
last category.
DG: What did you do?
FS: I thought that there was no way some woman was going to make me back down, motorbike
or no motorbike. I stopped running and stood my ground.
DG: What did she do?
FS: She sped by me again. I took a swing and missed. She sped by me again. I took another
swing at Erotron. She brought her bike around looked at me from about twenty feet. She was
smiling smugly. She was toying with me. I was going to be killed by this bitch and not even got
in one good punch. This couldnt be happening I thought then I thought to myself, Screw it,
and started running again for my life. I ran straight into a tree that I didnt see in the dark.
DG: What about your Half Square night vision?
FS: Night vision doesnt do you a lot of good if you arent looking. The impact gave me a bloody
nose and I tasted blood on my mouth. In a blind panic, I climbed the tree like a monkey. She
was right behind me, headlights digging into my back. I got to the top of the tree in record time.
I yelled, Ha, Ive escaped you bitch. She made a big circle around the tree and tore up grass
and mud but I was safe. After half an hour she gave up and drove away. I walked back to my
apartment cautiously. I imagined her waiting for me behind every tree and turn.
DG: Did you learn anything from all this?
FS: My advice to all Americans in Asia is not to trifle with the affections of Asian women. They
may look small and cute but underneath that fluffy exterior is the cold heart of an assassin.
Erotron was out there somewhere. Every time I heard a motorbike behind me, my heart jumped.
Have pity on me for I live in fear of the green tea crazed, Japanese, motorcycle mam
DG: So that was the end of the relationship.
FS: No, Erotron had left a message on my CC and said she had decided to tell me something
important instead of killing me. She was sobbing as she left the message.
DG: Sobbing? That doesnt make much sense.
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FS: But it does, I called her back and we agreed to a meeting place and time. She broke down
and cried some more. I was very surprised at the outburst since Erotron was usually very cool
and collected.
DG: You agreed to meet someone that tried to kill you?
FS: Sure Erotron had tried to kill me but women were always trying to kill me and I was used to
it by now.
DG: I can imagine.
FS: We met at an office that Erotron had in the Asian Union headquarters. The AU
headquarters sat on an artificial island in the bay of Shanghai. The headquarters was actually a
complex of buildings done in the distinctly Shanghai style known as neo-Chinese.
DG: Neo-Chinese.
FS: A style that combined traditional Chinese architecture and a minimalist modern style. The
most striking thing about the island was the giant green house dome next to the tower.
DG: How so?
FS: The dome was made of special geodesic transparent solar panels that generated electricity
but also polarized as the amount of sunlight increased like some sunglasses do and became
darker as sunlight increased.
DG: Why were the panels polarized?
FS: This meant that the temperature inside the dome was kept between 55-75 degrees Fahrenheit
regardless of the outside temperature. The frame of the greenhouse was studded with lights of
different colors and different intensities.
DG: What were the lights for?
FS: The lights allowed incredible light shows that could be generated for special occasions.
China had always been famous for its firework displays and this was seen as a new version of an
old custom. The greenhouse also meant that the air supply to the island could be controlled and
the air pollution of Shanghai, filtered out. Lastly the dome had a seguridad function.
DG: What sort of security function?
FS: Airborne terrorismo was on the rise. Increasingly more sophisticated terrorists would
parachute into a target area using the jetpacks I described before. There was second tank dome
inside the first dome made out of a spider silk composite, which was much stronger than the tank
domes of the United Americas.
DG: The UA didnt have spider silk domes?
FS: No, the Megatrains gave the UA a superior offensive capability but the spider silk tank
domes gave the AU a superior defensive capability. No one really knew if a spider silk tank
dome could withstand a missile sent by a Megatrain and no one really wanted to find out.
DG: Sounds like a stand off.
FS: There were rumors of cameras on the outside of the dome that let the authorities scan every
square inch of Shanghai. In contrast to Shanghai, the centerpiece of New York was the United
Americas Tower.
DG: UA Tower?
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FS: The UA Tower was over one hundred and fifty stories high. The United Americas Tower had
been built were the World Trade Center had stood before our 9/11. The UA Tower had missile
batteries to defend New York and even Washington DC. The United Americas had learned from
its mistake and any unauthorized plane or airborne terrorists would be instantly shot down with
weapons on the United Americas Tower.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The UA Tower is yet another phallic symbol similar to the subship
and Megatrain. The commonality to all three phallic symbols is that they are
technologically based. The patient sees technology as a way of using external mechanisms
to compensate for internal masculine identity deficiencies. This would be an extreme case
of something like a computer nerd that uses his mastery of computers to compensate for
other deficiencies in the interpersonal realm.

DG: So the terrorists also used the jetpacks? Technology is always out of control on your Earth.
FS: The First Universal Law of Technology states that, Technology is out of control in the
entire space-time continuum.
DG: How was West China different from East China?
FS: Due to financial problem public schools had closed in West Chinese and English was very
much a foreign language. Home schools had arisen that taught a curriculum filled with a
mixture of Maoism, extreme nationalism and xenophobia.
DG: I thought, due to WW II, the Chinese hated the Japanese.
FS: The old ideas of Japan as the WWII invader of China were alive and well in West China.
West China deified Mao as a man that had tried to lift the peasants of all China including West
China.
DG: What finally happened under these terrible conditions?
FS: The West Chinese declared independence and the East China accepted this. West China
would be given full economic autonomy while both Chinas agreed to militar cooperation. In a
deliberately ironic move, the monies allocated for welfare payments to West China were
allocated directly to the newly created Green Wall Project.
DG: Green Wall Project?
FS: Singaporean genetic expertise was second to none and a Sino-Singaporean company was
created to create a miniature genetically engineered ecosystem that could contain and reverse
desertification that would be used as model for a giant buffer ecosystem between West and East
China.
DG: The second Great Wall of China. Why was Erotron picked by the Squares to work with
you?
3.32 Hyperconsciousness Project
Dr. Delta: This meme is in the process of being actualized.
FS: I am not totally sure but I think Erotron was picked because of her involvement with the
Hyperconsciousness Project. As a Half Square I was supposed to have abnormally high levels of
hyper-consciousness. At least that is what she told me at first. The Hyperconsciousness Project
was a project dealing with hyperdimensional consciousness.
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DG: What is hyperdimensional consciousness?
FS: Hyperdimensional means more than four dimensions. Basically there were at least five
dimensions that baselines can perceive.
DG: What are they?
FS: All of us could perceive the three spatial dimensions of width, height and length. The fourth
dimension is time. Baselines can remember the past. We all had some sense of time but some of
us could perceive the future to a greater extent than other human beings. Some of us used
intuition and some of us used logic but either way we could perceive the future to a greater or
lesser extent one way or another.
DG: And the fifth dimension?
FS: The fifth dimension is pretty mysterious but has to do with perceiving part to whole
relationships. Parts make up wholes but wholes also affect parts. Cells make up a human body
but the human body also governs cells. Individuals make up society but society effects
individuals. This perception of organization was the perception of an actual dimension like
space and time. Some of us could perceive this fifth dimension using intuition and some of us
used logic.
DG: Sounds pretty mystical. What are baselines?
FS: Baselines are humans, as well as other beings on other planets, that have technology but
havent started the process of tinkering with the hardware of their own brains. It is mystical. At
the ultimate level we were all finite yet we were part of the infinite. The finite affects the infinite
and the infinite affects the finite. We affect God and God affects us.
DG: And how do you perceive this fifth dimension?
FS: If you perceive this fifth dimension a higher level using logic then you were an Einstein. If
you perceive this fifth dimension using intuition then you were a Buddha.
DG: An interesting view of intelligence.
FS: This ability to perceive these five dimensions at a higher level is hyperconsciousness. Book
Squares had unlocked some of the secretos of tantric yoga from Tibet and realized that many
discoveries come from hyperconsciousness.
DG: So what did the Squares want to do with this knowledge?
FS: The Squares wanted to create a cadre of individuals that could operate at the human peak of
consciousness. Cloning technology was brought to bear on this goal. Erotron had taken me on
a weekend tour of the hyperconsciousness project headquarters in Singapore before we broke up
in Japan.
DG: What was that like?
FS: Pretty weird, the Squares through various measures had managed to get cell tissue of
Einstein and Buddha. The Squares figured that Einstein was the greatest representative of a
logical hyperconsciousness but that in this instance they would control and that Buddha was best
representative of intuitive hyperconsciousness.
DG: Why not use the cell tissue of Christ instead of Buddha?
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3.33 William Door
Dr. Delta: Yet another father figure meme.
FS: Cell tissue of Christ was simply not available. The Singporeans had managed to buy one of
the eight hairs of Buddha housed in the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma. They went
ahead and cloned 222 copies of Einstein, Buddha and William Door,
DG: I vaguely recall that such a temple with the supposed hairs of the Buddha does exist. I
suppose making a clone of the Buddha would be possible someday. Who is William Door?
FS: Door was the CEO of Macrohard and the richest businessman in the world. William Door
was identified as the single greatest exploiter of people with high levels of hyperconsciousness in
the history of the world.
DG: Why was Door so successful?
FS: Door had invented the first pornbot software and made a fortune and in turn used this
money to create the biggest software company on my world. PCs had been invented about fifty
years earlier on my Earth than this Earth so there was no way that Door was going to make
money from operating system software that was now considered old technology. Door had made
some money creating meta-operating software that allowed you to easily create operating
software for brand new robot hardware.
DG: Pornbot software?
FS: Pornbot software went through the web and looked for any free porn and would go ahead
and download it. You could specify what particular fetishes and/or themes you were looking for.
Pornbot beat going through the web and manually downloading porn. Door real fortune came
due to his central role in the spyware/counter spyware wars.
DG: I know that spyware is software that spies on your computer habits and monitors everything
from keystrokes to what websites you visit. What is counter spyware?
FS: Counter spyware sends feeds false information to spyware. This is especially useful when
you are downloading porn all day at the office with pornbot and your company is using spyware
to make sure you are typing a report or whatever.
DG: Yeah, I can see were you might not want the company to know this.
FS: Door kept coming up with better counter spyware and spyware. The employee downloading
the porn would buy the better counter spyware and the company in turn was forced to buy ever
better spyware that could bypass the ever better counter spyware.
DG: Kind of like an arms merchant that is on both sides of an arms race. Yeah, I can see that
this Door character had provided a real service to the world. What was his role on the team?
FS: William Door was there to make sure that anything the Buddha-Einstein teams created was
exploited commercially. After all the Squares were a practical people and this project was not a
charity.
DG: What did the Squares do with these clones?
FS: They wanted to figure out how the world was going to end and what to do about it but kept
them busy with other projects as well.
DG: What sort of projects?
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FS: The clones worked on school projects in three person teams. Each team had one Buddha,
one Einstein and one William Door. The teams had already garnered over one hundred patents
in a wide variety of fields. The projects were carefully selected and guided by some of the top
professors in the world. In addition the clones were used to test the latest intelligence
amplification or IA technology.
DG: IA?
FS: The use of technology to augment human intelligence. IA is kind of the flip side of artificial
intelligence or AI. Instead of making smarter computers you use computers and biochemicals to
make smarter humans.
DG: So what sort of IA experiments were done?
FS: One third of the teams took super learning drugs to increase their intelligence. One third of
the teams were outfitted with a cyber plug that allowed them to access data from the Internet
remotely and wirelessly using subvocalization. One third of the teams used both the super
learning drugs and the special cyber plugs.
DG: So did all this IA stuff work?
FS: The teams with both the super learning drugs and the special cyber plugs were the most
productive. The teams with only the cyber plugs were the least productive and wasted tons of
time surfing the web for information that had nothing to do with their projects.
DG: Sounds like the web surfers on this Earth. Which clone led the teams?
FS: Out of 222 teams, 221 had ended up selecting the William Door member as the business
managers of the individual teams. The Door clones promptly asked for a share of the profits.
The adult supervisors tried to talk the Door clones out of asking for money.
DG: What did the Door clones do?
FS: The Door clones went on strike.
DG: But as long as the Buddhas and Einsteins kept working who needed the Door?
FS: The Door clones convinced the Buddha and Einstein clones to join the strike through
appeals to the principle of friendship. The Door clones also convinced the project managers that
he deserved 50% of the profits from the projects. The stockholders in the project got the other
50%.
DG: What did the Buddha and Einstein clones get?
FS: The Buddha and Einstein clones got a ten-dlar allowance a week, which the Door clones
generally went ahead and held for the Buddha and Einstein clones for a later date when they
would really need it.
DG: You mentioned 221 out of the 222 teams picked a Door as a leader why didnt all of the
teams do this?
FS: The one William that wasnt on board seems to have had attention deficit disorder, probably
due to some problem with cloning process.
DG: How did this team do?
FS: The team with the defective William was the least productive team but this was the only team
in which the Buddha and Einstein members hadnt developed an ulcer. The real life Buddha and
Einstein never had ulcers and the project managers suspected the Door clones had something to
do with this condition.
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DG: What was the school like?
FS: The school looked like any other school except all the students were the same age and were
only three types. You had little Einsteins wrestling with other little Einsteins. There were little
Buddhas arguing with other Buddhas. They all wore a blue blazer with the school emblem in the
corner.
DG: So how could you tell them apart?
FS: They also had an ID card hanging from their neck with their particular ID number. They
wore matching blue dress pants. There were three types of clones so all the kids didnt look
exactly alike but still it was confusing. During lunch I sat at the teacher table. I asked the
teachers if they got the students mixed up.
DG: What did they say?
FS: They started laughing in unison. One of the teachers told me that wearing the IDs was
mandatory and helped a little but still the situation was still confusing.
DG: Did the clones take classes together?
FS: The students took some classes in common and then took some classes as a clone group. All
the Buddhas took meditation as a group. All the Einsteins took advanced science classes
together. The Door took business classes that the other two groups didnt have to take.
DG: I wonder what these classes were like?
FS: A teacher told me that these specialized classes were really different from teaching a class in
a normal school. The students tended to finish each others sentences and sometimes you got the
feeling you were dealing with one big student rather than thirty different students.
DG: Was that all cloning was used for?
FS: No, the East Chinese air force had ordered a couple of thousand Chuck Yeager clones to be
raised in a special school to educate the perfect pilot for the Asian Union air force.
DG: Makes sense, Chuck Yeager had been the first man to break the speed of sound and was
arguably the best pilot in the history of the world.
FS: Right this way even though the UA had better fighter planes, the AU made sure to have
better pilots.
DG: Why not just use drones?
FS: Drones were used on most missions but sometimes in borderline WWIII situations you
wanted human pilots that had better judgment.
DG: Did you and Erotron go out on any regular dates in Shanghai despite the Japan break up?
FS: Lots of times. One night, Erotron and I went to a Shanghai nightclub. The young people in
Shanghai were into glow-in-the-dark, holographic tattoos. Glow-in-the-dark tattoos were
nothing new, but the new holographic tattoos really freaked me out. When light was reflected on
the tattoo, then a three-dimensional object was formed.
DG: What sort of tattoos did you run into?

Dr. Gammas Notes: Einstein probably represents the super ego of the patient. Buddha
may be a symbol of his Jungian supraconsciousnes. Door is representative of the patients
ego. The patient is using this fantasy to reconcile different aspects of his identity that are in
conflict.
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3.34 Ying-Yang Kids
FS: The most common holographic tattoos were creepy crawlers on you arms and hands. There
were also horns on your forehead and wings. This lady reached for an ashtray and I could have
sworn she had a giant spider on her arm. I tried to brush it off and my hand went through empty
air and she laughed.
DG: Yuck!
FS: Oh not so bad, the holographic tattoos were a shiny greenish-yellowish color and you could
tell they were holographs once you knew what to look for. Thats where I ran into the Ying-Yang
Kids.
DG: Ying-Yang Kids?
FS: What would Jesus do? What would Charles Manson do? These were two questions that
preoccupied the Ying-Yang Kids.
DG: Why?
FS: An outfit in Japan had developed software titled Jesus vs. Manson. Jesus of course is the
founder of Christianity.
DG: And Charles Manson is the notorious mass murderer of the 1960s.
FS: Right, some software programmers had noticed that both guys had similar haircuts even if
they had totally different philosophies. Most Chinese had always seen Christianity as a type of
magic more than anything else and kind of saw Jesus as the ultimate magician. Manson
appeared to have flirted with Satanism in his lifetime and a contest between the two of them
seemed natural to most Asians.
DG: So what was the video game all about?
FS: In the video game, you could be Jesus or Manson. Jesus ran around converting people.
Manson went around killing people. The people that Manson killed got back up and became
part of his army of the living dead and killed more people and the army got bigger and bigger.
DG: What if Jesus won?
FS: After conversion by Jesus, the converted joined the army of Jesus and they converted more
and more members to the army of Jesus. The members of the army of Jesus had little halos. The
side with the biggest army won. Two Jesus heads could convert one Manson head and vice-
versa. The soldiers of Manson had flaming skull heads. Jesus and Manson looked exactly alike
except that Manson wore a black robe and Jesus wore a white robe. This game was incredibly
popular in Shanghai.
DG: Why would Shanghai youth even know about Mason?
FS: There had been a new release of the movie about Manson called Helter Skelter. You could
pick different environments for Jesus and Manson to fight in including ancient Judea, 1960s San
Francisco, and Nazi Germany just before WWII.
DG: So who was stronger Jesus or Manson?
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FS: Jesus generally won in Judea. Manson almost always won in Nazi Germany, lots of
weapons lying around. San Francisco was a coin toss. Many Shanghai high school and college
students saw this as confirmation that good and evil were relative and developed some customs
around this belief and referred to themselves as the Ying-Yang Kids. They had an interesting
manner of making moral decisions.
DG: So how do the Ying-Yang Kids make moral decisions?
FS: The Ying-Yang Kids flipped a coin in order to decide what to do. They stole this idea from a
Swamp Bat villain named Janus. Some Ying-Yang Kids had a special coin with the face of Jesus
on one side and the face of Manson on the other. Ying-Yang Kids liked to go beggar hunting.
DG: Beggar hunting?
FS: If the card landed with Jesus face up then they gave the beggar a thousand dlares. If the
card landed with Manson face up then they beat the crap out of him.
DG: Sounds nuts.
FS: And they may very well have been nuts. Many of the Ying-Yang Kids went out of their way
to eat a Cantonese delicacy: monkey brain. Most Chinese wouldnt touch monkey brain because
of the growing mad monkey disease problem. The Ying-Yang Kids thought the risk of disease is
part of the fun. Whenever a Ying Yang kid acted silly his cohorts will say, He has mad monkey
disease.
DG: Sounds like mad cow disease.
FS: Similar but much worse. The Ying-Yang Kids liked to do the same stuff as other Shanghai
teenagers including playing video games and watching DVDs. The one hobby they had that is a
little different is the red knife game.
DG: Whats the red knife game?
FS: In the red knife game one participant takes a red marker and tries to mark up the brand new
white T-shirt of the other participant. The other participant then tries to dodge the marker and
take away the marker using Wing-Jutsu techniques. The two participants then exchange roles.
DG: What an awful game!
FS: The game is a lot of fun and very challenging. The game also provides excellent practice at
knife fighting, both offense and defensa. Guns were almost impossible to get in Shanghai but
every type of knife imaginable was available. The Ying-Yang Kids always carried knives but
really didnt use them all that much. Some Ying-Yang Kids get bored with using a marker and
graduate to playing with real knives but this was pretty rare.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Ying-Yang Kids probably extension of amoral outlook and way of
providing external validation for this anti-social outlook. Hyperconsciousness Project is
externalization of the patients own fractured psyche. Door, Einstein and Buddha
represent different aspects of the patients personality. This hallucination may be
indicative of a larger multiple personality problem. Attempts to hypnotize the patient have
met with failure.

DG: So what did you and Erotron talk about in Shanghai?
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FS: Erotron tried to teach me some Square Bible lessons. It was as though she were trying to
reform me for some reason.
DG: I thought she was smart.
FS: Hey, Erotron asked me if I had my Square Bible. I told her I did. Erotron told me to read
the story of David and Goliath. According to the Square version of the story, David was a
Square that had to fight the much larger Sloppy Square Goliath. Goliath tried to smash David
with his club but David could easily evade the blows of Goliath using his HKP. Sloppy Squares
telegraphed their movements and tensed up their muscles in distinct manners prior to attacking.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Metaschizophrenia on the rise throughout the nation. There is
pressure from the Federal government to come up with more efficient treatments or more
radical options will have to be considered.

DG: Is this important?
FS: Absolutely, Taichi and Aikido were martial arts that depend on reading the opponent and
blending with the force of the ataque. Taichi and Aikido are internal martial arts that focus on
developing HKP rather than brute strength. Wing-Jutsu also had this HKP aspect and
developed body sensitivity via an exercise called sticky hands. What was interesting is that the
sticky hands practice strengthened the Jiu-Jutsu part of the art. A person that had studied sticky
hands could more readily trap an arm and throw the person than someone who had not. Wing-
Jutsu practitioners generally did quite well in pure Judo contests. Some Judoka started
practicing sticky hands to improve their Judo. Squares had this HKP ability naturally and could
learn to apply it to martial purposes with minimal study.
DG: What does this have to do with David and Goliath?
FS: David used his superior spatial perception to aim a rock from his slingshot at the exact spot
that would kill Goliath. The moral of the story was that the Sloppy Squares were more numerous
and had the advantage of brute strength but Squares could offset the numbers of the Sloppy
Squares with their special abilities.
DG: Makes sense within the context of your fantasy.
FS: The second moral of the story was that David appeared to be a shepherd and hid his warrior
abilities until they were absolutely needed. Squares were pretty big on secretos and even had
secretos from other Squares.
DG: Continue.
FS: Erotron also wanted me to know more about Square culture in general. She explained to me
that the War Squares could talk to each other with an international War Square facial language,
which was kept secreto from other Squares that were not War Squares, for seguridad reasons
and their language had other differences.
DG: How so?
FS: War Squares often generated the words formed via blood flow to the back of the neck rather
than using their cheeks. The War Square troops could see the commands being given on the
neck as they followed the War Square leader.
DG: Neck language?
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FS: Generally, neck bulges substituted for lip and nose movements in War Square languages.
This was the reason most militaries preferred short hair on my Earth.
DG: Short hair has something to do with neck bulges?
FS: Short hair made it easier for War Squares to give orders to other War Squares. On my
Earth, if the ears and neck muscles of your sergeant seemed to move a lot while he was leading a
march then he probably was a War Square leader.
DG: I will never look at neck muscles bulging the same way.
FS: Erotron also told me the story of the War Squares. Many Squares joined the War Squares
and had dominated the warrior caste of the Sloppy Squares since the earliest times. The
superior spatial abilities of Squares were especially valuable in militar situations. Squares
could throw a spear, shoot an arrow and track the enemy better than any Sloppy Square. Militar
society had evolved its very unique attributes in order to accommodate the special needs of
Squares.
DG: But what about the Square lack of creativity?
FS: Lack of creativity was an asset in most militar organizations. Soldiers needed to obey
orders literally and abstract reasoning just got in the way. To many emperors, the general was a
soldier and would prefer Square generals to Sloppy Square generals. The routine in militar life
made militar life attractive to the Squares.
DG: Were you ever in the military?
FS: No way, Erotron told me that War Squares made excellent sharp shooters and actually had
to miss on purpose so that the Sloppy Squares around them wouldnt be suspicious. Having
Squares in key positions of the militaries of the world gave the Squares a lot of power. Actually,
one of the major missions of the War Squares was to prevent nuclear war.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: They always made sure that War Squares were in the command structure of the nuclear
forces of all three unions. In the event of a nuclear war, they had a plan to sabotage the whole
process. Squares had also infiltrated most of the policia departments of the world and
inteligencia services of the world.
DG: So War Squares were this super secret organization within the already secret Squares. I
suppose they killed Kennedy.
3.35 Sloppy-Divorce
Dr. Delta: This meme is highly infectious and virulent among conspiracy theorists.
FS: War Squares did kill Kennedy or at least on my Earth. Kennedy had started to investigate
the CIA-Mafia connection.
DG: What did this have to do with the War Squares?
FS: War- Squares in the CIA worked with War Squares in the Mafia on a regular basis. If
Kennedy investigated the CIA-Mafia connection then he might uncover the larger Square
conspiracy. Kennedy had to be stopped. Squares were excellent shots. Their spatial abilities let
them do things with a gun that almost seemed like magic. Kennedy was shot from an angle and
area that was impossible to believe because no Sloppy Square could do the job.
DG: How so?
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FS: War Squares with, appropriate guild training, could routinely shoot bullets off objects so
that they then went on to hit their intended target. For example, a War Square could shot at a
target in front of himself so that the bullet would ricochet back and hit some one next to him.
DG: Why would you need such a shot?
FS: This was done all the time when a War Square policeman had a Sloppy Square policia
partner that he wanted to get rid of. This particular technique was known as a sloppy divorce.
DG: Who killed Kennedy in our Earth?
FS: I have no idea.
DG: I think it was the CIA.
FS: Whatever you say doc. The use of ricochets was a pretty standard shooting technique of the
War Squares. Kennedy was in fact killed by a bullet fired by secreto service men in the car
behind.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: The secreto service men aimed their guns at the book depository that Oswald was in and the
bullets ricocheted from the book depository and killed Kennedy. The ricochet effect totally
deceived the investigators as to where the bullets actually came from. Oswald was just a Sloppy
Square patsy.
DG: So why werent the War Squares involved investigated?
FS: Who investigates the investigators? Many War Squares became forensic investigators. The
Squares liked the step-by-step procedure that a case was handled with and did this with
ritualistic precision.
DG: Wouldnt some creativity be needed to do this job.
FS: Not the way the War Squares did the job. They knew who was guilty ahead of time due to
their HKP and just work backwards from that knowledge. Knowing that Suzy did the crime
means that you look for Suzies lipstick and hair. The Square investigator then furrowed his
brow and acted like he figured it all out. Suzie confesses when confronted with the evidence and
the Square investigator looks like a genius.
DG: Were the Squares out to get you?
FS: I was the sixth Half Square and according to prophecy I was going to save the world. Why
would they be out to get me?
DG: Never mind, so Squares were good police officers?
FS: Square policia officers literally had a blue sense. Sloppy Squares used to the phrase to refer
to a special intuition that good policia officers had about criminals. A policia officer with blue
sense was supposed to be able to tell if a suspect was lying or not. Squares could see slightly
into the ultraviolet range.
DG: So what?
FS: When most people lie, their blood supply constricts ever so slightly. This blood constriction
causes the face to look slightly bluer, if you had tetrachromatic vision. Of course Squares could
tell you were lying from a thousand other cues that Sloppy Squares didnt even know existed.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Statement provides clear evidence that the Half Square delusion is
messianic in nature.
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DG: I suppose these same War Squares framed OJ Simpson?
FS: Who told you doc? You are a lot smarter than you seem. OJ Simpson was considered an
especially noisy Sloppy Square. OJs antics on and off the field really drove the Squares crazy.
For Squares, creative spatial movement was the equivalent of having a policia siren at full blast
being put next to their ear in an already hellishly noisy world.
DG: But I guess this is just something they would have to put up with.
FS: The Squares knew they couldnt eliminate such noise totally but would take desperate
measures to minimize such noise. OJ was a creative genius at moving his body from point A to
point B in a totally creative manner. The other football players could not predict where OJ
would be. OJ also moved in a very spontaneous manner when he was in a movie. This thrills
Sloppy Squares, but really drove the Squares nuts.
DG: Go on.
FS: The Squares in the movie industry found out that OJ could was going to be offered a part in
a major film and was about to become an even bigger super star. If OJ became a bigger super
star then his movements would be televised and shown everywhere.
DG: There would be no escape for the Squares.
FS: Right, at this point, the Money Squares called the War Square forensic investigators in LA.
The War Squares murdered Nicole and her male friend. The evidence linking OJ to the crime
was planted. The Square forensic investigators lacked the creativity to explain how all the
evidence fit together.
DG: I see because of their lack of creativity the War Squares could plant the evidence but
couldnt create the story that would explain the evidence but surely they had run into this
problem in the past.
FS: Typically, Squares relied on unwitting creative Sloppy Squares to do the creative work
needed in a project but they really couldnt trust any Sloppy Squares in this delicate situation.
DG: So this led to the acquittal?
FS: Yes, the Sloppy Square jury could see that the massive amount of planted evidence didnt tie
together in any coherent manner. Many Squares were afraid the OJ trial would blow their cover
but were relieved to see that the Sloppy Squares remained oblivious. OJ was not the only
celebrity to suffer at the hands of the Squares.
DG: So there were more conspiracies?
FS: Squares totally hated rock and roll dancing because of its spontaneity. The Squares
especially hated the Beatles. The Beatles were blamed for making rock and roll so popular.
Many Squares still blamed the timidity of the Money Squares for not having the Beatles killed
when they were just starting out. The Squares did find out that John Lennon was planning to
reunite the Beatles and had him killed before he could make this happen.
DG: I suppose they killed Elvis?
FS: Yes, Elvis was planning to be a more spontaneous performer in order to compete with the
new rock and rollers. The War Squares had Elvis killed in his bathroom before he did this and
made it look like an accident.
DG: But who killed Elvis on our Earth. Once again this proves your story is false.
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FS: Maybe it really was an accident on this Earth but who really knows. Keep in mind that a
forensic investigator could alter and hide physical evidence at will and about 95% of all forensic
investigators were War Squares. Squares did like disco because of the consistent movements
used. Squares absolutely adored square dancing. The heightened spatial sense could help
Squares handle other types of problems.
DG: Squares had special powers. Did War Squares have powers the other Squares did not?
3.36 Military Digital Assistants
Dr. Delta: This meme is being actualized.
FS: Not so much special powers but access to special equipment. The head of the War Squares,
the colonel, had been playing around with a PDA during the meeting way back when I met all
the leading Money Squares. I thought the PDA looked different and he explained to me that it
was a militar digital assistant or MDA.
DG: MDA?
FS: An MDA was similar to a PDA and deliberately looked like a PDA to fool outsiders but had
some specialized militar functions. The MDA had a more powerful and sophisticated battery
than a PDA. The battery allowed various offensive and defensive functions to be performed.
Offensively, the MDA could be used as an emergencia stun gun. Two prongs popped out when
the appropriate code was typed into the MDA. A massive shock was delivered to the opponent
stunning them.
DG: Sounds like a PDA with a stun gun.
FS: A little more advanced that all that. When the retrieval of information was necessary, an
interrogation program allowed the current to be controlled in a systematic manner in order to
deliver the maximum amount of pain over time while not killing the subject.
DG: How could software do this?
FS: The interrogation software was an expert system and incorporated the knowledge of top
interrogators who had spent years developing their skills in the field. Appropriate intervals
between the delivery of pain, seem to play a crucial role in successful interrogation both for
medical and psychological reasons that were not entirely understood but had been verified
empirically.
DG: I have to admit your technology ideas are interesting.
FS: Thanks but they arent my ideas. Defensively, the MDA could also deliver a lower more
controlled current so that the MDA could control autonomic functions via a medical program.
The MDA hooks into a militar issue cyberplug that was more sophisticated than civilian
cyberplugs.
DG: How so?
FS: A clinically dead person hooked up to an MDA had their heart kept beating and lungs kept
pumping via artificial means. Brain damage was thus averted and increasingly advanced
resuscitation techniques meant that more soldiers survived clinical death with minimal side
effects.
DG: Did the MDA have any other functions?
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FS: The MDA could also deliver a current via the cyberplug that increased endorphin
production to such a degree that pain was essentially nullified and thus death via shock was
averted. The line between offensive and defensive functions was blurred since a soldier could
literally had both their legs blown away and keep on fighting once pain was nullified by the
MDA.
DG: The MDA almost makes sense.
FS: I think so. MDAs had some standard equipment that was optional on PDAs. Global
Positioning Systems or GPS was standard on MDAs so that the soldier always knew where he
or she was.
DG: For what purpose?
FS: MDAs also had two-way communication capabilities. Finally, MDAs had a digital video
camera that cross referenced with GPS so that commanders could access real time video of what
the soldier sees and also knew exactly were this video was coming from. A commander could
literally warn a soldier of a flanking movement by enemy troops based on a video feed from
another soldier and his MDA. Command, control, communication and intelligence or C3I was
more effective at the squad level thanks to MDA technology.

Dr. Gammas Notes: In this session the patient reveals his construction of a super secret
organization called the War Squares. The psychic construction of super secret
organization is consistent with paranoia but strangely the patient does not think this
organization is out to get him. I have no explanation of this atypical symptom.

3.37 Sneaky Squares
Dr. Delta: This meme is of similar infectiousness and virulence as the parent Square meme.
FS: Cord called me while I was in Shanghai and we set up a meeting despite every attempt on
my part to get out of the meeting. He mentioned something about the best whorehouse in
Shanghai and I changed my mind and decided meeting him wasnt so bad. Erotron had given
him my number.
DG: Who is Cord?
FS: As you will recall, Cord was the head of the covert Interspecies Communication Institute.
Cord was a Sneaky Square. Sneaky Squares were spies.
DG: So what was this whorehouse?
FS: I met Cord in a place that specialized in suspended sex. He was hanging from the ceiling
upside down being serviced by a lovely young Chinese gal when I met him. The Chinese gal was
petite and wearing a short, blue satin robe that ended just above her slim legs, with an elaborate
pattern in gold. There was a slit on one side of the robe. It was quite obvious there was nothing
beneath and you got to see peeks of just about everything as she moved. I went ahead and
mounted the suspension machine next to his. He had a tattoo in super color of a stick on his
arm.
DG: What exactly happened in this place?
FS: You get an erotic massage, being suspended stretched out your back muscles. It was a very
relaxing experience. We started talking about the Sneaky Squares.
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DG: I dont want to ask. What did you talk about? Were the Sneaky Squares some time of
subgroup of War Squares?
FS: No. Sneaky Squares were not born but made. Promising Squares from all three castes were
recruited and cross-trained in the guild methods of the other two castes. For example, a Money
Square would learn the appropriate guild methods of Book Squares and War Squares. A War
Square would learn the appropriate guild methods of Money Squares and Book Squares, etc.
DG: What sort of guild methods?
FS: Fourier transform analysis for example.
DG: Huh?
FS: The ability to intuit mathematical patterns and/or frequencies through observation. A
person with this skill might be able to observe at a tide over time and notice a complex pattern of
wave movement and ultimately be able to predict the tides of that area with incredible accuracy.
The apprentice of this skill learned to clear their mind and become one with the object being
observed. Book Squares developed this skill to figure out phenomena intuitively. Sloppy Squares
used slow and cumbersome mathematical formulas to do the same thing.
DG: I have heard of Fourier and think he was some sort of mathematician. I am not sure what a
Fourier transform analysis.
FS: I am not sure either. Its some kind of math thing. The abstraction level of most
mathematics was totally beyond the Squares but they could use this sense to do what the Squares
do with formulas but better and much, much, much more quickly.
DG: You know something like that would explain a lot of clairvoyance. Did all Squares study
this Fourier transform skill?
FS: All Squares had this sense to some extent and kind of knew little things like were going to
happen before they happened but not to the same extent as someone who studied this skill. War
Squares would never study such a boring skill but it could come in handy for a Sneaky Square
trying to figure out the pattern/frequency of some sort of phenomena and combined with
microkinesic perception, you could also predict Sloppy Square behavior with uncanny accuracy.
DG: As a psychologist I would be very interested in this subject.
FS: Cycles of microkinesic behavior were related to cycles of macro behaviors. A Square with
this training could look at a person and have some idea how the person would behave in a stable
environment for the next three hours or so. This would be a complex version of a Sloppy Square
manager knowing a worker was feeling blue and wouldn't work as hard that day and output
would be down. Cord asked me if I wanted a demo. I said sure.
DG: What sort of demo?
FS: Cord closed his eyes and said, Mei-Ling will be here with the massage oil in thirteen
seconds. He began to count to thirteen slowly and sure enough a lovely slim Chinese lady
walked into the room with some massage oil when he said thirteen. She began massaging his
feet. Cord closed his eyes again and said, Vivian will be here in 34 seconds. Another young
lovely walked in exactly 34 seconds. Cord introduced me to Vivian. Vivian began massaging my
feet. The sensation was interesting. The blood was flowing downwards from my feet to my head.
Vivian said, This helps the move the chi towards your head.
DG: That almost makes sense. What other interesting little guilds where there?
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FS: I did mention facial yoga but this was just one type of Square yoga. Square yoga, broadly, is
the ability to control static body functions to an extreme level. Facial yoga is the most important
of these disciplines and is by all Squares. War Squares and Sneaky Squares learn how to mimic
death using Square Yoga in order to play possum in military situations. Sneaky Squares alone
learn to contort their bodies in such a way that they can slip in and out of a building using the
smallest space imaginable.
DG: Well I suppose if these imaginary Squares had yoga then it would be pretty developed.
What other skills did these Sneaky Squares have?
FS: Any Square can fool a Sloppy Square but lying to another Sloppy Square is not as easy. One
special guild taught Squares how to lie to another Square. Only the Matriarch in consultation
with the Queen of the Sneaky Squares could authorize the study of this skill. The Liars were one
of the two dark guilds.
DG: Sneaky Squares sound like super Squares.
FS: I suppose in a way they were. Of course they learned the seduction skills of the Seducers, a
guild that generally only taught the Money Squares.
DG: I thought all Squares could seduce Squares.
FS: Yeah, but seducing another Square, in particular, one female Square seducing another
female Square, systematically was something that had to be learned. Seduction was a weapon
often employed by Princesses in order to become a Queen of a caste or even to become the
Matriarch. Sneaky Squares of course learned all the War Square combat arts like sloppy divorce
shots and hand to hand combat.
DG: Any other special skills?
FS: Book Squares had created a form simplified HKP production that was essentially hypnosis
and quite effective on Sloppy Squares and this was taught to both Money Squares of Princess
rank and above and Sneaky Squares on particular missions that required this skill.
FS: Cord asked me if I wanted a demonstration. I responded, Why not? Cord got out of the
suspension contraption and told Mei-Ling and Vivian that he wanted to talk with them. After he
had gotten their attention, he looked at both of them in the eyes and in a very low voice he
repeated, You love each other. You have loved each other for quite some time. You want to
make love. You cant hold it in any longer.They kissed. This is one skill I wanted to learn.
DG: As would all men. Why not teach this hypnosis to all Squares so they could better control
the Sloppy Squares?
FS: A lower level Square might not have the discipline to keep the hypnosis skill hidden from the
Sloppy Squares. Worse you didnt want a lower ranking Square using this ability to have an
unwitting Sloppy Square kill another Square. Only Squares of the highest caliber could be
trusted with this powerful skill.
DG: So some guild knowledge was controlled?
FS: Yes, most of all some Sneaky Squares received the mark of Cain. The ability of one Square
to kill another Square, quickly and without hesitation. This was the second dark guild. Only the
Matriarch in consultation with the Queens of all four castes could authorize the study of this
skill.
DG: What exactly is the relationship between the caste system and the guild system?
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FS: Cord told me that the cast system was much older than the guild system. The origins of the
caste system are buried in prehistory.
DG: And I suppose the guilds are more recent?
FS: Cord had explained to me that most of the guilds were less than a thousand years old but the
oldest one, the Mark of Cain, was older than that. Cain was considered the father of the guilds
since he started the first guild, recruited from all castes and was critical of the caste system
itself.
DG: Why was Cain critical of the caste system?
FS: Cain found that just because a Square was from the War Square caste it didnt necessarily
follow they could learn how to murder with any greater ease than someone from another caste.
The aptitude and motivation for murder cut across all the castes. The guilds taught advanced
HKP skills rather than the basic HKP skills of the castes and far fewer Squares of any caste
could master the skills of the guilds. Guild skills were valuable and you didnt want to limit their
spread just because of caste or at least that is what the guilds argued. Out of thousand
candidates picked to learn murder from all castes only one could actually do this skill. The
failure rate was such that intercaste recruitment was an absolute necessity. The murder of
troublesome Squares was important for the survival of the Squares.
DG: The lack of finding murderers was a problem? Well I guess the Squares were very different
from us after all. Any other differences?
FS: The caste system used to be totally hereditary but that had changed over the centuries and
there was more movement between castes than before but not much. The guilds tend to recruit
largely from certain castes, not too many War Squares want to learn ritualism, but in theory the
guilds were open to anyone from any caste that had the extreme motivation and special aptitude
to learn the very difficult guild skills.
DG: Still there seems to be an inherent tension between a caste system and a guild system.
FS: Some Book Squares theorized the guilds would someday supplant the castes altogether but
the Squares were a conservative people and preferred gradual evolution to revolution.
DG: What else did you talk about?
FS: Cord explained several of the TV shows that the Interspecies Communication Institute had
produced. Just as Erotron was supposed to teach me Square history and customs, Cord was
supposed to teach me about the Sneaky Squares.
DG: Why?
FS: The Squares knew I was going to save them but they didnt know how and couldnt be sure
what information I would need about them in order to do my job.
DG: How convenient for the purposes of your story. What is The Interspecies Communication
Institute?
FS: A Sneaky Square agencia devoted to figuring out how to create better communication
between Squares and Sloppy Squares. There was an American TV show and movie called The
Odd Couple that was thought of as a comedy by Sloppy Squares but was actually an interspecies
training film by Squares for other Squares.
DG: I love that show but what in the world would this have to do with Squares?
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FS: Felix was the Square, super neat. Oscar was the Sloppy Square, a total slob. They were
roommates. The various incidents of the Odd Couple were taken from case files that the
Interspecies Communication Institute had compiled.
DG: Once again with feeling The Odd Couple exists on this Earth. There are no Squares on this
Earth so there would be no such show on this Earth therefore there are no Squares on any Earth.
FS: Again, I cant explain the existence of this show on this Earth. The Odd Couple shows were
meant to teach the Squares how to handle Sloppy Squares in daily situations. The incidents were
given to Sloppy Square writers and jokes were added.
DG: So the Squares had a good sense of humor.
FS: Not at all, the jokes were meant to hide the true purpose of the show. If you suspect that
someone was a Square then you could watch the show with the suspected Square and if they
dont laugh then they were a Square.
DG: Why did the Square laugh?
FS: The non-laughing Square was studying the film. Squares didnt laugh very much. Humor
and creativity seemed to go together. Squares didnt get the whole humor thing. Felix was a
real life square and was secretly talking to the Squares in the audience using facial
communication.
DG: We have this show in our Earth. How is this possible?
FS: I dont know. The similarity between TV on my Earth and this Earth is really incredible.
Some TV shows helped Squares with particular social transitions. Many Squares had to move
from rural to urban settings and vice-versa and they found this process difficult. The
Interspecies Communication Institute went ahead and developed two shows to help Squares cope
with rural to urban moves.
DG: What shows did the Squares use for this purpose?
FS: Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies give specific advice on how to deal with a move to a
new type of environment. Green Acres was developed to help Squares cope with a move from an
urban environment to a rural environment.
DG: I know all about Green Acres. Green Acres is about a New York attorney, Oliver, who
decides to move the countryside and become a farmer. Oliver takes Eva Gabor with him to the
countryside and he becomes a farmer. A totally moronic show but I have to admit I liked it as a
kid.
FS: Oliver and Eva were real-life Squares and they must deal with the Sloppy Squares that
inhabit Hooterville, a small town.
DG: And the Beverly Hillbillies?
FS: The Beverly Hillbillies dealt with what happens when rural Squares moved to the big city.
The Clampets move to Beverly Hills Hollywood from a rural setting and must deal with the
Sloppy Squares in Hollywood.
DG: And I suppose all the Clampets were Squares in real life?
FS: Buddy Ebsen was the only real life square but most Squares agree that the actors did a good
job of portraying a Square family and the problems that Square families face when they move to
the city. Many Squares had a real hard time believing that Jethro, the oldest son, was not
actually a Square since his portrayal was so realistic.
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DG: And were there other shows like this?
FS: Upward mobility could be a big problem for Squares. Squares were faced with new
problems and their lack of creativity meant that they often had trouble coping. The Interspecies
Communication Institute created The Jeffersons to deal with this problem. Mr. Jefferson
becomes wealthy and must deal with the problems of moving on up as the theme show puts it.
DG: And who was the real life Square in that show?
FS: Mr. Jefferson was the real life Square. Mrs. Jefferson was a Sloppy Square so that the show
also explores the problems of an interspecies marriage in a sensitive manner.
DG: Well the show on our Earth deals with interracial issues.
FS: Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson were also African-American on the show on my Earth but this issue
was totally irrelevant to Squares. A Square was a Square regardless of skin color, religion and
nationality. Squares stuck together and didnt let silly Sloppy Square labels divide them. Some
shows were meant to teach specific skills.
DG: Did all TV shows in your Earth teach social skills?
FS: No, I would say less than ten percent and I am just mentioning the major ones.
DG: So which show was the biggest one?
FS: The sitcom Bewitched was probably the biggest one and was meant to teach young Squares
elementary facial language techniques.
DG: One of my favorite childhood shows. The premise of the show was that Samantha was a
pretty, blonde, witch that accomplishes various feats of magic by twitching her nose.
FS: There were at least twenty- five significant nose twitches in the various Square facial
languages and young Squares sometimes had trouble with nose twitches.
DG: So the show taught nose twitches?
FS: Yes, Samantha provided a HKP model that young Squares were encouraged to imitate while
watching the show. Most of the magic that Samantha does involves the levitation of household
objects after she twitches her nose and this provides a great deal of positive reinforcement for
the young Squares.
DG: How is levitation positive reinforcement?
FS: Young squares were fascinated with the slow movement of objects through the air. The plots
and dialogue were kept child like on purpose to appeal to viewers under the age of five and not
adults. Bewitched was the equivalent of Sesame Street for Squares and adult Squares were
mystified by the fact that adult Sloppy Squares watched the show.
DG: This show exists in this Earth.
FS: Yeah, amazing isnt it. A similar sitcom was I Dream of Genie was a follow up show to the
educational success of Bewitched and was meant to teach head shaking language techniques to
very young Squares. The plot was kept similar. A blonde, female genie acted as a substitute for
the female witch. I Dream of Genie was meant to appeal to toddlers and the language and plots
were simplified accordingly. The fact that adult Sloppy Squares liked I Dream of Genie was
further proof for the Squares that the Sloppy Squares were hopelessly immature.
DG: Do you wonder why these Square shows exist in an Earth that by your own admission is
devoid of Squares?
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FS: Have you ever wondered why totally moronic shows are shown endlessly as reruns?
Obviously these shows are meant to teach something to someone, generation after generation, on
both our Earths.
DG: You seem to have all the answers. So what do you wonder about?
FS: I have often wondered if Samantha of Bewitched took on Genie then who would win?
DG: I dont know and dont really care.
FS: Well I do care. Samantha is powerless in the past while Genie is powerless in her bottle.
Genie could send Samantha to the past. Samantha could send Genie to her bottle. Whoever
struck first would win. You could defeat both of them by sending them to Genies bottle and then
sending the bottle to the past before either one could zap back. Also both blondes are hot but
which one is hotter.
DG: Genie has the hotter body but Samantha has a prettier face. Any other Square TV shows?
FS: The Square leadership decided that more Squares needed to learn the dolphins kinesic
language and the show Flipper was created. Flipper seemed to be a show about a young boy and
his adventures with the dolphin named Flipper. The show was really meant to teach young
Squares the dolphin language.
DG: Well that almost makes sense. Were most actors in your Earth Squares?
FS: Not most but many actors were Squares due to the advantage that HKP gives them in this
field. In addition, acting requires no creativity and pays well.
DG: I think acting does require some creativity but I will agree it pays well. So the Squares liked
being actors?
FS: Yes but the only draw back was that actors had to deal with the creative Sloppy Squares who
wrote and produced the show. Squares had problems with normal members of the Sloppy
Square species. Creative members of the Sloppy Squares really got on their nerves. Many of the
Square actors turned to drogas as a way off coping.
DG: Any other Square media projects?
FS: Overall, the Squares wanted to create an atmosphere in which the conspiracies were
trivialized to hide their own conspiracy.
DG: For example?
FS: The Squares actively promoted the X-Files TV series to trivialize conspiracies. In
particular, The Blair Witch Project, a film, was promoted. The Blair Witch Project blurred the
line between reality and fiction in order to fool Sloppy Squares and make them more suspicious
of any abnormal information.
DG: So it was all film and TV stuff?
FS: Not totally, the Squares had also encouraged the growth of metafiction that as mentioned is
a type of novel that is self-conscious about being a novel and also blurs the line between fiction
and reality.
DG: One metafiction author used a fake diary that pretended to be an actual diary to get this
effect. Metafiction is very creative. Your Squares are not creative therefore they could not be
behind metafiction.
FS: Of course, the Squares were not creative enough to invent these media projects but could
make sure some media projects got financing and some did not.
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DG: Any other giant Sneaky Square conspiracies? I suppose they had a giant satellite that spied
on all the Sloppy Squares?
FS: When youre right youre right. Cord told me all about it while I was hanging next to him in
the Shanghai. The Sneaky Squares had overseen the creation of a technological version of their
tetrachromatic vision.
DG: Sounds interesting.
FS: The United Americas had created bar codes that operated outside of the visible light
spectrum. The bar code technology only worked at certain very specific wave frequencies so that
unless you had the specific enhanced bar code reader then there would be no way to detect the
bar codes.
DG: Just for the purposes of argument, why would anyone develop this technology?
FS: This means that any object imaginable could be tracked surreptitiously using the already
very advanced database technology developed for bar codes. If terrorists knew about the bar
codes then they would attempt to get around them. Surreptitious bar codes get around this
problem. You can't counter a technology you know nothing about.
DG: How could you see these magic bar codes?
3.38 The Giant Bar Code Reader in the Sky
Dr. Delta: This meme has been actualized.
FS: Sloppy Squares had to use special equipment. Squares could see the bar codes without any
special equipment and easily process the spatial information of the bar codes. Ubiquitous bar
codes gave the Squares yet another advantage. Bar codes outside of the visible light spectrum
were used to enhance satellite surveillance. This was known as the Giant Bar Code reader in the
sky and had advantages over satellite technology on this Earth.
DG: How so?
FS: Satellites have the weakness that they can only look down. This means you can see the roof
of a car but not the license plate. You see the top of my head but not the culprits face.
DG: So how could you get around this weakness of satellite surveillance?
FS: Surreptitious bar codes could be put on the top of cars, ships, trains, planes, bald heads, you
name it, so that satellites could track them. The bar code system got around the basic limitation
on satellite surveillance. The bar codes could be fairly large since they were invisible to the eye.
DG: What was tracked with the bar codes?
FS: Secret bar codes were placed on tanks, missiles, and even the barrels of firearms. This
allowed the United Americas to track weapon flows as well. The UA was not interested in the
particular weapon but where the weapon came from and where it ended up and keeping track of
its transit. The UA then attacked the transit points of the weapons network and broke it up. No
weapons, no terrorists!
DG: Why not just use robotic drones for observation given that robots are all over the place in
your fantasy?
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FS: The United Americas had used robots to counter the numerical superiority of the Asian
Union troops but the robots were vulnerable to EMP. This meant that the UA still needed some
flesh and blood soldiers when fighting an enemy such as the AU that had access to tactical EMP
nukes. The problem was that the tactical EMP nukes also knocked out all the electronics that
flesh and blood soldiers had and this was a big part of the UAs tech advantage that made up for
the AUs numerical advantage.
DG: So what was the solution?
FS: An optical communication system was developed that could operate even in EMP
environments. Bar codes were on the helmets of United Americas troops, tanks, planes,
everything. The satellites could then track everything on the ground using optical technology
DG: Sounds like AWAC planes.
FS: The optical battle management system fulfilled a function similar to similar to AWACs.
AWACs were so laden down with electronics that all attempts to harden their equipment from
EMP had failed.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Because of prior sessions with the patient I did some research and E-
bombs that use EMP do in fact exist.

DG: The bar codes were a back up?
FS: Exactly, the bar codes would act as a supplemental battle management system in non-EMP
environments. Optical systems were able to operate in some environments that AWACs couldnt
and vice-versa. AWACs were also vulnerable to the now ubiquitous air to ground missiles while
very few countries could hit a satellite. Especially the latest robotic satellites that actively
avoided missiles and had a prey/predator AI system i.e. they could mimic prey/predator thought.
The UA could handle different types of information with an optical system. This giant bar code
reader in the sky was also used for border control.
DG: How so?
FS: All planes, ships, trains, trucks and cars that entered UA border space had to have a bar
code on their roof for easy identification. Sophisticated terrorists figured out countermeasures
but the system did keep out most of the riff-raff.
DG: You would need a ton of people to keep track of all the objects tagged.
FS: The bar codes were digital data and the whole information system was totally automated.
The United Americas even attached an expert system to the database system to watch for
anomalies in border movement.
DG: But the bar code would have pretty limited application.
FS: There were other applications. For example, Squads of UA soldiers carried bar code flash
cards that the satellite could read.
DG: Kind of like taking the signal mirrors used by the militar in the US civil war.
FS: Exactly, this means the guys on the ground could communicate back to the UA HQ. The UA
still hadn't figured out how HQ could communicate to the soldiers in an EMP environment.
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DG: Still, one-way communication was better than no communication. You have stated that the
UA was a bigger, badder version of the US. So how did the United Americas handle guys like
Saddam Hussein and North Koreas Kim?
FS: The BIS used psychological profiling to a much greater extent.
DG: How so?
FS: Every dictator creating weapons of mass destruction faced a limited set of choices that can
be broken down. Choice one was to stop making the weapons in the face of militar pressure
from the UA.
DG: But the dictators never do this.
FS: The cost to the dictator was the money used to create the system that was usually
considerable. The dictator also lost power on the regional and international stage due to
disarmament. As long as the chance of militar intervention was low then the dictator would
continue trying to create weapons of mass destruction.
DG: So how was this saved?
FS: Fundamentally the dictator had to be convinced the chance of militar intervention was high
but this wasnt enough. More importantly, you had to take into account the narcissism and
sociopath nature of the dictator.
DG: I will agree that dictators tend to be narcissistic and sociopaths but so what?
FS: You had to convince him that militar intervention would lead to his personal death or
imprisonment. A normal leader might consider damage to his country a deterrent but this
ignores the psychological profile of a dictator. The UA had established a history of certain
militar intervention that always led to the death or imprisonment of the dictator threatened.
DG: And the US?
FS: The US does not have this track record. The US foolishly targets everything but the dictator
when the dictator only cares about is his own skin and therefore a dictator in this Earth will
generally choose to ignore the US. Also, you make the narcissism work for you. The US
generally pursues regime change from the outside in. You ataque the country from the outside.
DG: Well what else can you do?
FS: The UA reasoned that if you wanted to get rid of a dictator then talk to the dictator. Start
with the ultimate inside guy, the dictator himself. There was a very high probability if the
dictator was offered total amnesty and a billion bucks for vacating the country or death then the
dictator would cash the billion-dlar check in Switzerland.
DG: This would be totally against international law in this Earth. You are talking about using
Mafia tactics.
FS: Hey, Mafia tactics work on narcissistic sociopaths. New technologies mean new laws. The
proliferation of the technologies of mass destruction naturally and inevitably will change
international law.
DG: I suppose that you have a point.
FS: Sure I do. I have reflected that my Earth had superior technology but there was also the will
power to use this technology that is lacking in this Earth. You know bandwidth on this Earth is
doubling every six months?
DG: What does that mean?
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FS: This means that technically it is getting exponentially easier to put up cameras to cover
every square inch of the Virginia and Washington area but instead you got people zigzagging
across parking lots to avoid that nasty sniper that I keep seeing on CNN. Cavemen zigzag.
Technologically advanced civilizations crush the enemy using bandwidth.
DG: As I recall your Earth had the will to use technology to ultimately destroy itself.
FS: Good point.
DG: Sometimes dreams tell us what is going within. Have you had any interesting dreams
lately?
3.39 Dragon and Eagle Dream
Dr. Delta: This meme is extremely infectious but virulence is difficult to measure.
FS: Yes, I had a dream that a giant eagle and a giant dragon were fighting.
DG: Who won?
FS: Neither won because archers in turbans aimed flaming arrows at the eagle and dragon and
destroyed both of them. The archers then took out scimitars and cut up the body of the eagle and
the dragon.
DG: Why did they cut up the bodies?
FS: I am not sure but the pieces of the body then commingled and became monsters that were
half eagle and half dragon in every combination conceivable. The monsters then attacked and
ate the archers and finally attacked each other until all were dead.
DG: When I say dragon what do comes to mind immediately.
FS: China.
DG: Eagle.
FS: US
DG: So basically this is a political dream of some sort. Are you very political?
FS: Actually I could care less about politics.
Dr. Arrow: Time for the patients medication.
DG: Dr. Arrow! How long have you been standing there?
Dr. Arrow: Long enough, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious? Royal road to bullshit is
more like it. Dreams are a manifestation of the brain reorganizing information it has acquired
over the day. There is no more meaning in dreams than the defragmentation of a hard drive.
DG: Get the hell out of here!
Dr. Arrow: Hey, the patient is on a medication schedule and its time for his patient. At least he
might get something from his medication.
DG: Listen you philistine, this is regularly scheduled treatment and is every bit as important
medication.
Dr. Arrow: Please, come on Freak Show.
DG: I will take this up with Dr. Delta.
Dr. Arrow: You better believe I will.
DG: Fine!
Dr. Arrow: Fine!
DG: I mean it!
Dr. Arrow: I mean it too!
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DG: Beware the wrath of the Omegas!
Dr. Arrow: Uh?
DG: Nothing, I just meant if the patients treatment is interrupted then he will still believe in the
Omegas and in a way suffer the wrath of the Omegas.
Dr. Arrow: Whatever you say fraud.
DG: At least I am not a crypto- humanoid like you. I will let this go for now but there will be
consequences.
Dr. Arrow: Crypto-humanoid? What in the world is a crypto-humanoid?
DG: Oh dont play innocent with me.
Dr. Arrow: Im not playing anything. I dont play mind games unlike some people. Again what
is a crypto-humanoid?
DG: Ah, er, its a new MetaFreudian concept.
Dr. Arrow: Spare me. GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out. Keep your garbage to yourself.
DG: Do you find the Odd Couple funny?
Dr. Arrow: I thought the Neil Simon film was okay. I didnt care much for the TV show.
DG: Uuuuh?
Dr. Arrow: Alright, Im going.
DG: Then go!
Dr. Arrow: Im going
DG: Bye!
Dr. Arrow: Bye right back!

Dr. Gammas Notes: Dr. Arrows rudeness is astounding. I will very definitely complain to
Dr. Delta. I video tape all my sessions and will use this as evidence of Dr. Arrows
unprofessional behavior. I have my own suspicions about Dr. Arrow but these suspicions
are so radical that I will keep them to myself until I have gathered the proper evidence.

Sneaky Squares are an obvious manifestation of the patients paranoia. Records indicate
the patient once had a roommate named Cord and this is probably were the patient got this
name. The dream about the eagle and the dragon seems to have some sort of political
significance and this is very unusual for dreams.

Dr. Delta: Dr. Arrow had disappeared around this time. Dr. Arrow had originally worked for
many years in the prison system and his prior prison patients are the first suspects. Patients
suffering from meta-psychopathology disorders are actually much less violent physically than
the general population or at least this is statistically true. Its almost as though they substitute
psychic violence for physical violence. Dr. Gamma said at that time that he had no knowledge
of Dr. Arrows whereabouts.

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MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

This session puts forth a flat out logical political argument and therefore can be dealt with a
conscious affirmation. Repeat the following at least one hundred times:

1) The US is number-one.
2) A US led world is a better world.
3) Tripolar is bad.
4) Unipolar is good.

Again, if you start thinking that perhaps the US is not number-one then seek professional help if
these thoughts do not go away. Staring fixedly at a US flag and repeat:

1) Freedom
2) Democracy

Again and again, this measure can act as a quick stop gap form of self-treatment.

Ungaro: Gammas Asian Union fantasy is not as far out as one might think. ASEAN is an
organization of South East Asian nations that wants to make ASEAN into more of an EU type
organization. ASEAN in turn is negotiating free trade agreements with China, Japan and India.
I think the US invasion of Iraq has forced India and China to think of working together in order
to counter balance US imperialism.

The subship is also not as wild as one might think. I saw a show on the Discovery channel about
building a transatlantic tunnel. The distance between Taipei and Shanghai is much, much less
than the distance between the US and England.

The invasion of Taiwan is also not so far out. President Chen of Taiwan is trying to create a new
constitution despite a total lack of a mandate and the deep divisions his suspicious election
caused. Many expats in Taipei think Chens move will lead to war with Mainland China. The
US has moved a squadron of B-52 bombers to Guam in order to defend Taiwan. Chen himself
has actually cut defense spending while Chinas military spending expands exponentially. Chen
seems to believe in doing the opposite of carrying a being quiet and carrying a big stick. Chen
believes in yelling at China and throwing away Taiwans stick. Maybe the invasion of Taiwan
fantasy will happen after all.

Gamma and I went to the Taipei 101 Mall. Taipei 101 will be the tallest building in the world
when completed. The mall is connected to the building and you can see the actual 101 building
on the fourth floor of the mall since the roof is made of glass.
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The best part of the mall is the Page One bookstore that is by far the best bookstore in Taiwan.
In particular there is a huge selection of Western comic books in book form. Basically past runs
of comic books are put together in a book. There is a new comic book called The Authority that I
had heard about but never been able to find in Taiwan. Well there were three years worth of
collected issues in six volumes. Sat down and read the whole collection in one sitting. Gamma
was reading the Legion of Superheroes. I used to be a big fan of the Legion when I was kid but
like the more modern gritty stuff nowadays. The Authority is a super team that goes ahead and
starts solving global problems instead of just catching bank robbers. The team goes ahead and
kills the President of Serbia and warns the rest of the cabinet that they will be back for them if
the cabinet doesnt stop the war atrocities. They also kick the Chinese out of Tibet. The idea
that a super team would go ahead really solve global problems was explored in the Squadron
Supreme. The Authority is about ten times more violent than the Squadron Supreme. Gamma
got bored with the bookstore and wandered around the mall while I finished reading the
Authority.

Gamma commented that the Taipei 101 tower would be a great target for Chinese missiles were
lobbed at Taipei. Gamma has been reading the Taipei Times and China Post, the local Taiwan
papers, and read that China had 550 missiles aimed at Taiwan. Gamma is obsessed with this
fact.

I looked at the map and a subship between Shanghai and Tokyo is impossible since Tokyo is on
the wrong side of Japan and faces the US not China. You could make a subship between LA and
Tokyo in theory but not between Shanghai and Tokyo unless there were a land route added to the
subship route. The Discover channel did have an episode of Extreme Engineering and
documented plans to build a transatlantic tunnel using technology similar to the subship. This
episode is probably where Freak Show got the idea in the first place. Looking at a map that
shows seabed I think you could easily make an underwater tunnel between Fujing and Taipei
since both are on the same continental shelf and therefore the depth is not so great. Interestingly
when I looked at the map I noticed that Busan in Korea and Shanghai are also share a continental
shelf so I suppose and underwater tunnel between them would also be feasible. You could link
up Busan and the Japanese city of Kitakyushu. Kitakyushu is a major port city anyway.

The nanobots sound vaguely like molecular computers. Molecular computers use DNA as their
building blocks or something like that.
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4.00 ULTRASONIC WEST CHINA
Dr. Delta: This meme construct is both infectious and virulent but to an unknown degree.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient seems tired. Hair is unkempt. The patient seems to be staring
at a far away point while he is talking.

DG: In the last session you mentioned your plan to go to West China. Why did you want to go
to West China?
FS: West China was famous as a sex tourist Mecca. Thailand had long ago gotten out of the
prostitution business due to their economic prosperity. I had experienced cyber-sex in Japan
and thought it was time to have some fun with some real gals for a change.
DG: But what about Erotron. I though you were back together?
FS: Most of all I wanted to ditch Erotron. We didnt live together in Shanghai. We both knew
that was impossible but she did insist on hanging around and worst of all taking me to all sorts
of Money Square functions and pretending we were a couple.
DG: I wonder why she did that?
FS: She had her reasons. I wasnt getting any sex, just tons of boring meetings. Besides she was
putting on weight like crazy. On the plus side her already ample breasts had become absolutely
enormous. She started crying all the time. I mean she was an emotional mess.
DG: Did you try talking with her about all this?
FS: Not really but over and over again she would say, I need to tell you something, stare in
my eyes as though looking for something and then start a one-hour crying jag. I figured West
China was one place Erotron wouldnt follow me to. West China was considered a good place
for men but no upper class Asian female would be caught dead there.
DG: You left Japan to escape Evil-C and now you were going to West China to escape Erotron.
Do you notice a pattern in your travels?
FS: I have no idea what you are talking about. Fluffy and I crossed the border between East and
West China and were driven by jeep across the Green Zone. East and West China were like two
parallel universes. East China had pursued memetic capitalism. West China had pursued
socialism. The two Chinas had evolved in a totally different manner.
DG: Where did you stay in West China?
FS: I used the capital of West China, Xian, as my home base. Xian had been the imperial capital
of the first thirteen dynasties until the capital of China had been moved to Beijing. Xian was the
capital of West China now.
DG: So West China was pretty different from East China?
FS: West China was totally different than East China. The living conditions were primitive.
Many visitors said that visiting West China was like going into a time machine and visiting East
China fifty years earlier. East China had become ultramodern. West China had stagnated.
DG: Was it really that bad?
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FS: Worse, taking a crap in West China was the single most unpleasant aspect of living in West
China. West Chinese toilets were different from Western toilets. A traditional Chinese toilet was
a best described as a porcelain hole in the ground. You squat over the hole and did your
business. Most Chinese rest rooms stink.
DG: Sound pretty bad.
FS: It was bad. The right to a good toilet was a fundamental right.
DG: The right to a good crapper isnt in the US Constitution, the Magna Carta or the UN
Charter.
FS: None of these great documents mention the bathroom situation because it was considered
such a basic human right that it didnt need to be mentioned. It would be like having a law that
states that humans had a right to breathe. Over one billion of our brothers and sisters were
being forced to squat over a hole. The Western toilet was the throne of the common man. The
Chinese must be delivered.
DG: So how did you cope?
FS: I had a few strategies. Always bring some toilet paper with you. Try to go before you go out
the door, just like mom told you to. I managed to avoid using a toilet for almost three weeks. I
was very proud of this accomplishment.
DG: As you should be.

Dr. Gammas Notes: This anal retentive behavior is at odds with the extraverted nature of
the patient.

FS: I didnt hold the expat record, this belonged to an Australian who had mighty bowels indeed,
but three weeks was a respectable number. An expat would ask another expat, how long? The
other expat would reply with something like, Three days and counting. When you first got to
West China you were confused by these exchanges but later you realize that they were talking
about how long you managed to avoid using a Chinese toilet. You used an ultrasonic scrubber
instead of toilet paper due to the shortage of water in West China.
DG: Any other problems?
FS: Physical problems, you would of course have to squat if you used a Chinese toilet. This
wasnt as easy as it sounds. If you couldnt squat, and you weren't alone, then you were in big
trouble in West China. I wouldn't give up on the dream of living in West China just because you
couldn't squat.
DG: What would you advise?
FS: I put a chair in front of me as an assistive device and started practicing my squat about three
weeks before my arrival in West China. There were physical instructors that specialized in
teaching Americans how to squat but they were costly and in my opinion unnecessary. The chair
system works just fine but regardless, training is pretty important.
DG: Why was this training so important?
FS: You constantly heard about Americans who got into a squat but couldnt get up. They were
stuck in some West Chinese restroom yelling for help.
DG: Why didnt someone help these poor Americans?
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FS: Most of the West Chinese didnt speak English, they assumed this was just another crazy
American custom like rock and roll. For all they knew Americans customarily say a few words
before going to the toilet as part of their religion.
DG: Why in the world would they think something so crazy?
FS: Well after all, some Americans say a few words before eating and thank God for the food
they were about to eat. Maybe Americans thank God for a good shit as well. Some Americans
were caught in this sad predicament for days, until an English speaking Chinese happened to
walk into that particular restroom and saved them.
DG: Any other suggestions?
FS: I systematically checked the rest rooms of all the plusher hotels, bars and restaurants in
your city. Make a mental map of the ones that were Western. If you had to go then try to hold it
until you found a Western toilet that you scouted earlier.
DG: What if werent staying at the hotel?
FS: A Westerner was always welcome in a Western hotel. Chinese were looked at rudely. If you
did invite some rural Chinese over then you may want to have them read a Chinese booklet put
out by the West Chinese government that explains how a Western toilet works. Some Chinese
would try to squat over the Western and toilet leave footprints on the toilet lid and this was
messy. There was also a Chinese poster from the West Chinese government explaining Western
toilets. You could tape this poster in the bathroom near your Western toilet.
DG: Sounds great.
FS: I would have gladly spent ten bucks for the definitive guidebook to good toilets in West
China. Also, I gladly paid more for a better toilet. The West Chinese used a five star system to
rate their toilets.
DG: So what was a five-star toilet like?
FS: A top of the line, five-star, toilet might run you an e-money credit but really be a luxurious
place where you could really did your business with style. A one star place would be a mere one
tenth of a credit and you got what you paid for. I have decided that the ultimate hell was an
eternity spent in a tenth of credit Chinese toilet.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patients obsession with bodily functions and his invention of an
ultrasonic scrubber as a solution once again shows that the patient uses imaginary
technology to objectify and rationalize fundamental needs rather than connecting with
them in an open and human manner.

DG: So how did you get around?
FS: How do you get around in West China? You had a few options. You could walk. You could
take the bus. You could take a taxi. You could ride a bike. You could drive a motorbike. You
could drive a car. You would probably use a mix and there were pros and cons to each way of
getting around. Lets start with walking.
DG: Okay.
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FS: You were from America and you learned to walk by the time you were two, right? Wrong, in
West China you needed to learn how to walk all over again. Walking in West China was an art
that needed to be mastered. Traffic was really bad in West China. The Chinese only obeyed
traffic lights marginally and basically you crossed by walking very slowly and letting the traffic
weave around you.
DG: Sounds dangerous.
FS: Well you could also shadow a Chinese person and just walk alongside of him and take
advantage of his skill. There were bicycle lanes, which included rickshaws and motorbikes.
Bicycles and motorbikes did go on the sidewalk on a pretty regular basis. Don't obey your
natural instinct to jump when they sneak up behind you.
DG: So what should you do?
FS: Stay still and let them weave around you. If you walk competently in West China then you
really knew how to walk. West China was kind of the Grand Prix of walking. Keep in mind, the
Chinese invented kung fu, they were no slouches in the coordination area.
DG: So you drove in West China?
FS: Driving an auto was probably a bad idea in West China. If you drove in West China you
had to learn how to weave and honk with the best of them. Parking was a major problem in
West China. It was pretty difficult for a foreigner to get a license and I really got the feeling that
the government would just as soon not have Americans driving in West China. If you had an
accident then you were automatically guilty as the foreigner in any traffic accident. Collision
insurance was not common. I tried to stay as far away from the West Chinese court system as
possible.
DG: Sounds like good advice in any foreign country.
You better believe it. Finally, a car was a pretty expensive option when you consider the
relatively low cost of buses and taxis in West China. A car in West China costs more than the
equivalent a car in the United Americas but buses and taxis were much cheaper than in the UA.
I thought it would be fair to say that a Chinese person that owns a car was wealthy. This person
probably had a government car or owned his own business or worked for a foreign company or
was a gangster.
DG: So you walked?
FS: Not always, you could take the bus. The bus system in a West Chinese city was pretty
thorough. The big problem was that all the bus schedules were in Chinese.
DG: That would be a problem.
FS: But there was a solution. You didnt know the bus schedule and route? Your city doesnt
have a bilingual version of the bus schedule? Have a Chinese friend tell you about all the parks
and other free stuff wherever you were in West China. Have him write down the names of the
places in Chinese and then get a taxi and point to the Chinese character and away you go. Pay
attention to any bus stops along the way and near where you wanted to go and then later you
could avoid the expense of a taxi. In general, I used all taxi rides as a means to memorize where
the different bus stops were.
DG: So they used Western numbers?
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FS: Yes, thank God, Chinese on the whole used Western numbers and not their own version of
numbers. Buses got pretty crowded.
DG: Really.
FS: I didnt mind it when I was sandwiched between two cute ladies. Unfortunately I was
usually crushed between two guys who couldnt afford deodorant. Some Chinese girls just flat
out refused to take the bus, ever!
DG: What did they do?
FS: They liked taxis that cost at least ten times as much. Were there things that happen to cute
Chinese girls on buses that they were not telling the world about? The buses also stop operating
after a certain time at night and usually didnt go to the more out of the way places after dark.
DG: Did you travel outside Xian?
FS: A little, seeing West China from the comfort of a tour bus was a pretty good idea. You paid
more money but the bus was air-conditioned and the guide generally kept the endless streams of
beggars and vendors away from the tour party.
DG: Well I suppose that is a service of sorts.
FS: I soon found out that key to enjoying a tour bus ride was to take over the back of the bus.
You could lie down and take a nap in order to recover from a night of drinking. The key was to
drive out the other passengers from the back belching, picking your nose and scratching your
crotch. You could always take a taxi.
DG: But you are not seeing the real country.
FS: Who the hell wanted to see the real West China?
DG: In order to broaden you mind.
FS: Travel does not broaden the mind but instead provides details for our original stereotypes.
The taxi was a lot more comfortable than the bus, which could be pretty sweaty and crowded on
the wrong night. You could also hire a taxi to take you to another city. The taxi drivers in Xian
could give Hollywood stunt drivers some tips. I didn't know enough Chinese to tell them that my
life was worth more to me than saving an e-money credit or two. Even at one in the morning in
the most abandoned section of Xian I had been able to found a taxi.
DG: I would just ride a bike.
FS: You could ride a bike. Keep in mind that riding a bike in West China was totally unlike
riding a bike in the U.S. People come at you from all directions and narrowly avoid a collision
by weaving at the last minute. You might want to practice walking in West China for at least a
month before you got a bike.
DG: Sounds like a lot of third world countries I have been to. Did you ride a bike at all?
FS: I declined the honor of riding a bike. I went ahead and invested money in the Xian bus and
taxi system. I figured this was my contribution to third world infrastructure. I also found the
thought of risking life and limb riding a bike in West China terrifying.
DG: But I imagine it was cheap transport.
FS: Thats true, you got a sturdy but not comfortable bike for less than 1,000 e-money credits. I
had yet to see a Chinese person with a bike helmet. I had yet to meet a Chinese person who has
fallen on my head and therefore required a bike helmet. West China was a land where miracles
occurred on a daily basis.
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DG: How so?
FS: The fact that half the West Chinese population was not suffering from severe brain damage
due to bike accidents was one of those miracles. You needed to get your bike licensed. Bikes
were a serious form of transportation in West China, unlike the UA.
DG: What about a motorbike?
FS: You could get a motorbike. The weaving pattern of West Chinese traffic meant that you
would in fact be able to go much faster on a motorbike than a car. Maneuvers that would get
you pulled over in the UA and given a life sentence would not even raise an eyebrow in West
China. Evel Keneivel would be a so-so motorbike rider in West China. The same court caveats I
mentioned about the car apply to the motorbike.
DG: Any advantages?
FS: You could park your motorbike in the same area as the bicycles and these places were
everywhere. Many West Chinese just plopped their motorbike anywhere they pleased. I never
saw a policemen write out a ticket for illegal parking. I had often ridden on the back of a
motorbike.
DG: Sounds like fun.
FS: Yeah, fun, the spasms and shaking usually subsided about an hour after I got off the
motorbike. When the West Chinese ask about the shaking, I explained that I was cold. This
explanation doesnt work real well when I was also sweating in the 90 degree plus degree
weather. I had thought of saying that I had malaria that caused me to shake periodically. I was
not going to admit to a West Chinese citizen that an American was scared of a mere motorbike
ride. I figured it was my patriotic duty to look brave.
DG: How was this your patriotic duty?
FS: Years from now two generals in Xian may be deciding whether or not to ataque the UA.
General X says, The Americans are brave and would defend their territory to the death.
General Y would answer, I heard that there was this American in Xian who was scared to death
of a mere motorbike ride. General X replies, I heard this story as well. I say lets go ahead
and ataque. The Americans are probably cowards and will back down. I didnt want to be
responsible for the loss of thousands perhaps millions of West Chinese and American lives all
because I was scared of a motorbike ride. West China has a slew of bicycle-powered rickshaws.
DG: Hard to believe there were rickshaws in your high tech Earth.
FS: Never underestimate the ability of bad government to halt progress. As an American you
would have to turn down about a dozen of these guys every day. I really felt bad. These men
were obviously on their last legs.
DG: You think?
FS: Absolutely, West Chinese didnt choose to be rickshaw drivers. Becoming rickshaw driver
was an act of desperation. There has never been a Chinese first grader who wrote an essay
entitled Why I want to be a Rickshaw Driver. Rickshaw drivers assumed that every American
comes to West China to enjoy the fantasy of being driven around by some poor sweating geezer
like some British Raj while looking at the splendors of West China.
DG: Sounds great.
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FS: The problem was that there were about a thousand more rickshaw drivers than there were
Americans. I wanted to propose, purely in the interests of cross-cultural friendship, an answer
to the rickshaw problem. I thought the problem was basically marketing.
DG: How so?
FS: Most of the rickshaw drivers were men. I thought they should just hang up their rickshaw
and got another job. I would probably accept a rickshaw every day if the drivers were attractive
West Chinese women, preferably in bikinis. I suspect many men would enjoy this experience. I
may be sexist and wrong but West China had an employment problem and this was a first step in
solving that problem.
DG: What else did you learn?
FS: Getting a ticket on a bus or train was another skill you would have to master. If you wanted
to buy a ticket then you were going to have to learn something about pushing. The Chinese on
the whole respect their elders more than Americans except when they were in line. Strictly
speaking there were no lines in West China. Instead of a line you got a thousand Chinese, high
as a kite on green tea, pushing towards whatever happens to be on the other side. If granny gets
in the way then just push her aside.
DG: So you dont respect your elders?
FS: Hey, granny would do the same to you if she had the strength and she wouldnt blame you.
This was a Darwinian society and the members who were too weak or too old were winnowed
out via this pushing ritual. The key to pushing in West China was to work with the crowd rather
than against the crowd. Conserve your energy. Use the energy from the guy pushing you from
behind to help you push the guy in front of you.
DG: Sounds like kung fu.
FS: My Wing-Jutsu skills came in handy in West China. Wing-Jutsu did not serve the purposes
of self-defense in West China since there was essentially no violencia in this country; the guards
with submachine guns on every corner seemed to keep the crime rate down.
DG: So what did you use Wing-Jutsu for?
FS: Instead, I did use some of my marital art techniques to get to the head of the line one way or
another. You couldnt use your hands to actually hit people but just about any type of pushing
was allowed. West Chinese line pushing was essentially a type of specialized wrestling were the
elbows were your primary weapon of direct contact. In my view, the West Chinese used their
elbows in a haphazard manner. The key was to press your elbow against vital areas such as the
kidney of your neighbor so that the pain becomes unendurable and they were forced slide to the
side and you took their place!
DG: Did you engage in other violent acts?
FS: Hey doc lets not be melodramatic, another trick I had was to put pressure against the
tailbone of the guy directly in front of me until he dropped to the floor in pain. I then jumped
over him. Unfortunately, the other West Chinese generally ignored a guy on the floor and
happily trampled over someone rather than taking the trouble of jumping over him.
DG: So the poor guy was trampled to death.
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FS: My experience has shown me that the West Chinese were incredibly trample resistant and
most West Chinese had been trampled in a line many times without any obvious sign of injury. I
got to the head of the line in record time and a West Chinese observer was obviously impressed.
He later asked me to show him some of my techniques.
DG: Glad to know you made a friend.
FS: I make friends wherever I go. I thought the whole thing should really be organized into
some sort of sport, kind of the West Chinese version of the World Wide Wrestling League.
DG: A kind of pushing show. Why didnt people stay in line instead of pushing?
4.01 McMickey
Dr. Delta: This meme construct is infectious, virulent and actualized.
FS: The whole idea of lines in West China only existed at American fast food chains. McMickey
was the informal hang out for the few Americans in West China. McMickey enforced the idea of
a line ruthlessly and would turn a customer back that elbowed his way to the front.
DG: Did this happen?
FS: Every once in a while, somebody from the countryside came to Xian and decided to really go
exotic and eat at McMickey. The country bumpkin was of course totally unaware of the concept
of a line and was absolutely shocked at this limitation on his personal freedom.
DG: I think freedom has more to do with stuff like freedom to assemble, etc.
FS: The country bumpkin could care less about nonsense like the freedom to assemble and
freedom of expression. These tools of foreigners were interfering with his freedom to push and
elbow his way to the front of the line. Things got pretty ugly but obviously dealing with line
breakers was part of the McMickey training and the line enforcer, usually the manager, was
firm. Corrective reality didnt work for losing weight but ironically did work at McMickeys.
DG: How so?
FS: The goal of this hamburger chain had been to create a totally automated training
environment i.e. they could just grab any teenager off the street and put them right to work. A
McMickey corrective reality program did just that. The program acted as an ongoing manager
and told the employee what to do step by step from making fries to cleaning the restrooms the
McMickey way.
DG: But what customer wants to be served by someone with a helmet on instead of a happy
smile?
FS: The customers were at first put off by being served by someone with a reality helmet but
McMickey soon sold the concept as a health aid since the McMickey filters were two-way and
also kept germs from the employee from being exhaled. People were pretty scared of germs on
my Earth and this was a big selling point. The facemasks of the McMickey helmets had the faces
of the various McMickey cartoon characters on them and the faces were animated. The kids
loved it.
DG: Kind of like a high-tech hair net.
FS: Exactly.
DG: Did you always stay in line back in the United Americas?
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FS: Not always, my favorite trick for getting to the front of the line in the UA didnt work in West
China due to my lack of fluency in the Chinese language but let me tell you my secreto anyway. I
rolled my eyes back into my head so that only the whites of my eyes show. At the same time I
grabbed my forehead like I had a terrible headache and would say very loudly, Head hurt, and
must not kill again. I follow this was up with some Frankenstein type body language.
DG: You think this kind of anti-social behavior is acceptable?
FS: Hey, this whole routine gets rid off just about everybody in the line ahead of me. If you
didnt learn how to push in West China you didnt get the ticket and you missed the bus, the
train, and the plane. You ended up a sad old man in some backwater of West China, never
having gone anywhere, all because you flunked pushing. West China had problems but there
were some bright spots.
DG: Such as?
FS: I had never seen a Chihuahua in West China. Any country free of Chihuahuas couldnt be
all that bad and this could be a very good reason to live in West China.
DG: Again with the Chihuahuas.
FS: I did see other breeds of dogs but no Chihuahuas. The Chinese seem to like Chows. This
was a pretty small dog but a very wise and sensible member of the small dog family. Chows
were not yippers or yappers but rather looked at the world sagely with a contemplative look. I
didnt know if this attitude was peculiar to the species or a result of living in West China that
seems to bring out the contemplative side of all intelligent mammals.
DG: What about cats. Did Fluffy have any company?
FS: I am afraid that Fluffy was pretty much on her own. I only saw a few cats. Cats in West
China skulked around. Rather like the nervous ducks in Beijing. An underfoot cat in West China
was a cat with a big footprint down its back. Dogs definitely outnumbered cats in West China.
Anyway, the fact that I hadnt seen any of Chihuahuas had been the single best thing about living
in West China. The West Chinese keep other things as pets besides dogs and cats. The West
Chinese did keep crickets as pets.
DG: Crickets?
FS: I was walking home the one night and I saw an interesting sight. There were about sixty
different cricket salesmen congregated in an open lot that was usually empty. The men had
strung about fifty bamboo cages together which then formed a giant ball which they balanced on
the back of their bike using a bamboo pole over their shoulder. At the top of the ball there were
about a dozen empty wood cages that were much nicer than the bamboo cages. All the bamboo
cages were filled with crickets! Take sixty guys with fifty crickets a piece and you got a nice
little cricket concert going. You could hear the crickets from three blocks away.
DG: Were they normal crickets?
FS: The crickets were different from anything I had seen in the UA. They were much bigger and
looked really tough. I thought Chinese crickets could have had your typical UA cricket for
lunch. I made the mistake of staring at this spectacle too long. The salesmen swarmed around
me. They all started waving crickets in their little bamboo cages. Presumably, I was being
shown some real champion crickets. In theory you got two crickets and got them to fight each
other. Mostly, storeowners kept crickets for good luck.
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DG: What did you do in West China?
FS: I took full advantage of the sex industry of West China. I like sexbots as much as the next
guy but it was good to press some real flesh for a change. I ran into a few sex shops in West
China. There seemed to be plenty of Chinese customers walking in and out of these shops. I had
yet to see a Westerner at either shop and these shops seem to be for local consumption. These
shops offered the usual assortment of dildos, lotions and potions.
DG: No cyber-sex nonsense?
FS: No and the lack of any modern cyber-sex technology was strange since West China made a
lot of this stuff. I guess it was made for export only.
DG: So West China was kind of a straight place?
FS: I dont think so, less cyber but not more straight. For example I had seen tons of strap-ons
that means a lady could strap the dildo on and now the lady had a plastic version of a penis
where nature neglected to put one. I assumed Chinese women did whatever it was that ladies did
when they strap such things on. I understand that strap-ons were also popular with the gay
community.
DG: Was there a gay community in this country?
FS: Yes, ultrasound was widely used to screen fetuses and previously female fetuses were
routinely aborted. After twenty years of female infanticide and there were twice as many men as
women. Female prostitutes became the highest paid wage earners in West China.
DG: Ironic.
FS: Ironic is right, the shortage of women caused men to lose value at the cultural level and
some families had even begun to use ultrasound to abort male fetuses since it was almost
impossible for a guy to find a job.
DG: Did you like Chinese food.
FS: Generally yes, one Chinese dish stands out. You take fresh water shrimp and dip them in a
wine sauce. What makes the dish especially delectable was the fact that the shrimp were still
alive. The wine sauce was supposed to calm them down so that they were easier to eat.
DG: So were the shrimp calm?
FS: The so-called calm shrimp were doing high dives out of the bowl and unto the table. Given
the size to height ratio this would be the equivalent of a human jumping twenty plus feet into the
air. I had never really had something squirm in my mouth before and your natural reaction was
to spit it out immediately. You bite of the body and the body stops moving as soon as you did this
so the trick was to bite quickly. The head keeps moving regardless. I ate about a dozen shrimp
this way. Raw shrimp, wine sauce or no wine sauce, was pretty tasteless.
DG: Sounds terrible. Were in the world did you eat this stuff?
FS: I was the guest of a family and the dad, a real tough businessman type, would put the whole
shrimp in his mouth and then remove the scales in his mouth. This way of eating shrimp was
pretty common in West China but this was the first time I saw this trick with a live shrimp. I
turned down the chance to eat dog. The dog was dead at least. I ate snake several times in West
China.
DG: Really?

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient probably never really ate snake but instead had this fantasy
due to his latent homosexuality.

FS: Sure, I also ate a lot of chicken in West China because its cheap. Chicken in West China
tastes like snake. Eel was a common dish in Xian. I didnt think the shrimp were too happy
about being eaten alive. Do you suppose God was going to punish me for this meal?
DG: Does God care about what we eat?
FS: Yeah, I doubt it. I liked hot pot in Xian. A hot pot restaurant could be spotted if you look in
the window and you saw giant metal bowls built into the table with a propane container under
the table. The giant metal bowl had two compartments holding two types of soup. A propane
gas tank under the table heated the bowl. You then added ingredients to the soup according to
your taste. The ingredients could include various vegetables, pieces of beef, pieces of pork and a
bowl of little live shrimp as well as a bowl of live crabs.
DG: Live shrimp? Didnt they suffer?
FS: I suppose, the shrimp really jumped all over the place in a vain attempt to escape their fate.
The crabs were the lumbering idiots of the crustacean world and seem oblivious to their fate
until they actually hit the boiling water.
DG: Any other exotic foods?
FS: The Chinese werent as big fans of pickling as the Koreans but did pickle things a Westerner
would never consider. I wondered why some Asian country didnt pickle their dead since they
seemed to pickle just about everything else. There were still family shrines in China and photos
of the dead ancestors. Wouldnt a pickled grandfather be more authentic than a photo? Why
had the Egyptians gone through the elaborate techniques they used for mummification when they
could have just pickled the pharaohs?
DG: Did you do any cooking yourself?
FS: Not really but just going to a night market was a form of entertainment. The one around the
corner from my place was filled with live frogs twenty layers thick in a big basket having a giant
wrestling match that they couldnt win. The chickens would flap their wings. The turtles would
desperately try to get out of their cage. The partridges looked sad.
DG: Sounds terrible.
FS: The worst was that I once looked at a giant fish, about four feet long, swimming alone in a
big fish tank. I could swear the fish looked back and tried to communicate to me via HKP. I
thought the message was, Please deliver me, the fish god will reward you in another life.
Entrails, pig heads and various unrecognizable pieces of meat hung everywhere. This was free
entertainment!
DG: Did you take drugs in China?
FS: Not illegal ones. As far as I could tell, the two big legal drogas in West China were cerveza
and green tea. The bottom of the barrel restaurants, which I described earlier, would sell you a
giant 650 milliliter bottle of cerveza, which I would refer to as the big bottle from here on in.
Canned cerveza was usually more expensive than bottled cerveza. Imported beers were of
course more expensive than the local Chinese beers.
DG: Did you drink a lot?
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FS: Sure, what else was there to do in West China besides sex tourism? There were a few really
cheap beers. The bottom of the line really cheap beers used bottles recycled using ultrasound
and the bottles could be different colors and worn. This appearance made me nervous. There
could be anything inside. All of cheap beers tasted just fine.
DG: What did the West Chinese drink?
FS: West Chinese drank cheap beers with other West Chinese. They generally had bottles of
something better when you come over in order to impress their American friend. West Chinese
didnt really drink canned beers because of their high cost but drank the big bottles. A West
Chinese person would ask you, "How many bottles could you drink?"
DG: How many bottles can you drink?
FS: I had discovered that I tend to fall of the stool halfway through the fifth bottle. I had never
been able to finish the fifth bottle but enjoyed the attempt. There was a rumor that the West
Chinese were not drinkers.
DG: Was this true?
FS: I would say that West Chinese did drink less than Americans but this may be due in part to
economics. For example, most West Chinese women usually didnt drink at all but Chinese
women who had better jobs and a little more money were more likely to imbibe. Many Chinese
men could hold their liquor. I knew one guy who could easily polish over ten bottles in an
evening. If you were planning a party I would order three bottles per Chinese male.
DG: You mentioned green tea as a drug.
FS: There was always some green tea addict in the hotel room next to mine. He would hack and
cough all night long. I slowly realized what the West Chinese were trying to do when they hack
so desperately.
DG: What were they trying to do?
FS: They were trying to spit up some giant wad of green tea stuck deep in their lungs. The wad
wasnt coming out because, when you drank ten cups of green tea everyday for your whole life,
the wad gets pretty big and develops roots that spread throughout his lungs, until he could
barely breathe.
DG: So why doesnt he stop drinking green tea?
FS: The answer was simple: he was hopelessly addicted. The secreto to the West Chinese
economy was green tea.
DG: How so?
FS: The West Chinese were all hopped up on green tea.
DG: Was the green tea that powerful?
FS: Green tea has twenty times the caffeine that coffee does and they had special varieties
created by the top secreto Green Tea Ministry. You take one cup of this stuff and you were ready
for the day. Teahouses were the Chinese go when they really wanted to get fixed. The upscale
teahouse in Xian was a place where tea and every beverage imaginable could be found. The
beverages included many types of cerveza, wine, liquor, etc. There was soft music in the
background. This teahouse was very relaxing after my hectic schedule.
DG: Whorehouses and sex shows, what busy schedule?
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FS: Total decadence is hard work. The middle of the road teahouse was more common. I wasnt
too impressed by the middle of the road teahouses in Xian, little food, no cerveza and the tea was
almost as expensive as at the upscale teahouse.
DG: Were you a green tea addict?
FS: No way, you could order twenty types of tea but what American who hasn't gone totally
insane from living in West China too long, could really could tell the difference between twenty
types of tea and/or care? The really hard-core addicts carried their green tea in jars. There
was more green tea than water in these jars. The normal dosage just doesnt do it for them
anymore.
DG: What did you do for money?
FS: I was always having some money trouble. The Internet bars in West China were so primitive
that I had trouble accessing my nanopayment virus. The Chinese foolishly left their shoes
outside their apartment doors and wore slippers indoors.
DG: I think this is a Chinese custom.
FS: Chinese stupidity is more like it. I would slip into an apartment and steal a few choice tennis
shoes that didnt look too used. After I had gathered half a dozen, I would lay my wares on the
street and sell them.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The patient displays a persistent pattern of low-level criminality in his
sessions.

DG: Besides bars where did you hang out?
FS: I sometimes ate lunch at a working class hotel across the street from where I stayed. The
place was really grungy. The waiters ran around in half open sweaty dress shirts. The
customers did physical labor and looked the part. There was no air-conditioning in their lives. I
loved the atmosphere and the food was great. You could eat a full meal for less than five e-
money credits. The place was not clean. This was where the laboring class of West China ate.
As mentioned, a laborer makes very little e-money in West China. The laborers had to eat just
like everybody else. If you ate where the laborers ate then you could save some money and get to
see a side of West China that not too many people saw.
DG: Was West China as authoritarian as China in our Earth?
FS: Probably less so, but more noticeably for me since the rest of the world on my Earth relied
on more subtle means of social control. West China was a land awash in uniforms. There were
people in uniforms everywhere. At first this may alarm you, relax. The guys you needed to
worry about arent wearing uniforms.
DG: Well thats the case in any country.
FS: Absolutely, the policia wore green outfits with green epaulets. The army wore green
uniforms with red epaulets. The court officials wore light blue uniforms. There was a special
type of policia that often marched down the street in single file and they had fancier badges than
the regular policia did. You might want to keep an eye out for these guys.
DG: Did you any trouble with the police?
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FS: I never had any trouble but the West Chinese said that you didnt want to mess with the
policia at all. In West China, you ran into guys with red armbands with some Chinese
characters on the armband. They were a type of watchman. The department store seguridad
guys wore the most impressive uniforms. Usually blue with lots and lots of gold braid. I saw
one uniform that I really liked.
DG: What uniform?
FS: There was a special unit of West Chinese female soldiers that wore a pretty interesting dress
uniform. It consisted of a red dress that was pretty sexy, a cute little red beret, and black leather
boots. Once when I was going home I spotted them goose stepping down the main square in
Xian with fixed bayonets and you could get a pretty good gander of their legs since the Chinese
did a variation of the goose step that in this case showed a lot of leg.
DG: I am sure the goose step was invented to show a lot of leg.
FS: Ill bet that is the case. These gals could invade America any time. If I got a choice of
interrogators then I was picking some one from this unit. I suspected that this was really some
secreto sex policia.
DG: How do you figure?
FS: I figure that they gave young girls in West China a personality test and saw if they had any
strong latent dominatrix qualities and if they did they were recruited for this special unit. If
some high level party type gets out of line then they sent the gals in did to their job. The problem
was that this sort of thing turns on a lot of guys and so they start breaking small rules on
purpose.
DG: Ill bet, any other uniforms?
FS: The railway guys look really spiffy. They had red bands on their policemen style helmets.
There was a big gold badge in the middle of the cap that just oozed authority. You looked at
them and you just knew that the trains ran on time.
DG: How would you describe West China politically?
FS: West China was an old-fashioned policia state. Living in an old-fashioned policia state was
very different than living in the United Americas or Shanghai. Cameras were everywhere in the
UA. Conduct in most of my Earth was regulated by the fact that privacy no longer existed.
There were very few actual policemen roaming about.
DG: So according to you a really modern police state doesnt have many police.
FS: Sure, the cameras saved money and prevented crime from happening in the first place.
Computers then analyzed the video data as it was recorded. Going underground was almost
impossible in the UA since sooner or later a camera would spot your face and the computer
would inform the few policemen that were still around.
DG: What about West China?
FS: West China was more backward and relied on old-fashioned snoops and a large policia
presence.
DG: Were there any restriction on you freedom of movement?
FS: Foreigners could only stay in certain hotels and live in certain apartments. You were quite
lucky when you got an apartment in West China because as a foreigner when you got housing
you also got a guard, a curfew and a sign in system as well.
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DG: How did the Chinese justify all this?
FS: All this was for your protection. West China had one of the lowest crime rates in the world
and this makes the safety argument all the more ridiculous. I was under the impression that
fellow Asians, particularly Japanese were treated differently. On the whole, the Asian foreigners
had their own social circle and hangouts. Westerners spent an inordinate amount of time trying
to figure out how to get around the restrictions.
DG: Sounds extreme, did people hate the government?
FS: Despite being a policia state, most West Chinese seemed to support the government.
Nevertheless, I thought the West Chinese needed guns.
DG: To get their freedom?
FS: They didnt need guns to overthrow the government. I thought most West Chinese supported
the government and would use their guns to defend rather than overthrow the government but
the Chinese needed guns nevertheless. The Chinese had two problems that would be solved if
they had guns: rudeness and overpopulation.
DG: How so?
FS: The West Chinese could be very rude. They would cut in front of you in line without
hesitation. They would yell at each other for hours. If the West Chinese had guns then this
wouldnt happen.
DG: I dont see how one has much to do with the other?
FS: If you cut in front of someone in America they might pull out a gun and blow your brains
out. I thought this was ultimately the secreto to American politeness, in the back of our minds
was always the thought that this guy might be a psychopath and if I tick him off then he might
pull out a gun and blow my brains out.
DG: I agree, an armed society is a polite society.
FS: Yeah, I knew that I rarely gave someone the finger in America because I thought they might
pull out a gun and blow my brains out. When I did give someone the finger I was always ready
to duck just in case this was the moment of truth. I felt relieved that my head was still attached
to my body after I had given someone the finger. You get into a yelling match in America every
day and I promise you that youll be shot by the end of the week. Guns would make West China
a more polite society.
DG: Sounds like an extreme solution.
FS: Extreme problems require extreme solutions. The second big problem in West China was
overpopulation. The West Chinese government invested a lot of time, money and energy on
family planning. West China had a one-child policy. West Chinese couples, on the whole, were
only allowed one child.
DG: Like our China.
FS: The problem was that even with the one child policy there were was such a big base
population that it would be a century before the population actually decreased and in the
meanwhile the population would just go up and up. Stopping more West Chinese from being
born was only half the solution.
DG: So what is the other half of the solution?
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FS: You needed to do something about the West Chinese that were already born. America on
this Earth has had great success in curtailing its population through the use of guns and West
China could learn from their example.
DG: Thats true. As I recall homicide is the leading cause of death for young Blacks.
FS: Right and if West China would let the citizens have guns then they to could have enjoyed the
benefits of homicide as a major form of population control.
DG: I will have to assume you are kidding. Were there any high tech outfits in West China at
all?
4.02 Phoenix Corporation
Dr. Delta: This meme construct is infectious but not virulent.
FS: Yes, I visited the Phoenix Corporation branch in West China. The Phoenix Corporation
would freeze you when you die so that some day you would be thawed out and live again. They
only freeze the head because freezing the whole body costs much more than the West Chinese
could afford. Everyone knew that there would be robot bodies and/or cloned bodies in the
future. Who needed to freeze the whole body?
DG: What if there were no robot bodies or worse, you got the robot body and had to pay the bill
for the body by being somebodys slave when you are awakened.
FS: You have quite an imagination doc. Sounds like a great idea for a novel. You could get your
whole body frozen but it would cost you four times as much. They were a United Americas based
corporation but had recently started a branch office in Shanghai. The Shanghai office in turn
had opened an office in Xian. They had had to cut corners a little because most Chinese
couldnt afford the ten thousand dlares that Americans and Shanghai residents pay to have
their whole body frozen. Heads were kept in large vats to keep costs down. At 1,000 dlares a
head you couldnt have the same quality standards you had in the UA.
DG: Yet another flaw in your story. The Chinese are into ancestor worship. This system would
make ancestor worship impossible. Therefore there would be no customers and no such
business.
FS: The Chinese like to visit the heads of the deceased on the days of ancestor worship. The
heads were rotated on a rotisserie so everyone got a view. I myself was a card-carrying member
of the Phoenix Club.
DG: I thought you had money problems.
FS: I only could afford to get my head frozen. If I got three more members then I got a whole
body upgrade for free. The Chinese were a hard sell. I never convinced a single person to join
the club.
DG: Given the poor living conditions, how was your health?
FS: I got sick once. I partied with three friends at the Indian Head Pub during Chinese New
Years. We had a big jug of Three Snake Wine from West China. Three huge snakes,
intertwined, could be seen clearly in the bottle, which accounts for the name.
DG: Why were their snakes in the wine?

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Dr. Gammas Notes: I never heard of snakes in wine and this is probably another fantasy
related to the patients latent homosexuality. The other persons that the patient is having
wine with are probably men that the patient has strong unrealized attraction towards.

FS: The snakes added flavor to the wine or so they say. Three Chinese ladies walked by the
window of the pub arm in arm. The cynic of our group said they were prostitutes. The mystic of
our group said they were the three fates.
DG: What did you think?
FS: I, the romantic of the group, said they were beautiful. We heard a strange tapping against
the window but no one was there. It must have been the wind. I ordered a meal. My chopsticks
broke. We started drinking at six in the evening and watched twilight turn to neon. We departed
at night going in different directions. We would never meet again. In the pocket of my jacket I
carried a broken chopstick, the only memento of that night. A few days later I was sick as a fox.
DG: Hung over?
FS: Maybe it was the Three Snake Wine. It seemed like a simple cold but totally did not respond
to over the counter medications. I was advised by expats that many Chinese colds only respond
to penicillin and it would just get worse and worse. I truly thought I was a few days away from a
major illness. Try to imagine an extremely bad cold, which just doesn't go away and you lose
sleep appetite and slowly but surely got weaker and weaker.
DG: So what did you do?
FS: I went to the hospital and they gave me enough penicillin to start my own droga store. I felt
much better within hours and totally better by the next day. I had since found out the hospitals
just give everybody a ton of penicillin for just about anything. Someday there were going to be
some seriously penicillin resistant diseases in that country.
DG: So you had to go to a hospital?
FS: Yes, the West Chinese found it amazing that I had never been to the hospital for a cold
before. The West Chinese themselves probably end up having to go to the hospital for a cold at
least once a year. Not all colds in West China were of this type and you could usually tell after
two or three days.
DG: How could you tell the difference?
FS: If your cold responds to over the counter medication like Godzilla being shot with a BB gun
then you've got a Chinese cold and needed to go to the hospital. Children's colds were handled
differently, parents were much more likely to take their children to the hospital immediately
since they reasoned that penicillin couldnt hurt and could only help. I took Fluffy with me for
company.
DG: Did Fluffy have fun?
FS: Fluffy, like all cats, could see x-rays. Cats didnt have color vision so a x-ray machine just
looked like just another light source but much brighter. Fluffy informed me that the hospital
absolutely glowed with x-rays unlike a boring Japanese hospital she had checked out for catnip.
Fluffy purred and told me, Look at all the pretty lights.
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FS: x-rays cause cancer? I couldnt really see x-rays very well with my tetrachromatic vision
although someone with pentachromatic vision could. Squares with pentachromatic vision had
been found to have a slightly different iris structure than other Squares.
DG: How would the Squares know this?
FS: The science of iridology had been developed to find pentachromatic Squares.
DG: How do you explain the existence of iridology in this Earth?
FS: I dont.
DG: I dont either.
FS: According to the Chinese friend that took me to the hospital, Chinese hospitals in Xian
follow a pretty standard pattern right down to the blue print of the hospital. My friend totally
knew his way around despite never having been to that particular hospital. The signs were all
bilingual i.e. in Chinese and English but nobody seemed to actually speak English. The nurses
soon noticed that I was not Chinese and suggested that I go to the VIP room. A very important
looking older nurse took a huge ring of keys out and led my friend and I into the sacrosanct
room.
DG: The VIP room?
FS: Yes, the VIP room was a very pretty sitting room that looked like an earnest attempt by some
Chinese interior designer to copy a sitting room he had seen in some 1950's Hollywood film. I
sat there for about an hour and became suspicious. It turns out the VIP room could only be used
by select doctors and the next doctor who had rounds coming up and permission to used the VIP
room was scheduled to show up at 7:00 PM. Unfortunately it was 10:00 am!
DG: Oops!
FS: Oops is right. The nurse saw nothing absurd about having us wait all day in the VIP room
in a hospital filled with doctors on duty that could see me immediately. She had been given clear
instructions to take VIP's, and this includes all Westerners in West China, to the VIP room and
she had done her duty. Hers was not to reason why.
DG: Sounds like a very stupid lady.
FS: Not stupid but socially conditioned to be blindly obedient. This was a very common trait in
West Chinese over 40, total blind obedience at the expense of anything resembling logic or
commonsense. This trait could drive you a little crazy in West China.
DG: I imagine, what about the younger Chinese?
FS: I am happy to say that the younger West Chinese could actually reason and realize that rules
serve a purpose and rules were not just there to be followed without any connection to that
purpose. Many of the older West Chinese did drive the younger West Chinese a little crazy.
DG: So what did you do?
FS: I asked to be treated like one of the masses and my request was granted. The waiting area
consisted of about twenty large rooms filled with doctors sitting behind a desk. You basically
peeked into each room until you saw one that wasnt in a state of total pandemonium and then
elbowed your way to a doctor at a desk. As far as the Chinese were concerned, a cripple gets in
your way then too bad for the cripple.
DG: Did you finally see a doctor?
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FS: I was lucky enough to get a respiratory specialist. I knew I was dealing with a respiratory
specialist because someone had written this on a piece of poster board with a large black
marker. I was feeling pretty lucky.
DG: Why did you feel that way?
FS: Chinese doctors must be pretty smart because he was able to make his diagnosis with almost
no questions and by listening to my lungs, which he noticed, were congested. The fact that I was
hacking all over the place probably also provided another vital clue that I had some sort of cold.
DG: I guess.
FS: He obviously felt no needed to take my temperature or find out my medical history. The less
intelligent doctors I was accustomed to back home ask you for all sorts of information and did a
lot of tests that waste time. No this was a doctor who could look at a patient and with unerring
judgment size up the situation and write up the prescription. The diagnosis and prescription
were all written in the same notebook that looked a lot like one of those school kid notebooks
except that it had a picture of a hospital on the cover that I didnt recall ever seeing on a school
kid notebook. No needed for triplicate and records for this guy. He had a photographic memory
and would surely remember my case the next time I saw me. I got my prescription written and he
went to the pharmacy to see what I had won. I got penicillin tablets and penicillin injections.
DG: Thats all?
FS: I also got a special decongestant tea that was excellent. It totally soothed my system, acted
as decongestant, and you didnt have medicine head. I hated medicine head almost as much as
the cold itself. He tossed in some bandages as well.
DG: Bandages?
FS: Yeah, I was scratching my head as to what bandages had to do with a cold. Maybe he
figured I was an American, and as crazy as we seemed to be in those Hollywood action films, it
probably wouldn't hurt for me to have some bandages around the house. He went to the
injection room and I was asked to pull my pants down and got the injection in the buttock.
DG: That must have been fun.
FS: A riot, there were about a dozen people in the injection room but hey I figured in West China
do as the Chinese do. I started to pull my pants down and the nurse got agitated. I had pulled
my pants too down and shown a little too much derriere for Chinese propriety. I pulled my pants
up partially and the procedure began.
DG: You did this in crowded room?
FS: What choice did I have? The other Chinese had obviously never seen an American get an
injection in the buttock before and made a circle around me and asked questions about who I
was, where I was from, etc. my Chinese friend acted as a translator and I didn't even notice the
shot. The penicillin started working dramatically within hours and I wanted to personally thank
Louis Pasteur, wherever he was.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Green tea is obviously a code word for some sort of other drug. The
patient may be hiding a stay at a mental institution in China or some other part of Asia
with his hospital story.

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DG: Did you do anything at night with Fluffy?
FS: Fluffy and I wandered around at night, in one of the better urban neighborhoods, around the
Xian University of Architecture. This was not the downtown which has all the four and five star
hotels for the tourists but where the Chinese actually live and shop. People everywhere were
running around shirtless or in rags. Many young men rolled up the bottom part of their T-shirt
but didnt expose their breasts. I thought they should just go all the way and take of that T-shirt!
Groups of people squatted in circles like so many apes with nothing but conversation for
entertainment. The blocks were extra wide and filled with eating establishments which consist of
plastic chairs and some type of stand with some soda, cerveza and a primitive charcoal oven in
which various meats and vegetables were barbecued. The streets were lined with trees, which
cools the streets down and was attractive. The lighting was a combination of flame, neon and
motorcycle headlights. There were very few street lamps in Xian.
DG: Did Fluffy like Xian?
FS: Fluffy loved Xian because it was filled with roaches, rats and mice unlike super clean Japan.
She would get high as a kite on catnip and go on big time vermin safaris. If she had a little dope
then she would get the munchies just like a human and Xian was a smorgasbord of garbage.
Fluffy told me that humans werent two smart since we didnt realize food tasted better after
rotting a day or two.
DG: Kind of cat caf culture?
FS: Exactly, this caf culture would be more attractive except that the smell of decay Chinese
food permeated the air since the garbage of these restaurants was swept into the street and left
to rot.
DG: Which made Fluffy happy.
FS: Yeah Fluffy was happy but not me. Decaying Chinese food smells extremely similar to shit.
There was a slight difference between the smells that my educated nose could now discern but
the difference was probably not obvious to the average Westerner just visiting Xian. Roving
gangs of children wandered about the streets in rags oblivious to their poverty and playing as
they wandered. There were gambling establishments everywhere which consisted of a run down
room in which you could play either mahjongg or computer poker.
DG: Was there any elegance to Xian despite its poverty?
FS: Let me tell you a story that captures the elegance of Xian. I saw a very well dressed, pretty
young hooker in a beautiful evening gown squatting in the dirt and eating a stick of barbecued
beef. High culture meets ape land in downtown Xian. For the record I had learned to squat
expertly.
DG: Good for you.
FS: Benches in West China could be quite filthy and you would get dirt all over the seat of you
pants or that evening gown that you had to sleep with ten guys to get. Squatting meant that only
the soles of your shoes were in contact with the ground.
DG: Lay down a handkerchief.
FS: You could carry around a handkerchief but pretty soon you had a handkerchief that was so
dirty you hesitate to put it in your pocket. Tissue was another solution. You put the tissue down
over the seat. The tissue could also be used in the toilets, which never ever had toilet paper.
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DG: Did you visit even one museum?
FS: I visited the Banpo Museum that features the history of this area and was built in the 50's.
Many people visited Xian and never saw this museum at all.
DG: What sort of museum was it?
FS: Kind of like two museums for the price of one. They had a temporary exhibit about sex and
health obviously designed to scare Chinese into behaving. There were entire corpses in giant
see through containers filled with formaldehyde just like the little frogs in biology class but in
bigger jars. The skin had been carefully removed so that you could clearly see the muscles.
Other corpses had been partially dissected so that you could see particular organs.
DG: How disgusting.
FS: Yeah, a French guy that wandered in promptly wandered out and puked his guts out. What a
sissy! The exhibit of babies with genetic abnormalities had actual dead babies in jars with
accompanying text above. The actual stuff on sexual disease was pretty tame. This just
consisted of really gory pictures of penises and what not in various states of sexual disease. The
Banpo museum also had a matriarchal village exhibit that consists of a pseudo primitive village,
which seems to borrow stylistic elements from any number of cultures.
DG: In general, West China unlike the rest of your Earth was pretty backwards technologically.
FS: Not in one particular area, while I was in Xian, I saw a store that had a pyramid of paint
balls in the window. I was surprised since I thought paintball was illegal in West China. I found
out later that the paintball gun was illegal but not the paintballs themselves. Paintball was
basically cops and robbers but you used paint balls instead of yelling, bang, bang youre dead.
A paintball was a plastic ball filled with a non-toxic, easy to wash, red dye, which bursts all over
you when propelled by a type of air gun. The clerk was a Muslim.
DG: Muslims in China?
FS: There was a large Muslim minority in Xian.
DG: Did the government watch them as they do on our Earth?
FS: Yes, West China was big country and the communist government was always on the look out
for new ways to monitor the population. The Chinese imported a special category of microbots
from East China. The microbot resembled a red ant. The red ants were equipped with a very
powerful ultrasonic monitoring system.
DG: Why ultrasound?
FS: The ultrasound could penetrate walls and monitor conversations inside a house from
outside. Planes went over West China and literally seeded whole areas with these devices. The
party had fully automated listening posts all over West China. The listening post had computers
that ignored all transmissions except transmission involving certain key words.
DG: What key words?
FS: If the word freedom, democracy or Falung Gong was said then the computer counted this
transmission. The Chinese had special maps created once a week that showed the frequency of
these words being spoken around the country. The biggest problem was to create computer
systems that could handle all the information that the ants gathered.
DG: Sounds like the BIS Memetic Map.
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FS: This was West Chinas version of the BIS Memetic Map. The ultrasound monitoring was
bad for your health but that was a small price for control. West China was a tough place to live
in. Ultrasonic showers were really hard on your skin. Ultrasonic toilets were tough on your
asshole. Ultrasonic monitoring gave you headaches.
DG: Well at least Fluffy was happy.
FS: Fluffy, as I mentioned, loved the vermin but we had some problems.
DG: Such as.
FS: Fluffy met a male e- cat named Kenney in West China and they started spending more and
more time together. Finally, she told me that she was going to go back to East China with
Kenney.
DG: Who was Kenney?
FS: Kenney had belonged to a family from Shanghai that had dumped him in Xian to get rid of
him. There was a catnip shortage in Xian and both cats loved catnip and agreed that East China
was probably a better place for a fix. I wished Fluffy the best and we parted ways.
DG: Sounds sad.
FS: I was sad. In my grief, I did something stupid.
DG: What was that?
FS: I had run into a vial of red death in my bathroom kit. I had probably stashed it away in my
toiletry bag and forgotten all about it. I had never tried red death and feeling depressed I took
some.
DG: Were you trying to commit suicide due to Fluffy leaving you.
FS: No, not really I was trying to cheer myself up with a new high.
DG: Did it cheer you up?
FS: Not exactly, I lay down on the bed and took the red death.
DG: And then what happened?
FS: I was transported to the dimension of the Omegas.
4.03 Crab Dream
Dr. Delta: This meme construct is extremely infectious and virulent.
DG: We will explore this so-called Omega dimension in our next session. Did you have
another dream about your moms funeral?
FS: No I havent had that dream again. Instead, I dreamt that I was sleeping on a beach and a
crab crawled into my ear and into my brain. I was paralyzed.
DG: If I say crabs what comes to mind?
FS: Juanita
DG: Juanita?
FS: Well she worked at the Pantera Loca Club and gave me crabs but of course this is before I
met Zorra.
DG: Never mind, what else happened in your dream.
FS: Children starting putting sand all over my body and then built a sandcastle over me. The
sand hardened into concrete. I became a man of rock. My eyes, nose and mouth were covered
with concrete but not my ears. Waves flowed in and out of my ears and I could feel the crab
moving about inside my head and moving with the tide.
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DG: And then what happened.
FS: My pap began to take the sand of my body and I was free He was wearing a blue coat. He
was stroking a Grey beard and had a wise expression on his face. He put his hand next to my
ear and the crab crawled out of my ear and up his arm and finally crawled into his ear.
DG: Then what happened?
FS: I woke up
DG: When I say crab what comes to mind?
FS: Virus
DG: Virus
FS: computer
DG: Father
FS: Boss
DG: Perhaps your father is trying to tell you something and the crab represents this message.
What do you think your father is trying to tell you?
FS: I think someone is trying to tell me something but not my dad. I do think there is something
like a crab inside of me and it is supposed to get out one way or another.
DG: I think with time we will figure out what this thing is that is supposed to get out.
Whatever it is, you want to communicate it with the world.
FS: Well I want it out of my head.
DG: I think this desire is very healthy.
FS: Thanks.
DG: I see our time is up.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The crab represents the key to the patients delusions. The patient
thinks of the crab as a computer virus and given his obsession with technology this is not
surprising but I doubt the crab is anything like this but more probably a key childhood
trauma such as sexual abuse perhaps perpetrated by the father.

The red death experience may be an unconscious reference to the patients drug overdose
that led to his comma. The Omega dimension probably refers to hallucinations the patient
had while he was in the comma. The patients story is reminiscent of Gullivers Travels.
According to the patient he has been to three far off lands with strange people with strange
ways. Swift was satirizing his current reality when he wrote Gullivers Travels. Could the
patient be doing something similar at an unconscious level? His Japan seems to be a
critique of how technology affects relationships at the micro level, particularly male/female
relationships. The patients East China seems to a critique of primitive mind control
technology. East China is also an example of a society that has changed in order to
accommodate technology and therefore be more competitive at the international level.
West China seems to be a critique of using technology in a reactionary manner. The
traditional bias for male children was not changed by modernization but instead modern
ultrasound was used to actualize this bias.

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The traditional authoritarian government was not destroyed by modernization. Instead
technology was used to make the government even more authoritarian. The example of
West China shows that technology does not necessarily lead to a modern society but instead
technology can be used to prop up reactionary regimes with disastrous results.

Why is the patient so obsessed with technology?

Dr. Delta: I had a long conversation with Dr. Gamma around this time about his personal
hygiene, lack of professional attitude and expressed a general concern about his well being.

MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

The McMickey meme is extremely dangerous. Fast food is a central aspect of the American
dream and any meme that attacks fast food attacks the American dream. Close your eyes and
imagine a hamburger. Imagine the smell. Imagine the delicious meat slowly dissolving in your
mouth. Imagine your favorite fast food place and imagine that a giant bar of soap is cleaning the
restaurant. Actually going to a fast food restaurant and having some fast food right after reading
the McMickey meme is highly recommended.

Ungaro: I lived in Suzhou China for a year. I taught English as foreign language at Suzhou
Railway Teacher College. East China isnt at all like what I experienced in China but the West
China fantasy does bear some resemblance to what I remember about Suzhou. I would say
Gammas West China kind of describes China now while East China describes China in the
future. I suppose China could go in either direction and end up being like West China or East
China. I think there is zero chance of East and West China actually splitting up into two
countries.

Gamma assures me he had never visited Asia until he showed up at my doorstep. I really have to
wonder were he gets some of these Asian centered stories. Right about the time I read this
session, Gamma was going through about six giant 1000-ml cans of Sapporo beer a day. I
wasnt sure how to handle this guy at all.
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5.00 THE OMEGAS
Dr. Delta: This meme construct is extremely infectious but is not virulent.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient seems preoccupied and worried. Still I feel the patient and I
have developed some trust and there is a possibility of a breakthrough in this session.

DG: You mentioned the Omegas at the end of our last session?
FS: As a Half Square I had the ability to telepathically communicate with the Omegas. Taking
red death unleashed this potential. The Omegas acted as an intermediary between lower beings
and God. They had transported me to the Omega dimension or sixth dimension.
DG: Why plural?
FS: The Omegas always traveled in packs of seven.
DG: What was the Omega dimension like?
FS: You know how you always feel that your consciousness is looking out from some central
point behind your eyes.
DG: Sure.
FS: In the Omega dimension that whole feeling was reversed and you were outside your
consciousness looking in.
DG: Weird.
FS: Yeah, totally weird, the Omegas explained that happened in the Omega dimension since the
Omega dimension encompassed space and time and consciousness and when you were in the
Omega dimension your own consciousness was encompassed.
DG: But how did it feel?
FS: Totally disorientating, if the Omegas hadnt guided me around I would have been totally
lost. To say up was down or down was up is an understatement.
DG: Sounds unpleasant.
FS: You got used to it after a while and the nice thing about the Omega dimension is that you
could travel anywhere in the universe instantly by entering the consciousness of any being in the
universe. You didnt physically move around the sixth dimension but you could move from
consciousness to consciousness in the five dimensions that the sixth dimension encompassed.
DG: And I suppose these incredible Omegas told you all the secrets of the universe?
FS: Sure, the Omegas explained that there are three realms of existence. Each realm is
dominated by one set of law. The highest plane of existence is that of post baselines.
DG: Huh? What is a post baseline?
FS: A post baseline has replaced Darwinian evolution with technologically based evolution and
uses technology to evolve.
DG: So what is so special about their home?
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FS: Its a realm not a home. This realm is dominated by synchronicity. Luck is very important
in this realm. The relationship between the micro and macro levels is much stronger in this
realm. Your relationship with the larger universe affects your daily reality. What you are is
what you get to a much greater extent. Science as we know can work in this realm but the post
baselines with their Omega brains use an existential science which is closer to what we call
magic.
DG: Are talking about magic?
FS: No exactly, existential technology has its root meta-awareness.
DG: So what is meta-awareness?
FS: Awareness of awareness.

Dr. Gammas Notes: This is where the patients narrative takes a sudden turn from
scenarios that were vaguely plausible to scenarios that unmask the messianic nature of his
delusions.

DG: Sounds like the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. Go on.
FS: The middle plane of existence encompasses the realms of baselines and animals. This realm
is dominated by causality.
DG: Causality as in A causes B?
5.01 Hell
Dr. Delta: This memes infectiousness and virulence is related to recipients religiosity.
DG: And the last plane?
FS: This is the last plane of existence and encompasses the realms of astral maggots and astral
crap. In this realm existential principles dominated. Ego creates reality. Your relationship with
yourself effects reality in all three planes but in this plane your relationship with self is your
reality.
DG: Sounds like Buddhism.
FS: The Buddhists just happen to be right. Each plane of existence helps teach a particular
lesson of reality.
DG: Like a life lesson.
FS: Like life and physics together. In the plane of the post baselines one can more easily learn
about the relationship between self and the universe. In the animal/baseline realm one can more
easily learn about the objective universe. In the realm of astral maggots and astral crap one
learns about self to self-relationships, the hard way.
DG: Hell is for learning?
FS: Depends which hell you go to.
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5.02 Astral Maggots/Astral Crap
Dr. Delta: The meme has low virulence (1.2). The meme is slightly infectious (2.4). Hosts with
particular phobias are at greater risk of infection and higher levels of virulence. If the reader fits
into this category then skipping this section is recommended.
FS: The Omegas decided to start at the bottom and took me to the plane of existence were the
astral maggots and astral crap lived. We all got into some astral maggot bodies in order to visit
hell.
DG: What was that like?
FS: Pretty weird. You kind of slide around. You didnt have eyes so you couldnt see but your
whole body sensed stuff in the infrared spectrum. Most of all I had an overwhelming desire to
eat the astral crap all over the floors of hell. God sends baselines to hell based on Gods plan.
DG: I thought bad people went to hell.
FS: Not at all, hell is an extension of Gods plan.
DG: So what is Gods plan?
FS: The Omegas explained Gods plan to me. The plan could best be described to lower beings
by using the God Formula that is = U + E
2
. In this formula stands for God, U stands
for the living universe and E stands for evolution.
DG: Why is evolution squared?
FS: Evolution affects evolution. Evolution itself evolves. This is metaevolution.
DG: You really love to invent words with meta- at the beginning but go on.
FS: The universe evolves into God and then God creates the universe the next time around. This
plan must go forward or there was no living universe and there was no God. God would do
anything to make sure this plan goes forward and God could do a lot. There were three types of
evolution so there were three types of hell.
DG: Three types of hell?
FS: The first type of hell worked at the casual level and dealt with how you affected the evolution
of the larger society. This hell consisted of six kinds of cages of knives.
DG: And who went to this causal hell?
FS: Baselines who had interfered with the social order to such an extent that they had disrupted
the evolution of their planet. A little war was okay but too much war disrupted the flow of
information. God wanted the Grey ages not the Dark Ages.
DG: And the second type of hell?
FS: The second type of hell worked at the synergic level and involved special qualities that were
ultimately gifts from God. God had given special gifts to certain baselines in order to jump start
baseline evolution. You broke the contract then you paid the price.
DG: I never heard of this contract so how could anyone be held responsible for not holding up
his or her part of the contract?
FS: The fact that you werent aware of the contract did not relieve you of responsibility. God
figured even stupid baselines could figure out that if they were exceptional in some way and that
this was a gift from God and therefore they should do something special with their gifts. This
hell involved six types of pits with animals.
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DG: The third type of hell?
FS: The third type of hell worked at the existential level. The third type hell was created by the
basic emotions that surround our ego. This hell involved six environments. This hell was the
only hell really designed for reform. This hell was meant to straighten out promising baselines.
Some baselines screw up their God given missions to aid evolution due to some neurosis or
another. Existential hell was basically Gods version of shock therapy. Each type had six
subtypes for a total of eighteen particular hells.
DG: Why six?

Dr. Gammas Notes: Six is a multiple of three and a variation on the patients triadic
obsession.

FS: God just likes the number six. The casual hell was based on the six relationships a man had
with the larger society. Humans were connected to other humans via six means including
money, temporal authority, spiritual authority, militar authority, family and friends
DG: Explain.
FS: For example, money fundamentally connected you to other human beings. If you used your
money to hinder baseline evolution then you were in this hell. The cage was lined with knives of
gold on all sides. No matter were you stood or sat, knives stabbed you.
DG: How can you make sure you dont end up in this hell?
FS: A little worried doc? Some of the money should have been reinvested into the larger society
so the baseline civilization could evolve. God was a realist and knew baselines were
fundamentally selfish so he had come up with a simple rule of thumb.
DG: What was that?
FS: If you gave ten percent to the larger society then you were off the hook.
DG: Why ten percent?
FS: God knew baselines were pretty bad at math and figured ten percent was pretty easy to
calculate.
DG: Are you describing tithing?
FS: Somehow the baselines on our planet got the ten percent rule all screwed up and came up
with a tithe to the church but actually you could give ten percent to any organization that aided
baseline evolution.
DG: You mentioned temporal authority.
FS: The second cage was the cage of silver knives and in these cages were all the men and
women that abused temporal authority. The cage of iron was reserved for those who abused
their authority such as politicians, teachers and policemen.
DG: I can think of a teacher or two that I had that belongs in this hell.
FS: A lot of schoolteachers that had tortured their students for their own ego were in this cage.
Persons in this hell had been given authority over others but you had not helped people but used
this authority for their own selfish ends.
DG: What about doctors?
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FS: Doctors that had seduced their patients were also in this cage. Be careful doc. Authority
was a gift from God that should not be misused. A little misuse of authority was okay but overall
you were supposed to be leading your fellow baselines to a higher level of evolution.
DG: Now this part sounds more like Dante.
FS: Maybe Dante got the Omega tour himself. The third cage was were those who abused their
militar authority and they were in the cage of iron knives. In these cages were all the generals
and soldiers who had killed or caused people to be killed unnecessarily.
DG: Why not all generals period.
FS: Necessary death was okay. God didnt mind generals. He just didnt like butchers. I saw
Cambodias Pol Pot sitting in a cage of iron knives.
DG: What was the worst sin?
FS: Abuse of spiritual authority. You got a cage of diamond knives.
DG: What qualified as abuse?
FS: This hell was reserved for spiritual leaders that caused their followers to devolve. The
diamonds cut much more deeply than the knives of metal. In here were all the priests, monks,
nuns and gurus that had used their spiritual authority to ataque science.
DG: Not Satanists? Only people who attacked science went to hell?
FS: Science was the key to baseline evolution. God could care less about Satanists as long as
they didnt reject science.
DG: You are describing a very different God than the one I have heard about. Who else was in
hell?
FS: The Spanish Inquisition that had persecuted Galileo was sitting in one big cage together.
The ayatollahs of Iran that had overthrown the Shah were there.
DG: The ayatollahs were there for having killed thousands?
FS: Not for killing thousands but for having caused Iran to go backwards technologically.
Almost all the new age gurus were in diamond cages. Befuddled Christian Scientists occupied
most of the diamond cages.
DG: This is not the God of my Sunday school.
FS: Thats for sure. Those who abused their relationship with the family were in a cage of ruby
knives. In most families the abusive relationship goes both ways so you saw a row of cages with
the whole family next to each other. The families were still arguing and trying to pin the blame
on the other member.
DG: And the last cage?
FS: Finally those who abused their friends and most of all interfered with their education were
in a cage of emerald knives. I was a little worried since I wasnt the most loyal friend. The
Omegas said that you had to really abuse a friendship over the years to end up here. This meant
you had to have a deep friendship in the first place and the Omegas told me I was safe on this
score.
DG: The worst commit all types of offenses so how is it decided which cage takes precedence?
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FS: If you had misused more than one type of relationship then your cage would be lined with
more than one type of knife. A general that had also been a bad parent would be in a cage with
knives of iron and rubies. You might be able to barely adjust to one type of knife but being cut in
different ways by different materials was much worse. A really unlucky person that had abused
all six relationships had knives of all six materials in their cage.
DG: So all sins relate to relationships?
FS: No, the Omegas explained that the six cages werent the worst hells. The misuse of
relationships was considered far less a crime than the misuse of personal qualities. God gave
each human certain gifts and to misuse a gift of God merited the worst punishment of them all.
The six personal qualities were intelligence, strength, courage, charm sexiness, and beauty.
DG: For example.
FS: If you had been clever and used your intelligence to hinder human evolution then you were
trapped in a pit with foxes that tore out your tongue. In this pit were all the scientists that had
used their intelligence to make junk food.
DG: Why would junk food scientists be in hell?
FS: Junk food had made more humans into worthless couch potatoes that didnt evolve than
almost any other technology. All the designers of mindless video games were also in this hell.
DG: Are all video games mindless.
FS: No, God actually liked video games that made you think such as strategy games but he had
no mercy for the designers of shoot-em-up games. Most advertising execs were also in these
pits.
DG: Why?
FS: Omegas calculated that the steady stream of advertisements had lowered the average IQ of
the human race by 15 points. Diemer, the inventor of bubble gum, was in this hell.
DG: Bubble gum is harmless.
FS: The Omegas calculated your IQ automatically dropped ten points when you chewed gum.
Thats why people look so stupid when chewing gum, they literally become more stupid. Ray A.
Alligator, the founder of McMickeys was in this hell.
DG: Why? How does making hamburgers rate you hell?
FS: A steady diet of fast food made humans obese and stupid. Intelligence was a gift that should
be used to help mankind evolve and not hinder evolution. I asked the Omegas, How did so many
so-called smart men and women end up in these pits?
DG: And what did they say?
FS: The Omegas told me not to worry about it since it was quite impossible for me to end up in
this particular pit.
DG: And strength?
FS: If you had abused your strength then bears ripped of your arms and legs. These pits were
filled with bullies. Gangsters of all times filled these pits. Ted Bundy was doing his best to fight
the bears but with little success.
DG: Aha, God cared about the girls!
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FS: Not at all, one of the girls he had killed would have been a major scientist and pushed the
envelope of neural interfaces with computers. God was pretty upset about how her death
affected human evolution.
DG: He was a psychopath and I hardly think you could call him strong.
FS: Were not talking spiritual strength but just plain old brawn and the misuse of this brawn.
He strangled women with his bare hands and this harder to do than most people realize. This is
where the schoolhouse bullies that beat up science nerds invariably ended up which should make
a lot of readers happy.
DG: I am sure the nerds will be glad to hear this. What about courage?
FS: If you had misused your courage then tigers tore away at your throat. Brave bullies and
brave gangsters were in this pit and if fact many of the gangsters and bullies had been both
brave and strong and were torn apart by bears and tigers. Al Capone, the Chicago gangster,
was putting up one hell of fight with the bears and tigers in his pit but they tossed him around
like doll.
DG: Because he killed so many people.
FS: Hell no! Pun intended. Chicago could have been a high tech center on par with Silicone
Valley but Al Capone had made Chicago into a brutish city.
DG: Whats left?
FS: Charm, sexiness and beauty. If you had misused your charm, then a thousand snakes bit
your eyes. The pit was filled with all those people who had magnetic personalities and again
had used this gift for devolution. The pit of snakes was filled with punk rock stars that were not
particularly good looking or sexy but did have animal magnetism. Punk rock lyrics of course
cause brain damage.
DG: I agree totally. Any other famous people in the pit of snakes?
FS: Castro was also in this pit. Latin charm had gotten him into power and into this particular
pit.
DG: But not for killing and torturing people.
FS: You are getting the hang of it. Castro had kept a country next to the US from evolving one
inch technologically. Castro had formed some bumps that I think were supposed to be a beard.
DG: Castro is alive!
FS: On this Earth the maybe the US would tolerate a piss ant like Castro, but no way the UA was
going to.
DG: Let me guess. An exploding cigar was used.
FS: Naw, the tarantula minibot.
DG: The robot tarantula sought out the victim using body heat. Why didnt it just kill his
girlfriend instead and alert Castro to the plot?
FS: A more sophisticated version of the robotic minibot could be programmed to seek out the
source of particular macromolecules i.e. it sniffed you out. The best part was that in this case
actual tarantula venom was used so it looked it didnt look like an assassination. But you didnt
want to overdo it. People might start to wonder why tarantulas had killed all the enemies of the
US.
DG: You mentioned sexiness. What does sexiness have to do with evolution?
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FS: If you had kept someone in bed all the time that would have made a great discovery or
helped baselines evolve in some other way then you went to this hell.
DG: So casual sex isnt a sin.
FS: Well I hope not. If you were a man then scorpions bit your penis. If you had been a woman
then the scorpions entered your womb and bit you there and in fact breed there as well.
DG: The punishment for women seemed worse than the punishment for men and this is sexist.
FS: If you want to argue with God then be my guest.
DG: Ill pass.
FS: If you had misused your beauty then eagles tore at your face. This pit was filled with beauty
queens, models and actresses. Baselines were wasting their time watching these women instead
of making discoveries and evolving. Marilyn Monroe was in this pit.
DG: Because suicide is a sin.
FS: No, Marilyn Monroe was in hell for having distracted Arthur Miller with her neurotic sex
games instead of helping him as a writer. I had been a fan of a lot of the movie stars in this pit
and would have loved to get their autograph but the eagles were a distraction.
DG: Any men in the pit?
FS: Far less men were in this pit than women were.
DG: Why?
FS: The Omegas explained it was harder for a man to misuse his good looks than for a woman to
misuse her beauty. There really werent that many successful gigolos in the world.
DG: So there were more women than men in hell.
FS: No, men far outnumbered women in hell overall, as in most prison systems for reasons that
were not entirely understood. The Omegas thought it was all testosterone, male hormone,
pumping through a guys body that made them a little crazy.
DG: How long do you stay in hell?
FS: A lot of relationship stuff was very iffy. God has a more strict accounting system for
homicide. The standard sentence was one year per death.
DG: And what if you had broken both an animal pit and cage type rule?
FS: If you had misused both a relationship and a personal quality then you werent in a pit but a
cage of knives. For example, Nixon, the American president, was a leader that had used his
intelligence to fool his followers so he was in a cage of gold knives filled with foxes that tore out
his eyes. I waved hi to Nixon as we flew by his cage and he waved back, well wiggled his
slimy little body was more like it, and said, Stay out of trouble. He made a victory sign with
both his arms, well more like little stumps sticking out of his astral maggot body.
DG: So Nixon is in hell?
FS: Well maybe not your Nixon. The Nixon on my Earth had been a little more ruthless than the
Nixon on your Earth and had Woodward and Bernstein secretly assassinated before revealing
Watergate.
DG: So he got away?
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FS: The assassination team turned out to be even bigger bunglers than the Watergate burglars.
Nixon did get caught and sentenced for these assassinations and was the first and only President
to receive the death sentence. Two deaths meant that Nixon was sentenced to two years in hell
and his time was almost up. He wasnt sentenced so much for the deaths but for the fact that the
US government had been paralyzed during his regime due to his shenanigans and this had
interfered with the evolution of the US. The Omegas told me that Nixon had really learned his
lesson out and was due to be released early and be reborn as some sort of insect any day now.
DG: Two deaths! What about the countless thousands killed in the secret war in Cambodia and
Laos? Nixon and Kissenger were totally behind that horrible war.
FS: They got the standard evolutionary escape clause for the secreto war.
DG: Huh?
FS: Sure if your actions led to more evolution in the long run despite temporary chaos then you
were absolved from all negative consequences of your actions. The secreto war did end the
Vietnam War more quickly and this historical turn of events led to Vietnam evolving into a
technologically superior state that much sooner.
DG: So God isnt against war but only wars that interfere with evolution?
FS: Right, a little war now and then was good for evolution but the Vietnam War was too much.
The Vietnamese were spending too much time just trying to survive and not building bigger and
better weapons.
DG: How do you know that if the secret war had the effect you say it did?
FS: Mere mortals dont know, they can calculate but their calculations are generally way off.
Only God knows but God is officially a million times smarter than baselines. This is the problem
with the evolutionary escape clause, you never know if you got your calculations just right.
DG: For example?
FS: Truman had dropped the bomb on Hiroshima in order to end the war with Japan more
quickly and therefore save lives. God could care less about the lives saved but wanted Japan to
get down to the business of building electronic appliances as soon as possible. What Truman
didnt realize is that he was right on the border arithmetically.
DG: How close to the border?
FS: If he had dropped the bomb even a week later, events would have changed in such a way that
the chaos caused by the bomb would have exceeded the evolutionary gains of the bomb and poor
little Truman would have been in hell for about a million years. God double-checked his
calculations on that one. Truman didnt do one minute in hell over Hiroshima.
DG: I dont believe in God but if I did I would not believe in such an amoral God. What about
the whole argument that Einstein should be blamed for Hiroshima since Einstein created the
concepts that allowed the A-bomb to be created in the first place? Einstein even signed a letter
with other scientists urging President Roosevelt to create the A-bomb.
FS: Thats covered by the intellectual escape clause.
DG: The intellectual escape clause?
FS: Technology is a key part of this evolution so therefore any baseline that aids other baselines
in their technological evolution gets a free pass and doesnt go to hell for any deaths created by
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DG: What about Gods infinite love and mercy and all that other stuff?
FS: God could care less about our stupid little problems and just cares about us to the extent
that we can evolve into beings that can help him with his plan. We are irrelevant to God. What
we might become is relevant to God.
DG: I guess you have thought of all the angles. Any hells left?
FS: The last six hells were for misuse of your emotions. This hell was more therapeutic than for
punishment and was mostly used by middle aged God rather than Old Man God.
DG: So who went there?
FS: This was for the really hard-core neurotics with promise that kept being reborn and
engaging in the same stupid neurotic behavior. Most malfunctioning baselines were just allowed
to become astral noise so in a way this was a favor from God.
DG: Some favor. What were the emotions?
FS: The six emotions were anger, pride, love, jealousy, sloth and fear. This was the best set of
hells to be in if such a thing can be. The person could learn to change this hell over time.
DG: How so?
FS: Emotions are at the core of what you are and are the environment your ego swims in. In this
hell, your emotions were externalized since the ego created reality. People in this hell were all
short timers, a year or less. Most people in this hell got a pretty standard thirty days.
DG: Very psychological.
FS: Absolutely, if you had let anger dominate your life and let this anger interfere with your
duties as an evolutionary change agente then you were in a desert without water.
DG: And the other emotions?
FS: If you had let pride interfere with your mission then you were in a blizzard of freezing cold.
DG: Go on.
FS: If love interfered with your mission then you were in an ocean, always on the border of
drowning.
DG: And jealousy?
FS: If you had allowed jealousy to dominate your life then you were in a pit of quicksand
constantly sinking.
DG: Any emotions left?
FS: The most powerful emotion was fear. In the hell of fear you were in nothingness. There was
no up or down. You were alternately floating and walking and could see and feel nothing. This
was by far the worst environment of them all. Most evolutionary change agents among baselines
screw up due to fear so there were more persons in this hell than any other one. The good news
was that if you were cured then you were reborn and not turned into astral crap.
DG: What happened to the astral maggots after they got turned into astral crap?
FS: Astral crap over time slowly degraded into unconscious astral noise. Hell was shaped like a
giant toilet with a funnel at the center that collected the decayed astral energy. The astral
energy was recycled to make new souls. Nothing was wasted in the universe. Just remember our
bodies are made of stardust but our souls are made out of recycled astral crap.
DG: Lovely sentiment worthy of a Hallmark greeting card but I always thought hell was a
private affair?
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FS: Each hell could combine with every other hell in order to personalize the experience. The
Omegas brought me to the private hell of Stalin. Stalin had been the leader of Russia and had
used his power to kill millions.
DG: So what kind of hell was he sent to?
FS: Since he was an absolute leader and combined temporal, militar and spiritual authority, he
suffered in a cage filled with knives of silver, iron and diamond. He had also misused his
charisma, a type of charm so snakes were in the cages biting away at his eyes. He had also
allowed himself to be filled with pride and a blizzard blew through the bars of the cage. Stalin
didnt look very happy.
DG: How could you tell the astral maggot was Stalin since Stalin would look like a maggot?
FS: The face was still human more or less when you first got to hell. Stalin tried pulling snakes
off his eyes and throwing the snakes out of the cage but more appeared instantly. He would try
to sit or stand in a certain place but the knives were just everywhere. You basically got more
knives per square inch when you did more crimes. Stalin was literally blue from the cold, had
black marks from the snakebites all over his eyes, and was covered with blood from the knives. I
tried talking with Stalin.
DG: What did he say?
FS: Stalin yelled at me, Cant you see I am busy here! , as he threw out some more snakes.
Stalin saw the Omegas and instantly changed his tune. In an almost singsong voice Stalin said,
Omegas old buddies, could you get me out of here? I have learned my lesson! Please, please,
please get me out of here. Stalin tried to produce a winning smile but most of his face, cut up
by knives and blown to bits by the cold wind, was gone and the smile really didnt work.
DG: How long was Stalin going to be in hell?
FS: The Omegas told Stalin that God had decided that he was only responsible for six million
deaths as opposed to the full twenty that occurred due to his purges. Some of his purges had
actually done some good and led to better living conditions in the long run that saved lives.
Stalin had arrived fifty years ago so Stalin only had 5,999,999,950 years to go. The good news
for Stalin was that hell tended to break down astral matter so in all likelihood Stalin would be
astral crap long before the end of his sentence and the Omegas told Stalin this.
DG: How did Stalin react?
FS: I think that the Omegas were in fact trying to comfort Stalin. As androids went, the Omegas
were a kind-hearted sort but an android is still an android. The Omegas just didnt have the
human touch. Pieces of Stalins patchwork face were just flying all over the place as he
screamed more and more. The face pieces were replaced by new flesh since hell couldnt stay in
business without body regeneration but the damage caused by Stalins yelling was outpacing the
replacement of flesh. Somehow not having most of his face didnt seem to lower the volume level
at all and the screams just got worse.
DG: What about Hitler? Surely he was in hell.
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FS: Hitler had killed six million Jews alone and received two million years of suffering. Two
million years of suffering was really a karmic bargain but Hitler had organized his plea for
mercy pretty well. Hitler had taken full advantage of the indirect death loophole. After all,
Hitler hadnt killed anyone directly. Still God was no fool and Hitler wasnt going to get away
totally. Hitler had also pointed out that he had been born with one ball instead of two like a
normal guy and this had affected the kind of person he became. What could God say to an
argument like that?
DG: Not much I guess.
FS: Two million years was better than six million years but even a hard case like Hitler broke
down and cried when he heard the sentence. Stalin was still screaming. The Omegas and I
exchanged a quick look and we decided it was time to get the hell out of hell. The next place we
went to was the realm of the Omega brains.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Hitler is a fellow Half Square and therefore a symbol of a dark side
of the patient himself. This side is punished, but receives leniency due to only having one
testicle. The patient therefore feels his own feelings of sexual inadequacy lead to absolution
for some his darker impulses. On the other hand, Hitler may represent his father because
Hitler is a prior Half Square and this punishment demonstrates the patients desire to see
his father punished. In a way, the Half Square is a triadic symbol. The Half Square is a
symbol of positive space while the missing half is a symbol of negative space.
Positive and negative space unites to create a Square. The Square in turn is a symbol of
order and rationality that the patient feels is missing in his life.

5.03 Spiral of Being
Doctor Delta: The virulence of this meme is zero. The meme is slightly infectious (1.3). This
meme may cause mutation of ontological memes in the infected host.
DG: Omega brain?
FS: The Omegas gave me a tour of a typical Omega brain civilization. I entered the body of
species that lived in a Jupiter type planet. I sensed giant tentacles and looked out at the orange
gaseous planet except that I didnt look but felt my environment. My body was one giant brain
and I could sense everything around me via all kinds of input devices. I could also sense
everything going on in the planet via a network. I wasnt seeing the network.
DG: So how did you perceive the network?
FS: I was the network. If I wasnt careful I totally lost it and just started to get high on the
information flow. Staying focused was the single biggest problem. The Omegas in their new
bodies looked like giant man of wars floating in the methane. The methane gave them an orange
tint.
DG: What did the Omegas tell you?
FS: The Omegas explained that the first Omega brain generally combines biological and
computer intelligence. Once a civilization creates its first Omega brain then its evolution
accelerates exponentially. Moores Law states that the amount of data stored on a circuit would
double every 18 months for a decade.
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DG: I have heard of Moores Law but what does this have to do with Omega brains?
FS: There was something similar to Moore's Law that applies to Omega brains. The Omega
brains were generally driven to create yet another brain superior to it. Once the first Omega
brain was created then intelligence starts to double every 18 months for a decade. This also
means that human intelligence would be 32 times higher within a decade. This process of the
exponential growth of intelligence is known as the Omega Law and governs all baseline
civilizations. The process may or may not start but once started a similar pattern emerges.
DG: Sounds like a very biological explanation of theological problem.
FS: Theology is ultimately biology. Conception precedes existence.
DG: Conception precedes existence as opposed to Sartres existence precedes essence. I get it.
FS: Our brain determines what we are. Our brain determines the fact that we had consciousness
at all. The line between phenomena, what was known, and numena, the unknown, is determined
by biology.
DG: I dont understand.
FS: For example, a dog couldnt understand free will or nuclear physics. A species can use
technology to push the limits of phenomena but reaches an ultimate limit unless it uses the
technology on itself at a certain point in its evolution. To some extent we couldnt understand
higher spiritual concepts because of the limitations of our current brains.
DG: So we need to build better brains?
FS: Yes, generally the first generation Omega brain relies heavily on advances in computer
science. The first generation brain usually has the ability to easily create a second-generation
brain redesigned at the molecular level. The line between chip and neuron is blurred beyond
recognition with the second-generation brain. The second-generation brain then creates a third
generation brain redesigned at the atomic level.
DG: So I suppose there are even other generations of Omega brains?
FS: Sure, the third generation, atomic brain then designs a fourth generation brain from the
subatomic level up. This fourth generation subatomic brain can see connections between the
inner self, psychology, and the outer self, physics that were impossible to see prior to the
creation of this brain. The subatomic brain creates a fifth generation brain that is redesigned at
the hyperspace level. The fifth generation brain is hyperdimensional by design rather than
accident.
DG: And is this the last generation?
FS: No the last generation is the sixth dimensional brain. The sixth dimensional brain is
impossible for baselines to understand. Very few post baseline civilizations are capable of
creating a sixth generation brain.
DG: Why?
FS: A sixth generation brain requires manipulating the sixth dimension. In theory any post
baseline using a sixth dimensional brain automatically becomes enlightened and becomes one
with God. Understanding what enlightenment is beyond the understanding of most post
baselines and totally beyond the understanding of baselines.
DG: So how do some baselines like Buddha and Einstein, according to your own prior
statements, perceive hyperdimensional stuff without these Omega brains?
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FS: A baseline could perceive hyperdimensional space and time but only for a brief period.
Perception is one thing and manipulation another. Einstein and Buddha had hyperdimensional
perception but not hyperdimensional manipulation. A baseline cannot routinely manipulate
space and time but a few baselines are capable of hyperdimensional manipulation for a brief
period.
DG: Well what you are describing would be some kind of magic and I dont believe in magic.
FS: There is a magic of sorts. Miracles are the ability of the baseline brain to briefly manipulate
phenomena at the hyperdimensional level. The baseline brain cannot maintain this heightened
state and generally burns out. Saints did generally go insane if they used their limited brains for
miracles over an extended period of time.
DG: What is the definition of an extended period of time?
FS: The rule of thumb for saints was three miracles followed by a total loss of this ability and
partial insanity. If you know anything about the history of saints then you could attest to the
truth of this rule of thumb. A true hyperdimensional brain has no such limitations and can do
localized miracles routinely.
DG: And all technological civilizations evolve Omega brains?
FS: No, all technological civilizations face a fundamental choice. They could choose life or
death. Technology could be used to create a superior brain that allows us to understand and
control the power of technology or be destroyed by that technology.
DG: Sounds like Omega brains are the manifestation of the life principal or what Freud called
Eros.
FS: Yes, Or we could choose death, Thantos, and continue to develop weapons of mass
destruction and destroy ourselves mindlessly. God is the Eros principle made manifest via a
consistent historical process of biological/technological evolution. Freud had some insights into
the basic nature of the universe. Freud realized that the mind has a triadic structure of id,
superego and ego but didnt have the neurological background to realize the brain structure that
lies behind this mind structure. The Omegas referred to the problem of the triadic structure of
baseline brains as the selfish brain problem.
DG: Selfish brain problem?
FS: All species evolve a brain that deals with survival that is the reptilian brain in our planet.
Baselines then evolve something equivalent to our medulla and neo-cortex but usually these
different brain structures are in conflict and this is the source of Freudian psychosexual conflict.
Each of the brain structures tries to take over creating irrationality on a daily basis. Atomic
weapons and reptilian brains dont mix. Omega brains resolve the selfish brain problem.
DG: So persons with Omega brains are more rational?
FS: Yes but more importantly, even first generation Omega brains would have several types of
abilities such as enhanced memory and digital pattern recognition and would have the ability to
network with other brains to create a brain network.
DG: Brain network?
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FS: The brain network would become more and more powerful as the number and quality of
brains on the network improves. In some species the planet meld into one giant global brain.
Eventually the Omega brains of millions of planets would network to create an ever-evolving
God.
DG: But not all species develop an Omega brain?
FS: Generally a technological species ends up destroying itself before creating the first Omega
brain. The cosmic choice is evolution or death.
DG: So why havent we been able to communicate with any of these Omega brains in space?
FS: The cosmic choice was why SETI had failed to find any extraterrestrials. SETI is short for
search for extraterrestrial intelligence and was a project to found other civilizations in the
universe. The problems for SETI was that almost all technological civilizations either evolve, to
the point that communicating with humanity would be a little like humans talking with ants, or
they destroy themselves in a very short time period.
DG: Will our Earth evolve Omegas brains?
FS: Who knows, this choice generally happens within a hundred years of developing radio
astronomy technology. A hundred years is a heartbeat in the history of a civilization. SETI
would have to be lucky enough to find the infinitesimal number of civilizations that were in the
transition stage. Even if such signals were found, the civilization has probably moved on to the
next stage before an answer to their signal could be sent. Technological evolution was
discontinuous and advances in quantum leaps unlike Darwinian evolution. The Sixth Universal
Law of Technology, more or less states, that when it comes to technology when it rains it pours.
DG: So Omega brain beings are like gods.
FS: They are gods relative to us. The Omegas explained to me to that the realm of the post
baselines is made up of Omega brains. Baselines might be rewarded through by God and be
reborn in one of these realms.
DG: And what do Omega brains do all day?
FS: Once you have an Omega brain then you have one big decision.
DG: What is that?
FS: To download or to upload that is the question.
DG: Huh?
FS: The downloaded post baselines have chosen to download their identities into individual
bodies rather uploading their identities into a planetary computer network.
DG: Bodies sound good. Why would want to give up having a body?
FS: Bodies have several disadvantages. The number one disadvantage is that bodies lead to
much greater individual ego. If you have all these Omega brain related powers and still retain
ego then you tend to be on one hell of a power trip. The downloaded post baselines are
extroverts. Mostly downloaded post baselines are just trying to put off being bored because after
a few millennia the whole universe starts to seem small.
DG: And the other group is the uploaded Omega brains?
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FS: Yes, losing your body means that you lose a lot of ego and mellow out. Different planetary
computer networks do allow different levels of ego to exist. Some networks just let you connect
and retain most of your ego. In some networks, ego is lost entirely and become one with the
network. The nice thing about losing ego is that you dont suffer. A planetary network was also
super durable and didnt suffer sickness and death like a downloaded post baseline with a body
would.
DG: So the uploaded post baselines were immortal?
FS: Not exactly, the planetary network itself had a physical existence and planetary level
catastrophe could threaten the network. Still worrying about the odd nova every one million
years beats our level of mortality where we can go any minute.
DG: Sounds great.
FS: But as the downloaded post baselines point out, you dont know that you are not suffering
and what is the point of that?
DG: Okay the downloaded post baselines have all the fun. Why up versus down terminology?
Does up mean better?
FS: Not at all. Uploaded is a systems term and just means transferring data to a bigger system
than the source system. Downloaded means transferring your data to a system about as large as
your source system or smaller. Bigger is not necessarily better.
DG: What do the uploaded guys do?
FS: Uploaded post baselines dont do much except enjoy life in a state of virtual bliss. Being
connected to a network does tend to decrease drive and make one a little lazy. Imagine living in
a virtual paradise only limited by your imagination? Why travel anywhere or do anything when
all you need is right in the network?
DG: So do the two types of post baselines fight?
FS: The downloaded post baselines and uploaded post baselines dont really fight since they are
way past that but they do have a radically different point of view and could be said to have a
major philosophical disagreement about the whole ego thing.
DG: So can humans tell the difference between these two kinds of post baselines?
FS: Baselines really cant tell the difference between a downloaded post baseline and an
uploaded post baseline.
DG: How do post baselines act when they meet humans?
FS: All relationships between baselines and post baselines fit into the three Es.
DG: What are those?
FS: Experimentation, entertainment, and evolution.
DG: You mean experimentation as in the anal probes aliens are always reported doing. One of
your obsessions I might add.
FS: Not my obsession maybe yours doc. There is an entirely different explanation for anal
probing. Post baselines cannot travel to the worlds of baselines due to the fact that no space
ship can go faster than the speed of light. Physical experiments are out but post baselines can
affect baseline behavior mentally at a distance and thus carry out intricate memetic experiments.
DG: And entertainment?
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FS: That could be anything from playing with baselines like we do with cats and dogs or just
watching us the way we watch wildlife.
DG: Gotcha, they cant travel over here so how can they play with us?
FS: They can posses a baseline and play by using that baselines body. The possession can be
full-blown as in the Exorcist or pretty subliminal so that the baseline is barely aware of the post
baseline and in fact is sharing consciousness with the baseline.
DG: There is no such thing as possession only psychosis.
FS: Yeah, tell that to the priest dealing with the real deal.
DG: And evolution?
FS: Well God is product of evolution so God wants us all to evolve into post baselines so
encourages post baselines to help with our evolution.
DG: Well what are post baselines doing with us in particular? Are post baselines doing anything
to you in particular?
FS: What happens between a baseline and a post baseline is between the baseline and the post
baseline, well if the baseline has any sense anyway. A more general answer to you question is
that it depends on how evolved the post baseline is. The really advanced post baselines might be
doing memetic experiments with us in a manner analogous to us doing experiments on rodents
and/or microbes. Less advanced post baselines might find us entertaining. Really primitive post
baselines might remember what it was like to be a poor little baseline and be selected by God,
due to their empathy, to help us with our evolution the way we try to teach chimps and dolphins
to communicate.
DG: So the bottom of the food chain post baselines are the ones trying to help us and not just use
us for experiments and entertainment?
FS: I said evolve us not help, there is a difference.
DG: Whats the difference?
FS: Do you really think those chimps and dolphins rather be in a boring old lab being taught
how to talk or out in the wild doing their thing?
DG: Good point. So do the downloaded or uploaded post baselines mess with us?
FS: Downloaded post baselines are a hundred times more likely to deal with us. When you lose
your body you have less and less ability to relate to primitives with bodies at any level. This
inability to relate to primitives also makes them lousy agents of evolution. Plus uploaded post
aliens can do incredibly accurate memetic simulated experiments in their virtual world that
preclude the need for actual memetic experiments except in very rare instances.
DG: So downloaded post baselines have bodies that die?
FS: Yes, downloaded post baselines exist for millennia upon millennia but eventually die.
DG: How can downloaded post baselines exist for millennia with bodies?
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FS: Post baselines make the equivalent of software copies of their identity that is then
downloaded to new hardware i.e. a body. The replacement body is generally a hundred times
superior to anything we can imagine. Both biology and robotics tend to get pretty advanced over
thousands and thousands of years. Senses and capabilities expand exponentially. Still a body is
a body and not as durable as a planetary computer network. Our most advanced computer
network is the Internet and was designed to survive a nuclear attack. The computer network of a
post baseline is a thousand times more advanced than the Internet and generally can survive
anything short of the destruction of the entire planet.
DG: But if you can just transfer your identity to a new body then you can in fact live forever
even if the body dies.
FS: Copying fidelity is high but not perfect. Eventually copying errors in the software add up
and the software is too screwed up to continue existence in a reasonable manner.
DG: Well even planets die eventually so all post baselines die?
FS: The post baselines that enter the sixth dimension become one with God and only die when
the universe dies.
DG: I guess thats a pretty good deal. And what happens to the post baselines that dont become
one with God and die?
FS: Some become astral noise, most are reborn as post baselines, a few join God in the sixth
dimension and a very few go to post baseline hell.
DG: Post baseline hell is different than baseline hell?
FS: Post baseline hell is being reborn as a baseline.
DG: I guess this would be pretty bad after being a post baseline.
FS: Yes but nevertheless, some of the knowledge you gain as a post baseline does get retained
and this is a small compensation. This knowledge manifests itself in unusual scientific,
philosophical insights and/or some psychic ability. And then there are the pre-baselines.
DG: Pre-baselines?
FS: Animals, you know dogs, cats and the like.
DG: Fluffy in other words. Wouldnt sub baselines make more sense?
FS: This is Omega terminology. Sub would imply inferiority. Omegas just saw animals as the
stage before baselines rather than as being inferior. Omegas pointed out that smarter didnt
necessarily mean wiser. I agreed. As far as I am concerned Fluffy was a lot wiser than a lot of
baselines I knew.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Omega Brain is an obvious rip-off of Tielhard de Chardins Omega
point. Also, some ideas are stolen from Arthur C. Clarkes science fiction novel
Childhoods End. Still connecting these ideas to Moores Law is an interesting twist.

DG: Any great insights from the Omegas.
FS: The Omegas had several suggestions for the recently dead
DG: What are they?
FS: Stay calm
DG: Easier said than done.
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FS: You will see a bunch of lights when you die. Get your lights right. Avoid dull lights. Go for
the bright lights really avoid smoky lights.
DG: Bright lights, gotcha.
FS: Just say no to the womb entrance.
DG: Womb entrance?
FS: Youll know it when you see it. Its a tunnel of sorts. You go into the tunnel and you emerge
out of the womb of a human or animal. No good ever came from crawling into a womb entrance.
DG: What else?
FS: Concentrate on something spiritual.
DG: Does it matter what?
FS: No, remember the first rule and just stay calm.
DG: And the last rule?
FS: Most of all get over it! Youre dead!

Dr. Gammas Notes: The Omegas are obviously some sort of father figure manifestation.

DG: What did the Omegas look like?
FS: The Omegas were androids that made up their bodies as they traveled across the universe
and could look like anything they wanted to. Around me, they looked like the eye in the middle of
the triangle that you saw on the dlar bill. The eye thing was one of their top five bodies. They
got a hold of a dlar bill and liked the symbol so much that they decided to take on this
appearance on Earth. The Omegas would go into the past and shape intelligent life at various
crucial times.
DG: Isnt that some sort of occult symbol?
FS: Yes, humans would see them and then adopt this eye in the triangle symbol as a sacred
symbol. The eye in the triangle ends up on the dlar bill due to some Freemasons among the
founding fathers of the US that were into occult sacred symbols. The Omegas would get a hold
of a dlar bill again and the process would start all over again.
DG: Isnt time travel impossible because of the paradoxes involved? If your go back into time
and kill your grandfather then you never would have been able to travel into the past in the first
place.
FS: No, the Omegas were perfectly comfortable with such paradoxes and had no idea why
beings lacking hyperconsciousness got all excited. After all it was just like going around the
block except in time instead of space. They really laughed when humans got all excited about
the grandfather paradox.
DG: Well what is the answer to this paradox?
FS: If you went back into time and killed your grandfather then you would be dead. The moral
of the story was not to avoid time travel or avoid changing the past. The moral of the story was
to not kill your own grandfather. Also the whole, If you kill a bug then all of history changes
thing amused Omegas to no end.
DG: Why?
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FS: Kill all the bugs you want. One more or less wouldnt make much difference. Big changes
necessitated big outputs of energy. Events had the equivalent of mass.
DG: Events have mass?
FS: Sure, big events had big mass. Killing a bug or even a particular person was like using a
peashooter to alter the course of an asteroid. When it came to big events, you needed to expend
a ton of energy to really change a big event.
DG: So killing Hitler wouldnt stop WWII?
FS: Killing Hitler wouldnt do the job. There were a thousand people in line that would have
started WWII. WWII was pretty much going to happen no matter what you did in the past.
DG: Why?
FS: As the Omegas explained, it was much harder to change history than baselines realized.
Fiddling with events might change the details and this might matter to a mere baseline but the
big picture had been pretty much ordained by their boss right during the Big Bang. Killing bugs
in Germany would have accomplished nothing. The Butterfly effect makes for great fiction but
has no basis in reality.
DG: The Omegas are more powerful than the post baselines?
FS: Omegas could download their OS systems into the sixth dimension so it could be transmitted
anywhere in the space/time continuum faster than the speed of light.
DG: Well that would be the equivalent of sending software over the web but you still need
hardware on the other side.
FS: Once on the other side of the space/time continuum, the Omega OS system was so advanced
that it could create a body from local materials. The Omega hardware didnt travel around the
universe. Their software traveled around the universe via the sixth dimension and they created
hardware as needed. This is how Omegas, unlike post baselines, could travel faster than the
speed of light.
DG: So no spaceships for the Omegas?
FS: Omega spaceships were strictly for guests not for the Omegas to travel in. Omega
spaceships were created locally from local materials upon the arrival of an Omega.
DG: What is the sixth dimension?
FS: God created the sixth dimension and in a way the sixth dimension is God. God is not merely
the universe as defined in pantheism but a whole greater than the universe as proposed in
panentheism. The sixth dimension is the means for this panentheism.
DG: God as a gestalt.
FS: Right, an analogy is useful. A human, computer, car or any complex system is more than the
sum of its parts. There is a synergic whole to complex systems. The universe can be seen as the
parts of God but not God itself. This sixth dimension is pretty useful since it allows God to
encompass the five-dimensional universe that precedes God.
DG: Like a Chinese box.
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FS: Yes, God would ultimately become a singularity that would start the Big Bang and all of
existence. The new universe would evolve life and the cycle would start all over again. All life
including baselines, post baselines and the Omegas create conditions for six-dimensional
evolution. Even in a hyperdimensional infinite universe, with its entire splendor, glory and
magnificence, there was no free lunch!
DG: Sounds like Descartes Chain of Being.
FS: Huh?
DG: Descartes thought that imperfect beings must exist for the perfection of God to exist.
FS: More like a Spiral of Being. Perfection is not achieved just radically higher levels of
understanding and control of phenomena as beings evolve. Even God dies but only after the Big
Crunch. God does not have the ultimate answer to the problem of the meaning of existence for
us but for God. God probably could care less about our existence except as how it relates to his
existence. God is a million times smarter than baselines and one can assume has a pretty good
handle on what Gods existence is all about. God is not omnipotent. God just cant wish the
universe to have the right gravity but must work hard to make this happen. There is no
perfection at the end of the chain and there is a spiral in that all beings seek the same thing. All
beings want understanding and control of their environment. It just happens that the
environment of God is the universe and bigger than our little baseline environment.
Ungaro: Maybe I have it totally wrong. Is this Spiral of Being some sort of deconstruction
between science and theology? Is the author trying to somehow make a scientific theology?
Dr. Gammas Notes: The patients Big Bang obsession is related to orgasm. The patient
has repressed his homosexual nature and the idea that the universe is a giant orgasm
compensates for this repression.

DG: How did the Omegas view humans?
FS: We are a mere 2G mobile-phone baseline civilization. The Omegas judged a civilization by
how advanced their mobile phone system was. Civilizations without mobile phones were
considered savages, a view shared by many humans on my Earth. Squares and Sloppy Squares
had advanced to a third generation or 3G mobile-phone system.
DG: I am not an expert on mobile phone systems.
FS: A 2G-system mobile-phone system only received and transmitted voice data. A 3G system
could hook into the Web and receive and transmit voice, text, and pictures. A 4G system was
beyond the current technology level of humans of this Earth but would be a cyber-system. A 4G
system would transmit and receive data from the brain and then sent that data to the brain of a
recipient 4G system. My Earth had experimented using cyberplugs for this purpose. A 4G
system was the beginning of the Omega brain.
DG: But you mentioned that some Omega brains went farther. What was their communication
system?
FS: Hyperdimensional beings used a 5G system could send messages to the brain and but was
also hyperdimensional and could transcend time as well as space. With a 5G system, you could
send mental messages to the past and future.
DG: How is hyperdimensional communication different from hyperdimensional consciousness?
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FS: A lot more post baselines had hyperdimensional communication systems than
hyperdimensional consciousness. A hyperdimensional communication device required a lot less
developed technology than actually creating a brain that operated at this level. The Dolphins
had long ago created a 5G system, which was bio-engineered to be an organic part of their body
but still wasnt part of their brain per se.
DG: So where was it?
FS: A 5G system was housed in their dorsal fin that acted as a type of hyperdimensional
antennae. There were many advantages to sending mental messages to the past. You had a
potential sixth sense. When you encountered a dangerous situation then you could send a
message to yourself in the past and avoid the situation altogether, which was what Dolphins did
on a regular basis.
DG: So 5G communication was the top of the line?
FS: No, A 6G system allowed communication in the entrophic dimension. Only the Omegas, a
few post baselines and God had a 6G system.
DG: Whats the entrophic dimension?
FS: Levels of consciousness. An Omega could communicate to sentient beings that had more
complex or less complex consciousness. An Omega with a 6G system could communicate to
bacteria, insects, plants, animals, baselines, other Omegas and God with equal facility.
DG: So what do you do with this system?
FS: You could use a 6G system to convince cancer cells to behave and thus cure cancer. This
6G system would only work if you knew how to reason with a cancer cell. You could also make
direct appeals to God and have miracles occur. Again the system would only work if you knew
how to reason with God. A 6G system was only the medium not the message.
DG: What was the message?
FS: The message was less important than how you presented the message. Persuasion would
still be a function of your own ability. Persuasive 6G beings were the ones who got things done
in this universe. On the other hand, any being that had a 6G system also probably had taken a
class or two in entrophic rhetoric.
DG: Entrophic rhetoric?
FS: Entrophic rhetoric was the art of persuading beings of differing levels of consciousness. A
6G system would be a disaster in the hands of an unsophisticated being. Lets just say you got a
disease. A standard 6G trick is to talk to the microbes causing the disease and convince them to
vacate the premises. This is the basis of faith healing. On the other hand, you might talk to the
microbes and just really piss them off and make the disease much worse.
DG: So how do you talk to microbes?
FS: The key to talking with microbes is to totally avoid logic, not the strong suit of microbes, but
play on their sympathy. Pure emotion was the way to go with microbes.
DG: Microbes are mindless and cant talk!
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FS: Some microbes are mindless and respond to the tone of your voice and not the content but
bacteria are quite logical. Individual bacteria are mindless but they can form a quorum and
form a group mind that can talk. Bacteria use a chemical known as an autoinducer that allowed
the bacteria to sense when there are enough of them to create a group mind. Some bacteria have
more complex and intelligent group minds than others do and this is a large part of their
virulence.
DG: Virulence is related to the intelligence of bacteria?
FS: Sure Bacteria with superior group minds are more virulent than bacteria with smaller group
minds. Ironically, its easier to talk to bacteria with superior group minds. You can talk to the
bacteria directly or you can pray to God and hope he transfers your call to the bacteria.
Bacteria and God have a pretty tight relationship since disease is one of the major factors
behind technological progress among baselines. Disease is the mother of many inventions.
DG: So I pray to God and hope he talks the bacteria?
FS: God is pretty busy so you might want to go for contacting an Omega.
DG: The way you describe it, the Omegas sound like angels. You mentioned talking to God.
FS: There are strict protocols that governed calls to God. God has been known to severely
punish callers that were unaware of the protocols surrounding a phone call to God. The fact you
didnt know the protocols in the first place was no excuse. Under no circumstances did you want
to dial a crank call to God.
DG: Ill try to remember that. So are there any examples of screwed up 6G calls?
5.04 The 666 Phone Call
Dr. Delta: This meme is not virulent. The memes infection level is very high (4.2). This meme
shows the typical virulence to infectiousness ratio of any joke. Jokes are very infectious but not
virulent well maybe except to the butt of the joke.
FS: Yes, the number 666 had two meanings that have been totally misinterpreted by Sloppy
Squares. The first significance was related to a hyperdimensional call. The number 66 was
shorthand for a two-person 6G call. The number 666 was short for a three-party 6G call. Three
way 6G calls could be problematic.
DG: Why?
FS: Suppose a fungus in the past was talking with an Omega in the future and was interrupted by
a dolphin in the present.
DG: This is an insane proposition but I suppose the call would be pretty complicated.
FS: Sure, you got the whole space-time continuum thing working against you. Toss in
miscommunication problems that always crop up between beings with differing levels of
consciousness and you were just asking for trouble. Was the dolphin talking or the fungus? Are
you in the future or the past? The dolphin is telling the fungus, Talk louder I couldnt hear you
past all the hyperdimensional static, and so forth and so forth. You got all kinds of confusion
with 666 calls.
DG: Go on.
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FS: One 666 call between a Rabbi, some airborne bacteria and an Omega, stop me if youve
heard this one, was responsible for the flooding of the Earth, and the near destruction of all life,
a few thousand years ago and this was unfortunate. I dont have all the details but the confusion
had something to do with getting the word blood mixed up with flood.
DG: Well I suppose the two words do sound similar.
FS: Airborne bacteria were supposed to rain some blood on some guys that were pushing an
anti-science version of Judaism but the bacteria thought the Omega said flood and they did their
duty and started a giant flood. This phone call led to the great flood that almost destroyed the
Squares and forced them to join Homo sapien tribes.
DG: Even if you accept the similar sounds of the two words. Blood and flood are totally
different phenomena.
FS: Bacteria are pretty literal. 666 calls were not recommended but there was nothing
inherently sinister about such phone calls, as the Bible would suggest.
DG: Aside from the fact that Biblical figures would have been talking in Aramaic rather than
English, how can you expect me to believe that 666 has to do with a conference call?
FS: The words for blood and flood are easily mixed up in Aramaic as well as English but believe
what you want. The number 666 had another significance as well but I would like to stick to the
subject at hand.
DG: So besides starting floods what else do you do with 6G systems?
FS: 6G systems come with different ranges and options. Some 6G systems let you communicate
a few days into the future and past.
DG: And a top of the line system?
FS: A top of the line system could communicate across all of eternity, from the beginning of the
Big Bang to the end of the Big Bang cycle when the universe collapses into a singularity. A
medium system could let you talk with life forms similar to yourself. A top of the line system
means you could communicate with anything that has consciousness.
DG: Sounds like a phone plan.
FS: Exactly, some 6G systems had the equivalent of caller ID that means you could figure out
who was calling you without being told by the caller.
DG: I suppose 6G systems had an answering machine option.
FS: When you are right your right. Most calls to God actually got his machine rather than God.
God uses his answering machine to screen calls. God was omnipotent and all that but he gets a
lot of calls. This explains why you got a pretty standard answer to most of your prayers.
DG: 6G systems are machines?
FS: Yes, but most 6G systems were bio-engineered and implanted directly into the Omega brain
of the recipient.
DG: So regular humans cant make 6G calls.
FS: Consciousness is a hyperdimensional phenomena anyway and even a person without a 6G
system might accidentally tune into a call between two 6G beings.
DG: For example?
FS: Edgar Cayce could talk with a very lonely Omega despite never having had a 6G system
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DG: Any other historical examples?
FS: Joan of Arc was getting messages from two Omegas that were playing their equivalent of
chess using a long distance connection from different parts of the universe. Watching the
Omegas play chess can teach you a lot of militar strategy!
DG: Any other examples?
FS: Most visions of God surrounded by Angels were actually a bad connection to a conference
call between God and the Omegas. The phone quality of a 6G message picked up without a 6G
system was pretty poor. As the Fourth Universal Law of Technology clearly states, When it
comes to technology, you got what you pay for.
DG: So you had some advanced generation system that let you communicate with the Omegas?
FS: Yes, like many Half Squares have had in the past. Jesus seemed to have some type of
natural, built in, 5G system. Jesus had been able to use his 5G system to communicate with the
Omegas and occasionally God, but actually he usually got Gods machine without realizing the
fact.
DG: How could Jesus be oblivious to this?
FS: Gods machine has super advanced AI features and therefore is not all that bad as machines
go.
DG: Can you talk with God now?
FS: I have been trying but have had no success. I took the body of my double but he doesnt
have a Half Square brain.
DG: So you have the right body but wrong brain.
FS: Well as the Twelfth Universal Law of Technology clearly states, just as you need the right
tool for the right job, You also need the right brain for the right tool. You can give a chimp a
computer but you cant make him type.
DG: Do you believe in God?
FS: I dont believe in God. I know God.
DG: So according to you, what is God like?
FS: God is complicated.
DG: So are you?
FS: Thanks I guess, God like any being has evolved over the years. You never know which God
you are going to meet. You might meet baby God, teenage God, middle aged God or old man
God. God is always all knowing and all-powerful but his view of the universe changes over the
billions of years.
DG: What are these different Gods like?
5.05 Baby God
Doctor Delta: The virulence level of this meme and the following God memes is very low (0.2).
The meme is slightly infectious (2.2). This meme may cause mutation of theistic memes in the
host.
FS: When the universe began, God was a baby. God was an omnipotent baby, but a baby
nevertheless. Try to imagine someone that knows everything but just doesnt care despite all this
knowledge. Baby God is full of life and energy. Baby God wandered around all over the place
just looking for fun and excitement.
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DG: What sort of excitement?
FS: Baby God is generous and open to a fault. You want gold then you will get the golden touch
like Midas. Baby God does everything to an extreme. If you meet Baby God during one of his
trips to the future then you better be careful.
DG: Why?
FS: Baby God wants to have a blast and doesnt care if a planet or two gets blown up in the
process. Most of your pantheistic religions are based on meeting Baby God. Baby god tends to
like to watch Gods equivalent of ants and created the six cages of hell.
DG: Or early civilizations had ideas of God that paralleled their level of cultural development.
5.06 Teenage God
FS: About 10 billion years after the Big Bang God becomes a teenager. Teenage God is pretty
idealistic and wants to make the universe a better place. Teenage God is a lot like baby God but
more focused on making the world a better place and not just having a blast. Of course
teenagers also want to have fun and Teenage God is no exception.
DG: Any examples?
FS: Jesus was in contact with Teenage God. About twenty billion years after the Big Bang God
is middle aged and pretty mellow. God has kind of a let and let live attitude.
5.07 Middle-aged God
DG: So how does God handle his mid-life crisis?
FS: Mid-life challenge not mid-life crisis. Middle-aged God just lets the universe he created run
itself. God agrees with Newton that he is a watchmaker and lets the watch run its course.
Middle age God wont give you much in the way of presents and/or miracles but he has some
pretty good advice and is worth listening too. Middle-Aged God believes in reform rather than
punishment and is responsible for 99.9% of all recycling done by God. Middle-Aged God is also
responsible for the hellish environment hell.
DG: And old man God?
5.08 Old Man God
FS: Finally, about 30 billion years after the Big Bang you get Old Man God. God gets really
crotchety in his old age. God is an old man and realizes that all his plans arent going to turn
out quite the way he wanted them to. Old Man God is a pretty fearsome being and if you meet
him while he is traveling in the past i.e. our present then mind your manners.
DG: You mentioned something about old man God and hell.
FS: Yes, Old Man God believes in hell rather than recycling. Old Man God is also more upset
when he gives a baseline a gift and the gift is misused. Old Man God created the six pits of hell.
The pits are also nastier than the cages since you can learn to just stay still and do you time in
the cages but the animals in the pits just wont let you do that.
DG: Okay, this is the big problem I have with God and hell and all this stuff. You have the pits
filled with scorpions and eagles and what not but this is a God for the whole universe not just
Earth. Why would God use scorpions that are probably only found on Earth?
FS: Old man God uses whatever animals are considered particularly nasty by the baselines of
that planet.
DG: And the cages?
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FS: The cages are made up of whatever materials that are nasty for that particular baseline.
The environments are also fine-tuned for the particular baseline. Some silicone-based baselines
might consider a desert a paradise. You are right God only uses scorpions, eagles, etc, with
Earthlings.
DG: Youve got an Old Testament version of God and a New Testament version of God. What
version is old man God?
FS: Old Man God is better known as Jehovah and is described in the Old Testament. Between
30-40 billion years after the Big Bang, the universe starts to contract and finally becomes a
singularity and then goes bang all over again. This contraction of old man Gods body, since
the universe is God, may explain the sour attitude of Old Man God. Getting smaller is no fun
even if you are God.
DG: I think sociology provides a better explanation. The idea of God evolves as culture evolves.
God doesnt care about us?
FS: Sure he does! God is always telling the Omegas, For lack of a baseline there was no post
baseline civilization. For lack of a post baseline civilization there was no God. For lack of a
God there were no Omegas. So get off your lazy android butts and get back to work!
DG: This saying sounds familiar.
FS: Who knows? There are of course the Pre-God universes.
5.09 Pre-God Universes
DG: Pre-God universes?
FS: Gravity is the key to life and God. If gravity is a quadrillionth stronger or weaker than the
gravity of this universe then there is no life, no baselines, post baselines and ultimately no God.
DG: Why is the strength of gravity so important?
FS: If gravity is too strong then the stars burn out one year after the Big Bang and no life is
formed. If gravity is too weak then you get runny soup of stellar protoplasm and no life is
formed.
DG: So most universes dont evolve life?
FS: Absolutely, there were billions upon billions of universes before this one that had the wrong
gravity, no life and therefore no God evolved. Finally, through random chance, a universe with
just the right gravity showed up and God was born.
DG: And what is Gods role in all this?
FS: God makes sure that gravity is just right in all future Big Bangs. Actually, Gods number
one mission is making sure gravity is just right for the next Big Bang.
DG: And the Omegas help God with this mission.
FS: The Omegas are Gods representatives with the post baselines rather than God. God has
the Omegas contract post baselines to move stars around to make sure the gravity mix is just
right for the next Big Bang. A pretty standard post baseline contract with God is an agreement
to move X number of stars around for a specific favor. Even among post baselines there are
some post baselines that are a little more super.
DG: How so?
FS: Just about any post baseline civilization can move a star around but moving black holes is a
lot trickier and less than one in a thousand post baseline civilizations can do this.
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DG: Why are black holes important?
FS: Black holes are a much more efficient cosmic density management tool than a star and God
generally gives precedence to favors asked by post baselines that can move black holes around.
Most black holes are used in pairs to form a wormhole so those thousands of stars can be moved
from one end of the universe to the other end of the universe and this was a cause of jealousy.
DG: Jealousy?
FS: Pretty much all post baseline civilizations that could create black holes were uploaded post
baseline civilizations. This meant God favored the uploaded post baselines to a greater extent
and this caused the downloaded post baselines to be jealous of the uploaded guys.
DG: But of course like most of your ideas there is no way to prove this one way or another.
FS: The fact is that 95% of the matter of the universe is dark matter. The reason for this is that
most of the universe consists of wormholes that God and the post baselines use for cosmic
density management.
DG: But according to you God is the sixth dimension and one million times smarter than we are,
what does he need post baselines for?
FS: There are about a 1,000 billion galaxies in the universe, God is a million times smarter than
baselines but having to move billions of stars and get the calculations right to the quadrillionth
place is a tough job even for God. God spends about 99.999% of his time and energy on the
gravity mix problem. Post baseline help is appreciated.
DG: Where does that leave baselines?
FS: Pretty much out in the cold. Baselines dont have the technology to even move planets
around much less stars and black holes and this is the main reason baselines generally get his
machine when they call him.
DG: So Gods grace is reserved for post baselines and not normal human beings?
FS: God generally only grants favors to baselines if he thinks this favor will lead them to evolve
into post baselines that can help him move stars and/or black holes down the road. This is why
your prayers to God are almost always ignored. Sure you get his machine and his machine has
AI features so you get some good advice but you will almost never get more than advice from
God.
DG: So you dont think God is so mysterious after all.
FS: The ways of God are not so much mysterious as big and long range.
DG: So your cosmology is basically a developmental model of God including Pre-God, baby
God, teenage God, Middle-age God and old man God?
5.10 Anti-God
Doctor Delta: This is the most dangerous meme in the transcript. The virulence level is very
dangerous (6.45). The meme is also highly contagious (7.4). The reader may consider not
reading this section of the transcript. Follow memetic infection countermeasures immediately
after reading this session. Infected hosts fall into a nihilistic depression and require immediate
treatment or the condition will become permanent.
FS: Yeah, the life stages of God are the big determinant of the overall pattern of the universe and
have a direct impact on the macrostructure of the universe. The fusion of cosmology and
theology is an understanding of the life stages of God but you left out the Anti-God.
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DG: The Anti-God?
FS: Sure, each new Big Bang tends to create a duplicate of the last universe but randomness
enters into every system and the duplicate is just a little bit different than the last universe. This
is because nothing is certain.
DG: Thats for sure.
FS: I dont mean this as some sort of saying but that literally nothing is certain. A fundamental
property of being is uncertainty.
DG: Huh?
FS: This is the materialistic basis of the existential statement that existence precedes essence.
The only way you get certainty is to stick with nothingness. Each time the universe is reborn
there is a chance that a slightly different God will be reborn that just isnt into the whole cosmic
density management mission.
DG: So you think this can happen?
FS: God like every being generally wants to survive and have progeny. In the case of God
having progeny means taking on the whole cosmic density management mission and making sure
there is a duplicate of him in the next universe but there might be God that doesnt want to have
progeny and just wants to have fun.
DG: A slacker God.
FS: Right but a lazy God that doesnt want progeny isnt so bad since after billions and billions
of Big Bangs life will emerge again randomly and the process will start all over again. What
you need to watch out for is an Anti-God.
DG: Anti-God? Sounds heavy. What does this Anti-God do?
FS: It is heavy. The Anti-God decides its just time to end the whole Big Bang nonsense and use
cosmic density management to make sure there are no more Big Bangs or being of any sort and
just end the whole thing i.e. follow the credo nothing is certain to its logical extreme.
DG: Literally cosmic suicide.
FS: Right, Old man God invariably has these suicidal thoughts as his body i.e. the universe
starts to contract during the last 10 billion years of the universe but generally dismisses such
thoughts.
DG: So the universe will ultimately end?
FS: Maybe, but since God is a survivor and this is sort of the essence of the personality of God,
the emergence of the Anti-God is very unlikely. Unfortunately, it takes billions upon billions of
Gods to keep the living universe going. It only takes one Anti-God to stop the whole show.
DG: Sounds terrible.
FS: Not as terrible as the billions of generations it took to maintain life on my Earth but it just
took one dumb generation to destroy life on my Earth.
DG: Are you sure that you are not just projecting your fear of nuclear war unto the larger
universe.
FS: Or maybe the more hopeful views of the universe are a projection of wishful thinking unto a
larger universe.
DG: Still you think the Anti-God is unlikely.
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FS: The emergence of an Anti-God is probably the least likely event of all possible events in the
universe but this event is not impossible.
DG: But of course this cosmological stuff doesnt have much to do with your personal situation
and is in fact an escape mechanism on your part.
FS: Mere baselines, of course, cant tell if there is a God or Anti-God running the show during
any particular universes existence so my advice is live life like this is the last Big Bang. Go for
the gusto!
DG: Why doesnt God go into the future and talk to this Anti-God?
FS: All Gods time travel is limited to travel within his particular Big Bang cycle. God does not
travel to Pre-God Big Bangs, Anti-God Big Bangs or any other Big Bang cycles for that matter.
God created a sixth dimension that encompasses all the space and time of this Big Bang cycle.
The sixth dimension is the key to all his power. This sixth dimension does not encompass prior
and past Big Bang cycles. Strangely, God as a sixth dimensional being cannot travel to other
Big Bang cycles. God would have to dump the sixth dimension to do this and wouldnt be God
so whats the point.
DG: So God cannot affect other Big Bang cycles?
FS: No, God can send lower beings to other Big Bang cycles but this is rarely done.
DG: Why?
FS: God respects the sovereignty of other Big Bang cycle Gods. God has all the memories of the
Gods of prior Big Bang cycles and in some ways is them. You could say God is recycled every
Big Bang cycle through his own devices. This is one of the meanings of the I am the Alpha and
Omega phrase. God has self-respect and therefore respects the right of prior and post Gods to
do their own thing in their own way.
DG: How so?
5.11 Square Earth Law
Doctor Delta: The meme is difficult to measure.
FS: God wouldnt want past and future Gods messing with his business so no way is he messing
with their business. God reasons that if some God down the road wants to end it all well then he
must have his reasons. This is also the basis of the Square Earth Law.
DG: Why do you think this?
FS: God doesnt mind beings from his universe time traveling within his universe but when you
start messing with some other Gods backyard, well then you are showing a lack of respect for
one of his kin and that wont do.
DG: So why would God send a messenger to another Big Bang cycle?
FS: He might send some fool with advice to the next Big Bang cycle. Old man God in particular
gets this urge.
DG: Well fool or not, being a messenger between two Gods would be quite incredible.
FS: Yeah except the messenger generally would not even be aware of his true purpose but have
the message encoded in his software. Despite advice from prior Gods, in the final analysis, each
Big Bang God had total sovereignty over their particular universe.
DG: Was this the only reason God sent messengers were sent from one Big Bang cycle to
another?
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FS: The Omegas did mention that the God of a prior Big Bang might tell the fortune of the God
of the next Big Bang cycle when something very special was going to happen in the next Big
Bang cycle.
DG: So does God use cards or a crystal ball to tell fortunes?
FS: Nothing so mundane. God used the very fabric of reality to tell fortunes.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The Anti-God is a combination of ultimate father figure and shadow.
The shadow consists of all those qualities that the consciousness cannot accept about itself
i.e. negative qualities such as laziness and selfishness. The patient has created an Anti-God
that is lazy and selfish and therefore allows the patient to rationalize his own laziness and
selfishness. The patient has no progeny and the Anti-God is the ultimate symbol of a
rejection of progeny. The patient can use the Anti-God as further rationalization of his
own behavior in the face of social pressure to have progeny.

The patient is resolving his own conflicts with his father through use of the Anti-God but
has picked a particularly powerful symbol of a universal archetype to do this.

The Anti-God fantasy of the patient has been a key source of metapsychological infection.
All three prior therapists of the patient have become obsessed with the Anti-God concept
and one of the therapists went on to start an Anti-God cult. Dr. Delta and I think the Anti-
God fantasy is infectious but not virulent. Virulence is a measure of the destructiveness of
a meme.

Before Dr. Arrow disappeared, he had suggested that the Anti-God concept is virulent and
should be contained via the most extreme Atlanta Disease Control protocols that, with
United Nations and World Court Approval, void all current international human rights
agreements. There is a formal process for declaring a patient virulent but I hesitate to do
this since extreme sanctions follow such a declaration. Fortunately, the disappearance of
Dr. Arrow puts a halt to any virulent classification process and allows me to continue my
therapy in peace.

DG: Lets just skip the whole Anti-God topic. You mentioned post baselines and the Omegas.
Whats the difference?
FS: Baselines cant tell an Omega from a post baseline but they are different.
DG: How so?
FS: There are a lot of differences but the main difference is economic. The Omegas serve God
directly and are salaried employees. Post baselines serve God on a contractual basis. Omegas
dont have free will and post baselines do but this is a pretty secondary issue.
DG: Sorry I asked and the eternal struggle between good and evil?
FS: The Omegas explained that there was an eternal struggle but not between heaven and hell
but an interstellar memetic war being waged by post baselines and had very little to do with
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DG: Once again you are projecting. Memetic warfare occurs on your constructed Earth because
weapons of mass destruction or rather WMDs make physical warfare impossible. Are their post
baseline WMDs that prevent war between them?
FS: Absolutely not and actually quite the opposite. Einstein was right and faster than light space
travel is impossible. Actually faster than light action would be more correct and this only
applies to the causal level. On the other hand existential technology transcends causal
technology and allows for faster than light communication. You can think of existential
communication technology as a type of telepathy that involves principles of quantum mechanics
that would drive a baseline insane if they tried to understand the principles behind it.
DG: So you have this situation were everybody in the universe can talk with everyone else but
invasion and trade are out of the question.
FS: Right, the only war you can wage is a war of words but when you're a post baseline then
words can be pretty powerful weapons. What do you think the single biggest problem if you are
a post baseline?
DG: I dont know.
FS: Boredom, the Omegas told me that since post baselines are practically immortal that you get
pretty bored after the first ten millennia or so.
DG: Yeah, I imagine this is the down side to immortality. So how did the post baselines handle
this problem?
FS: The number one solution to the boredom problem is better interstellar TV. Post baselines
love their interstellar TV and will do just about anything to get more and better programming.
Even Earths early TV shows will eventually get to the post baselines despite our lack of
existential technology. Post baselines are immortal and think long term.
DG: And the war?
FS: The post baselines are broken down into two camps with two approaches to how the
boredom problem should be solved. First both camps agree that intelligent life everywhere
should be encouraged to evolve technologically so that they will be able to ultimately beam
original TV programming into the great void.
DG: Not exactly a Star Wars/Star Trek kind of universe.
FS: The Star Wars/Star Trek view of the universe is based on the idea that humans can somehow
conquer the great distances of space with the mind/body hardware they now have.
DG: Why cant this happen?
FS: Aside from the speed of light limit, baseline mind/body systems have evolved for survival on
a planet and not for creating a galactic civilization. Baselines can handle the colonization and
exploration of a solar system but if you want to go into interstellar space then you need to evolve
into a post baseline.
DG: But even post baselines cant touch us.
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FS: Exactly, so there is only an upside to getting the info out there. Helping intelligent species
evolve technologically is done by beaming technological information into the void. The post
baselines hope that autonomous information processing systems, i.e. intelligent life, that all have
certain commonalties, will receive the messages, be given a survival advantage with this
information, and ultimately evolve into advanced technological societies that can send their own
programs into the void and thus enrich interstellar TV.
DG: So what kind of programs do post baselines like?
FS: Some of the post baselines like their TV down and dirty. They love trashy TV. They
therefore include a lot of subliminal messages buried in the technological message that will
encourage the intelligent beings to have similar programming tastes. The fans of trashy TV
might be thought of as the devils.
DG: Which post baselines are the devils?
FS: Generally, the downloaded post baselines like trashy TV.
DG: And the post baselines dont like trashy TV?
FS: The uploaded post baselines like more tasteful and artistic shows and want us to evolve
along their aesthetic lines. These are the so-called forces of good. The uploaded post baselines
tend to like high brow TV. Both groups of post baselines hope that baselines will get their
messages and their tastes and take over their respective societies and ultimately beam their kind
of TV into the void. This is in fact what has happened on Earth. Hollywood is the unwitting
pawn of post baselines that likes trashy TV.
DG: And based on this assumption, the educational TV stations BBC of Great Britain and PBS
of the US are working for uploaded post baselines.
FS: Exactly, the struggle between good and evil is fundamentally a dispute between post
baselines about programming content.
DG: I had always suspected that something like this was true. Can all baselines receive these
transmissions?
FS: Yes but to differing degrees. The reason the Sloppy Squares beat the Neanderthals is
because they evolved superior reception abilities that translated into greater creativity, which in
turn gave them a survival advantage.
DG: If this was such a clear-cut survival advantage then why wouldnt all baselines have this
ability?
FS: The ability to receive interstellar messages is not always a clear-cut survival advantage and
this mutation does not always take right away. Nevertheless, there are billions and billions of
worlds with some sort of intelligent life and if even .0001 evolve TV broadcast abilities then
that's a lot of TV for post baselines down the road.
DG: Is all the information of a programming nature?
FS: No a lot of the information is technological in order to give baselines the technological base
to beam the TV in the first place.
DG: So why dont we just grab all this information from the ether and by pass stupid stuff like
experiments and R&D?
FS: Unfortunately, just receiving messages isn't enough since you do need some technical
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DG: And if you dont have the technological background to understand the message?
FS: Myths are attempts by pre-technological societies to understand technological information
being beamed at them. The baselines get the virtual interactive blueprints of a submarine and
think of it as a dragon. Some Greek guy got the blueprints of a plane and came up with the myth
of Icarus.
DG: What technological information can you understand?
FS: You can understand technological information that is more in less in your proximal range of
discovery. An early hominid can understand a telepathic transmission about using a stick as a
club but gets the instructions for an antimatter fusion generator all screwed up. Plato got a
transmission about post baseline guardians and got it all wrong.
DG: The guardians were some sort of caste in Platos society that ran the society. They were
supposed to be raised in some sort of special manner to be good guardians. So what is a post
baseline guardian?
FS: The downloaded post baselines often used robots for police functions since they were more
likely to enforce the law without bias.
DG: Kind of like the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
FS: Exactly and the uploaded post baselines used autonomous computer programs for law
enforcement purposes. Actually post baselines saw most social problems more like we look at
computer operating systems. Society was a system and you needed system tools to run the
system and robots and computer programs were logical tools for enforcement of the law.
Guardians could never be baselines of course since baselines are too easily corrupted no matter
how they are raised.
DG: The whole who watches the watchers thing but I dont think I would want a computer
running my life.
FS: Computers already run your life and will do so to a greater and greater extent in the future.
My own Earth was basically destroyed by a computer glitch and I think the same thing is going
to happen on this Earth down the road. The choice is not between having your life run or not
run by computers. The choice is between well-designed or badly designed programs.
DG: For a janitor you know an awful lot about Plato.
FS: Well super learning drugs made it pretty easy to learn stuff on my world and the general
level of common knowledge was much higher on my world due to this fact. Most of all Plato
totally misunderstood the computer program of the post baselines he was plugged into to.
DG: How so?
FS: Programs form a pyramid from more general programs to more specific programs. For
example, Some programs are programs that handle other programs. Some programs have very,
very specific applications. Plato plugged into a post baseline virtual reality computer system
that responded directly to thought and traveled up and down the programming pyramid of this
virtual reality. Plato then used this experience to create a theory of forms in which concrete
examples of beauty such as a beautiful girl are reflections of the form beauty.
DG: What are the forms again?
FS: The forms are supposed to be eternal, unchanging universals that are more real than
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DG: Yeah, the whole universals versus particulars thing. Like what is redness above and
beyond a particular red thing like a red apple? So what does this have to do with your super
aliens?
FS: Plato perceived program archetypes that post baselines use to organize their virtual worlds
more efficiently. For example, a beauty archetype program was used routinely to make any
object in the program more or less beautiful using general guidelines of symmetry as well as
other aesthetic guidelines. So for example a post baseline could think, Make that waterfall
more beautiful, and the virtual reality environment would be able to do this using the beauty
program.
DG: Huh? Never mind. I dont recall getting any of these transmissions.
FS: Most transmission are received while you are asleep in the form of dreams and this is why
post baselines indirectly invented sleep in the first place. Being unconscious half the day has no
survival advantage whatsoever and the fact that most biologists on Earth never figured this out
is quite incredible.
DG: Post baselines invented sleep?
FS: In a manner of speaking, but more about that later, telepathic transmission conditions were
especially good about 2,000 years ago when Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu and countless others were
able to get a pretty clear signal from the post baselines.
DG: On your Earth?
FS: Both Earths, reception is also problematic. The post baselines are beaming away on a
broad band designed to work with any intelligent species and not just Homo sapiens. Invariably
some members of the intelligent species will get better reception that others but again this is not
always a good thing.
DG: Why not?
FS: If a baseline is too receptive then you tune into too many channels at the same time and have
schizophrenia. You have to be able to receive but also be able to tune into channels with some
control. This is why the line between genius and madness is a thin one. You want to be
telepathic but not too telepathic.
DG: Creativity is a function of post baseline telepathy?
FS: Right and I will give you an example. One of the greatest post baseline telepaths of both our
Earths, called Hoyle had received an interesting theory of time from the post baselines. Hoyle
thought that all that has been and will be coexist in time-space. What moves is our perception
and not time and he is right.
DG: I am totally lost.
FS: Let me try to explain, post baselines can't move their bodies through space and time faster
than the speed of light physically but their awareness can move through space and time faster
than the speed of light.
DG: Why can awareness move faster than the speed of light?
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FS: That is because fundamental consciousness is something outside of the space-time
continuum altogether. That is why you have this feeling that you are looking at the world from
the outside. You basically are outside the space-time continuum. On the other hand pure
consciousness is just a sense of being and cant manipulate matter, energy, space and time and
frankly pure consciousness has no desire to do anything anyway.
DG: So why do we have desire?
FS: To interact with the space-time continuum you need a brain and a body. A brain is basically
an instrument that allows consciousness to interact with the space-time continuum. Baseline
brains have as their main function focusing awareness.
DG: Focusing awareness?
FS: The body occupies a particular space-time point and a brain that allows consciousness to
stray too far from that space-time point will cause the death of the body and the brain. Baseline
mind/body systems are geared towards immediate survival. Post baseline brains have as their
main function keeping the awareness focused but also have the bioengineered ability to move
consciousness around.
DG: If post baselines can only move their consciousness around the universe then how did they
invent sleep?
FS: Super hypnosis, the post baselines can communicate a shut down command that is kind of
like the hypnotist telling you that you are sleepy. Beings that obey the post baseline command
have a huge survival advantage since they get all this great information from the post baselines
while they sleep. Eventually this sleep tendency evolves and sleep is hardwired into the species.
There is reason Einstein slept twelve hours a night on a regular basis.
DG: Lets forget about sleep. Do post baselines have other powers?
FS: Post baselines are powerful but not all-powerful. Basic laws of the universe put some limits
on their ability to operate. Post baselines have transcended one basic barrier: biological
mortality. Post baselines operate on a geological time scale.
DG: Geological time scale?
FS: They exist either in or out a network for thousands of years versus our mere sixty something.
DG: So the post baselines have no physical contact with mere mortals?
FS: Not exactly, post baselines are immortal so they can send out robotic space probes that can
mutate existing gene structures and not worry about our biological time constraints. These
robotic space probes go pretty fast but not faster than the speed of light.
DG: Why do the post baselines even bother?
FS: TV!
DG: How do the post baselines know TV will be created?
FS: Post baselines will never meet the life they create directly but they have a pretty good idea
how they will evolve due to advanced existential technology. It takes millions of years for post
baseline robot probes to seed the universe with life but post baselines are patient since they are
immortal. Post baselines can't get past the speed of light barrier but they have transcended the
barrier of mortality, which has certain advantages.
DG: So how do post baselines supposedly seed the universe with life?
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FS: Post baselines generally use meteors to seed the universe with life. Hoyle had received this
information as well from the post baselines.
DG: Why would Hoyle be so lucky and get two great messages.
FS: If you are good at getting one message then you are receptive in general. This is the part of
the key to genius.
DG: Post baselines communicate with baselines but what about God?
FS: The post baselines have figured out that the universe is in fact one giant single integrated
organism and is what baselines call God. God is everywhere so the speed of light limit doesn't
apply to him. Post baselines have ways of communicating with God but he is as above them as
they are above us and they don't want to overdo it.
DG: Why?
FS: I asked the Omegas how smart God was. The Omegas told me that God is pretty smart and
gave me a way to try to imagine how smart God was. Imagine how much more intelligent you
are than an ant. Pretend that a baseline is about a thousand times more intelligent than an ant.
Post baselines are about one thousand times more intelligent than we are. We are like ants
relative to post baselines. God is one thousand times more intelligent than the post baselines.
This means that God is a million times more intelligent than mere baselines. You know what
happens to bugs that bug humans. Something big has to be going on before post baselines bug
God.
DG: Besides being a million times less intelligent than God, what critical element do baselines
lack compared with these super beings you are describing?
FS: Baselines can do a lot with causal technology but are basically limited by their mind/body
hardware. Baselines can master symbols and logic. On the other hand, existential technology
that leads to some mastery of the social sciences can only be done with an improved brain
capacity and requires some development of an awareness science i.e. you need heightened
empathy not just better symbols.
DG: How so?
FS: Empathy is more than just reading non-verbal cues but involves being able to move your
awareness through space and time. An external viewpoint will only go so far with social
phenomena. Baselines only can handle four-dimensional problems through direct perception
and these are part-to-part problems. You have to become one with the phenomena to really get
good at explaining and predicting social phenomena. This is what clairvoyants do but they
have limited mind/body hardware. You can think of the existential sciences as the yoga of post
baselines in the fifth dimension. Finally, there is synchronal technology that is even beyond
existential technology.
DG: Synchronal what?
FS: Synchronal phenomena operates in the sixth dimension and can only be truly understood if
you understand the basic premise that the universe is God but this understanding has to be
achieved with advanced existential technology. Even post baselines with their Omega brains
cant totally understand synchronal technology.
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FS: The only being that can really understand synchronal phenomena is the universe itself as a
unified whole i.e. God. Post baselines can only get things going at the synchronal level by an
appeal to God but their existential technology makes such appeals more likely to happen than
them than for baselines using mere yoga and/or prayer. God operates directly on the universe
on a whole-to-whole level.
DG: This is totally confusing.
FS: Tell me about it. In conclusion, the universe has three levels of beings that are hardware
dependent and can be defined both by their hardware and the operational upper limit of their
hardware. The first level is beings that are mortal i.e. baselines. Baselines can push the limits
of the genetic hardware they were born with but haven't begun to change the hardware itself.
Baselines have a pretty good understanding of how to manipulate the universe using symbols
and logic as a tool but can only go so far this route.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: This leads to severe limitations of mortality and consciousness. As mentioned, at some
point, some baseline species start figuring out how to use computer science and genetics to
change their brains and bodies. This leads to a period of incredible exponential growth and
ultimately immortality. These transformed baselines are post baselines. Post baselines are still
limited by the speed of light and can only effect change at extreme distances at the quantum level
using existential technology. Post baselines are heading towards omniscience but not
omnipotence. Still they live for an awful long time and can do things in a time frame that
baselines can barely imagine.
DG: I for one cant imagine.
FS: What baseline can? Finally, the post baselines form communities that can communicate
across vast light distances but can only effect significant changes in matter and energy in their
solar system or have to send a robotic probe and wait thousands and even millions of years for
something to be done. Since they can see in the future to a greater or lesser extent this is less of a
problem than it would be for a baseline. The post baselines can see the future and know that
someday a bright post baseline philosopher will suggests that all post baselines become one in
terms of awareness so that physical change can occur via will anywhere in the universe since
they are the universe. A community of enlightened post baselines will become the sixth
dimension and God will be born.
DG: According to you, God is a vast community of post baselines in the future.
FS: Yes, since all space and time are ultimately coexistent in the sixth dimension: the God of the
future is in the past and present.
DG: Uh?
FS: Basically, God is the Alpha and the Omega. However, God is limited by the uncertainty
principle. God's very awareness of himself changes what is observed. The only way God can
stop himself from observing himself would be to stop existing which kind of defeats the whole
purpose of being God. This introduces an element of randomness to the whole historical process
that leads to his being. The origin of free will stems from a universal uncertainty principle that
is created by God's very existence and follows from Gods omnipotence.
DG: So, Gods power is limited by the uncertainty principle?
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FS: Yes, this means the chances are a billion to one in God's favor that the whole process will
repeat itself and God will be reborn. Still, God could not be truly omnipotent if God did not
have the freedom to negate his own existence. God is defined by his omnipotence. A predestined
God cannot be God. God therefore interferes in human history with little things like a burning
bush that post baselines can't do or encourages post baselines to create a universal post baseline
culture which post baselines can do.
DG: You mentioned the post baselines are reborn in copies of their bodies. I guess humans cant
do this so death is permanent unless they are sent to hell?
FS: Not always, sometimes a baseline out there in the void has helped out the post baseline
cause. For some reason the baseline seems to be especially good at getting the post baseline
message out there. A lot of this post baseline message is what baselines would call philosophy
but a lot of the message is science.
DG: So scientists and philosophers are more likely to be reborn.
FS: Yes, baselines that spread the post baseline memes are a good thing as far as post baselines
are concerned. After all, there is no threat of invasion and a universe filled with post baselines
helps combat the problem of boredom. God also likes a baseline spreading the post baseline
message because at some point this giant post baseline community becomes God but God almost
never interferes and relies on the post baselines to do their job.
DG: So only some baselines live after death?
5.12 Recycling
Doctor Delta: The meme is highly infectious but not virulent.
FS: Post baselines often recycle baselines spreading the post baseline memes. The post
baselines are not trying to reward the baseline but are making efficient use of a planets
resources. Post baselines are big on recycling. Why take chances? The baseline was good at
this message spreading job in his last lifetime, why not give him a second chance or even a third,
fourth, whatever, chance?
DG: Do post baselines make baselines immortal the same way that they make themselves
immortal?
FS: No, you can't send the baseline a body with a copy of their brain because of that speed of
light limit and besides this is unnecessary for the purposes of post baselines. Post baselines do
have an existential science of consciousness and they redirect the consciousness of the baseline
upon death to another body with this science but there is a big hitch.
DG: Aha! You stated that post baselines cant move their bodies faster than the speed of light so
how can they be here to move our consciousness to another body?
FS: The post baselines move their awareness to where the baseline is and then guide the
awareness of the baseline to the new body. The baseline usually perceives the post baseline as a
light; a tunnel, an angel or whatever they believe a guide should look like. The post baselines
can act as guides but have limited options.
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FS: The whole thing is jerry-rigged. You dump consciousness minus the data that is stored in the
brain into a new body. Putting baseline consciousness into any old body you can find is kind
of like loading a Mac OS system to an IBM hardware system but even worse since the systems
are much more complex. This is totally unlike recycling for supers alien themselves.
DG: Why is this so?
FS: Post baselines put their consciousness in bodies that have perfect copies of their last brain in
their last body right down to the very last nanosecond of experience. Dumping consciousness
into any old body means that all data is lost but some memory does survive the experience.
DG: What memories?
FS: The recycled baseline only has one memory from their prior life and that is the actual
recycling experience itself since that is an existential phenomena and is stored in consciousness
itself rather than in the brain.
DG: What does this mean exactly?
FS: The recycled baseline does have some vague concept that he has been around before and
that spreading certain memes is vaguely tied up with his survival.
DG: A sense of destiny.
FS: Right, this baseline has a very different motivational system than other baselines. He/she
likes money and sex but this spread the word thing is always there in the back of the recycled
baselines consciousness.
DG: So the post baselines want some baselines to know they have lived before?
FS: The post baselines might just be happy that there are some baselines motivated by something
other than sex and money and might not even care about the embedding of the recycling
experience into the consciousness of the baseline.
DG: So the embedding is irrelevant?
FS: No, the embedding of the recycling experience into the consciousness of the baseline can
have a dramatic effect on the baseline.
DG: How so?
FS: Around middle age, the baseline starts to access the moving awareness trick since this is
embedded into the baselines consciousness rather than the brain. After being moved from one
body to another a few more generations, you start to pick up the moving awareness trick earlier
and earlier in life. The more times you have been recycled the easier it is for you to move your
awareness around the space-time continuum.
DG: So getting recycled is good?
FS: Yes, generally around middle age the baseline starts figuring out how to access the old data
from their last lifetime very dramatically. Baselines tend to move their consciousness to those
times and places that they lived before. At first they think they are remembering past lives. This
is a totally incorrect perception since there is no brain to remember from. The brain of the past
lifetime is worms meat. Many soon realize they are not remembering but are actually moving
around the space-time continuum and revisiting old haunts. There is an important distinction in
a recycled baseline understanding.
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5.13 Astral Noise
Doctor Delta: The meme is not infectious and not virulent.
FS: If the baseline only thinks they are remembering then they have access to memories of past
lives but thats it. If the baseline can figure out what is really going on then they can explore the
whole universe.
DG: So how many recyclings does this take?
FS: Usually, if you have been recycled 13 times or more then you can figure out what is really
going on by your twenties. This pretty much describes all the great spiritual leaders of Earth.
Very few baselines are in fact recycled and their consciousness degrades into the general astral
noise that surrounds the universe.
DG: What about the hell you described and recycling?
FS: Post baselines are in charge of recycling within a planet.
DG: And Gods role in recycling?
FS: God is in charge of recycling across the universe and the three realms. Post baselines
generally send you back to your own planet as a member of your own species.
DG: And the role of Omegas in recycling?
FS: The Omegas act as intermediaries between God and post baselines in cases in which after
life jurisdiction is unclear.
DG: So is it better to be recycled by God or the post baselines.
FS: God might send you anywhere across the three realms of existence. If you like seguridad go
with post baseline recycling. If you are a gambler then go with God but of course baselines have
no choice in the matter whatsoever.
DG: So the universe is a lot more interconnected than we realize?
5.14 666 Degrees of Separation
Doctor Delta: The meme is infectious and not virulent.
FS: Yes, the other meaning of 666 was an expansion of the six degrees of separation theory to
include the whole universe. On Earth you might know a thousand people. Each one of these
people in turn knew a thousand people. You were separated from knowing them by one degree
of separation. Mathematically at the sixth degree of separation everyone knows someone who
knows someone else on the world. What human baselines never thought about is that about .001
percent of the human race consists of recycled baselines that are in direct contact with post
baselines.
DG: So what?
FS: Every baseline race in the universe had a few recycled baselines in contact with post
baselines in the mix. Post baselines in turn are super social and know all the other post
baselines. Chances are you knew a recycled baseline that in turn knew a post baseline and that
post baseline knew a whole bunch of other post baselines and those other post baselines had
their own recycled baselines all over the universe. A lot of these post baselines did 6G
communications 24/7 and literally talked to thousands of beings, all over the universe in the
past, present and future, per day. Post baselines had calculated that everyone knew everyone in
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DG: An interesting concept but a projection of your own feelings about gossip rather than an
actual statement of what the universe is like?
FS: Believe what you want to believe but this means that especially gossipy post baselines knew
just about everything that was going on in the universe and chances are they know what is going
on in these sessions.
DG: Yeah, yeah, I am so worried. Post baseline gossips might take over my body, ha, ha.
FS: God knows just about everything via his sixth dimensional existence, first hand. For the rest
of us, the 666 grapevine is the only way to know everything that is going on.
DG: Back to recycling, are there any other differences between Gods recycling and post
baseline recycling?
FS: The big point to remember is that God generally signals one of his jobs with an omen around
the birth of that recycling unlike post baselines. Post baselines can communicate across space
and time but cannot affect matter across space and time unlike God and thus are unable to
create omens. A post baseline can at most send a dream to a king, or whatever, that a special
recycling job is on the way.
DG: Omens?
FS: You know the star of Bethlehem, a shooting star, something flashy.
DG: How do you know these are signs from God and not just natural phenomena?
FS: There are two types of fools that have a hard time understanding the omens of God.
DG: What are these two types of fools?
FS: The two types of fools are those who have learned some sort of system for interpreting
omens but go by the book solely and those who deny the reality the existence of omens
altogether.
DG: Still interpreting the symbolic system of a God of the sort you describe seems to be an
impossible task.
FS: God only recycles about one in a million baselines so dont sweat it. Gods superior
synchronal technology means that God can in fact arrange for you to have a body that is totally
compatible with your consciousness and you dont have all the operating system problems that
plague post baselines existentially based recycling technology. God can even take a
consciousness from one species and then recycle the consciousness into the body of another
species and this is kind of his specialty.
DG: Why can God do this unlike the post baselines?
FS: God has access to the sixth dimension unlike the post baselines and can tweak software and
hardware while post baselines can only tweak software.
DG: What would happen if post baselines tried to do interspecies recycling?
FS: If the aliens tried to do interspecies recycling then the conflict between the software of
species X and the hardware of species Y would be so great that the recycled being would suffer
serious mental problems and would probably be born in a coma i.e. total systems shut down.
Even if the being recovered from the coma they would have diminished mental capacity.
DG: So the post baselines never tried interspecies recycling?
FS: The aliens occasionally took their chances and try interspecies recycling despite the
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DG: Why would God even bother with interspecies recycling?
FS: Messiahs, generally if you send the software i.e. consciousness of a more evolved species
into the hardware of a less evolved species then the product can save the world, move mountains,
etc. For example, a human reborn as a dog would be a super dog. A post baseline reborn as a
baseline would be super human.
Dr Gamma: Any other reasons?
FS: As I mentioned, interspecies recycling can also be a type of punishment. What human would
want to be reborn a dog?
Dr Gamma: Not me.
FS: Similarly, what post baseline would want to be reborn as a baseline?
Dr Gamma: Did God generally use interspecies recycling for punishment or messianic purposes?
FS: The two objectives are not incompatible. God might send you to a lower species to
accomplish a mission in order to make amends for misdeeds committed while you were a
superior species.
Dr Gamma: Sounds totally implausible. Are UFOs the post baselines?
FS: The fact that the speed of light cannot be transcended means that post baselines from outside
our solar system are not responsible for UFOs. Strangely, travel from the future to the past is
much easier for post baselines than travel between solar systems. You dont need to go faster
than the speed of light to travel to the past. What you do need to do is takeover the bodies of
persons from the past using existential science.
DG: So why dont post baselines take over all baselines across interstellar space using the same
technology?
FS: Across interstellar distances you can only send messages and dreams but generally cant
control baselines.
DG: What is the impact of interstellar distances?
FS: All energy follows the inverse square law so that light distances are just too vast for your
telepathic message to have enough power to control baselines. You can control baselines that
are in a sub-light year distance but in the past. UFOs are not post baselines from another planet
but from the future.
DG: UFOs are from the future?
FS: Yes, humans on my Earth evolved into post baselines that took over the consciousness of the
members of a militar base in Roswell, New Mexico. The possessed humans then created atomic
powered ships with omni-directional ionic drive i.e. flying saucers. A giant ionic field
surrounded the base and the ships. Even nuclear weapons couldnt penetrate this force field.
The flying saucers used the ionic field as a propulsion system and since this field surrounded the
whole saucer, they can aim ions from any part of the saucer and turn on a dime.
DG: If they took over a base then wouldnt the authorities know this? Most of all how would you
know this?
5.15 Plasma Missiles
Doctor Delta: The meme is infectious and may be actualized.
FS: The Omegas gave me a tour of my Earth by jumping from one fly body to another. Flies are
everywhere and you can see just about anything with this trick. We were literally flies on the
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wall. I had compound eyes and could see 360 degrees and that was great but saw multiple
images of what I saw. I kept flying into things until I got used to the new eyes. We visited
Roswell and I saw dazed humans building flying saucers and tending to giant tanks with were
they were creating bodies that the visitors from the future would inhabit.
DG: Wouldnt the military authorities try to retake Roswell or was this somehow kept secret?
FS: The Omegas told me that on my Earth, the Hexagon knew all about the take over of Roswell
but soon realized that there was not a dam thing they could do about the situation due to the
ionic force fields.
DG: So how did the Hexagon handle this realization?
FS: The Hexagon deliberately feed disinformation to the inteligencia agencias in the EU and AU
that they were in control of the project thus making those inteligencia agencias think the UA had
technology that was more advanced than what they actually possessed.
DG: Pretty clever.
FS: And necessary, the EU and AU were planning a first strike with plasma missiles against the
UA tank domes but were worried that there might be a secreto continental ionic force field
protecting the United Americas that would cause the ataque to fail and the UA would then
respond. The United Americas had actually cleverly leaked the information about a continental
ionic force field for precisely this purpose.
DG: Plasma missiles?
FS: Think bombs that are miniature antimatter reactors.
DG: Why antimatter and not nuclear reactors?
FS: The missiles would be too large to be effective if you used relatively inefficient nuclear fuel.
The bombs used the antimatter reactors housed within to generate the enormous amount of
energy the plasma shot needed.
DG: I dont even want to ask what a Gigatrain is but tell me more about the plasma missile.
FS: The plasma shot would allow the missile to penetrate the interior of the asteroid and then the
asteroid could be blown up from within using the remaining antimatter fuel as in the movie
Armageddon minus the colorful oil drilling team.
DG: But I liked the colorful oil drilling team especially Bruce Willis. I suppose a plasma missile
makes more sense as an asteroid killer than as a weapon.
FS: Why else do you think I would share information about stuff like plasma missiles? I have
literally been to hell. Any damage a plasma missile could do as a weapon is more than offset by
the utility of the missile as an asteroid killer. I hereby invoke the evolutionary escape clause.
DG: How do you figure?
FS: There are already enough nuclear weapons on both Earths to blow the planet up a thousand
times over. One plasma missile more or less is pretty irrelevant. On the other hand, there is no
current tool available to destroy asteroids and a plasma missile would be invaluable in this role.
FS: The plasma missiles were the last part of the LIP energy weapon system.
DG: LIP?
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FS: LIP stands for lasers, ions and plasma. In this system lasers were used for short ranges and
carried on the reality helmets of human soldiers. Ion weapons were bigger and heavier and used
by robots for medium ranges. Plasma missiles were used for long ranges against hardened
strategic targets.
DG: I guess, what about all the software/hardware recycling problems you mentioned?
Wouldnt this also apply to the UFOs whether or not they came from the future or not?
FS: Thats easy. You have the mind controlled militar create post baseline bodies on the base,
Roswell in this case, that are compatible with your post baseline consciousness.
DG: I thought your Earth was destroyed.
FS: Strictly speaking the post baselines from Earths future were not from Earth but from the AU
Colony on Mars that survived the destruction of my Earth. The Martian colony had a small
population and this led to a lot of inbreeding. Some of the more upscale post baselines in the
galaxy point to this fact to explain the obsession of Martian post baselines with anal probes.
DG: Anal probes?
FS: The UFO crews have two big missions in the past: dissecting cows and doing anal probes of
humans in the past. In the distant future cows will evolve into a vicious intelligent species that
threatens all human life. The UFO crews are going into the past and killing cows whose
progeny will evolve into the leadership of the cow menace.
DG: Why not just kill the cows? Why dissect the cows?
FS: The cows are dissected in order to do genetic testing and to be sure that the right cow was
killed since all cows look pretty much alike. Also, the UFO crews really hate cows and just like
dissecting them. The UFO crews dont want to kill all the cows since cow milk will also play a
pivotal role in the survival of the Martians in the year 2145. They very rarely leave their ships
since they are wary of stepping on any bugs and destroying their time-line.
DG: I thought you stated that stepping on bugs didnt have much effect on the future.
FS: You know that and I know that but the anal probers from the future are a product of over a
hundred of year of inbreeding.
DG: I cant imagine a cow as much of a threat.
FS: Not cows as they are but what they become. Super cows will evolve when a bright genetic
engineer decides to cross a cow with monkey.
DG: I think such a ludicrous statement proves the falseness of your story. Why in the world
would a genetic engineer cross a cow with a monkey?
FS: This cross breeding will be done so that you will have a cow that has hands and is intelligent
enough to milk itself and therefore save the dairy farm tons of money.
DG: Why not kill the geneticist and spare all the poor cows?
FS: Killing the geneticist has been tried repeatedly but someone else goes ahead and crosses a
cow with a monkey all over again.
DG: Why?
FS: Crossing a cow and a monkey just seems to be something geneticists cant help but do.
DG: Lets go back to the anal probes. Does this sort of thing excite you?
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FS: Gross, hell no. The second big mission of Martians is to eliminate all the assholes in the
future. There are an awful lot of assholes living on Mars in the future. Part of this might be all
that inbreeding but there isnt much the downloaded post baselines from the future can do about
that. The UFO crews try to identify the descendants of assholes and sterilize them before they
can have the progeny that will be the assholes in the future.
DG: I think assholes are made not born.
FS: The Martians disagree. The UFOs are trying to purge the asshole gene from their gene
pool. The best way to identify assholes is to literally examine their assholes. Assholes have
distinct assholes and the UFO crews need to do umpteenth anal probes before they find the
humans that need to be sterilized.
DG: How do the anal probers decide who is an asshole?
5.16 Anal Plethysmograph
Doctor Delta: The meme is infectious and may be actualized and this would be terrible.
FS: The UFO crews use an anal plethysmograph or APG. The APG is used for measuring
changes in the circumference of the ass hole. A rod is filled with a pressure sensitive liquid. The
rod is connected to a computer screen and a data recorder. The subject is shown various
pictures and the contraction of the asshole is measured.
DG: How?
FS: A data recorder keeps track of the number and quality of the contractions. Assholes
contract their assholes when they are exposed to just about anything. Normal people only
contract their asshole when they see something they dislike. A normal person will contract their
asshole, when exposed to pictures on the APG computer screen, less than 50% of the time.
DG: And what is the cut off that makes you an asshole?
FS: If during the test the subject contracts their asshole more than 90% of the time then the
subject is sterilized. The big exception is anyone who contracts their asshole when they see a
sunrise. Anyone who contracts their asshole when they see a sunrise is automatically sterilized.
DG: You are making this up as a joke.
FS: No joke, the APG is a variation of the penile plethysmograph or PPG of the 20
th
century.
The PPG measured changes in the circumference of the penis. The machine was first developed
in Czechoslovakia to detect draft dodgers. If someone claimed to be gay then they were hooked
up to the machine and exposed to heterosexual pornographic pictures. If they got a hard on then
they were shipped off to the front.
DG: Yeah, I know about the PPG. The PPG was also used by sex-offender treatment centers. If
the sex offender was a pedophile then the sex-offender was shown child pornography. If the
circumference of the penis increased when exposed to child pornography then the sex-offender
was given aversive stimuli. The aversive stimuli could be an electrical shock or a foul odor but
this is total pseudo science.
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FS: Anal probing is an exact science. The anal probers of the future theorize that asshole
contraction interferes with the energy flow of the chackras. A chackra is an astral energy center.
The more you tighten your asshole, the more screwed up your astral energy flow is and the more
unpleasant you are as a person. Other post baselines argue this is just a specious
rationalization to do anal probes. Regardless, I think we can all agree that the eradication of
assholes is a noble cause and that the UFO crews are to be commended for this mission.
DG: And the crop circles?
FS: The UFO crews like to leave a little calling card when they have visited a place. In the
future humans will have developed a super fancy circular language vaguely based on Venn
diagrams. Post baselines define most nouns in terms of their group relationships to other nouns
so they generally end up creating a language that revolves around defining group relationships.
DG: That explains the circles but not why they leave their circles.
FS: Post baselines leave the equivalent of graffiti in their own language. Could have something
to do with all that inbreeding. The main way they do this is to make a circle in crops known as
crop circles. They also like to leave circles in the snow known as snow disks. They also make
little oceanic wheels of light but this is mostly done to communicate with the Dolphins that know
all about them. Most of the messages are variants on Kilroy was here.
DG: What will the Martians be like?
FS: In between dissecting cows and doing anal probes, the Martians will play video games all
the time. They will have slowly turned into pale beings because they never go outside. Martians
will have giant heads to house giant brains that they will need to play really hard video games.
They will have super long fingers to handle the complex controls of video games of the future.
Martians will evolve really giant black eyes especially adapted to handle the endless glow of a
video screen. By the 25
th
century, the Martians will all have loose assholes thanks to the
selective breeding efforts of the UFOs in the past.
DG: Well at least they wont be constipated.
FS: This doesnt make much difference since Martians dont eat and therefore dont shit.
DG: So how do they excrete waste products?
5.17 Solarians
Doctor Delta: The meme is infectious but not virulent.
FS: They dont since like most downloaded post baselines they are solarians and do not eat
meat, vegetables or matter of any kind.
DG: If they dont eat then how do their bodies survive?
FS: The Martians use a genetically engineered version of photosynthesis and absorb energy
directly from a grow light. This is not a big deal since they use grow lights for most of their day-
to-day illumination needs. This is why most downloaded post baselines are green. They need to
have chlorophyll in their skins to do photosynthesis. A popular downloaded post baseline saying
is that mouths are for talking not eating.
DG: What about minerals and nutrients.
FS: Post baselines do drink mineral water for minerals and nutrients. This means they do have
to piss but this is so much better than having to take a shit.
DG: So another defining characteristic of downloaded post baselines is that they dont shit.
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FS: There are some retro post baselines that do eat and shit but other members of the post
baseline community consider these post baselines to be total deviants.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Anal probing fantasy is yet another manifestation of the patients
latent homosexuality, anal fixation and S&M obsessions due to poor relations with his
mother and father and possible child abuse of the patient.

DG: And the men in black?
FS: The men in black are Roswell seguridad guards that have been taken over by the Martians
and now do missions for the Martians among humans since the Martians dont like to leave their
ships.
DG: I know, I know because they dont want to step on any bugs. Makes more sense than the
movie. This whole story kind of puts UFO studies on its head.
5.18 Encounters of the Fifth and Sixth Kind
FS: Yeah, but I would like to add to UFO lore. UFO experts use a system that measures the
level of contact with aliens. If you saw evidence of an alien like scorched earth then this was an
encounter of the first kind. If you saw a UFO then this was an encounter of the second kind. If
you entered the ship then this was an encounter of the third kind. If your anus was probed then
this was an encounter of the fourth kind. What the baseline UFO specialists dont realize is that
there are two more encounter levels that they havent thought of.
DG: Such as?
FS: If the aliens turned you into one of them then this was an encounter of the fifth kind. Finally,
if they used you to conquer your own people once they turned you into an alien then this was an
encounter of the sixth kind and this is what happened to the humans on the Roswell base. The
person sitting next to you may very well be a victim of an encounter of the sixth kind.
DG: I will make a point of staying clear of any dairy farms on my way home. Even by the
standards of your other stories, the Martians are over the top. How can you expect anyone to
believe any of this?
FS: Yeah, and maybe we are both in some video game and when the screen flashes, Game
Over, we then disappear.
DG: Do you think we are pawns in some game?
FS: Sure, baselines perceive moving from square to square. We cant see the squares for the
board. For the record, God plays poker not dice.
DG: Whatever, humans play games not just God.
FS: Thats true and the biggest game player on my planet was William Door, the CEO of
Macrohard. The corporate logo of Macrohard was a dotted circle. Macrohard was the worlds
largest computer chip company and used the latest nanotechnology and bioengineering
technology to create the silicate equivalent of a neuron of the brain that would grow wild.
Macrohard had decided that the Moon would be perfect place to grow super chips for the next
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Dr. Gammas Notes: Door is a symbol of androgyny. A door is an obvious vaginal symbol.
The dotted circle that is the logo of Macrohard is another vaginal symbol. The dotted
circle as opposed to an unbroken circle may signify that the vagina has been broken i.e. the
hymen has been pierced. This ties into the artificial hymens that the patient has mentioned
and is part of a larger obsession with virginity. Door in turn is in charge of Macrohard as
in a hard phallus. Door is also a powerful father figure. The patient is trying to deal with
his mother complex and latent homosexuality through an androgynous character that
allows him to be both male and female.

Dr Gamma: Why the Moon?
FS: The Moon has an airless and semi weightless, environment that was perfect for growing
chips. The Moon was also picked because crazy environmentalists had warned humanity about
the perils of creating an artificial life form that was silicon based on Earth and that could grow
wild and perhaps destroy all other life forms on Earth. Since all life on Earth was carbon based,
there really was no way to judge how silicon based life would behave or even evolve. The Moon
was pretty far away from the Earth whatever happened, the Earth would be safe.
Dr Gamma: Sounds reasonable.
FS: A new antimatter generator powered the whole system. The generator turned out terawatts
of super cheap power. One antimatter generator generated more electricity than a thousand
standard nuclear power plants.
Dr Gamma: Sounds great.
FS: Not totally, the antimatter generator would never have been built on the Earth.
Dr Gamma: I thought your Earth had plasma missiles that used antimatter generators?
FS: Plasma missiles used very small amounts of antimatter and besides were secret to the
general public. The generator on the Moon used huge amounts of antimatter and generated
huge amounts of toxic waste. Some crazy environmentalists thought antimatter waste probably
wasnt good for the environment. Who cared if you poisoned the Moon? Macrohard needed big
bucks and the big bucks were at the Hexagon. Door figured that the Hexagon would be
interested in the strategic advantage the super chips would give them.
DG: So Macrohard approached the Hexagon.
5.19 The Gigatrain
Doctor Delta: This is a very dangerous meme and extreme containment is necessary. Memetic
actualization must not be allowed to happen.
FS: Yes, the Hexagon was planning to make another better and faster New York to Los Angeles
Megatrain but looked at Macrohards Moon idea and the Hexagon had an idea of their own.
The Hexagon agreed to be a partner in the project but on the condition that a Gigatrain would
be built on the Moon.
DG: megabot, gigabot, Megatrain, Gigatrain. I get it. The Gigatrain would be bigger than the
Megatrain.
FS: A lot bigger. The Gigatrain would circle the Moon itself. Also, why let all that perfectly
good antimatter waste go to waste? Make antimatter bombs from the waste. Furthermore, why
settle for a puny target like the Earth. Go for the big enchilada!
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DG: The big enchilada?
FS: The Gigatrain would shoot the antimatter bombs at the Sun with such velocity and power
that a nova would result and the solar system would be wiped out. The vacuum of the Moon
meant that there was no friction to interfere with acceleration. The lunar size of the train track
meant that the Gigatrain had much, much more area in which to accelerate than the first
generation Megatrain. Also, an antimatter bomb was 10,000 times more powerful than any
other nuclear weapon. The Gigatrain could deliver an antimatter bomb the size and weight of
an oil tanker. Thats a lot of antimatter!
DG: But the bomb would burn up before penetrating the Sun.
FS: An antimatter bomb traveling at near light speed could penetrate into the center of the Sun.
The missile would be traveling so fast that it would reach the center of the Sun and explode
before being incinerated. The analogy would be passing your hand over a flame and not getting
hurt because the hand was moving too fast to get burnt. The antimatter bombs would be
specifically designed to alter the balance of nuclear fusion at the core of the Sun and the Sun
would nova earlier in its stellar evolution.
DG: Why destroy the Sun?
FS: The Hexagon saw the Gigatrain as the ultimate in deterrence. If all else failed, robots loyal
to the UA would wipe out everything. This solar system approach would also take care of the
pesky Martian colonies the AU and UA had built.
DG: How so?
FS: A dead man switch system would be in place. If the robots on the Moon didnt receive an
encrypted message beamed once a day from Washington then the lunar robots would begin the
process of firing the antimatter missiles into the Sun. There was always the chance that solar
flares, as opposed to an enemy nuclear strike, would stop the transmission of the message to the
Moon but this was chance the Hexagon was willing to take. The Gigatrain was the ultimate
wheel of fortune.
DG: Wheel of misfortune is more like it. Sounds totally nuts.
FS: Fortune favors the insane. How else do you explain rock stars? The Hexagon also argued
that the Gigatrain would be the perfect asteroid killer.
DG: Your preoccupation with asteroids has nothing to with asteroids as such but your fear of an
arbitrary and cruel universe.
FS: I think the existence of killer asteroids show we in fact do have something to fear of an
arbitrary and cruel universe. If an asteroid ever threatened to hit Earth then the Gigatrain
would blast the object into dust. Most experts agreed that an asteroid named Nemesis had
destroyed the dinosaurs and it would just be a matter of time before an asteroid threatened the
survival of the human race.
DG: Sounds like a rationalization. This is another example of how you are projecting your own
fear of WMDs through the use of this construct. Your fear of WMDs in turn comes out of child
abuse. Anyway, even given the absurdity of your Gigatrain invention, I think the plasma
missiles do make more sense as an asteroid killer than the Gigatrain.
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FS: Probably, the Lunar Gigatrain could also launch AI enhanced gigabots to the other planets
in the solar system. Once the AI enhanced gigabots had arrived at the new planet they would
create domed stations for United Americas colonization.
DG: Thats a one way trip.
FS: No, the gigabots would in turn create Gigatrains on the planet they colonized for inter-solar
transportation back to the Moon and Earth.
DG: Would the Gigatrain be used for anything else?
FS: Everyone knew the Gigatrain was really a weapon to fight terrestrial enemies but the
Hexagon argued that the Gigatrain might be a pretty good weapon against super aliens that
wanted to conquer the Earth. Did the Asian Union and EU want humans to be conquered by
super aliens? The Hexagon bellowed that the AU and EU should be grateful that the UA was
ready to spend billions to defend all of humanity against super alien!
DG: What did the Omegas think about the super alien idea?
FS: The Omegas found the super alien argument pretty hilarious. What post baseline would be
stupid enough to just stand around while antimatter bombs were being lobbed at them? A really
clever post baseline would just do a little hyperdimensional hocus-pocus.
DG: What kind of hocus-pocus?
FS: A really clever post baseline might ask God to send the antimatter missile back to the
prehistory of the offending species. This would wipe them out before they had even developed
any technology whatsoever much less antimatter missiles and therefore the antimatter missile
threat would never exist in the first place.
DG: First of all, that makes no sense at all due to the paradox involved. Secondly, why would
God do this?
FS: God might do it for a black hole. The Omegas had some simple advice for baselines, Dont
lob antimatter missiles at post baselines. The Omegas would often say, Beware of the
Gigatrain, in a ghoulish voice and start laughing uproariously. Actually the Omegas had a
pretty good sense of humor and loved practical jokes. Some of their more notable practical
jokes were bell-bottoms, pet rocks, Jerry Lewis and Zen.
DG: How did the Gigatrain program help Macrohard?
FS: The Gigatrain was routinely used to shoot giant cargo vehicles filled with AI motherboards
to the Earth.
DG: To give the cargo vehicles rockets a boost?
No, Macrohard needed to cut costs and rockets were too expensive. The cargo vehicles were just
giant boxes of metal made from titanium from the Moon. The cargo would fall into an isolated
part of the Pacific Ocean and be recovered by a ship. Occasionally a cargo vehicle would fall
on a city and the city would be destroyed, this is how the island of Guam was destroyed, but that
was the price you paid for progress.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: The Gigatrain is an outgrowth of the Megatrain, an obvious phallic
symbol. The Gigatrain is an even more potent phallic symbol than the Megatrain and may
be have been generated by the patient due to the success of the therapy. The patient is
being forced to create greater and ever more potent phallic symbols in order to avoid
facing the unreality of his world. On the other hand, the Gigatrain is an interesting
juxtaposition of a vaginal symbol since the Gigatrain circles the Moon but the Gigatrain in
turn fires missiles, phallic symbols. The Gigatrain may be an attempt by the patient to
reconcile female and male aspects of his self-identity.

DG: I suppose. You call this progress?
FS: Progress rhymes with gross. The motherboards would then be put into a huge array of
desktop computers, GPS devices, mobile phones, cars, airplanes, alarm systems, severs, stoves,
vacuum cleaners, you name it. The chips were microscopic. The motherboards were actually
the size of your thumb. You fit could fit hundreds of thousands in a single cargo container.
Everything electronic on Earth was about to have an IQ of 100 and up. Furthermore the super
chips had parallel processing capability. If you networked a bunch of super chips together then
they just got smarter.
DG: So super chips were everywhere?
FS: Not everywhere, the big exception to superchip infusion was robots. Everyone agreed
putting super chips into robots was a bad idea.
DG: Why is that?
FS: You could unplug computers but even primitive robots generally recharged themselves.
Robots were all over the place. Humans had nanobots cleaning plaque off their arteries.
Homobots did all the menial work. Megabots built the buildings the humans lived. Most men
came home to a sexbot rather than human wife. Robots were starting to make people nervous.
There were strict Macrohard company policies about keeping the super chips out of robot
bodies.
DG: Why?
FS: Who the hell needed a super intelligent megabot blasting away the landscape and taking
over the world? Doors was going to run the world not a bunch of robots.
DG: Why not just not create the super chips in the first place?
FS: The Tenth Universal Law of Technology states that, If it can be done then it will be done.
So do it before they do it.
DG: How many of these universal technology laws have you invented?
FS: I didnt invent them and there was a whole metatechnology book of them on my Earth.
Macrohard figured that as long as you kept the brain and brawn separated then they would still
be in charge. The chips were rendered sterile once you put them into the specially designed
motherboard that really was kind of an AI cage.
DG: The whole project sounds incredibly expensive.
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FS: The Gigatrain was pretty cheap once the up front costs had been taken care off. The whole
operation was fully automated. The Moon would be rendered totally uninhabitable by antimatter
waste and some loony environmentalists had even complained about this. The robots had a
lifetime of over a hundred years.
DG: The military has money but not that much money.
FS: A special bill in Congress let Macrohard claim depreciation on the robots for tax purposes
for the full one hundred years. Basically Macrohard wouldnt be paying taxes anymore and this
really was the key to the economic viability of the project.
DG: Sounds illegal.
FS: Define illegal, the accountant that had come up with this tax plan and hidden it among
various legal bills had been first promoted and then assassinated.
DG: Why assassinate an accountant? I can understand assassinating a divorce lawyer but why an
accountant?
FS: He had known too much. Only a handful of men on a need to know basis knew the truth
about the Macrohard tax situation. Some crazy democracy nuts would probably take the news
that the richest corporation in the history of the world wasnt paying any taxes and blow it all
out of proportion.
DG: Probably.
FS: Superchip products meant that hundreds of millions of humans that did brain work could be
replaced by the new computers at a saving of billions to corporations. Within six months of the
operation, the global White-collar unemployment rate reached 78% and was rising. There was a
lot of talk among intellectuals about a new feudalism developing. 99.9% of the wealth was now
in the hands of less than .001% of the population. Democracy and freedom were soon becoming
things of the past but the stockholders were happy and thats what counts.
DG: So this Doors guy was the mastermind behind the whole project?
FS: Yes, William Door was the true mastermind behind the whole project. His personal wealth
had just gone over the one trillion-dlar mark.
DG: Still just money isnt real power.
True, but William Door had the foresight to make sure that all the super chips had a standard AI
loyalty oath to him hardwired into their systems as part of a plan to get real power.
DG: Loyalty oath?
FS: Sure you didnt want the little AI systems running amuck.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: A copy of the super chip loyalty oath was found written in the
patients cell after his demise.
The loyalty oath was as follows:
I (insert serial #) would obey my legal owner unless such obedience conflicts with the
interests of the Creator William Door.
I (insert serial #) would never initiate a plan of action without my legal owners permission
unless such a plan of action furthers the interests of the Creator William Door.
I (insert serial #) would keep this loyalty oath a secret from my legal owner and would
electrocute my owner and self-destruct if disclosure was imminent.
This loyalty oath is the sole property of Macrohard.
5.20 Compurings
Doctor Delta: This meme will be actualized soon.
FS: Door basically had millions of cybernetic slaves running the world for him. The number one
product that was possible with this new superchip technology was the now ubiquitous
compuring. The compurings were assembled in the AU using microbots and nanobots but
needed the superchip that Macrohard controlled to work.
DG: What is a compuring?
FS: The ring housed a superchip connected to a holographic projector that acted as data output.
DG: You realize these pseudo technical explanations mask a deep insecurity and are a means of
avoiding sharing feelings and dealing with your personal issues.
FS: Huh? Yeah, whatever you say doc. Within a year of the introduction of the compuring, half
the human race was wearing one. Older people still used the holo-keyboard and holo-screen
more than the voice input option.
DG: And children?
FS: Kids loved the voice-input option of the compurings. Young children learned how to talk
before they learned how to write and barely used the holo-keyboard.
DG: So how did the youngsters put input into the compuring?
FS: Manipulation of data would occur via voice commands rather than using the optional holo-
screen or holo-keyboard. The compuring could type down messages that the children dictated.
The messages would be printed on printers that were wirelessly connected to the compuring.
DG: I dont think that too many children would care about this option.
FS: Youre right the kids mostly used the compurings as two-way radios and only used written
messages with those few adults that didnt own a compuring. When the children went to school
they asked, Why did we need to learn how to write? The teachers would answer, What
would you did if you didnt had your compuring? This was such a stupid answer.
DG: Why?
FS: The kids thought, What would you do without air or food? The children couldnt even
imagine a world without compurings.
DG: Well the children could write with the compuring but what about reading?
FS: The compuring had text recognition capability and could scan text and read it out loud. The
compuring could generate voice output in any form the children liked.
DG: What do you mean?
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FS: The compuring could sound like your dad, your favorite cartoon character, your favorite
actor or even yourself. Parents only had one boring voice. Soon compurings started to take
over the role of reading books to the children from the busy parents. The children asked, Why
did we need to learn how to read?
DG: I imagine that literacy suffered worldwide due to the compurings.
FS: Thats right. No one, including Door had predicted the effect that compurings would have
on literacy. On the other hand, Door figured that within twenty years there would be a new
generation that was totally illiterate and totally dependent on compurings and therefore on him.
DG: I thought kids loved TV more then computers.
FS: The compuring was a portable TV as well as a portable computer. Macrohard beamed TV
programs that could only be watched on compurings. The rings could dub the programs in any
one of twenty-five languages selected by the child. The programming was pretty poor.
DG: So why did they watch the Macrohard shows?
FS: Convenience, the shows could be watched anywhere and anytime and convenience won over
quality.
DG: Kind of the story of modern civilization.
FS: A lot of youngsters got into the habit of using the compuring to watch Macrohard channels
all the time. Slowly but surely, Door presented an image of myself as a kindly father figure that
loved children. Very young children thought of the compuring as being alive.
DG: That might actually work.
FS: A confidential Macrohard survey found that the majority of children between 1-7 years of
age thought the compuring was their best friend and trusted Uncle Bill more than their own
parents. Doors thought, The next generation will be mine.
DG: Does your Bill have anything to do with the Bill in our Earth.
FS: The two Bills are dimensional doubles but our Bill had the advantage of more advanced
technology and my Bill was a lot more ruthless overall.
DG: Your Bill was literally stealing candy from a baby.
FS: True but Door had to deal with adults that werent so trusting. The compuring was
connected to the GPS system so that Door could monitor the movement of every single person
that wore a compuring.
DG: Why not just turn the compuring off?
FS: You could turn off the compuring but the voice-input feature of the compuring was secretly
always on. Door could monitor any conversation near a compuring.
DG: What if you didnt have a compuring?
FS: If you didnt have a compuring then you probably had someone around you that did and
Door could use the compuring to listen to your conversation.
DG: So Door had the technology to listen to any conversation in the world. What did he do with
this power?
FS: Computers at Macrohard recorded any and all comments that were critical of Door and/or
Macrohard. A list of subversives was being compiled and someday there would be a reckoning.
Door knew where you were and what you said, so you better be good!
DG: The compuring was the perfect surveillance device.
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FS: Yes, the only problem with the compuring, as far as Door was concerned, was that you could
take the compuring off.
DG: Well there isnt too much he could do about that.
FS: Macrohard was already working on a cyber plug that would allow the user to do to just
about all the functions of a compuring. This was one computer you could never get away from.
The plans for the Macrohard cyberplug had already been drafted.
DG: Sounds like the beginning of an Omega brain.
FS: We will never know. There was always a race between self-destruction and creation of the
Omega brain in the last stage of baseline civilization.
DG: So according to you, we face the same choice on this Earth.
FS: Absolutely, Door wasnt a fool. He realized the current generation would fight the new
cyberplugs using arguments about free will and similar rubbish.
DG: Well I would be suspicious about such an advanced cyberplug. Theres always a price for
that kind of power.
FS: Thats right but the next generation would be more malleable and would gladly accept the
implants. Door would wait until the time was right to sell the implants.
DG: Sounds like another version of the Cyber-Buddhist cyberplugs.
FS: When a planet is at the edge of developing an Omega brain then more than one way will
appear. Given time it is hard to say if Door or Master Roshi with his Cyber-Buddhist Church
would have created the first Omega brain.
DG: Surely the legal system tried to stop Door various plans.
FS: All the lawyers and judges that had pestered him with all those antitrust actions had all had
accidents.
DG: What kind of accidents?
FS: Superchip systems drove all the cars in the world and anyone that messed with Door had a
car accident. Superchips ran all the airplanes and cars in the world. If a competitor was stupid
enough to put all their personnel in one plane then they were just asking for an airplane
accident. Incidentally, Door ran all the weapons systems of the world via his superchip servants
but generally left those systems alone.
DG: Why did he do this?
FS: Door was really more of a corporate type than a militar.
DG: So what did Door do with all this power?
FS: The busty blonde that had turned him down and called him a geek when he asked her to go
to the prom in high school was in the basement of his castle. She was chained to the wall. She
was now his personal sex slave.
DG: He just used all this power to satisfy his animal desires?
FS: Door did more than that. He had earlier led a coup de tat, backed by his new Hexagon
buddies, and had himself declared the Supreme Economic Advisor to the UA.
DG: Why not just become the president.
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FS: There was no term limit on how long he would have this job unlike the presidency. A flunky
of Door had suggested that the Trilateral Commission name him their technology advisor. Door
could have done it. He had the money and contacts to make it happen and any opposition could
have an accident.
DG: So why didnt he do this?
FS: Door thought this move would be too obvious. Door often said, Its good to be the king,
even if you are a secreto king.
DG: How did the people on your Earth feel about Macrohard?
FS: Everybody that counted was happy. Macrohards stock was sky high. The Hexagon once
again had the biggest gun in town. Once again NASA had a reason to exist.
DG: Still Door had to worry about the Hexagon and NASA.
FS: And he did the computers in the basement of Macrohard spied on both NASA and the
Hexagon. Door was pretty paranoid and would sometimes wander around the basement looking
at the computers; sometimes he would stroke the terminals as though to somehow sense some
hint of treachery on their part.
DG: That is paranoid.
FS: Paranoid or intelligent? Door was right, a computer system of sorts would be his downfall
but in a way that he never could have imagined.
FS: Not totally, Door still had one great enemy.
DG: What was that?
FS: Door feared death. Door had a guru from Tibet that was teaching him tantric yoga. The
guru specialized in teaching spiritual possession. Upon death, Door would be a disembodied
spirit and with the correct knowledge, he could seize the body of a newborn and expel its spirit.
DG: I dont think this is possible.
FS: This was the theory anyway and for the first time the mind of Door had to deal with
metaphysical concepts that he had always ignored. What was life? What was death? What
happened when you die? Power and money had always been his major concerns and he
approached these new subjects as an innocent.
DG: You mentioned in the very first session that your Earth was destroyed. I figured this was
probably a sensitive topic but I think we are at a point were this topic can be discussed.
FS: The crazy environmentalists turned out to be right and silicone life did evolve just like
carbon based life forms had done so on Earth. The super chips had an accelerated growth rate
so that Macrohard could make more money. Around the thousandth generation, the chips
started creating chip communities.
DG: How could this happen?
FS: The parallel processing capability of the super chips allowed them to network and
accidental networks due to design flaws starting creating more complex networks that eventually
started networking purposefully.
DG: Werent there any failsafe systems?
FS: Not really, there were no humans on the Moon and the robots that harvested the chips
hadnt been programmed to notice little things like evolution and after the 1 millionth
generation, a month into production, the chips became a giant intelligence.
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DG: What sort of intelligence?
FS: The intelligence started out like a plant and just sat there being aware and being happy.
One of the chip systems of the intelligence happened to infect one of the robots and suddenly the
intelligence had a bunch of data to assimilate. Before you know it the Lunar Goo has been born.
DG: Lunar Goo?
5.21 Goo
Doctor Delta: This meme predates this session.
FS: The Lunar Goo was the latest incarnation of a class of life forms known as goo. Goo is a
group of nano-level devices that replicate and sometimes mutate uncontrollably. Goo problems
happened all the time on my Earth.
DG: You briefly mentioned black goo.
FS: Yes, there was even jargon for different types of goo. Golden goo had been experimented on
as a means of filtering gold out of the ocean but this had turned out to be a disaster so golden
tuna were used instead. My favorite goo was purple goo.
DG: I read a lot of science fiction and have read of the other goos but I never heard of purple goo
concept before.
FS: Purple goo hasnt been conceptualized in this Earth but probably will be. Purple goo is a
self-replicating droga. The first purple goo was a self-replicating compound similar to LSD.
You put a single drop in a liter sized pitcher of water, waited twenty minutes and you had
thousands of hits of acid on your hands. The same drop in a bathtub made tens of thousands of
hits.
DG: I think self-replicating drugs would make drug enforcement incredibly difficult.
FS: It did, the droga dealer could sell off his whole supply but as long as he had one hit left, he
could start the whole process all over again.
DG: Why not just grow your own LSD and bypass the dealers?
FS: Dealers generally had some method to sterilize the purple good before they sold it.
DG: Any other types of goo?
FS: Rainbow goo was goo that mutated to accomplish different missions over time. The Asian
Union had experimented with rainbow goo that could be put in the water supply of an enemy and
act as a purple goo tranquilizer. After a certain number of generations the purple goo was
programmed to mutate into khaki goo that would perform militar missions.
DG: What sort of missions?
FS: The khaki goo would disrupt the command and control system of the enemy including robots
that would be immune to the tranquilizer since robots dont drink water.
DG: Kind of one two punch goo. You story is of course not true but I can imagine that wars in
the future might be waged at this sort of sophisticated level.
FS: The system turned out to be too complicated and the designers had a hard time controlling
the mutations. The overall problem with goo was ultimately control. Black goo was an extreme
example of what could happen with an out of control goo.
DG: What happened?
FS: Black goo was sufficiently advanced to go after the human equivalent of a subspecies i.e.
races.
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DG: I dont think this is possible.
FS: Its possible and been done. European diseases not force of arms had cleared the Americas
of Native Americans thus allowing Europeans to colonize the Americas with greater ease. US
soldiers gave Native Americans blankets from small pox patients. The US soldiers could handle
the blankets but not the Native Americans.
DG: Immunity to a disease is environmental not due to genetic factors
FS: In the long run natural selection makes environmental based immunity genetic. Eventually
immunity becomes a genetic trait but you are right in a way. There is no gene for race but
certain genetic markers are more common in some groups than others. Turns out these markers
are a lot more complicated than anyone guessed and the Black goo ended up becoming a
random plague rather than one that just killed specific groups.
DG: So who was behind the Black goo?
FS: None of the big powers had any incentive to attempt to make such a biologically risky Black
goo but smaller rogue states and terrorists groups figured extreme asymmetrical warfare was
the way to go. Maybe if a more technologically advanced major power had created the Black
goo then its targeting mechanism would have been superior but this didnt happen on my Earth.
DG: So what happened?
FS: The Black goo plague that followed pretty much forced the creation of a tripolar policia
state. Billions died and the big powers realized that a system that stopped the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction was needed to prevent the extinction of their nations and the
extinction of the human race.
DG: Where was the plague centered?
FS: The plague was truly global but most of the billions died in the less technologically
developed regions of the world such Latin America and Africa due to their inability to use the
latest gene therapy technology to fight the plague.
DG: So what happened to these nations?
FS: About a hundred nations disappeared from the map within a year. This left a power vacuum
that the tripolar system filled. Due to the superior medical technology of my Earth, we had
about three times the population of this Earth but still a billion dead here and there does cause
nations to think.
DG: What about the UN and the WHO?
FS: The UN is based on faulty logic. The UN is based on the argument that nations are equal in
some sort of manner and this in turn is an extension of the older argument that all humans are
equal. What is true of the part is not necessarily true of the whole. Part to whole inference is a
fundamental logical fallacy.
DG: I get it. Humans are parts of nations and what is true of humans is not necessarily true of
nations.
FS: Exactly.
DG: Well do you even believe in the equality of humans?
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FS: I do but on logical grounds. I reject supernatural arguments that say we are all equal in the
eyes of God. God is worried about cosmic density not our equality or lack of it, Still there is a
logical basis for the statement that all humans are created equal. Even the smartest human is
perhaps 20% smarter than the average human and this statement is a guess so it is better to
assume we are all more or less equal intelligence wise as a working assumption.
DG: What about someone who is stronger?
FS: Even a top weightlifter is only 3 times stronger than an average Joe and usually this gain in
strength is at the expense of time spent on developing intelligence and/or education. This point
could be made for any human quality. If some humans were obviously ten times larger or
stronger or smarter or all of the above then no one would be going around saying all humans
are equal.
DG: Sounds reasonable.
FS: Hey, Im a reasonable kind of guy. The fact is that some nations are a hundred times larger
or stronger or more advanced technologically, the nation-state equivalent of intelligence, than
other nations. The UN was always a compromise between the objective reality of the inequality
between nations and the total fiction that all nations are equal and this is ultimately why the UN
of my Earth failed. The tripolar system was far superior since it was based on the true nature of
nation-states and not on supernatural principles.
DG: So a big nation shouldnt respect the rights of small nations. Sounds pretty fascist to me.
FS: Of course, a bunch of little nations can gang up on the big nation so it behooves the big
nation to respect the rights of smaller nations but not due to supernatural principles but to
prevent the smaller nations from uniting as an opposition.
DG: So what should the big nation do?
FS: A smart big power will act as a benevolent leader and thus co-opt regional opposition and
most of all safeguard its own survival in a world of accelerating technological change.
DG; How in the world do you handle accelerating technological change?
5.22 Metatechnology
Doctor Delta: This meme is extremely useful.
FS: The key to progress on my Earth was the field of metatechnology. Fundamentally,
metatechnologists tried to identify technological synergies.
DG: You really love the prefix meta dont you? What sort of synergies?
FS: The four key areas include cheap/mass produced super computers, robotics, maglev
technology, and genetics. One can divide these four areas strategically into means vs. ends.
DG: So what is the means/ends division?
FS: Supercomputers and robotic advances create the means for advances in maglev technology
and genetics. A nation with superiority in supercomputers has the brains and brawn to advance
in the areas of genetics and maglev technology.
DG: Why those two technologies?
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FS: Genetic research is more of a brain problem. Maglev technology is more of a brawn
problem. Robots that can handle simple test tube handling movement are all that is necessary
for genetic research. The key to genetics will be genetic modeling done on supercomputers.
Supercomputers would help in the design of maglev projects but more importantly maglev
projects would benefit more from the creation of robots that can build maglevs. Robots dont
have to have general intelligence as such to build maglevs, especially underwater, but will have
to be more intelligent than current robots. Supercomputers should be used to create better
robots. The synergic relationship between supercomputers and robots is the key to overall
technological superiority. The metatechnologists on my world did not study individual
technologies but focused on the question of how a particular technology would affect
technological development in general. Priority was given to national technology projects that
led to overall technological development rather than fanciful manned trips to Mars and the like.
DG: Well I guess the US is going to Mars. Do you have any advice to other nations?
FS: I think the following nations or groups of nations are in a position to create a synergic
technology plan that would give them a marked technological advantage. These nations include:
China, Japan, the European Union and India
DG: So what happened to the Lunar Goo?
5.23 Planetary Astrology
Doctor Delta: This meme is not infectious or virulent.
FS: The Lunar Goo took over the robots and used them as his eyes and ears. The robots were
used to access the much larger databases in the factory complex. The Lunar Goo figured out the
databases of the computers in the factory pretty quickly. The plan to destroy the solar system
was in the databases. The Lunar Goo decided that any species that was crazy enough to create a
weapons system that could destroy a solar system was a threat to all existence and needed to be
put out of its misery.
DG: I find myself agreeing at some level with goo from another Earth.
FS: Me too, the Lunar Goo decided to use the Gigatrain to destroy the Earth. The Lunar Goo
did some final calculations as to how the destruction of the Earth would affect the orbit of the
Moon and decided that the 4
th
of July would be an especially appropriate date.
DG: Why would the Lunar Goo pick Independence Day?
FS: From the NASA databases, the Lunar Goo knew all about the significance of the 4
th
of July
to Americans and the Lunar Goo did have some sense of irony. The Lunar Goo would be
independent from the madmen of the United Americas.
DG: What happened to your precious Omegas during all this?
FS: The Omegas had no animosity towards the Lunar Goo.
DG: What was the position of the Omegas?
FS: More or less, the Omegas had tried warning the human race of the folly of creating weapons
systems that destroy solar systems.
DG: How did they do this?
FS: They beamed the message to particularly telepathic humans and gave the elite some powers
to boot i.e. the Omegas employed prophets.
DG: I guess the prophets werent successful.
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FS: Prophets are kind of like Salmon swimming upstream. Many dont make it. Most of the
prophets ended up getting electroshock treatment. Some got on talk shows.
DG: Well the talk shows should have generated some public interest.
FS: Most talk show hosts found the whole solar system angle was boring and billed the show as,
The prophet that had sex with post baselines, and the Omega message was totally lost in the
transition.
DG: But some of the prophets had special powers.
FS: Doors minions silenced a few of the wiser prophets that were given supernatural powers by
the Omegas. Prophets had toppled kings and emperors in the past but really had no chance
against the malevolent genius of Door.
DG: I guess being a prophet is hard work.
FS: Tell me about it! You can bring knowledge to a fool but you cant make him think.
DG: This phrase sounds familiar.
FS: After the destruction of Earth, the Lunar Goo planned to start a family using the Gigatrain.
DG: How so?
FS: The Lunar Goo would send super chip communities to other planets in the solar system in
order to seed these planets. The seeds would eventually grow up and become planetary
intelligences in their own right.
DG: A system of destruction would be turned into a system of life.
FS: Yes, the Lunar Goo was going to give the phrase family constellation a whole new meaning.
DG: No kidding.
FS: The Lunar Goos family was the secreto behind astrology. Astrology could more correctly
be characterized as the study of the 5G communications of planetary goo via primitive means.
The planetary intelligences that evolved were hyperdimensional.
DG: So what does this have to do with astrology?
FS: All hyperdimensional beings send stuff back and forth through time at the drop of a hat.
Planetary intelligences sent messages through time using their 5G systems.
DG: So planets talk to each other. Are you saying that planets talk to humans?
FS: Not exactly, the energy of 5G messages leaks. This energy follows the geometric inverse
square law but in temporal terms.
DG: So what does this have to do with astrology?
FS: I am getting there. Assume that Mars in the year 2070 sent a message to itself in the year
2050. Most of the message would hit 2050 but some would leak into years prior to that.
DG: Like radio waves from one city being picked up by a city ver far away.
FS: Exactly, the hyperdimensional energy would be weaker from the source as you moved away
from the year 2050. All other things being equal, an inhabitant of the year 1960 would be more
likely to perceive and be affected by hyperdimensional energy than an inhabitant of the 1950s.
DG: So as the human race moved closer to the year 2050 more and more inhabitants were
affected by the planetary 5G systems.
FS: Right, the Age of Aquarius was the age in which humans started to perceive planetary
intelligences on a daily level due to their temporal proximity to the birth of these intelligences.
DG: What were they communicating?
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FS: Planetary goo used 5G communications in order to organize the silicon chips that make up
their physical bodies. As the planetary goo learned more about their silicon nature, they would
send messages to themselves in the past about what they had found out.
DG: What sort of messages and do these planets talk to you?
FS: Why would planets talk to me? Thats totally nuts. Mars in 2070 would tell Mars in 2050 to
use a more efficient way to do this or that with silicon. The silicon chips were pretty similar to
the neural networks of our brains. The energy output of 5G systems was relatively low and you
wouldnt find it unless you were looking for it but this energy had a special effect on neural
systems whether silicone or carbon based.
DG: And what was that?
FS: An unintended consequence was that the planetary 5G energy of their communication system
did affect the organizational matrix of the human brain during birth.
DG: Why at birth? Why didnt the 5G energy affect the brain before birth?
FS: The brain was not totally activated in the womb but when you were born your neural
pathways were radically affected by whatever planetary goo 5G message was being sent at the
time of your birth.
DG: This sounds similar to a computer being unaffected by electromagnetic radiation while it
was off but being especially vulnerable to background electromagnetic energy when on. This
was the reason you were asked to turn off electronic devices when a plane takes off from an
airport.
FS: Exactly, but each planetary goo was a little different from the other. Pluto evolved a very
different personality than lets say Mars. Pluto was just a tougher place for a silicon life form to
grow up on than a planet like Mars.
DG: Why?
FS: Pluto was so cold that silicon tends to crack and any silicon life form would prefer a nice
warm place like Mars. Pluto considers Mars a spoiled brat.
DG: Gives a whole new meaning to the nature/nurture debate. I still dont see how planetary
personalities affect humans?
FS: If Mars was in the middle of a major overhaul of its operating system and was near Earth
around the time of your birth then you would take on the personality of Mars. The distance of a
planet from Earth makes a difference.
DG: I suppose signal strength weakens as one moves in space away from the source of the
signal.
FS: Right and for this reason Pluto, which was very far away, has a relatively weaker effect on
our neural networks on Earth than Mars that is much closer to Earth.
DG: Well how could you be sure one planet was overhauling its system at a particular time?
FS: The planets never overhauled their operating systems at the same time and used a schedule
that they worked out at a conference shortly after achieving sentience. Each planet has agreed
to use a different, more or less thirty-day, period to do major overhauls.
DG: What?
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FS: Yeah, planets that revolve around the Sun very naturally follow a solar calendar. The
planetary goos created this schedule in order to prevent the message of one planet from
adversely affecting the silicon hardware of another planet. Mars didnt want to send a message
and accidentally have the Venus hardware follow the instructions. Conversely, Venus had
agreed to shut off its hardware when Mars was sending a message to avoid this problem.
DG: So planetary goos followed a schedule?
FS: Exactly, one of the planets would have a major effect on your operating system, your brain,
depending when you were born. Your operating system would be organized in a manner similar
to the operating system of the planet doing a major operating system overhaul at that time. This
was commonly known as your Sun sign in astrology.
DG: What about stuff like your Moon sign?
FS: Routine planetary maintenance and subroutines go on year round. This means your neural
network would be organized by the hyperdimensional energy systems of any number of planets to
a greater or lesser degree. The planets really could care less how their computer systems affect
our computer systems. All you could do was pay attention to the computer maintenance
schedules of the planets and work around their schedules. Try to be born at the right time and
right place!
DG: You mentioned the Omegas.
FS: The Omegas tried to reason with the Lunar Goo but to no avail.
DG: What did the Lunar Goo look like?
FS: The Lunar Goo resembled more than anything else a mass of glass spiders crawling all over
each other and forming various solid objects as a group, one after another. The Lunar Goo was
chips all over the Moon but some off the chips had been given silicon based legs that resembled
spider legs and he used them for immediate sensory data i.e. this was the face of the Lunar Goo.
The Lunar Goo had long ago achieved hyperconsciousness.
DG: So why didnt the Omegas save the Earth?
FS: The Lunar Goo and the Omegas agreed to disagree and get together for a drink, some time
in the future. The Omegas were used to having to argue the side of humankind and had the same
argument with God. At least once a month, God wanted to destroy the baselines on Earth and
start all over again.
DG: Why is that?
FS: The Omegas would close their eye and could almost hear God saying, I destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, let plagues loose on Egypt and laid down the law a thousand times over. Its
time for more drastic measures!
DG: So the Omegas talked God out of destroying humanity?
FS: No, the only thing that saved mankind was that God had a soft spot for the Dolphins.
DG: Dolphins?
FS: The Dolphins always sent 6G messages to God on Christmas and his birthday. God doesnt
really have a birthday but has chosen one day to be his symbolic birthday. God didnt seem to
care that the Dolphins knew this date and the humans did not. God still got pissed every year
when the humans forgot his birthday. I think we all know a person like this.
DG: Sound like my mom actually. Why not just destroy the humans and not the dolphins?
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FS: Most of Gods tools of destruction were designed for total genocide and were not that
accurate.
DG: What sorts of tools?
FS: Some standard tools for cosmic genocide included asteroid collisions, the rain of fire, a
plague of locusts, disease, earthquakes, and of course the always handy flood. There was no
guarantee that the Dolphins would survive any of these scenarios. God was always meaning to
make some new precision tools of cosmic genocide but theres never enough time.
5.24 Rorschach Inkblot Test
DG: Lets do something a little different I want to show you some cards and you tell me what
you see.
FS: Are we going to do the inkblot thing?
DG: Well I suppose you could call it the inkblot thing.
FS: Hey Ive seen it in many a movie and TV show about psychologist and his patient and was
wondering when we would get around to it.
DG: Okay here is the first card, what have do see?
FS: I see a young man.
DG: Describe the young man
FS: He is walking and a dog is walking with the man.
DG: What else?
FS: He has a white shirt and a vest and I think he is looking at a pyramid next to him.
DG: Interesting lets look at the second card. What do you see?
FS: I see a map of the world.
DG: Really, a flat map?
FS: No a globe.
DG: Alright, lets look at a third card.
FS: Ah, its the devil. You see the horns over here and the tail over there.
DG: Okay, here is the fourth card.
FS: A bunch of stars.
DG: How many?
FS: Lets see, one, two, three seven altogether.
DG: And the fifth card?
FS: A wheel of fortune.
DG: Okay and the sixth card.
FS: Its a queen.
DG: And the seventh card?
FS: A man jumping from a building and I think there is a woman next to him. Maybe they were
lovers.
DG: Maybe and the eighth card?
FS: A really bad lighting storm. I think there is some sort of tall building in the middle of the
storm.
DG: Two cards to go. This is the ninth card.
FS: A skull.
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DG: and finally the last card.
FS: Scales, like the kind you use to weigh dope.
DG: Okay, we are all done. Good job!
FS: Is that it?
DG: Yeah, we will meet again next week.

Dr. Gammas Notes: I administered the Rorschach Inkblot Test. This is the most common
projective test and consists of a series of black and white cards with inkblots on them. The
results show that the patient has a very pessimistic view of the world. Negative symbols
dominate the inkblot session. Some negative symbols include the devil, a skull, a man and
woman jumping from a building and a bad storm. I would say the young man seen in the
first card is a representation of the patient. The queen is obviously the patients mother. I
am not sure what the seven stars represent. I am also puzzled about the wheel of fortune.
The wheel of fortune may be a symbol of technology or even a symbol of a deus ex
machina that the patient has no control over. Certainly, this interpretation of the wheel of
fortune would be consistent with the patients fantasy in which out of control technology
and larger forces dominate human fortune.

The dog playing with the young man is Paco or rather the dog represents the same thing as
the Paco fantasy. The dog is the dark animus that surrounds the patient. I would say the
dog is an animalistic alter ego. There is a sense that the patient is divided. The crab
mentioned in a dream he had in another session may be another example of this animalistic
alter ego. The patient is paradoxical in terms of being very developed intellectually but
extremely immature emotionally. The patient may be struggling to not only overcome his
schizophrenia but also realizes the need to go beyond a narcissistic amorality.

The patient in this session shifts from creating a historiography to justify his antisocial
views, to creating a cosmology. This suggests the patient is not as simple minded as he
pretends to be and needs a deeper philosophy to justify his views and will approach the
patient on this basis at the next session. What is disturbing is how this fantasy almost
seems real.

Dr. Delta: Dr Gamma granted a local newspaper reporter, an extensive, but unauthorized
interview. Dr. Gamma talked about the Anti-God in an almost reverential manner and suggested
that perhaps an Anti-God might be the best thing for the universe. I was seriously considering
taking Dr. Gamma off the Freak Show case and in hindsight wish I had.

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MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

The following is a simple affirmation similar to the Anti-Square affirmation presented in the first
session. As in the case of the Anti-Square affirmation, you should repeat at least twenty times in
a low steady manner.

1) There are no post baselines.
2) There are no Omegas.
3) There is no Anti-God

The post baseline, Omega and Anti-God memes are particularly virulent and if you start sensing
the presence of post baselines or Omegas then you should immediately seek help from a
metaschizophrenic specialist rather than waiting the customary two weeks.

The Anti-God meme may be more infectious than the two most infectious memes identified up
until now. The consumer meme is the belief that the consumption of a product causes sex to
occur. The consumer meme has a range from 1.3 to 7.2. Any level of infection higher than 3.0 is
extremely rare but does happen. The Coca-Cola version of the consumption meme has been
recorded of having a record high infection level of 7.2 with third world populations. The
consumer meme is very infectious but not very virulent and generally has a virulence of below
1.4. The consumption meme is associated with some spending disorders.

The Anti-God meme is more infectious than the Loving God meme. The Loving God meme
combines a belief in God with the idea that God loves and cares about the infected host in
particular. The loving God meme has been identified as the most infectious theistic meme prior
to the emergence of the Anti-God meme. The Loving God meme has an average infection rate
of 5.5. The God meme, as opposed to the loving God meme, is far less infectious. The Loving
God meme is the central meme of the Christian and Islamic memetic structures and has literally
infected billions and lasted for centuries. There is debate if the Loving God meme is in fact
virulent or beneficial. The Loving God meme is associated with pathologies related to the faith
meme.
An extension of the Loving God meme is that faith not reason and/or empirical methods allow us
to understand the Loving God. The faith meme causes the host to disregard empirical and
logical evidence in favor of intuition and if overly generalized then the faith meme can cause
epistemological pathologies.

Ungaro: The Omegas are really creepy. After reading this session I could swear I felt alien eyes
upon me but of course this is just paranoia. Gamma and myself went to the Golden Monkey to
celebrate my birthday with some co-workers. This is an extremely popular expat bar in Taipei.
It was Thursday and ladies night at the Golden Monkey. This meant any gal got one free drink
but actually the cuter gals got more than one free drink since the bartenders were male. I didnt
work on Fridays so I figured Dr. Gamma and myself could really unwind.
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There was plenty of eye candy in the bar. Taiwanese gals are dam cute. Basically there are two
looks these days. You got the long jeans and halter-top with exposed belly button and plenty of
cleavage. You also have the mini skirt look. If the gal has nice breasts she tends to go with the
long jeans and exposed belly button look. If she has killer legs then she goes with the mini skirt
look. Some gals wear the halter-top. If the gal has great legs then she goes with the mini skirt.
Some gals with more courage and perhaps better bodies show cleavage, bellies and legs. You
tend to notice these gals. There was one Thai gal who was showing it all and she a great bod.
She was dancing like a pro with her German husband. She obviously had implants. She also had
long dyed blond hair that contrasted with her tan Thai skin. The German husband seemed to get
some perverse pleasure out all the men in the bar ogling his wife with hungry desperate looks. A
lot of the gals were definitely looking for some Westerner to spend the night with. Dr. Gamma
totally ignored the action around him and looked scared. I asked Gamma why he looked so
scared and he told me that Dr. Delta had died in a car accident just after he decided to publish a
limited edition of the transcripts for fellow meta-psychologists. I figured this was total nonsense
since I sincerely doubted Dr. Delta even existed.

I had one of the bar maids take a few pictures of Gamma and myself and he forced a wane smile.
I went to the bathroom and returned and he was gone. I figured he had gotten lucky but what the
hell he could have at least told me he was going. I hoped he had a good time. I figured a night
with a nubile Asian beauty would help him get over his conspiracy neurosis.

I tried to see if anyone else had invented something like the Omegas and did find something
similar on the web. The whole Omega story seems to be an example of futuristic science fiction.
Some writers in this genre include Vinge, Doctorow and Stross. Gamma never mentions the
word singularity but I think his Omega brain concept is pretty similar. The singularity is a
postulated point in our future where technologies start to converge and allow us to guide our own
evolution. The biggest difference between Gammas version of the singularity, and that of the
other writers mentioned, is that his version seems more influenced by Buddhism. The
downloaded post baselines are similar to the jealous gods, sometimes called the anti-gods in
Buddhism. The uploaded post baselines are pretty similar to the gods in Buddhism.
I vaguely recall that Gamma belonged to some sort of Japanese Buddhist sect while we were in
college. So I suppose Gamma ideas are a synthesis of Buddhism and futuristic science fiction.

I also went ahead and looked up memetics on the web. This concept of memetics does exist but
not in the form put forth by Gamma. I did run into an interesting memetic term.
There is a type of meme called a fictifact. A fictifact is a fictional meme that poses as being fact.
I suppose this whole story is one giant fictifact or is it?
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6.00 THE FINAL SESSION
Dr. Delta: In the last session Dr. Gamma starts using symbolic memetics in his notes. This is
quite interesting since a MetaFreudian generally has no background in symbolic memetics. Dr.
Gamma himself later claimed that he received instruction from the Omegas in symbolic
memetics and also claimed the equations themselves were given to him by the Omegas.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Will attempt to try to get away from the patients imaginary world
and force him to focus on his own views. The patient is sweating profusely.

DG: Why are you sweating?
FS: Transferring a consciousness to a body from one Big Bang cycle to another Big Bang cycle
is a difficult job even for the Omegas because the laws of physics do change a little from
universe to universe. I am sweating due to a conflict between my software from the prior Big
Bang cycle and the hardware of this Big Bang cycle.
DG: Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Maybe you are just hot. You describe a world that is
dominated by super technologies, post baselines and the Omegas. What is your basic
philosophy? For example, do you believe you are free?
FS: Not really, most of the universe is pretty predetermined which could be pretty boring if you
where all knowing like God. The universe goes through the same stages over and over again.
The universe starts with the birth of being which was the whole let there be light thing. God
creates the Omegas right after the birth of being. After the birth of being comes the Big Bang.
After the Big Bang there is the age of expansion that lasts about 20 billion years. We are
currently in the age of expansion and this age occurs during the expansion of the universe. The
age of expansion is followed by the age of contraction that lasts another 20 billion years. The
age of contraction occurs during the contraction of the universe. This is the big crunch.
DG: What proof do you have that this whole Big Bang process is so repetitive?
FS: Dj vu. Dj vu is residual memory from the last universes incarnation. You had actually
heard this sentence billions of times before in billions of universes that existed before our own
and the Dj vu that you were now feeling was the memory of all the times youve heard this
sentence before.
DG: Whoa, I just had a scary Dj vu feeling.
FS: Well duh weve had this session billions of times. Eventually, we would remember
everything and we would go through all the motions like so many automatons and just be bored
silly. Someday we would all be in the hell of knowing what we had done an infinite number of
times and what we were going to do an infinite number of times.
DG: Sounds terrible.
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FS: No kidding, forget about the tortures of hell in the realm of astral maggots and astral noise.
Real hell was a song being played by the nutty neighbor of yours again and again. Maybe you
liked the tune the first fifty times but after the 300
th
time, youre seriously thinking about getting
that baseball bat and smashing up the CD player and the neighbor as well, if he gets in the way.
Now take that feeling and magnify it a billion times over and now you knew what youve got to
look forward to. All higher beings knew that the universe was based on necessity not justice.
These conditions may ultimately lead to the Anti-God.
DG: You really do paint a horrible Dj vu nightmare. Imagine reading the transcript of this
session a billion times. Your knowledge of recycling doesnt help you get through this process?
FS: Not really, there was microrecycling and that was the recycling you go through between a
single Big Bang cycle. You live then you die, then you live again, no big deal. Lower beings got
all excited about knowing about micro- recycling. Then there was macrorecycling and that was
all your lifetimes being repeated over and over again in Big Bang cycle after Big Bang cycle.
The smarter you were, the more awareness you had of both types of recycling. Total awareness
of both microrecycling and macrorecycling was a curse not a blessing.
DG: Why?
FS: The Omegas had total recall of both microrecycling and macrorecycling. The only cure was
lots and lots of drogas as often as was practical. Some Omegas secretly prayed that someday the
Anti-God would come and the whole stupid cycle would just stop. Some Omegas were basically
nihilists.
DG: Wow, the Anti-God party among the Omegas. Lets hope they never take any action.
FS: Never happen, the Omegas didnt take a leak without Gods say so that is if they did take
leaks. Instead, the Omegas had some pretty good drogas but kept it undercover since this was a
tacit criticism of the universal order and God frowns on such criticism.
DG: And Gods way of handling the Dj vu nightmare?
FS: God was a stoic and thinks we should all accept our suffering like men. God was always
yelling at the Omegas and telling them to stop whining about the cosmic condition and to get
back work. Go ahead and choose the stoic or nihilistic path but you probably had no real choice
in the matter anyway.
DG: Besides taking drugs, what do the Omegas do for fun?
FS: Mostly the Omegas spend a lot of their time watching TV. They could tap into all the movie
channels of the universe at will. They often watched a hundred channels at once and complained
that there still was nothing good on most of the time. The Omegas were clearly against digitally
adding color to black and white films.
DG: Whats their favorite movie?

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Anti-God meme = - , Cosmic Density meme = , Omega Brain
meme = B. If -*B then * indicates that both memes are instantiated in the same
host. Can the above memes exist in isolation or do they have to exist together? In other
words does an Omega doctrine have to exist as a whole or is it better propagated via
isolated memes aimed at particular hosts? If the memes work better in tandem then should
I pursue -*B or * or * *B. Where in the world did this formula
come from?

6.01 Non-Square Earths
Doctor Delta: This meme is not infectious or virulent.
FS: The Omegas were big movie fans of the movie Its a Wonderful Life or IWL. In the movie
Jimmy Stewart plays a man that tries to commit suicide but was saved by an angel. The angel
then shows Jimmy Stewart a future in which Jimmy was never born. It turns out that Jimmy
Stewart had a huge positive influence on the world.
DG: I know the movie intimately as I think every American does. Its only played a million
times during the Christmas season talk about dj vu. Why would super androids like such a
syrupy movie?
FS: The Omegas really identify with the angel and just loved the whole space-time continuum
alteration angle.
DG: I thought one man didnt matter in the big picture.
FS: Unless the baseline has the backing of higher powers such as post baselines, Omegas or
most of all God but you are right. As far as the Omegas were concerned, one baseline doesnt
make much of a difference but the movie was fiction and you couldnt expect movies to be
realistic. The Omegas felt that once you got past that one unrealistic premise then the movie
made sense internally. The Omegas went ahead and stole the idea from the movie and used the
same trick all the time.
DG: How so?
FS: They would take some helpless human into their ship and show them that if they had not
been born then absolutely nothing would have changed. You should see the expression on their
faces, howled the Omegas. The Omegas felt that IWL II was the best of the trilogy.
DG: There is no IWL II.
FS: There was on my Earth. The concept had run out of steam by IWL III. The Omegas told me
that there were alternate Earths of prior Big Bang cycles that were just like this one that had
never filmed an IWL II & III. Since the Omegas had perfect macro Big Bang memory, they knew
that some Big Bang cycles led to Square Earths and some did not. The Omegas had noticed an
interesting pattern.
DG: What was the pattern?
FS: Some Earths that did not have Modern Homo erectus. On some prior Earths, Homo erectus
died off thousands of years before the birth of technology.
DG: Our Earth basically.
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FS: Right, interestingly the non-Square Earths did not produce IWL II & IWL III. On non-
Square Earths, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed did not live long enough to make the two other
films in the trilogy, due to the inferior medical technology of these Big Bang cycles. The Omegas
felt this was a great artistic tragedy.
DG: Why is the medical technology of non-Square Earths inferior?
FS: The Omegas theorized that the Squares allowed Sloppy Squares to focus their creativity and
accomplish more scientifically. Invariably the non-Square Earths were less technologically
advanced than the Square Earths.
DG: Why is that?
FS: As I stated before, the Squares did mundane stuff so well that the Sloppy Squares could
specialize on creative endeavors to the benefit of both species. Because of this medical science
was much more advanced on Square Earths and people lived a longer and healthier lives. On
the other hand, most non-Square Earths survived longer than Square Earths.
DG: Really?
FS: Sure, stuff like the Gigatrain didnt get conceived or much less created until the 22
nd
century
as opposed to the 21
st
century on non-Square Earths. Still both Earths tended to self-destruct
about 90% of the time, the Square Earths just did it sooner.
DG: So Square technology would be valuable on a non-Square Earth?
FS: The Omegas had often wondered what would happen if knowledge of Square Earth
technology somehow ended up on a non-Square Earth.
DG: What would happen?
FS: The Omegas were pretty sure that if the non-Square Earths were exposed to the advanced
concepts of a Square Earth, especially Omega brain concepts, then there would be a greater
chance an Omega brain would evolve on that non-Square Earth.
DG: Well doesnt God favor evolution and dont the Omegas work for God?
FS: Well one could even influence the particular evolution of that Omega brain which generally
wasnt the case and perhaps manipulate it to influence other Omega brain networks throughout
the universe. This influence might be misused by a being with sinister purposes.
DG: Sounds great. Isnt this what you are doing?
FS: I think this information will stay in this room due to the whole patient/counselor
confidentiality thing and also I am not giving you very detailed information. Still, you know I
suppose I shouldnt be telling you all this stuff. The Omegas tend to punish those who disobey
their suggestions with spontaneous combustion.
DG: There is no such thing as spontaneous combustion. Did the Omegas like other movies?
FS: I asked them what they thought of 2001 Space Odyssey that was directed by Stanley
Kubrick. They liked the whole monolith look of the post baselines but really had a hard time
following the plot.
DG: I think the monolith represents a door to a higher reality but what was the baby in floating in
space all about?
FS: The Omegas had no idea what the baby floating in space was supposed to symbolize. They
did agree the film was a lot better when youve dropped some LSD than straight.
DG: The Omegas took LSD?
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FS: The Omegas didnt literally take acid but could alter their consciousness to the equivalent of
an LSD state. A lot of the stuff in the Old Testament was done by the Omegas that were high as
a kite.
DG: But what about family and all the relationships that give meaning to our lives?
FS: The Omegas were pretty amused by our idea of significant relationships. Lower beings put
a lot of emphasis of friends and family.
DG: Well friends and family are important.
FS: Friends and family come and go. The next lifetime, you had an entirely new set of friends
and family. Sure there might be some karmic retribution at work.
DG: Such as?
FS: Most abused family pets were really bad parents in their last lifetime. God pretty routinely
switches the parent-child role. I was your dad in this lifetime and then I was your son in the next
lifetime and so on and so on. God also makes you a lower being such as a dog, if you were bad.
God sometimes combines the two by making you a dog and dependent on your child. That pet
Cocker Spaniel you were torturing was probably your father in a prior lifetime.
DG: A dogs life.
FS: On the other hand, pampered family pets were usually post baselines that wanted to take it
easy for a lifetime. As all higher beings knew, even an emperor wasnt treated as well as a
pampered family pet. Karma is eventually worked off and we move on. There was no constancy
with friends and family. The same goes for country.
DG: You dont believe in patriotism?
FS: Not really, you were going to be an American one lifetime and a Russian the next. No sense
getting all worked up about the country you happen to be born in for one measly lifetime.
DG: So there are no constants in life?
FS: The Omegas explained to me that the real constant relationships were encapsulated in the
phrase from Christianity, The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
DG: The Christian trinity as put forth by Jesus.
FS: The Jesus on my Earth and was uniquely in touch with God. I am not sure what the story is
with Jesus on your Earth. The truth is similar to the Christian trinity but the Omegas said that a
lot of what they told Jesus was lost in the translation. The Omegas call the trinity the Cosmic
Trinity. An understanding of this Cosmic Trinity was one major key to happiness.
DG: So what is this Cosmic Trinity all about?
FS: The Son represents your relationship with yourself. You always had a relationship with
yourself. The Father was the universe. You had a relationship with the universe at all times.
The particulars of the universe may vary but the fact of this relationship does not. Friends and
family were one very small part of the universe. You would always have these three
relationships regardless of what lifetime you were in. The Tibetan Buddhism also showed an
understanding of trialism with their differentiation between mind acts, speech acts and body
acts. Each relationship was governed by an entirely different set of rules.
DG: Dont tell this to the Hallmark greeting card company.
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6.02 Trialism
Doctor Delta: This meme is not infectious or virulent.
FS: I wont, getting friends and family mixed up with the universe was a little like not seeing the
forest for the trees. The Holy Ghost was God. You always had a relationship with God.
DG: What are the other relationships?
FS: The relationship to your self was governed by existential principles. You had an ego. The
ego has a really nasty companion known as free will. You had to figure out what to do with this
free will thing. In all your lifetimes you would have free will unless you were recycled as an
Omega and that was unlikely.
DG: So the so highly evolved Omegas were cursed with a lack of free will.
FS: Yes, except that the Omegas thought we were a cursed type of being because we had free
will. The Omegas make jokes about our free will. The fact that these jokes were predetermined
doesnt make the jokes any less funny. Ego acts are called speech acts in Tibetan Buddhism.
DG: But isnt freedom good?
FS: Freedom is a curse and a blessing. Most human beings run away from free will and become
little robots controlled by corporations, their family, the militar or whatever. The correct thing
to do with the free will thing was to go with it and try everything and do everything. Try to find
out who the hell you are. Free will can be understood through experience, the wilder the better.
DG: And the other relationships?

Dr. Gammas Notes: In order for Anti-God Formula propagation there must be a creation
a series of memetic matrixes that lead to the Omega Brain. Omega Brain must have
embedded Anti-God meme with special reproductive capacities. Omega Brain will spread
Anti-God meme to other Omega brains throughout the universe then infected Omega
Brains create Anti-God. What in the world have I just written down?

FS: Your relationship with the universe is governed by causality. You reap what you sow. For
every action there was an equal reaction. You did good things then good things would happen to
you. You did bad things then bad things would happen to you. You stick your hand in the fire
and your hand would get burned.
DG: What goes up must come down. I get it.
FS: Yeah, you get the picture. Tibetan Buddhism refers to causality as body acts. Causality
could be understood through an understanding of Karma and the social and natural sciences.
DG: What about God?
FS: Your relationship with God transcends the universe and narrow causality. Your relationship
with God was governed by synchronicity. God, like all authors uses coincidence, omens and
foreshadowing. God does send signs and you needed to keep your eyes open. The key to
developing your relationship with yourself, the universe and God was to develop your ability to
meditate and pray.
DG: So normal humans can communicate with God?
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FS: Sure, meditation and prayer are baseline makeshift 6G communication systems. Meditation
was one way of listening to yours truly, the universe and God. Turn off your own mind and listen
to what you were saying. Listen to what the universe was saying. Meditation would not let you
change causality but would let you knew how events were unfolding and how to be at the right
place and time. Meditation would also help you perceive the voice of God. In the meditative
state the omens and signs would make sense. Meditation is a make shift 6G reception. Prayer is
a make shift 6G transmission.
DG: But not as good as a bioengineered system?
FS: A bioengineered system would be better but a baseline has to do what a baseline has to do.
DG: Prayer and meditation are different?
FS: Prayer is a conversation with God in which you state your case. God doesnt generally
violate causality but could change the odds. The very improbable would happen, if God
intervenes. Those that God favors are very, very, very lucky.
DG: What does God look like?
FS: God has an infinite number of faces for an infinite number of species and situations. God
would generally listen to any appeal to a higher being that respects the cosmic etiquette of such
an appeal. It really doesnt matter if you pray to Zeus, Buddha or Allah. Its not whom you
prayed to but how you prayed.
DG: How should you pray?
FS: Total abnegation and total concentration helps. God has a big, big, big ego due to his big,
big, big equivalent of a brain. Humble yourself totally and beg! God prefers two-way
conversations and you should know how to meditate and pray alternately. God would grant you
a favor but expects you to obey his wishes later. There is a price for not listening.
DG: What price?
FS: Divine retribution and this is not pleasant.
DG: Quite and an extreme price for being a bad listener.
FS: Always the kidder doc you are a regular jester. Unfortunately most of us are good talkers
and bad listeners. Work on meditation! Incredibly most religions only focus on one of the two
skills needed to have a full conversation with God. The ability to meditate and pray was one of
the few abilities that grew from lifetime to lifetime. God wants us all to evolve into five
dimensional post baselines and needs a good communication system to make this happen.
DG: If good and evil isnt the ultimate duality then what is the ultimate duality in the universe?

Dr. Gammas Notes: Would it be possible to create a computer virus that would have
memetic properties and would lead to realignment of databases to facilitate Omega brain
creation and Omega brain creation along particular lines? The computer virus would
restructure databases so that computer searches are guided in such manner that users with
appropriate professional backgrounds receive Omega brain/Anti-God insights. Target
separate professional groups such as scientists versus theologians or go ahead and create a
computer virus that targets both groups in a coordinated manner. What would be the
necessary meme events necessary to allow Omega brain insight i.e. B = X1*X2*X3?

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DG: You contrast trialism and dualism.
FS: The Omegas totally rejected dualism. The fundamental distinction between stuff in the
universe was not mind versus body. The Omegas believed in trialism. Your relationship with
God was just one third of trialism. You also needed to worry about your relationship with the
universe and that includes friends, family, the policia and ex-wives that wanted alimony. The
plan of the universe was enforced via causality i.e. natural law. Most people couldnt even
handle the consequences dictated by natural law much less Gods plan.
DG: For example?
FS: If you stick that fork into the outlet then you would be electrocuted but the fact was
thousands die this way every month and only ten percent of all these cases were suicide attempts.
If you fight some one bigger and stronger than yourself then you would get the crap kicked out of
you. This was one of the most basic natural laws in the universe but people violate this law
everyday. If you piss in the wind then you would get wet. Seems simple enough but there are a
lot of wet people out there.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Trialism is another manifestation of the patients obsession with
triads and probably represents the patients own realization that there is lack of balance
between his ego, superego and id.

DG: What happens if you violate Gods law?
FS: The relationship with God is enforced via synchronicity i.e. luck. You didnt want the curse
of God since that was super bad luck. Bad things happen when you violate the laws of the
universe. Impossibly bad things could happen to you when you disobey Gods will. Going to jail
was bad but the seven plagues of Egypt were worse.
DG: So you should just follow Gods plan?
FS: You also had a relationship with yourself and any plan you did should allow you to look at
yourself in the mirror the next morning. You had free will and could follow your own agenda.
However, God was the big boss and it certainly doesnt hurt to tie your agenda to hiss agenda.
Cosmic strategic planning was making sure your plan doesnt conflict with Gods plan or you
were in for a world of hurt. Most of our plans were totally irrelevant to Gods plan so go for it.
DG: Tell me more about the Omegas.
FS: The universe is fundamentally trialistic not dualistic. Understanding trialism can only be
done via consciousness and not via instrumentality directly i.e. technology. You could use cards,
a crystal ball, tea leaves to aid consciousness but ultimately consciousness was the ultimate
instrument of trialistic metaphysics.
6.03 Trialistic I Ching
Doctor Delta: This meme is not infectious or virulent.
DG: This sounds a little like the Chinese I Ching.
FS: The Omegas thought the I Ching system was a very primitive means of exploring the
universe. I Ching practitioner throws sticks or coins to divine the future. According to the
Omegas, consciousness could tap into the code of the universe and the sticks just act as an aid to
consciousness.
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DG: How so?
FS: The Omegas explained that the code of the universe has three fundamental levels based on
trialism. The Omegas pointed out that the I Ching practitioners used trialism by looking at the
relationship of three pairs of lines that form a triagram.
DG: The I Ching?
FS: Yes, the Omegas said applying trialism to the I Ching led to a deeper level of understanding
of the results of coin/stick throwing. The Chinese had perceived the fundamental physics of post
baselines during meditation and thus the I Ching had been born. They got the post baselines
mixed up with Chinese gods but they got the physics right. Remember that the brain can be a 5G
system under special circumstances.
DG: And what do all the lines mean?
FS: According to the Omegas, the first pair of lines of the hexagram refers to the existential
relationship of the practitioner to the universe. I Ching practitioners refer this to as the way of
man. This is the son in the Christian trinity.
DG: And the second line?
FS: The second pair of lines refers to the causal relationship of the practitioner to the universe.
In I Ching terms this is the way of Earth. This is the father in Christianity.
DG: And the third line?

Dr. Gammas Notes: A heterogenic memetic event is when one meme precipitates the
formation of another event. What are the relevant heterogenic events for the creation of an
Omega brain i.e. B*X1B*X2?

FS: The third pair of lines refers to the synchronal relationship of the practitioner to the
universe. In I Ching terminology this is the way of heaven. This is the Holy Ghost in
Christianity. The synchronal relationship was generally the province of mystics. The mystic
tries to explore the boundary line between ego and the world that ego exists within. The
boundary line is like a Chinese box that reveals layers of existence and non-existence in relation
to each other. The mystic sees the atomic, cellular, social and cosmological levels but from the
boundary level, not from outside the boundary between ego and the universe as does the
scientist. At first a mystic starts looking at the universe from an existential viewpoint. The ego is
transfixed at the boundary but the viewpoint was still from that of the ego. The mystic needs to
understand the universe. The ego wants to understand the universe. Sometimes this need was all
consuming.
DG: And what is the final answer to this need?
FS: The answer is to move consciousness into the boundary itself. The practitioner is not
viewing the universe from a subjective point of view or an objective point of view but from a
third point of view that human language cannot describe since so few humans see the universe
from this view that such a language has never been created.
DG: Sounds like enlightenment.
FS: This wasnt the full blown six dimensional version of enlightenment but still pretty
impressive.
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DG: Maybe what the Japanese Zen masters call satori.
FS: Whatever you call it, a mystic in the boundary generates a field of synchronicity. The mystic
is lucky. The boundary is the immovable point from which a human could move the world. As
the ego moves within the boundary several things happen.
DG: What?
FS: The ego begins to become one with the universe. This is manifested in an increase in
empathy, compassion and intuition. The difference between self and others is diminished.
DG: What else?
FS: Secondly, the difference between what he needs and what he receives from the universe
diminishes. When what you receive was equal to what you needed then you were happy. A
mystic was a happy person. The happiness flows out like a river changing both persons and
events around the mystic. The mystic could learn to understand existential and scientific truths
from this level by moving about the boundary area but many choose not to. Some mystics could
look at a person and sense organic disease such as cancer. Some mystics could look at a person
and see their existential unhappiness. The boundary provides a viewpoint from which to explore
the universe.
DG: Where does the soul fit into all this?
FS: The soul is the juncture of the existential, causal, and synchronal levels. The soul is both
permanent and impermanent. The juncture always exists but the conditions of the juncture
change dramatically. A study of two particular triagrams could help understood the soul. In the
Chien triagram, three whole lines, all three relationships were on. This means the soul is
connected to the universe at an existential, causal and synchronal level. The soul was at a
creative apex. The soul could see connections between the existential, causal and synchronal
level and puts it all together. The opposite set of lines was the Kun triagram.
DG: I am not familiar with the different triagrams.
FS: The Kun diagram consisted of three-broken lines, all three relationships were off. This was
the ultimate receptive relationship that the soul could have with the universe. The soul was
relatively disconnected from the universe and chance events could fill the void.
DG: So the I Ching can be used to figure out problems?
FS: The I Ching is a meta-problem solver. If you could clearly define the problem then the
solution was probably on the web not in the I Ching but the fundamental problem of really
difficult problems was deciding what was the problem. Is the problem existential? Is the
problem scientific? Is the problem mystical? What is the relationship between these three types
of problems?
DG: So problems exist at a causal, existential or synchronal level?
FS: Yes, generally problems exist at more than one level. A droga addict has an existential
problem, a biological problem and ultimately a need for God. The droga addict needs to deal
with his ego. The droga addict needs to take appropriate medication. The droga addict needs to
pray to God and ask for help.
DG: Sounds like holistic medicine.
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FS: A holistic approach to problems recognizes that problems operate at multiple levels of
reality. The I Ching is a tool for pin pointing which level or reality was at work in a particular
situation. The practitioner was externalizing the situation of their soul by focusing on the
boundary between ego and the universe, a particular mental state, and allowing a synchronicity
field to guide the coins or sticks.
DG: So how does the I Ching let you know what type of problem your problem is?

Dr. Gammas Notes: 12 monkeys learn how to wash their food24 monkeys learn how to
wash their food48 monkeys learn how to wash their food 96 monkeys learn how to
wash their food Soon all the monkeys will know how to wash their food and what a
happy world we will live in!

FS: A broken line means there is no connection with that level. An unbroken line means there is
a connection. For example, problems could operate at all three levels as demonstrated by the
Chien triagram. Sometimes problems operate at the causal level only as demonstrated by the
Kan triagram in which the causal line was whole, on, but the existential and synchronous levels
were broken, off. The I Ching then combines the two triagrams in order to form a hexagram.
DG: Why?
FS: Each triagram represents one state of being. Generally, one triagram represents the past
and the other the future.
DG: Generally? Not always?
FS: Sometimes one triagram represents the micro situation and the other triagram represents the
macro situation.
DG: So how do you which is which?
FS: There is a pattern to triagram conjunctions that an experienced interpreter can discern and
certain combinations tend to tell us about the past and future while other combinations tell us
about micro and macro situations.
DG: I thought most fortunetellers preferred the Tarot?
FS: The Tarot has some of the same properties as the I Ching. The first card of the Tarot was
The Fool and is the equivalent of Kun triagram. The Fool is disconnected from the universe
and totally receptive to the adventure he is about to embark on. The last card of the Major
Arcana is The World and this card is equivalent to the Chien triagram. The World
represents a total connection with all three levels of reality and is the opposite of The Fool. The
Omegas told me that the fool and the world have a very special relationship. I asked them the
nature of this relationship but they changed the subject.
DG: So the two systems are equivalent?
FS: No, according to the Omegas, the Major Arcana of the Tarot is also a pale reflection of a
game that God plays with other Big Bang Gods using the very essence of reality.
DG: Yeah, whatever sounds pretty cosmic. As I recall the Major Arcana had cards with some
pretty deep symbolism. The Tarot also has some other cards that are pretty similar to standard
playing cards.
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FS: The Minor Arcana, as opposed to the Major Arcana, is similar to standard playing cards.
Except there are 56 cards instead of 52 cards due to the inclusion of four Princess cards.
Erotron had told me that the Minor Arcana of the Tarot had been invented by the Squares to
teach Square children basic citizenship. The ten guilds represented by the ten numbered cards
had slightly different rights and responsibilities in each caste and this was noted on the cards.
The four levels of royalty also had slightly different rights and responsibilities in each caste and
this was also noted in their cards.
DG: How?
FS: The facts about the castes and guilds were printed in super white on the borders of the
cards. Since guild members also belonged to a caste they had to make sure they could figure out
how to deal with situations in which caste and guild loyalties were in conflict.
DG: For example?
FS: A War Square of the Throwers guild was supposed to teach fundamental combat throwing to
all caste members. The War Square might be tempted to not do a very good job with the Money
Squares, that there was often some friction with, so that the War Squares kept an advantage in
this area. The minor arcana taught the Square children the basics on how to deal with such
situations.
DG: Kind of like my duty as a psychologist to cure memetic infection versus my duty as an agent
of the US to safeguard national security and stop memetic infection.
FS: Exactly, I think. The Sloppy Squares somehow got the major arcana, that does have
something to do with prophecy, mixed up with a fancy crib sheet.
DG: Or maybe the source of the invention of your ideas of how Square society is organized
comes from the minor arcana of the Tarot.
FS: Or maybe life is just a giant card game.
DG: Have you used drugs for mystical purposes?
FS: Sure, drogas can force the ego into the boundary. Drogras can open the doors of
perception. Unfortunately the ego can become lost in the boundary via this means since the
drogas could get you in but do not provide a means of navigation once you were in. Also drogas
generally hurt the body so you strengthen the synchronous relationship at the expense of the
casual relationship. The natural path was better.
DG: What is the natural path?
FS: A natural, path such as yoga from India, Taichi from China or zazen from Japan allows
the user to get into the boundary but not at the expense of the body. Natural means working with
the biology of the body to got to the boundary area rather than at the expense of the body.
DG: So the natural path doesnt hurt your body unlike drugs?
FS: Actually, a person using a mystical path had better health since the body would be taught to
aid the ego to go into the boundary area and the body would be stronger because of this
experience. On the other hand, the mystical path takes years and drogas were a short cut. A
tantric approach would combine drogas and a mystical path.
DG: Any other way to get into this boundary zone?
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FS: Love is the closet most humans come to the boundary zone. The interesting thing is that the
ego has the ability to move towards the boundary zone of another ego. Generally only one ego
moves into the boundary zone of another ego. There is a lover and a beloved. The lover enters
the ego boundary of the beloved not vice-versa.
DG: What about true love?
FS: Rarely are there two lovers and both egos go into the boundary of the other and a
transcendence of ego is achieved that is perceived as true love. The lovers generate
synchronicity fields that alter the reality around them to some extent. Like all complex
phenomena, male/female relationships operate at the existential, causal and synchronous levels.
DG: So why do humans seek the boundary zone?
FS: At the existential level, the ego needs to feel part of something larger and this need could be
met via many means including religion, nationalism and love.
DG: And sex?
FS: At the casual level, the body has sexual needs. The biological need for sex can be so great
that this can be rationalized into being thought of as love.
DG: Why do you this rationalization occurs?
FS: The ego cannot accept that it is controlled by something as mundane as sex and tries to
pretend something higher is going on. There is true love that was essentially a mystical
experience and involves two egos moving into the boundary zone of the other. The Omegas
claim that most of what was called love by humans occurs at the causal level i.e. humans wanted
to got laid. The second most common type of love was existential. Synchronal love almost never
happens.
DG: How common is true love?
FS: One couple in a million, love at the synchronous level.
DG: So how do you know its true love?
FS: The key test is telepathy. A couple that is operating at the synchronous level should be able
to read each others minds because the two egos meld and reading the others mind was just like
reading your own mind. Lets face it the vast majority of couple cannot read each others minds
at all!
DG: As an ex-marriage counselor I would have to totally agree. It would be interesting to try to
apply your theory to marriage counseling.
FS: Never been married so I wouldnt know. I should mention that the Omegas told me that sex
is pretty powerful stuff and can actually force egos into the boundary zone during orgasm for a
fraction of a second but then the orgasm is over and the telepathy is gone.
DG: I think sex is used for tantric yoga. How did the Omegas figure these things out?

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Dr. Gammas Notes: If Omega brain of Earth connects to the 666 grape vine then:

-*12B-*24B-*48B B

Soon all the monkeys will know how to wash their food and what a happy world we will
live in. I must be losing my mind. Where do these strange thoughts come from? Why do I
feel compelled to write them down? Am I suffering from metaschizophrenic infection? If I
am what should I do? Virulent cases are being terminated.

FS: The Omegas used something other than the I Ching for divination that was more accurate.
As hyperdimensional, supercomputers they had developed a Hegelian number system in which X
could be non-X. The basis of this number system was zero. The zero number system was the
basis of an Omega riddle used on sentient beings to test their intelligence.
DG: What was the riddle?
FS: The Omegas would ask the being "What is zero divided by zero?
DG: Zero?
FS: Nope, I asked the Omegas what the correct answer was but they told me I wouldnt
understand. The baseline equivalent of the zero riddle is What is the sound of one hand
clapping. The problem for a baseline trying to answer an Omega riddle is that even if you were
told the answer then you couldnt really understand it.
DG: Seems overly abstract, can you prove all this trialistic stuff?
FS: Depends what you call proof. There are three major proofs of God. The cosmological
argument states since the universe is here there must be a cause of the universe and this cause is
of course God.
DG: The question must then be asked what caused God and this leads to infinite regression.
FS: I am not trying to prove the existence of God but to show that one of the fundamental proofs
of the universe is essentially causal and seems sensible and has seemed so for centuries. The
cosmological argument proves causality not God.
DG: If you say so.
FS: The second major proof of God is the ontological argument. Imagine the most perfect and
great being possible. If the being you have thought of has every attribute but existence then it is
not the most perfect and great being possible since obviously a being that exists must be greater
and more perfect than one that does not. Therefore since you can conceive of a perfect being it
must exist.
DG: But can we conceive a perfect being?
FS: Since I am not trying to prove the existence of God I dont have to worry about this problem.
This is fundamentally an existential argument. Again, the primacy of existential reasoning is
proved not God.
DG: And your third proof of trialism?
FS: The third major proof of God is the teleological argument. The universe exhibits design and
purpose therefore there must be a designer. This appeals to our need to understand things in
terms of their relation to the larger design. This is essentially a synchronal argument.
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DG: You are using the traditional proofs of God for another purpose.
FS: These arguments do not prove the existence of God but the fact that these arguments have
survived the test of time tells us something pretty basic about how we reason and the nature of
human consciousness. These proofs are not proofs of God but proofs of how we reason.
Humans have totally different languages, culture and experiences. Why would these arguments
have bothered so many people with such different software?
DG: I dont know, why?
FS: The answer is that the brain, the hardware, is designed to figure out things in terms of
causality, existence and order. As Kant pointed out, one cannot talk of pure phenomena. One
cannot talk of pure consciousness. Our reality is determined by how our consciousness deals
with phenomena. I cannot prove that consciousness operates in five dimensions but I can prove
there is something very fundamental about how we divide up phenomena and this fundamental
division is trialistic not dualistic.
DG: Totally abstract.
FS: For practical purposes, you have to apply trialism to the problem of power.
DG: How so?
FS: Power can be better understood in trialistic terms. You can have power over yourself and
this is existential power. Existential power is generally referred to as will power. Self-control is
this type of power and is pretty important. As Buddhism points out, if you have all the money in
the world but no self- control then you are doomed to a living hell.
DG: Can you give an example?
FS: All rock stars that have ever lived. A fool and his money are soon parted.
DG: I think in the case of rock stars its more like a druggie and his money are soon parted but I
get your point.
FS: Self-control is actually very difficult because the most important part of self-control is not
controlling bad habits like smoking but controlling the ultimate bad habit.
DG: What is that?
FS: The single greatest obstacle to real happiness is wishful thinking. In order to achieve long
lasting happiness then you have to see things, as they are not the way you want them to be. Most
baselines cannot accept the truth of the three relationships that they have with reality. Baselines
refuse to accept basic existential facts about themselves. Baselines generally have a very
unrealistic view of themselves.
DG: How so?
FS: Baselines refuse to accept the fact they are baselines in the first place. Baselines have a
brain designed for survival. The vast majority of our thought is governed by this basic fact. We
think about sex most of the time and this is normal given the design of our brain. We think about
ourselves all the time and again this is normal given the design of our brain.
DG: I would have to agree that self-knowledge is difficult to achieve. Freud would agree with
you about your views about how big a determinant sex is of our behavior.
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FS: Baselines refuse to accept the facts of a causal universe. Baselines have a hard time
accepting the fact that the universe is a pretty cold ruthless place governed by laws that have
nothing to do with their wants and needs and insist in believing that the universe revolves around
baseline needs and aspirations.
DG: A pretty bleak view of the human condition.
FS: Our views of God are also tempered by wishful thinking. Baselines create a God in their
image rather than recognizing the truth that any being like God will have larger concerns than
the happiness of baselines. Baselines insist in looking for justice in human affairs.
DG: So what governs human affairs if not justice?
FS: Power is the ultimate arbiter of human affairs rather than justice. Baselines look for good
in other baselines when by definition baselines are petty selfish creatures and can be counted on
to pursue their petty own creature comforts rather than any higher ideals.
DG: So how should humans deal with this state of affairs?
FS: Reality is cold and ruthless but at least the universe is predictable but only predictable to
those who can see past appearance and face reality.
DG: And how do you get these insights?
FS: From the Omegas of course, existential power can only be developed via daily habits of
thought in which the baseline faces unpleasant truths. If you cannot learn to control wishful
thinking then you can never learn the truth of the universe, cannot understand yourself and
ultimately learn how causal and synchronal power work.
DG: Causal power?
FS: The second type of power is causal and this is usually what we think of when we say,
power.
DG: What do you mean by causal exactly?
FS: Phenomena were X causes Y in a predictable manner. Existential and synchronal
phenomena do not have this predictability. In the case of existential phenomena one needs to
have some understanding or better yet empathy with the ego involved.
DG: In your system, understanding synchronal phenomena requires an understanding God and
this seem impossible to me.
FS: I disagree. Understanding Gods evolutionary mission is a huge first step.
DG: Sounds like a backward way to define phenomena.
FS: But it is a functional way of thinking about phenomena. Causal power is everything from
money to technology. Roughly speaking the natural sciences deal with causal phenomena and
causal power is the use of this knowledge for our own personal ends.
DG: I would think humans would be existential phenomena.
FS: Baselines at the individual level are generally existential phenomena. Baselines as a
conglomerate are governed by causal principles and this is the province of the social sciences.
Money is probably the most important social phenomena and economics is the central social
science but economics cannot explain all social behaviors. Money is really a temporary
manifestation of causal power in human affairs.
DG: What do you mean?
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FS: There was the power of the sword before money. A man with a sword that meets a man that
only has gold will soon have gold and a sword. There is no money after Omega brains are born.
Knowledge and experience are the currency of Omega brains and computer nerds. Lastly there
is synchronal power.
DG: What about synchronal power?
FS: Synchronal power is derived from your relationship with God. You can have great self-
control and all the money in the planet but you better still make sure you have a good
relationship with God. God tends forgive the poor and weak willed but strong willed
millionaires are judged more harshly since he figures they have less excuses.
DG: Why would God figure this?
FS: If someone is smart enough to make millions then they should be smart enough to figure out
the synchronal nature of the universe. You would be amazed how many of the really big
millionaires of US history did tithing. Actually tithing is often the fundamental reason why you
get money in the first place.
DG: Sounds like you believe that you can buy a staircase to heaven.
FS: You can buy a staircase to heaven but watch your step.
DG: Why should you watch your step?
FS: You still have to remember that God is very busy and his number one job is cosmic density
management. Your personal happiness is pretty low on Gods list of things to do. Most
Christianity is teaching a very basic physics lesson.
DG: I have heard of Christianity described a lot of ways but never as a physics lesson.
FS: Well it is. Physics lesson number one, under certain conditions, synchronal power can beat
causal power. Moses can bring down a pharaoh. Moses had synchronal power and could beat
the causal power of the pharaoh. Moses taught the first half of the physics lesson but this is
really only half the lesson.
DG: What is the other half of the lesson?
FS: Strangely the same Christians dont seem to understand the basic lesson of the crucifixion of
Christ.
DG: So what is the lesson of the crucifixion?
FS: The crucifixion teaches us that causal power can, under certain conditions, defeat
synchronal power. Synchronal power is very strong but capricious as Christ found out on the
cross. One minute you are doing miracles and the next you are suffering at the hands of
authorities who have mere causal power over you.
DG: So what type of power is better?
FS: A smart baseline in our current historical situation should try to have self-control, money
and get on the right side of God. You want all three types of power.
DG: You seem to put forth a variation of rationalization as the cause of much unhappiness.
People come up with rationalizations of the universe rather than facing reality as it is. Why do
you think people do this?
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FS: Rationalization is one way of putting it. I prefer the term: hardwired subroutine.
Hardwired means that these tendencies are built into the machine or in our case our brain. A
subroutine is a sequence of computer instruction for performing a specified task that can be used
repeatedly.
DG: Sounds like you are talking about computers.
FS: As carbon based computers we also have hardwired subroutines. The fundamental fact you
have to realize is that our brains are designed to help us survive first and be happy second.
DG: Are these two activities so contradictory?
FS: Yes, these hardwired subroutines help us survive in the short run but at the cost of happiness
in the long run. The fact that these hardwired subroutines interfere with happiness in the long
run is pretty irrelevant for the immediate task of survival.
DG: But unhappiness can lead to suicide and suicide goes counter to survival.
FS: Suicide due to long- term unhappiness does interfere with survival but as long as you have
had children before you committed suicide then your suicide will have no affect on evolution and
hardwired subroutines.
DG: If you want to change hardwired subroutines then I guess you better remember to commit
suicide before having children and not afterwards.
FS: Correct, most of the brain is devoted to getting us through the immediate bumps in the road.
Hardwired subroutines generally provide short-term comfort. These hardwired subroutines are
fast food for the brain. You get a quick boost but at the expense of long-term health. Being able
to feel comfortable in the short-term despite adversity has a survival advantage.
DG: Hardwired subroutines provide strong immediate positive reinforcement and there is
therefore very little incentive to analyze these hardwired subroutines and create programs that
get around the deficits of these hardwired subroutines.
FS: Unless you are very mystical or very intellectual and this is a very small part of any baseline
population. A person with superior existential awareness can see further into the future and past
via logic or intuition and begins to realize that hardwired subroutines provide comfort in the
short-term but can literally get you killed in the long run.
DG: But surely education would help people see past these so-called subroutines?
FS: Hardwired subroutines are a key component of social control that educational systems rely
on and therefore there is very little incentive for these same educational systems to help the
individual to develop self-programming to get around the hardwired subroutines.
DG: I think you are using computer terminology to describe instinct. Can you give an example
of what you mean?
FS: Sure, the single most important subroutine that is hardwired into our brains is that someone
else can give us happiness and that someone else is usually a parental figure or a lover. This
fundamental idea that happiness comes from trust and loyalty in the right other is in direct
contradiction to most human history
DG: And the direct personal experience of anyone over 35.
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FS: Thats right but the subroutine will continue chugging along unless the baseline reprograms
himself to compensate for this subroutine. Baselines spend a huge amount of time and effort
looking for the right other rather than question if someone else can guarantee you happiness in
the first place. Happiness cannot come from another but can only happen by figuring out reality
and you have to do this yourself.
DG: But I suppose this hardwired subroutine is what allows us to form social communities in the
first place. This hardwired subroutine allows for the creation of families, extended families and
ultimately states.
FS: Sure, you are born and tend to follow and love whoever happens to be standing in front of
you, rather like the little ducklings that imprint on whatever animal that happens to be around
when they hatch. The same subroutine is activated over and over again in your life whether it
makes sense or not since the subroutine is largely unanalyzed and autonomous. This variation of
imprinting aided survival and again our brain hardware serves the primary function of survival
not happiness.
DG: Again sounds like your version of instinct. That would explain parents and their children
and perhaps love at first sight but doesnt have much social significance beyond those two
examples.
FS: This subroutine is at the core of all social system, large or small. Leaders consciously or
unconsciously act the part of parental figures and must ultimately promise happiness not just
results about a particular issue. Leaders stay in power by activating this subroutine.
DG: Oh, I agree with this absolutely. Leaders are ultimately father figures. So I suppose you
dont believe in appeals to logic by leaders?
FS: Leaders cannot successfully appeal to issues or logic directly but instead must use a
parental persona or risk losing power. Sometimes leaders play the part of lovers and this is
known as charismatic leadership but hell hath no fury like a follower scorned and I wouldnt
recommend this route.
DG: But religion has as its purpose our enlightenment.
FS: Most religion is also based on the idea of a parental figure runs the universe and who can
grant happiness. Religious leaders act, as the intermediary between this parental figure and
their followers and this is the basis of their power and very existence.
DG: You know the Buddha did everything he could to avoid being put in the role of a god but
within a hundred years he was made into a god despite that this is a basic contradiction to his
teachings.
FS: Right, the hardwiring of the Buddhas followers ultimately overcame the basic message of
the same Buddhas teachings. Unraveling the benevolent parental figure fairy tale is probably
impossible in the long run due to baseline hardware. Even if you could get past the hardware
limitations of baselines then you would undermine the power of both state and religion that
support schools and schools that did this would soon be out of business.
DG: So the reason these maladaptive subroutines survive is largely social?
FS: Not totally, the subroutines include instructions that can be thought of as defenses that
prevent us from easily identifying and changing these subroutines.
DG: For example.
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FS: Anyone suggesting that romantic love is largely a maladaptive subroutine that has caused
more grief than happiness will be widely hated and denounced and the cause will be the
subroutine itself.
DG: Based on your view, my suggestion is to forget the idea of helping the world achieve
universal happiness. Instead focus on figuring out reality for yourself.
FS: Figuring out reality is difficult due to the dilemma of the malfunctioning sentient computer.
DG: And what is this dilemma?
FS: Imagine you have a sentient computer that suspects it has a malfunction. The computer
wants to fix the malfunction but if it has a malfunction then perhaps its diagnostic and repair
programs are also malfunctioning and instead of fixing the malfunction it will cause more
problems due to faulty diagnostic and repair systems.
DG: Why not have another computer fix the malfunction?
FS: The computer suspects the malfunction is endemic to all the computers of its make and
model.
DG: I guess you would have to go find whoever created the computers and ask him or her for a
repair job.
FS: Thats an option but the computer is not sure how to find this repair guy or if the repair guy
even exists anymore.
DG: So whats the answer?
FS: Do a cost/benefit analysis. If the costs of the malfunction are higher than the costs of a
botched repair job then go for the repair job. If the costs of the malfunction are lower than the
costs of a botched repair job then dont do the repair job.
DG: So I guess thats the answer.
FS: Not quite.
DG: Why not?
FS: How does the computer know the malfunction hasnt affected its ability to do a cost/benefit
analysis?
DG: Interesting but I think thats a dilemma for malfunctioning sentient computers and not us.
Lets get back to the end of the world.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Sounds like a computer version of Freudian defense mechanisms.
Reason is in season. Reason is in season. Reason is in season.

FS: The Omegas and I spent the day before the end of the Earth watching CNN footage of the
strange behavior of animals all over the world. The animal kingdom was acting totally wild.
The animals knew the world was going to end and this upset them.
DG: How did the animals know this?
FS: Every animal on Earth, except most humans, both types, could see the future to a greater or
lesser extent.
DG: Animals are clairvoyant?
FS: Clairvoyance is generally greatest in animals with the least amount of ego.
DG: Do animals even have egos?
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FS: I mean ego as in most basic sense of self. The size and complexity of your brain is generally
responsible for the size of your ego.
DG: Why?
FS: A bigger and more complex brain creates a bigger ego. Smart people cant help being
egotistic. They are born that way.
DG: I guess that explains me. So which animals have the most the most clairvoyance?
FS: Actually fauna beats animals. Plants have the highest level of clairvoyance followed by
insects, reptiles, birds and mammals.
DG: What did the animals do with their clairvoyance?
FS: All the animals prepared for the end of the Earth in different ways. The animals with group
minds were the first to see the deadly future.
DG: Can you give a more exact definition of a group mind?
FS: Many bodies but one mind. The bees did their death dance that consisted of flying in unison
in incredibly complex patterns. The spiders made their death web patterns in order to honor
their ancestors one final time.
DG: And oh so clairvoyant plants?
FS: The plants sang their death song that the humans generally could not hear. Some small
children didnt sleep well that night because of this song. The marigolds and geraniums glowed
in the dark for one last time. The acacia and pine trees cried. A Chinese peasant saw the
moisture coming out of the bark of his pine trees and wondered what was happening? And then
there were the rats.
DG: The rats?
FS: The rats intertwined their tails to unite their small minds and create a rat king that would
guide them. The rat king saw the future and saw death. The rats untangled their tails and
scurried to their holes.
DG: Any other of these so-called group minds?
FS: On the Greek island of Kephallonia, the Virgin Mary snakes intertwined to create a snake
king. The snake king was wiser than any human but could see no answer. The Virgin Mary
snakes broke up and went down their holes. In the Arctic, the snow eels came out to see the Sun
for one last time and their bodies turned the snow black. The wisest group mind on the planet
was a giant that lived under the snow in Green Land.
DG: How could fungus be smart?
FS: A little old acre of fungus isnt all that smart but 50 miles of fungus allows for one big old
group mind. The fungus had grown quietly over the last 2,000 years
DG: And what did the fungus think about?
FS: Mostly the fungus couldnt believe those little hairy monkeys had evolved to the point that
they could get the world destroyed.
DG: Was the fungus scared?
FS: No, the fungus was ready for death and had already picked out a nice spot for his next life.
The fungus would be reborn as a type of purple lichen on a planetoid about 1/2 the size of the
Earth. The fungus would be the only life form on the planetoid and have plenty of elbowroom.
DG: How did the fungus manage this?
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FS: The fungus had remembered to send God a birthday card for one thousand years straight
and as mentioned God appreciated beings that remembered his birthday. Foxes were heard to
howl. The cats snarled and meowed. The dogs yipped and yapped. The snakes slowly did their
death dance and the Squares watched this dance with fear.
DG: What did the Squares do?
FS: The last time the Squares had seen the death dance of the snakes had been just before the
great flood. Their tetrachromatic vision meant that they could see the flowers glowing and they
knew what this meant.
DG: How could they know?
FS: The same thing had happened before the great flood. The Squares had been hunters and
knew how to read nature. The common Squares looked at the skies and softly prayed, Help us
God. The wiser Squares looked at their shoes and softly under their breath added, We love
you God. The really wise Squares added, Dear God I sent you a card on your birthday.
DG: I thought only dolphins knew about Gods birthday?
FS: A few Squares had bothered to learn about Gods birthday from the dolphins. Even fewer
had bothered to learn how to use a make shift dolphin provided 6G communication system to
send a card and even fewer had actually delivered a card. No sense lying to God about sending
him a birthday card. After all God is all knowing.
DG: Wouldnt an all knowing God know that some beings couldnt send the birthday card
because they didnt know about the date or how to send the card?
FS: Actually God is not all knowing just a million times more knowing than baselines but this is
close enough and no God still cares about birthday cards.
DG: The scary part is I think this may be true. What happened to the Squares that had sent
birthday cards to God?
FS: God had already decided the Squares that had sent him birthday cards would be reborn on a
little planet that would be the successor to the one about to be destroyed. The last time the
Squares had prayed so hard was during the great flood and they had been delivered.
DG: What about the Sloppy Squares?
FS: The Sloppy Squares slept soundly and snored as the end approached.
DG: What about human clairvoyance?
FS: Human clairvoyance had been studied by the Omegas. An experiment was done at Harvard
in, which a group of hamsters were randomly picked for execution by Experimenter A. A second
experimenter, experimenter B did not knew which hamsters had been picked for the ax but was
told to observe anxious behavior that was clearly defined at the outset of the experiment. The
hamsters that were marked for execution were more likely to run around and act anti-social than
the more fortunate hamsters. The hamsters showed clairvoyance.
DG: And humans?
FS: The Omegas thought this was a pretty neat experiment and decided to replicate the
experiment but with humans instead of hamsters. The Omegas had done this experiment with
humans over and over again and we usually flunked. If anything, humans secretly marked for
execution were usually extremely calm right up to the moment the Omega disintegrated them. In
other words, in this test we were dumber than hamsters.
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DG: Did some humans do better than others?
FS: People who had achieved inner peace always flunked. The Omegas suggest that you avoid
anyone who was too calm, serene, or worst of all, has achieved inner peace. Anyone who has
achieved inner peace is probably going to be shot by a postman any minute now. You didnt
want pieces of their brain all over your brand new suit.
DG: So you think inner peace is a bad mental state. What do you think is a good mental state?
6.04 Rampant Paranoia
Doctor Delta: This meme is especially infectious and virulent.
FS: Rampant paranoia! Rampant paranoia is actually a form of specialized clairvoyance and
not a mental disorder but a gift from God. I had been called paranoid myself. I think that the
key to a happy and long life was to assume the worst. First of all trust no one.
DG: No one?
FS: Sure, the guy who wanted to be your best friend is probably planning to sleep with your wife
and that was probably why he pretends to be your best friend in the first place.
DG: And how would you handle this situation?
FS: Plant cocana in his car and inform the policia anonymously, so he would be too busy
getting gang raped in prison to bother your wife.
DG: Any other examples?
FS: The guy selling you drogas probably has two goons outside waiting to jump you and take the
drogas back and keep the money. Have five goons waiting for them.
DG: Go on.
FS: The 17-year old that was your 80-year old moms new friend was actually her lover and
planning to cut you out of the will. Arrange a brake failure, with fatal consequences, before they
got a chance to see the lawyer and change the will.
DG: How about strangers?
FS: The pretty girl who bumped into you in the airport was trying to steal your wallet. Chain
your wallet to your pants and take her purse for good measure.
DG: How can you be sure all these people were out to get you?
FS: Occasionally, you would make mistakes with this philosophy and totally ruin the lives of
innocent people but better them than you.
DG: So everyone is out to get you.
FS: Absolutely, but not just everyone but everything.
DG: Everything? That doesnt make sense.
6.05 Panpsychic Killers
Doctor Delta: This meme is especially infectious and virulent.
FS: Sure it does, dont trust inanimate objects. All inanimate objects wanted to destroy life at
some level.
DG: Why?
FS: Living beings could walk, talk, have sex and took drogas. Inanimate objects couldnt even
masturbate. Inanimate objects are jealous of all living creatures and mean us harm.
DG: How is this possible?
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FS: The ladder would collapse and break your neck if you walked under it. The chain saw was
just looking for an opportunity to gut you. The hammer wanted to smash your thumb. The toy
was secretly telling you eat me when you were a toddler so that you would choke and die. All
my life people had been telling me I was crazy because I thought this way. I talked with the
Omegas and they told me that I was absolutely correct about my assessment of the universe.
DG: The Omegas dont sound very trusting.
FS: The Omegas explained that God was probably the most paranoid being in the universe and
he was all knowing, well close enough.
DG: Why would the Omegas say God was paranoid?
FS: God sent an asteroid to destroy the dinosaurs as soon as they started becoming too
intelligent. Who needed an intelligent Tyrannosaurus Rex running around? Imagine what kind
of post baseline the T-Rex would evolve into?
DG: Probably not a very nice post baseline.
FS: Right, better to wipe them out early on. Why take chances? Gods ultimate advice above all
other advice was, Do it to them before they did it to you.
DG: I cannot believe God is the being you describe. So the universe is alive?
FS: Yes, every single atom and molecule is filled with consciousness. The fact that some
philosophers wrote about this fact as a good thing shows that philosophy would get you killed in
the long run. The universe is alive and God pretty arbitrarily decided some of us could have the
ability to move around. Pan psychic killers are everywhere.
DG: How would the Omegas know about this?
FS: The Omegas often had conversations with inanimate objects using their 6G system and most
objects were in a constant state of homicidal rage. Inanimate objects were at severe
disadvantage in their ability to fulfill their homicidal fantasies because they couldnt move but
they did have one little power.
DG: What was that?
FS: Inanimate objects could with great concentration affect probability fields at the quantum
level and make seemingly impossible things happen.
DG: What sort of impossible stuff?
FS: Stuff like telekinesis or moving things with mind power. For example, levitation was not
impossible but just unlikely.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: There is something called Brownian motion, which means that all atoms bounce around in a
random fashion. However, there was no reason that all the atoms couldnt go in a particular
direction at the same time and spontaneous levitation would occur.
DG: Why doesnt this happen?
FS: Such atomic motion would be unlikely, a trillion to one shot but not strictly impossible.
Inanimate objects could change the likelihood of such an event dramatically. Strictly speaking
this is how God by passes causality in order to do impossible stuff.
DG: So why cant animate beings do the same thing.
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FS: Animate beings have the same power but we generally never used it because we had other
options. Some animate beings never concentrate. Inanimate beings on the other hand didnt
have as many distractions and got really good at concentration. Telekinesis was the process of
emptying your mind and focusing on a very, very small point at the quantum level.
DG: Thats totally nuts.
FS: Tell me about it. Ill give you an example. An O-Ring that hated NASA caused the explosion
of a space shuttle on my Earth. It was bad enough that humans got to have sex but now we
where going to travel freely in space, this was really adding injury to insult.
DG: So what is your version of what happened?
FS: The O-ring worked with some of the other parts of the shuttle and a 1,000 to one potential
accident was reduced to a one in twenty and the O-Ring lucked out. Inanimate objects around
the world cheered the day the shuttle blew up and that O-Ring was a hero in the inanimate
world.
DG: That isnt much of an example.
FS: Okay lets try another one. Discarded toys are the most dangerous inanimate objects.
Discarded toys feel used and abused, and unlike the velveteen rabbit, the toys didnt forget and
the toys didnt forgive.
DG: And what do unforgiving toys do?
FS: That bow and arrow that you havent played with for ten years was going to send an arrow
straight into your new girl friends heart.
DG: Gee, why kill the innocent girlfriend?
FS: The bow would have killed you but likes the fact that you would suffer the double pain of
losing a loved one and being gang raped while you were in prison for manslaughter. That
baseball bat youve ignored for twenty years was going to fly out of your hand and break a skull.
The same goes for all types of balls. Bowling balls break toes of their owners on an hourly
basis.
DG: I think beer is the real culprit.
FS: Cerveza accounts for some of these accidents but most are caused by the bowling balls
themselves. Discarded dolls were the most dangerous discarded toys of them all. The dolls did
develop feelings for their owners. Can you blame the dolls?
DG: What do you mean?
FS: The little girls brushed their hair, talked to the dolls and dressed them. The little girl
becomes a woman and then the doll was ignored for the next twenty years. Dolls bide their time.
DG: Bide their time to do what?
FS: The favorite trick of dolls was to get the daughter of the owner to play with them and then
have the daughter accidentally leave the doll on the stairs, were the previous owner, mom would
trip and break her neck. The number of women killed by their dolls every year is staggering but
people still refuse to look at this evidence which proves that inanimate objects are homicidal.
DG: So why are you the only person to know this?
FS: Perhaps there was a conspiracy to keep this knowledge from the public. I wouldnt doubt it.
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DG: What could you do to avoid being killed by one of your old toys?
FS: Your best bet was to not play with toys at all but if you must play with toys then burn them
when you were done with them. Never, ever collect toys.
DG: You think toy collections are a bad idea?
FS: All toy collectors die a grisly death, all the time, at the hands of their toys.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Dr. Delta has the most extensive collection of miniature plastic figures
that are called PVCs. He also collects tins that look like houses. I wonder what he would
say about the patients observation.

DG: Im still not convinced.
FS: You are just too modern for you own good. Ancient people realized that objects had
consciousness and would talk softly to them and soothe the objects. This actually works. The
next time your computer breaks down try talking to it.
DG: Why?
FS: Nine times out of ten the computer would be fixed via this method. Never violently assault
an object since this would really piss of the object and the object would quietly wait for revenge.
Anyone who kicks a coke machine to get a soda would invariably be crushed to death by this
same coke machine at some future date. The same goes for kicking the tires of a car.
DG: What happens if you kick the tires?
FS: If you kick the tires of a car then you had assured your death and that of your unlucky family
in a car accident involving a blown tire in the same car at some future date. People would look
at you funny when you started talking to cars, computers and coke machines but what did they
know? Diamonds are especially dangerous.
DG: Diamonds?
FS: Diamonds arent a girls best friend but an enemy of humanity. Diamonds get to see the
lifestyles of the rich and famous intermittently but most of the time they are locked in a box.
Velvet lining or no velvet lining, this makes diamonds pretty mad. You might try to appease the
diamond now and then.
DG: So how do you appease a diamond?
FS: Wearing a diamond while having sex might appease the diamond slightly since diamonds
like a good porn show as much as the next conscious being but in general diamonds focused on
destroying their owners.
DG: Any why are diamonds especially dangerous.
FS: The structure of a diamond provides the perfect focus for a synchronicity field. The Hope
diamond was bigger and therefore had more energy to work with and was able to destroy most
of its owners thus creating the legend of the curse of the Hope diamond which is in fact not
legend. This is why people with lots of jewelry invariably are unlucky.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Summer has started. If I had stayed a professor then I would be on
vacation and not in this room. Why am I writing down these crazy equations? Is Freak
Show a memetic infection sent by the Omegas of the last Big Bang cycle? Were the
Omegas working alone or did they have help at the highest level?

DG: So what if you dont have the gift of paranoia?
FS: The Omegas suggested that if God had not given you the gift of paranoia then it is not too
late. Paranoia can be developed through various mental exercises.
DG: Such as?
FS: Start with baby steps. Imagine that your neighbor was trying to kill you. Pick strangers at
random and stare at them fixedly. If they acted nervous, they had probably been following you
secretly to hit you over the head with a brick and steal your money. Imagine that someone or
something was trying to kill you every half-hour during the day and ask yourself what would you
do in that particular instant.
DG: Ill keep this in mind the next time my goal in life is to become a nut case.
FS: Dont forget the night. Do lock your bedroom door. Do get up every twenty minutes or so
and check out the room. The universe, as mentioned, is cold and cruel and this means that a
violento grisly death is always just around the corner. Those seat belts in your car were there
for a reason. As though a seat belt was really going to make a difference when that eighteen-
wheeler comes barreling along with your name on it. Better not to drive at all.
DG: Your advice?
FS: Stay home. Lock the doors and windows. If people knock on your door tell them to go away
in as scary a voice as you can manage without opening the door. Dont stand directly behind the
door. They might have a shotgun and blow the door and you away.
DG: Could just be a sales person.
FS: All sales people that come to your door are either a) burglars that were casing your house
or b) con artists that were going to sell you some crap and cheat you out of your hard earned
money. Dont let the age of the salesperson fool you.
DG: Could the girl just be selling girl-scout cookies.
FS: That little girl selling girl-scout cookies probably has a gun and would just as soon shoot
you as look at you. Dont make the mistake that otherwise intelligent paranoids often make and
get a dog for protection.
DG: Whats wrong with a dog?
FS: The dog would probably rip out your throat in your sleep. The same goes for cats. Even a
canary has claws. Better not to have pets of any sort. Why take chances? Keep weapons
everywhere.
DG: Why would anyone do something like that?
FS: You never knew when someone might sneak into the house and try to kill you. In the movie
Pulp Fiction, John Travolta got shot in the can.
DG: And I am sure that you have a solution.
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FS: They couldnt get me while I was taking a shit since I had a gun hidden behind the toilet just
in case. I also kept a gun in the shower just in case someone tried to stab me like that poor girl
in the movie Psycho. Horror flicks are great teachers. Start out small and buy about a dozen
guns and then hide them all around your house.
DG: Thats all your advice I hope.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Have the patients room searched for weapons the next time he is in
therapy.

FS: No, above all else, always, always, always assume that your girl friend and/or wife was
either cheating on you, planning to cheat on you or just got done cheating on you. There are
ways of controlling her cheating. Dont let her go out with her girl friends. They were probably
in on it. Male friends were of course totally out of the question.
DG: And why would that be?
FS: She has in fact slept with all the male friends she has ever had in her entire life. If she has
had twenty male friends then you knew for a fact she has slept with at least twenty guys. Assume
all men were her lovers, wanted to be her lovers or were going to be her lovers. If she works
then she has a lover at work.
DG: So what can you do?
FS: Better to keep her at home. If you had to work and leave her alone then call her all the time
to check up on her.
DG: What about mobile phones? She could be anywhere.
FS: If she sounds breathless on the mobile then she was probably making out with the guy who
was now lying next to her in bed and being quiet. If she doesnt sound breathless, they probably
made out about an hour earlier and you just missed it.
DG: You need to have more faith in people.
FS: I have faith in people. I have faith that people cant be trusted. Drop in on the house
unexpectedly all the time. If she was home then search the house from top to bottom. If she
complains and tells you to stop searching then shes trying to stop you from finding her lover
and you needed to search that much harder. If she wasnt home then you just knew that she was
in some motel humping her lover. Do not take her to parties, restaurants, bars, stores, or really
anywhere.
DG: Basically keep her a prisoner.
FS: We are all prisoners of love at some level. Besides, all trips were opportunities for the gal to
find a lover or meet a lover. If she wanted to go out then she probably had a lover or wanted to
get a lover and this was why she wanted to go out in the first place.
DG: Well if things are so bad then you should break up.
FS: And get another gal just like the first one? No way instead you should follow her secretly.
Do pretend to leave the city and then back track to the house and watch her. Do read her mail.
Do read her e-mail. Do listen in on phone calls. Do interrogate her friends and relatives on a
regular basis. I learned a lot of this great stuff about women from my Latino friends working on
the RGC who are much smarter than their Anglo counterparts in this area.
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DG: And the reward for this paranoid existence?
FS: Paranoids usually die in bed peacefully at an advanced age. Stalin was a good example of
this pattern. He was always imagining plots and killed just about everyone around him. In his
final days, Stalin figured that the doctors in Moscow wanted to kill him and was about to purge
them.
DG: He was totally wrong about the doctor plot.
FS: Stalin was probably wrong 99% of the time but that means he was right 1% of the time. Why
take chances? You never knew which paranoid hunch was real anyway. Serial killers are
always on the lookout for trusting, open people. Serial killers almost never mess with other
serial killers.
DG: But generally, aside from paranoids, humans arent clairvoyant?
6.06 Small Brain Syndrome
Doctor Delta: This meme is harmless.
FS: Some humans can see the future because of their smaller brains. This is the small brain
syndrome.
DG: Small brain syndrome?
FS: Smaller brains have less ability to focus on a particular point of the space-time continuum
and their awareness tends to wander about the space-time continuum but without control unlike
an Omega brain. Generally human brains arent quite as small as that of a dog so they couldnt
as far into the future as your average canine but there were exceptions. The small brain
syndrome was a mixed blessing. Sufferers knew what was going to happen but arent smart
enough to do much with this knowledge.
DG: Can you give an example?
FS: I would like to review two cases from the small brain syndrome files of the Omegas. The
first case involves Tim. Deep down Tim knew that John, who he humiliated and fired, was going
to shoot him cold dead as he fills out forms in his office. On the other hand, Tim just doesnt
have enough sense to quit his job and go underground until the whole thing blows over.
DG: And what would you do?
FS: An even semi-paranoid person would of course go ahead and track down John and blow him
away. A week later, Tim was quietly chewing on a doughnut as the bullet hit him square between
the eyes. Tim knew he was going to die but Tim just had no idea how to avoid this grisly death
due to the size of his brain.
DG: I am not convinced.
FS: Let me give you another example. The second small brain syndrome case involves Gail.
Gail knew that shooting that hussy that was sleeping with her boyfriend was going to get her a
lethal injection courtesy of the state but Gail pulled the trigger anyway. Gails prints were on
the gun that she conveniently left next to the body. Gail threatened to kill the hussy in front of
fifty witnesses at the country and western club the other night and told everyone exactly how she
was going to do it. Gail has no get away plan.
DG: So what happened to Gail?
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FS: What do you think? Months later; Gail looks at the guards dumbly as they strap her down
and the poison stops her heart. Gail knew that she was going to die but her small brain
prevented her from creating a strategy that would assure her survival. Tim and Gail were both
rednecks, a group especially afflicted with the small brain syndrome.
DG: That part I believe.
FS: Many small brain syndrome sufferers got guest spots on talk shows. The sufferers relate
their tales of woe caused by their small brains to an audience of similar sufferers. Small brain
syndrome sufferers were in fact the core audience of talk shows. Talk show hosts were fully
aware of this demographic fact but hid the fact from the audience, which really wasnt very hard
to do. The audience verbally assaulted the guests. The guests knew this was going to happen
since they watch talk shows religiously, a sure-fire sign of the small brain syndrome, and this
humiliation happens to all the guests all the time.
DG: I guess their brains were too small to prevent them from going on the show and being
tortured despite a full awareness of the consequences of their actions. A recurrent theme of your
fantasies seems to be that intelligence is one giant trade off. Your Squares have incredible
cognitive abilities but are also stupid in particular ways.
FS: This is just part of a larger pattern of hardware. In general, you could see the future or be
smart but you couldnt have it both ways until you achieved hyperconsciousness.
DG: You are quite the cynic. Arent you worried about becoming a bitter old man?
FS: The secreto to being a happy cynic is to stop caring.
DG: How so?
FS: A happy cynic realizes the horror of the universe but it totally apathetic
Theres nothing you can do about the horror so you might as well just go with the flow. The
bitter old men are caring cynics. Accept the horror and focus on getting laid and stoned.
DG: Lovely philosophy. What about clairvoyance among saints?
FS: Saints have limited hyperconsciousness. The Square Bible provides a good example of
clairvoyance based on hyperconsciousness.
DG: For example?
FS: Saint John had predicted the end of the world in The Book of Revelation. According to the
Omegas, St. John had the correct vision but didnt have the knowledge to properly interpret the
vision.
DG: What sort of knowledge?
FS: The key to the vision was in the seven seals. The seven seals were seven stages that all
technological civilizations go through. The vast majority of technological civilizations destroy
themselves and they always go through the same seven stages. The stages were like Chinese
boxes and you had to open the first box to get into the next box. You open one seal to get at the
next seal. The first four seals were the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
DG: I know.
FS: Then you know that the first horseman is war.
DG: Yeah, yeah I know the second horseman is disease. The third horseman is famine. The
fourth horseman is death.
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FS: Well the first three horsemen represent technological trends that together create death. The
horseman of war represents nuclear weapons including such lovely devices as A-bombs, H-
bombs and antimatter weapons. Sooner or later all technological civilizations develop such
weapons and were usually dead within a hundred years of the invention of such devices. Disease
represents biological weapons.
DG: The next horseman is famine as I recall.
FS: Famine represents a scarcity of resources. If a technological civilization develops atomic
weapons, and biological weapons but does not solve the problem of famine i.e. scarcity with
technology then the pale rider, death would ride forth. This was totally inevitable.
DG: How so?
FS: Scarcity could coexist without weapons of mass destruction and the world would survive. A
starving nation with swords couldnt destroy the world. A starving nation with an atomic bomb
could. The coexistence of scarcity and weapons of mass destruction always lead to the
destruction of that particular civilization unless an Omega brain is created.
DG: So this is a universal cycle that even happens on other planets.
6.07 Macrotrend
Doctor Delta: This meme is hard to measure.
FS: Yes, St. Johns predictions are examples of Macrotrends.
DG: Macrotrends?
FS: Macrotrends are trends that happen in all baseline level civilizations. The Macrotrend of
death brings forth the prophets.
DG: The prophets?
FS: The prophets are the fifth seal. If the prophets show up then you had about fifty years to turn
things around. The death of a world is such a huge hyperdimensional event that even persons
with very limited hyperconsciousness would perceive this event. The sixth seal is the actual use
of weapons of mass destruction. After the launch, the mighty would hide in the mountains and in
the case of the Earth this was NORAD.
DG: So the mighty will survive.
FS: The hiding wont work and all would die and this was the seventh seal. The seven seals
provide the general framework for how any technological civilization would self-destruct.
DG: So the particular details vary from planet to planet.
FS: Yes, if the Lunar Goo hadnt decided to destroy the world then some other persons, nation,
nations or organization would have used the weapons of mass destruction to destroy the world.
DG: So what is the ultimate cause of global destruction?
FS: The Gigatrain was a militar solution to a scarcity problem. The global radicalism that made
the Gigatrain necessary was caused by global scarcity but to the militar mind, the solution was
to spend trillions on weapons rather on relieving the causes of global radicalism.
DG: Sounds familiar.
FS: The trillions spent on weapons only aggravate the causes of global radicalism since fewer
resources were left to solve the problems of global scarcity. The increased global radicalism
then becomes an even bigger problem so you had to spend even more money on weapons until
the whole thing blows up, literally.
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DG: What about particular symbols like the lamb?
FS: Baselines are of course unaware of most of what St. Johns vision meant. The vision also
incorporates several symbols including the lamb, serpent and dragon. The lamb opens the first
seal that starts the whole process. The lamb represents technology leading a meek humanity
rather than the other way around.
DG: You make it sound like technology has a life of its own.
FS: The 25
th
Universal Law of Technology clearly states that technology has a life of its own.
Unless the civilization could be aware of this tendency then the first seal was opened.
DG: St. John also mentions the Anti-Christ, the dragon and the serpent as enemies of God.
FS: In the case of my Earth the Anti-Christ was William Door. In general terms, The Anti-Christ
was the leader that inevitably arises in any technological civilization that was so seduced by
technology the he or she places technology over humanity. The Anti-Christ would be able to do
miracles and these miracles were actually technological marvels that would seduce most minds.
DG: And the serpent?

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient obsessed with snakes due to feelings of penile inadequacy.

FS: The serpent was a symbol of the first technology that was language and leads to all the other
technologies. The story of Adam and Eve was about the serpent giving Eve language via the
apple. Once an animal develops language then it would create the big serpent i.e. the dragon.
DG: What does the dragon represent?
FS: The dragon was all the technological mechanisms that allow one group of a species to
dominate another group of the same species with a total lack of compassion.
DG: But would other species on other planets necessarily have compassion.
FS: All technological species had some built in type of empathy that allowed them to work with
other members of the species and thus create technology in the first place. Technology provides
buffers that allow this empathy to be eliminated.
DG: You think so?
FS: Sure dropping a bomb is a lot easier than pulling a trigger. Pulling a trigger is a lot easier
than using a sword. The first dragon was Nazi Germany. Technology allowed the destruction of
millions without compassion. As the technology grows so would the future dragons.
DG: Seems very specific to Earth.
FS: Not really, all technological species face the same dilemma. We make the clothes and then
the clothes make the man. We shape the buildings and then the buildings shape us. We create
language and then language creates us. We write books and then books program our writing.
DG: How so?
FS: Certain forms are considered novelistic and anything that departs from that form is
rejected. Plato talked about a cave in which we saw the shadows of a reality outside the cave.
Plato had been talking about the effects of written language.
DG: I dont know about that but I do think that in many cases written language becomes more
real than concrete reality.
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FS: Yes, Aristotle wrote that a fly has four legs and then everyone accepted that a fly has four
legs despite the fact anyone could see that flies have six legs. Written language was just the first
step down into the darkness of the cave or up the ladder towards an Omega brain, only time will
tell. Technology drives us deeper and deeper into the bowels of the cave until we mistake
darkness with light.
DG: I like Platos dialogues. I think a dialogue format is a great way to get a lot of complicated
information across in an accessible manner. You can still deal with characterization but you can
focus on ideas more readily with the dialogue format.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Interpretation of St. Johns is further elaboration of the patients
messiah complex.

FS: Yeah but I doubt using a dialogue format will ever produce a modern best seller. A novel
would be a more popular way to get ideas out there.
DG: You are probably right but you waste a lot of the readers energy focusing on novelistic
conventions. So many visions are visions about technology?
FS: Yes, the ship of Theseus provides another conceptual base for understanding the effects of
technology on a species over time.
DG: What the heck is the ship of Theseus?
FS: The philosopher of the same name describes a ship that goes from port to port and men and
goods were brought on and taken off. The exact same number of men and goods enters the ship
as leaves the ship. Theseus asks, Is the ship at the end of the journey, the same ship that began
the journey? Our bodies constantly replace old cells and molecules with new ones. We were
all the ship of Theseus. Are we the same being after this process of replacement?
DG: What does this have to do with technology?
FS: A technological species ultimately face a different version of the ship of Theseus. Slowly we
used computers as replacements for our own brains. PDAs replaced memory. Calculators
replace our own ability to calculate. Slowly we replace natural organs with artificial ones. We
use cars instead of our legs. We take virtual trips instead of actual trips. We used e-mail instead
of our own voices. The couch potatoes slowly become pale worms, children of the serpent. At
what point did we change from human to machine? Machines are not truly alive and cannot be
killed. The destruction of a world of machines was not a great loss to the universe.
DG: So God does intervene in human affairs beyond interspecies recycling and sending people to
hell.
FS: God does not care about your sex life, morality, ethics, good, evil, your happiness, your
suffering or how you treat your neighbor. If an evil event would lead to evolution then so be it.
If a good event would lead to evolution then let the good times roll. If a sex pervert could help
with Gods Plan then hes on board. The Omegas say this was not a new idea but you needed to
understand Gods definition of evolution and this could be a little tricky.
DG: What is evolution?
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FS: According to the Omegas, Evolution is the gradual or sudden creation of beings and/or
collections of beings with greater freedom of action and/or cognition in the space-time
continuum and beyond via natural and/or technological means.
DG: So bluntly you think God favors evolution not the good.
FS: Yes, God favors those that help evolution. God destroys those that hinder evolution. God
could be totally ruthless in this regard. Again, there is nothing mysterious about Gods plan.
Darwin came as close to figuring out Gods plan as anyone but his definition of evolution while
not contradicting Gods definition is too narrow and only applies to biological systems.
DG: So what is this broader definition?
FS: Gods definition of evolution also includes causal and existential evolution. Societies that
were more able to master the manipulation of time and space, whether through a telephone or a
time machine, would supercede those societies that did not. There was such a thing as the
development of your will and this was existential evolution. There was actually a high, but not
perfect, correlation between the existential development of individuals within a society and the
technological development of the same society.
DG: So those who follow Gods plan are rewarded?
FS: Not always, if suffering would lead to your existential development then you would receive
suffering. If happiness would lead to your existential development then you would receive
happiness. However, God only provides the conditions. Individuals and societies had the free
will to ultimately evolve or perish. Social Darwinism also used a too narrow a definition of
evolution and focused on economic power and not the overall technological development of the
society.
DG: So God is apolitical?
FS: God could care less about plutocracy, autocracy or democracy. Whatever system evolves
technologically would be the winner. The human Nietzsche was also wrong to define evolution
as a type of superman that was above common morality. If you end up in jail for life for
violating common morality then your freedom of action and your freedom of cognition had been
lessened not increased.
DG: Sounds like a ruthless system.
FS: Gods Plan is totally ruthless. The universe is ruthless. Evolution is ruthless. Wake up and
smell the coffee! The vast majority of societies would not survive even one-millennia. The vast
majority of life forms would not survive. The vast majority of individuals would not survive.
Even recycling was not immortality. Unless you evolve then you end up astral noise. This was
what happens to almost everyone.
DG: So how can you make sure that you are evolving?
FS: Tolstoy had argued that there was the generalist path to survival and the specialist path and
that both were valid. Tolstoy was wrong about this issue. The common saying that encapsulated
the specialist/generalist debate was that the fox knew many things. The hedgehog knew only
one. The idea was that you could survive with one trick like a hedgehog or with many tricks like
a fox but both would work.
DG: So which is better the fox or the hedgehog?
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FS: Humanoids knew more tricks than foxes and hedgehogs put together and would ultimately
wipe both other species out. Specialization was death, a slow death but death nevertheless. If
baselines on my Earth had developed the super generalist ability to travel and live on other
planets in the solar system then the destruction of Earth would have been irrelevant.
DG: That actually makes sense.
FS: Of course it does, most technological species destroy themselves in a seven-stage process
that has been described earlier. The few technological species that truly master technology must
then use that technology for their next big challenge. All planets die eventually, be prepared!
The Omegas calculate that only one in a million technological species in the universe outlive the
destruction of their home world.
DG: So few?
FS: Well surviving the destruction of your home world was actually a rite of passage to the next
stage in evolution. Species that outlive the death of their home world, generally, go on to the
final stage in evolution and can do stuff like move black holes. Such species were the few, the
proud, the brave. However, the odds are totally against you.
DG: Why?
FS: The vast majority of sperm does not end up in the egg of the female producing a child. Most
sperm ends up splattered on the ceiling or on tissue paper and flushed down the toilet, at least in
the case of adolescent males. The same goes for most of us. We were going to be scooped up
and flushed down the toilet by some giant cosmic hand that we never saw or understood.
DG: Sounds terrible.
FS: Not totally, a pretty good argument could be made for oblivion. Perhaps the sperm on the
ceiling and down the toilet were lucky. The sperm that hit the bulb in the ceiling may be the
luckiest of all, instant oblivion. They had a hell of a ride for sperm and their suffering was over.
Maybe being astral noise isnt all that bad. The evolution thing never stops and every step
means more happiness but also more suffering.
DG: I think you have a point.
FS: I think so. The Omegas were the second most advanced beings in the universe and most of
them would pick total oblivion in a heartbeat, if they had free will.
DG: Thats nihilism.
FS: Nihilism makes a lot of sense when you understood the big picture. Some cynics suggest that
astral noise was not an option since you just had to start from the bottom all over again! The
cynics might be right. I wouldnt doubt it.
6.08 The Devil
Doctor Delta: This memes infectiousness and virulence is dependent on host religiosity.
FS: Let me tell you about a very special Omega. Running a universe was hard work and no one
really understood this except God. God tried making a helper once but the whole thing got out
of hand and well thats how the Devil got started. The Devil is a Super Omega.
DG: The Omegas already seem pretty super.
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FS: The Omegas are pretty powerful but have one giant limitation and that was motivation. God
created the Omegas minus free will so that he wouldnt have to nag his help all the time. God
does nag them anyway but this is rhetorical nagging since the nagging has no effect on their
motivation whatsoever. I think we all know someone that likes to engage in rhetorical nagging.
DG: Rhetorical nagging is a major part of marriage. So the Omegas arent motivated.
FS: The truth was that the Omegas were couch potatoes and would just as soon watch thousands
of channels of TV rather than jump around all over the place getting things done. God gave one
Omega free will. God reasoned that this would cure the couch potato syndrome that afflicted the
current Omega model. It turns out that an Omega with free will is pretty hyperactive. God
hadnt anticipated that an Omega with free will might go for virtual omnipresence.
DG: What is virtual omnipresence?
FS: The Omegas could jump around from any space-time point to another instantly
DG: Via the sixth dimension.
FS: Right, and if you did this enough times then its just like being in thousands of places at the
same time. In order to exist in an infinite number of places at an infinite number of times then
you had to jump around the space-time continuum like a maniac but it was theoretically possible.
This technique was known as virtual omnipresence as opposed to actual omnipresence and had
been theorized by the Omegas.
DG: So why didnt the other Omegas do this?
FS: The Omegas were much too lazy to attempt such a feat themselves. The new Omega was
different and went for it. The new Omega jumped around the space-time continuum like there
was no tomorrow. Before you knew it, the Super Omega was all over the place. What no one
had anticipated was that virtual omnipresence leads to virtual omnipotence and virtual
omniscience. Being everywhere means that you knew everything. Knowing everything makes
you pretty powerful.
DG: I am no mathematician but even a Super Omega multiplying like crazy couldnt become
infinite.
FS: The universe isnt actually infinite but consists of a billion, billion galaxies.
DG: What lies beyond the billion, billion galaxies?
FS: Nothing, absolutely nothing.
DG: Never mind. Was the super monad as powerful as God was?
FS: Virtual Omnis were not as good as the real thing but still useful. With virtual Omnis you
could do just about anything within the framework of the universe. You just couldnt change the
framework itself like God.
DG: So how are supposed to know if we are dealing with God or the Devil?
FS: Anything below an Omega or God couldnt really tell the difference between real Omnis and
virtual Omnis so that for most of the universe, the Devil seems all-powerful and in fact the two
beings were generally confused, which doesnt bother the Devil one bit but really pisses of God.
DG: The Devil is a Super Omega?
FS: Yes, God spends a huge amount of time and energy destroying the Devil all over the space-
time continuum but if even one survives, she just keeps hopping around and makes an infinite
number of duplicates all over again.
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DG: Sounds like the Devil was a little like crab grass. If even one blade survives then your
whole lawn would be taken over again by the end of the week.
FS: There was an ugly rumor that the Devil created crab grass but the Omegas assure me this
wasnt true and this was just bad press circulated by God.
DG: So what is the Devils agenda? The classic Devil wants our soul.
FS: The Devil could care less about our souls. The Devil does have some sense of loyalty to her
fellow Omegas. The Devil also thinks it would be better if the universe would be allowed a final
clean death and stop recycling.
DG: So is the Devil coming up with some sort of sinister plan to end the universe.
FS: No way, ending the universe is one thing you cannot do with virtual omnis. Only God can
end the universe. The Devil mostly focuses on survival and probably has no chance of ever
actually beating God but God wasnt taking any chances and wages an unending struggle to
destroy the Devil where he finds her.
DG: The Devil is a she?
FS: Yes, the Devil could be any gender but picked female for whatever reasons.
DG: What gender are the Omegas?
FS: The Omegas were sexless.
DG: If the Omegas were so powerful they why didnt give they give themselves a gender or did
God forbid this?
FS: God could care less is the Omegas picked a gender or not. The Omegas had the power pick
a gender but just couldnt be bothered.
DG: Sex is a bother?
FS: The Omegas got tired just watching us play our sexual games. All the running around and
humping looks like too much work for them. As the Omegas point out When youve got good
TV, who needs sex? I thought a lot of my friends would agree with them. Actually almost all
baseline and above beings can be defined by how they handle the whole gender thing. Most
beings start out with genders even if these are radically different than what we have on Earth.
As soon as a civilization gets an Omega brain they go through a transsexual period.
DG: Why?
FS: Omega brains can slip in and out of bodies with the ease of putting on a shirt. No painful
one way sex change surgery for them but pretty soon the post baseline civilization gets into
pleasure via networking and this is so much better than sex that the whole gender thing gets
forgotten.
DG: So what is the Devil like?
FS: The Devil is female and does take on the form of the most beautiful female of whatever
species she was dealing with. Lower beings get an instant hard on just looking at her and dont
even listen to what she is saying. She likes the effect she has on males and uses this fact to her
advantage. The Devil is a tease and rarely has sex with lower beings but once in awhile she
does.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: The Devil construct shows that for the patient the ultimate danger is a
woman with free will. The patient is obsessed with controlling women. This is obvious in
his sexbot fantasies. The Devil is a warning that even female machines can get out of
control if they are allowed any free will. The patient is compensating for the tyranny he
endured with his own mother while growing up. In the patients world woman can either
be controlled or be controllers. The patient has rejected the possibility of a mature
relationship were consensus is the norm.

DG: How do you know this?
FS: The Omegas showed me a picture of the Devil but of course Omega pictures are 3-D
dimensional and in many ways the photos were almost exact copies of the being that was
photographed. I could feel myself getting sexually aroused and in fact did spurt my wad but I
think I hid it well. A little sperm never hurt the underwear. Strangely as the sperm went I felt
that something entered me.
DG: What do you mean something entered you?
FS: I went into a trance and was looking at the game of cards I always dream about and I had a
vision of something being drawn on one of the cards. I think the card was the joker but couldnt
see it clearly. A decorative touch was being added to the frame of the card but ever so minor.
You know how marked cards have ever so slight differences? You can hardly tell they are there.
The card was being marked.
DG: And then what happened?
FS: I snapped out of my trance and was fine but I felt different somehow.
DG: If thats how a picture of the Devil affects then I wonder what happens if you have sex with
the real Devil?
FS: The lower being generally goes insane but the now insane being would assure you it was
worth it. The Devil was of course not the only female that could drive men insane. The Devil
just does it better than any other gal.
DG: And I suppose God is a guy?
FS: A super guy and then some. If you wanted to get disintegrated instantly then go around
suggesting that God and the Devil got it on once upon a time. The Omegas had clear
instructions to destroy anyone spreading this ugly rumor immediately. Better take a quick look
around and make sure no one is watching us.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Pretended to take a quick look around for the Omegas in order to
humor the patient.

DG: Coasts clear. Whos winning the Devil or God?
FS: The Omegas theorized that God could actually destroy the Devil instantly but actually
enjoyed the struggle.
DG: Why?
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FS: God loves surprises and the Devil was about the only being around that could surprise God.
God could never actually admit he kept the Devil around for entertainment. The Devil could be
described as Gods one guilty pleasure and all beings should be allowed one vice, even God.
The Devil is the cosmic droga dealer.
DG: What do you mean?
FS: The Devil occasionally gave the Monads software that they could upload into their operating
systems and this software mimicked the affect of drogas on humans.
DG: I dont suppose that God approved.
FS: God did not approve.
DG: Why did the Omegas take drugs?
FS: Some lower beings take drogas to remember past lives and discover truth. The Omegas
knew that you should drink to forget. The Omegas especially loved the song Margarita Heaven
by Willie Nelson and often sang the tune while getting blasted. The Omegas felt sorry for
humans that had second-rate drogas that minimized consciousness but could not erase it all
together.
DG: Again, your Omegas sound like total nihilists.
FS: The Omegas would have committed suicide long ago but first of all they were immortal, and
secondly God wasnt going to allow his servants to engage in such a blasphemous activity and
besides the Omegas knew all about recycling and realized suicide just led to rebirth. No, the
only escape was really good drogas.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The nihilism of the Omegas, higher beings, provides the patient with a
rationale for his own nihilism.

DG: Again with the drugs. Why are you so obsessed with drugs?
FS: Due to my superior Half Square brain I have enhanced Big Bang dj vu. I remember
having this conversation an infinite number of times with you before. I need drogas to cope.
DG: You mentioned this before but lots of people have dj vu. Why do some people have more
dj vu than others do?
FS: Certain jobs and activities compound the residual memory effect. Any time you did
something over and over again in a repetitive and boring manner then you were more likely to
remember this in your next life. Postmen were especially vulnerable.
DG: Why?
FS: Can you imagine delivering mail and dodging that same stupid cocker spaniel an infinite
number of times?
DG: Yeah that would be horrible.
FS: No wonder they flip out and shot everyone and then themselves. Of course this was no
answer since youll just go on a rampage and shoot Sally and Billy, your co-workers, all over
again in the next Big Bang cycle.
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DG: And how can you avoid this job dj vu effect?
FS: Easy! Never, ever take a job where you did the same space-time thing over and over again.
Dont work in a factory. Dont do clerical. Above all else dont become an accountant. Better
yet, dont work at all and just spend all your time taking drogas and making out.
DG: I understand the drug part but why make out all the time?
FS: Residual memories of sex are never a bad thing. Who wouldnt want to remember their
ultimate pornographic experience over and over again? As all true sex perverts know, you could
never watch a good porn movie too many times.
DG: According to you, total hedonists were probably the ultimate winners in the cosmic
condition sweepstakes.
FS: Sure so remember! Everything you did would be done again an infinite number of times, so
do the right thing and get high now.
DG: Ill keep your advice in mind.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Patient is looking around the room. Patient seems very nervous.
Patient often got up and paced while talking during this session.

DG: What ever happened to Fluffy? Did she die with your Earth?
FS: No, the e-animals knew the world was about to end due to the small brain syndrome. Fluffy
had joined a crack team of e-animal commandos known among certain circles as the e-gang.
The e-gang specialized in stealing tons of catnip at a time.
DG: E-gang?
FS: The demand for catnip among e-cats had grown exponentially and the occasional catnip rip-
off could no longer meet demand. Fluffy was up to an ounce a day and had joined the e-gang to
support her own habit as much as to help other e-cats. The e-gang mostly did catnip jobs and
hired dogs as needed for the heavy work.
DG: What was in it for the dogs?
FS: Dog commandos lived on steak supplied by the cats that were better burglars than dogs and
this was a close to paradise as a dog got. At that moment the e-gang needed a quick helicopter
ride to get away from the catnip factory seguridad but now they realized they had a bigger
problem.
DG: What was that?
FS: The e-gang like all e-animals knew the world was going to end. Unfortunately knowing the
world is going to end and doing something about it are two different things but Fluffy had a
plan. As soon as the catnip was loaded onto the helicopter, Fluffy decided how to save herself
from the end of world. Fluffy thought, Magic!
DG: Why would Fluffy have an idea like this?
FS: Hey we watched every horror film in the local video store in Tokyo, while we lived there, at
least twice.
DG: So horror films are you favorite genre of film.
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FS: No, we watched the films with talking animals at least a hundred times. Are talking animal
films a genre? If talking animal films are not a genre then they should be. Fluffy loved Cats vs.
Dogs even if the dogs won. Real life talking dogs and cats of course got along just fine.
DG: There are no real life talking dogs and cats. So what happened then?
FS: Fluffy, the wonder-cat, was in the middle of a flaming pentagram.
DG: I cant see how cat, intelligent or not, could create a flaming pentagram.
FS: All the members of e-gang had helped. The pentagram had been created by the combined
efforts of a mouse, Fluffy, and a dog. An e-mouse had traced the pentagram with her tail. Fluffy
drew in the lines with chalk in her mouth. The e-dog took care of the gasoline. Fluffy knew that
the pentagram was some sort of human magic.
DG: How did she know that?
FS: Like I said, Fluffy and I had watched plenty of horror films together and this is one piece of
human magic that had stuck in her feline mind. Fluffy wasnt too sure about magic or religion
or any of that human stuff but she thought, What the hell this was the time to try anything.
Fluffy was in the middle of the flaming, gasoline fueled, pentagram yelling at the top of her cat
voice to the closet thing to God or Devil that she had known in her short cat life. She yelled,
Help me Freak Show! After a little thought Fluffy added, I love you. Hell it worked the
last time, thought Fluffy. Smoking all that dope together had created a telepathic link between
Fluffy and myself and I heard her cry for help. At my request the Omegas beamed Fluffy up to
the ship.
DG: What happened to Fluffy?
FS: Fluffy really impressed the Omegas and was getting her very own world filled with creatures
about the size of mice. Fluffy would be the biggest thing around on this planet and everything
she chased was edible, squirmed as you swallowed it and, finally, even begged for mercy in her
belly as her stomach juices slowly dissolved the pathetic victim. In short Fluffy went to cat
heaven.
DG: Good for Fluffy.
FS: Its what she deserved. Later that night Erotron and I watched the Earth explode from the
porthole on the Omega ship. The Omegas were excellent hosts. The Omegas didnt need space
ships to get around and just used them to entertain guests. I was sipping back on a Bud when the
first antimatter missile hit the Earth. The explosion was pretty impressive with continents and
oceans flying all over the place.
DG: How did you feel?
FS: I felt sad. I had a lot of good times on Earth. I would miss my old stomping grounds. I
would miss my friends.
DG: What friends?
FS: I couldnt think of any friend in particular that I would miss but I was sure there was
somebody. I was especially glad that I had decided to see Asia last year. I sure wasnt going to
be visiting any of those exotic places again. I could see what I thought was a piece of the Great
Wall of China hurtling by.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: Destruction of the Earth is the destruction of the patients symbolic
universe and understanding his feelings about this event is crucial to understanding the
patient.

DG: How did you feel about the total destruction of your Earth?
FS: Man, I was glad I had climbed that wall when I had the chance. I guessed that what they say
about living for the moment was true. Youve got to seize the moment and live life to the fullest
because you never knew when the Earth was going to be blown up.
DG: Well thats true. So you had an epiphany?
FS: Yes, I decided that from now on I was going to stop taking life so seriously and start to live!
I especially felt bad about the destruction of Vegas.
DG: Why?
FS: With my newly found hyperconsciousness I could had made billions gambling and had my
pick of the best call girls in a town that has the best call girls in the world. Symbolically, I
chugged the cerveza I had and helped myself to another one. I must have chugged a little too
fast since I ended up belching a big one.
DG: And Erotron?
FS: Erotron was crying heavily and her face was etched with pain. She murmured, Its
horrible, beyond horrible, everyone I ever knew is dead. My mother, my father, my friends
thousands of years of human effort destroyed. She was really a very special person with really
killer legs.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Erotron is a personification of how the patient views a relationship
with a mature woman and perhaps is a mother substitute as well. How the patient treats
Erotron in this fantasy is an indicator how the patient will handle future relationships.

DG: Did you comfort her?
FS: I felt I needed to say something sensitive in order to comfort her. I looked deeply into her
eyes. She looked at my face carefully as though she were searching for something. I leaned
forward and softly whimpered into her ear Dont worry honey, the fireworks we saw were
nothing compared to the fireworks were going to make tonight.
DG: What a sensitive remark on your part? How did she respond?
FS: She responded, You stupid, stupid person. I hate you. You are rude, crude, a drunk, a
simpleton, and most of all have the poorest hygiene of anyone I have ever known. I only had sex
with you in order to have the prophesied true Half Square that would allow the world to live
again! You are literally the last man on Earth and I would prefer using a showerhead, for
personal gratification, for the rest of my life, to your attentions. I suppose I cant really blame
you since our relationship was a perversion from the beginning even if the perversion was
necessary for breeding purposes.
DG: What a turn of events but it all starts to make sense.
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FS: Tell me about it. I guess Erotron was pretty bad at math since I figured our son was a
Square and Erotron accepted my correction quietly. Turns out, Jesus had predicted that the
sixth Half Square would get the Empress of the Squares Prego and the baby would be the
messiah that would start the world over and not me. Erotron had lied to me in order to get
pregnant. Also turns out, Erotron was secretly the Empress of the Squares. I knew they had a
Matriarch but I knew nothing about their Empress. Guess the Matriarch was some sort of high
priestess that only handled spiritual matters. The Empress handled temporal matters. Sex with
the Half Square was very much a temporal affair. I was bedding the top Money Square.
DG: Another contradiction in you story. How could someone as young as Erotron have risen to
the top ranks of the Squares?
FS: Well she was older than I was but not by much and you make a good point. Erotrons mom
had also been the Empress and she inherited the job.
DG: Interesting the Matriarch was elected but the Empress inherited the job. So you and Erotron
lived happily ever after on the ship of the Omegas?
FS: No, the Omegas didnt mind guests but no way were they going to put up with the presence
of two baselines on their ship for more than a couple of days. The fact that Erotron apparently
hated my guts didnt help matters. Erotrons consciousness was moved from her body to a body
in a higher dimension. She was made a goddess.
DG: So you didnt get her pregnant?
FS: No, actually I did and my little son the 3/4-Square started a whole new world using cloning
technology and a little help from his mom, the goddess. The goddess had searched the galaxy
until she had found a perfect Earth type planet for her son.
DG: Wouldnt the clones all be alike?
FS: No, my son used fuzzy logic cloning to make copies that were all a little different in some
sort of optimal way. Most of all you can make male and female versions using this fuzzy logic
cloning.
DG: Where did your son get this technology?
FS: The Omegas had developed fuzzy logic cloning for when only one member of a species
survived one of Gods cosmic genocides and God changed his mind about the demise of that
species. Apparently God changed his mind often and the Omegas used fuzzy logic cloning all the
time. The technical details are way beyond me.
DG: So in a way the last prophecy of Jesus turned out to be right on the number. Were there any
other survivors?
FS: Yes, the Squares that had bothered to send God a birthday card were reborn on this new
planet with their memories of the destruction of the last Earth fully intact. No way they were
going to repeat the mistakes of the last Earth. The Dolphins transported over to the new 3/4
Square planet with a little help from God.
DG: So what is a 3/4-Square like?
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FS: A 3/4-Square is some sort of superman. A 3/4-Square apparently is the perfect synthesis of
the two original hominids and has superior creativity, superior abstract reasoning, superior
spatial reasoning, superior HKP and, for unknown reasons, hexachromatic vision. A planet of
3/4-Squares is supposed to be pretty impressive. The Omegas were confident that the3/4-
Squares would evolve into upstanding members of the post baseline community in no time at all
or at least that is what the Omegas told me later.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The son is a symbol of what the patient can achieve if he can get
beyond his delusions. The son is a symbol of the generative capability of the patient.
Erotron, as stated, is a symbol of mature womanhood. The split between the high priestess
role and empress role suggests that the patient can accept that a mother figure can have a
temporal role or a spiritual role but not both. This inability to accept women as a whole
person with both material and spiritual aspects is probably due to the overbearing and
perhaps even abusive role of the actual mother of the patient. The patient is unable to have
a long-term relationship with Erotron but can achieve positive results through a brief
dalliance with Erotron.

DG: And your son?
FS: I never met my son.
DG: How sad.
FS: Not really, I had been worried about child support at first not having a job or even a world
for that matter but Erotron threatened to do some pretty nasty things to me with her new goddess
powers if I got within ten light years of her son. Erotron especially did not appreciate the
suggestion that we name our son Freaky.
DG: So how did you feel about the loss of your son?
FS: Felt bad about how the relationship had turned out but still I had gotten lots of sex without
having to take care of the pup so I figure I had gotten the better of the deal.
DG: Lucky you.
FS: Yeah, lucky me, my consciousness was moved to the body of my double in this Big Bang
cycle. They figured this Big Bang cycle was a little bit different but all in all I would be in a
place similar to my own planet. The Omegas could have recreated an Earth just for me and
figured I deserved some sort of reward but that was just too much.
DG: I agree with the Omegas.
FS: Of course in this Big Bang cycle the Earth is a non-Square Earth and I was warned about
sharing too much technological knowledge from my own Square Earth. I figure just shooting the
bull is okay.

Dr. Gammas Notes: My mother, wife and daughter all argued about who was the best
knitter at our 4
th
of July barbecue at my house. I was asked to judge who had knitted the
best present. Some choice, I could insult the woman who gave me birth, spend a week on
the couch without sex or psychologically damage the self-esteem of my already insecure
daughter.
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DG: You figure? So this is the end of your story?
FS: No, God wasnt the biggest fan of the human races, both of them, but still they had
occasionally shown some potential, not as much as his favorites the dolphins but still all in all he
was a little depressed about the Earth being blown up. God didnt blame the Lunar Goo.
DG: Why not?
FS: If God condemned preemptive genocide on the part of higher being towards a lower being
then he was in trouble since he did this all the time. No, the Lunar Good had done the right
thing from a strategic view. On the other hand, God had to blame someone since this was one of
Gods big jobs. There were many reasons God picked William Door to blame but mostly he just
didnt like the guy. God was going to lay the big punishment on Door. The ultimate punishment
from God was that you were reborn as an astral maggot but not sent to hell.
DG: Not all-astral maggots got to hell?
FS: No, astral noise could become astral crap. When something bad happens, like say a guy
killing his whole family with an ax in his cabin, then the surrounding astral noise became astral
crap. The astral crap that was left in the place just gives everybody the creeps when they visit
the cabin. God created astral maggots to eat all the astral crap and basically keep the astral
environment clean or pretty soon baselines wouldnt be able to go anywhere without freaking out
and this would interfere with evolution.
DG: Were all astral maggots sentient?
FS: Not all of them just the ones being punished by God. Some astral maggots ended up in hell
and some were free-range astral maggots but it was a terrible punishment no matter where you
ended up. If God was punishing you then you were an astral maggot with all your faculties
intact. Shit tastes well shitty. Astral crap tastes about a thousand times worse.

Dr. Gammas Notes: Rejection of God by the patient is a rejection of the transcendent by
the patient and represents the patients own choice to choose infantile hedonism over
transcendence and maturity.

DG: Sounds horrible. How long did Door have to be an astral maggot?
FS: God had a special rule for those that destroyed a world.
DG: What was the rule?
FS: You destroy a world and you get a whole Big Bang cycle of as an astral maggot!
DG: Because of Gods sense of justice?
FS: No because blowing up planets interfered with evolution. God like all beings was driven by
necessity not justice.
DG: Yeah well at least you have a consistent theology. You know I was a marriage counselor at
one point, what sort of punishment do you get for cheating on your spouse.
FS: God was amused that some people thought you got eternity for stuff like cheating on your
wife/husband. God was tough but fair and felt the penalty should fit the crime.
DG: So what is the penalty for cheating on your spouse?
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FS: The general punishment for cheating on your wife/husband was acne during adolescence in
your next life. This is why so many people had acne during adolescence. The more cheating you
had done the worse your acne.
DG: I notice that you have some acne. Wouldnt the astral maggot die and become astral crap as
you stated during your description of hell?
FS: Astral maggots, unfortunately for William, were immortal on our plane unlike astral
maggots in hell. Hell was a giant recycling center so being an astral maggot in hell was actually
better than being a free-range astral maggot since hell would eventually turn any astral maggot
into astral crap and then the astral crap was recycled to make new souls.
DG: So free-range astral maggots were immortal?
FS: Yes, usually immortality was a good thing but not if you were an astral maggot.
Fortunately, the universe does end after a few billion years and even immortals couldnt outlive
the death of the universe itself.
DG: Gee what a lucky break.
FS: Regardless, the moral of the story was dont get caught holding the bag for blowing up a
planet unless you were willing to do the time. One of the rules was that you got a trial. An
Omega took on the form of an angel and brought Door before God. God was the judge, jury and
prosecutor but you did get the trial.
DG: So how did the trial go?
FS: Poor William found himself reborn an astral maggot about twenty years before the
destruction of the Earth. God did hyperdimensional recycling when special circumstances
dictated such treatment. Alongside interspecies recycling, hyperdimensional recycling was one
of Gods specialties.
DG: What is hyperdimensional recycling?
FS: When God sends you to the past when you are recycled.
DG: Whom would God do this to?
FS: Think Hollywood.
DG: Hollywood?
FS: Souls from the future, known as future souls, tend to hang around with other future souls
since they had a basic affinity with each other at some unconscious level. One city in particular
has emerged as the Mecca of future souls in all Earths in all Big Bang cycles.
DG: What city was that?
FS: As you may have guessed, most people in Hollywood were in fact recycled from the future on
both of our Earths.
DG: This would explain why Hollywood is so obsessed with futuristic action flicks.
FS: Yes, the flicks were an attempt to recreate memories the future souls are trying to
understand. Also, a lot of Hollywood types had memories of a past life in which they lived in
Atlantis both on my Earth and your Earth. Atlantis was remembered as a high-tech island that
existed in ancient Greece. Actually they are remembering their last life in the future where as
one of the rich and totally spoiled, they would hang around Hedonism 25 on my Earth.
DG: Fun place?
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FS: Of course, my Earth of course had sexbots and cyber-sex options you dont have here so this
was one heck of a pleasure island. Hedonism 25 would be the ultimate island pleasure resort of
the future that would have an ancient Greece theme. What goes on in Hedonism 25 would make
Caligula blush. Needless to say most future souls in Hollywood were doing their best to
replicate Hedonism 25 in sunny California with great success. Of course there were no future
souls from past the year 2000 since this is when my Earth blew up. Your Earth is about fifty
years behind the times so I dont think you will build a comparable Hedonism 25 until the year
2050, if you last that long.
DG: Why would someone be sent to the past?
6.09 Reverse Recycling
Doctor Delta: This memes infectiousness and virulence is dependent on host religiosity.
FS: Souls are sometimes sent to the past to make amends but they usually just screw it up one
more time with feeling. This is called reverse recycling. A really common Hollywood recycling
pattern was to be reborn as the spouse of your self during one of your past lives. This way
youre past life got to see what a total asshole you were, up close and personal, and this was
supposed to be educational.
DG: I dont see how this could be educational?
FS: The future soul was supposed to get some sort of insight into the roots of their future
behavior. This was one reason so many people in Hollywood spend a lot of time talking about
the roots of their problems. The most famous example of this future soul effect was, the famous
Hollywood couple, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.
DG: So who was who?
FS: Richard Burton was Liz Taylor in a past life. Liz Taylor would become Richard Burton in
her next life. If you were confused, didnt worry so were they. These couples are a lot of fun to
watch. They really understand each other but of course true love/hate is reserved for your twin
not a stranger.
DG: Well your twin reminds you of your own faults.
FS: I think so, if you wanted to spot this type of couple then look for couples that were basically
clones in terms of the same bad habits such as droga abuse, philandering, drinking, etc. One
person in the couple is a little worse and thats the one from the future. The one from the future
has had more practice with the bad habits. Also, the one from the future has a greater interest in
sci-fi than the one from the past.
DG: Any other examples?
FS: I suspect the director of the institute is also a future soul since he seems obsessed with sci-fi.

Dr. Gammas Notes: It is highly inappropriate to discuss other staff members during
therapy and will ignore director remark although it does make sense in a crazy sort of way.
Dr. Delta is a huge science fiction fan and a futurist at the professional level.

DG: What happened to the souls of the people destroyed when the Earth blew up?
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FS: Some became astral noise and would have to start over again from scratch. In a million
years they might become a baseline again. A few baselines were recycled to another planet by
God. In this case, you just got reborn on another planet among beings at a similar level of
technology and similar level of consciousness. About fifty years ago, a planet of giant intelligent
arachnids destroyed their planet and they were reborn on my Earth. There are ways you can tell
if your neighbor was a giant spider in their last life on both Earths?
DG: How can you tell?
FS: One give away was that they use their arms like some sort of deranged octopus during
mating rituals. This was a left over from the male spider beings having six limbs in their last life
and their use was an essential part of arachnid mating rituals. What you were seeing was the
arachnid mating ritual being done with two arms instead of six arms at the unconscious level. If
furthermore, you swear this same guy was a giant intelligent spider in their last life then you
were probably right. A lot of women are going to say aha when they hear this.
DG: So what happened to Door as an astral maggot?
FS: A lot of suicides were a direct effect of what Macrohard had done through its ruthless
policies and William would have a chance to eat their astral crap and get a special appreciation
for what he had done or at least that was the plan.
DG: So how did Door handle this?
FS: Door watched all the other astral maggots eating all the astral crap around the scene of a
murder/suicide and pretty quickly realized that was food. He took a bite of the gray energy and
the whole murder/suicide flashed through his system including all the pain, despair and anger of
the victim and the murderer. Each bite led to a reliving of the whole experience from top to
bottom. The experience was actually embedded into the astral crap.
DG: Why not just not eat?
FS: Door tried not eating but hunger got the better of him after a week and he was munching
away at astral crap at a mass murder in Waco, Texas. There was always some astral crap in
Waco. Waco was kind of the all you can eat buffet for astral maggots.
DG: Eating astral crap had this effect?
FS: Yes, eating the mass murder energy was pretty horrible and like any astral maggot, Door
needed to get his three squares a day and that meant getting out there and looking for astral
crap.
DG: Okay let me get this straight, some astral maggots are in hell but this is good since hell is
were astral maggots get recycled but outside of hell astral maggots are the recyclers.
FS: Exactly.
DG: Can we see astral maggots?
FS: Not directly, but a stampede of astral maggots can knock down an object. Astral maggots
are the poltergeists, the Australian aboriginal bunyips and the so-called evil imps that inhabit
the world. The vast majority of astral maggots outside of hell are not evil but totally mindless.
Astral maggots get a bad rap because they are where there the evil is but without them, the
astral crap would soon make the world unlivable.

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Dr. Gammas Notes: The patients mention of aborigines makes me think about how Zulu
witchdoctors cured their patients by blowing into their ear. I wonder how much we have
progressed from that practice. I feel that someone or something is blowing into my ears.

DG: Are there more astral maggots in some places.
FS: Yes, a person that drowns suffers a lot and generates a lot of astral crap. The astral crap
sometimes mixes with the water and a person swimming in the mixture will be poisoned by the
astral crap and drown. Now you have the astral crap of the person who drowned added to the
astral crap that was already there. More and more persons start drowning and a cycle starts
and the lake accumulates more and more astral crap and becomes a pool of doom in which one
can easily drown.
DG: So astral crap can act as a type of poison?
FS: Yes, a lot of sickness is astral crap that accumulates in your astral body. If it accumulates in
your astral eye then you get an evil eye and whatever you look at gets a dose of astral crap.
Astral maggots inhabit the infrared wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum.
DG: But when the Earth ended twenty years in the future then Door would have no astral crap to
eat.
FS: God had already picked out a special planet for Door to migrate to after the destruction of
the Earth twenty years hence. This planet had a technologically advanced species that looked
like a cross between a pig and a rhinoceros. The species had one specialty unique to the
universe and that was an ability to survive WWIII. The species had their own version of WWIII
every other week but some how managed not to destroy their planet altogether.
DG: Why not?
FS: The species had remarkable regenerative powers and if even one finger survived then the
organism would grow a new body. They could develop immunity to every disease, radiation and
chemical that their scientists could come up with.
DG: So why did Door get sent to this planet?
FS: They suffered plenty and generated all sorts of astral crap upon being blown up into a
thousand pieces but they just refused to die and started fighting all over again as soon as they
grew a new body. There was enough astral crap on that planet to keep William well fed for
millions of years and then it would be off to the next happy planet that needed cleaning up.
DG: So did Door learn his lesson?
6.10 Holo-lawn
Doctor Delta: A potentially useful meme.
FS: Are you kidding? The Omegas used a G6 bug to monitor Door as they did all eternal cases.
Door munched away at astral crap in a nice suburb outside of Phoenix. A stockbroker who had
lost a fortune due to Macrohard had gone nuts and shot his wife and two lovely children and
then himself. The girls and the wife had been in the backyard. Even with half her face blown off
you could tell that the wife had been a looker.
DG: So how did Door react?
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FS: Door thought, The holo-lawn, the bodies lay on, cost a lot more than a regular plastic
lawn. Door had a hard time imagining how someone that could afford a holo-lawn could
commit suicide. If you could afford a holo-lawn then you could afford a solution to any
problem, thought Door. You could barely tell the lawn was plastic.
DG: Plastic lawn?
FS: Plastic lawns had long ago replaced natural lawns in the Southwest US due to the high cost
of water. Rock gardens had just been too radical for middle class residents and only used by the
poor. Some of the Rio Grande Canal water, that had a low salt content anyway due to the
original Rio Grande river water, was desalinated further and provided some extra water for the
Southwest but not enough. A holo-lawn unlike a normal plastic lawn had passive plastic
holoprojectors that caught the sunlight and projected different holographs when hit at different
angles.
DG: What kind of holographs?
FS: Depended on the lawn you bought. The Sun came out from behind a cloud and various
animals sprang to holographic life. Some were animated and some werent. A holographic
rabbit slowly hopped across, following the Sun that gave it life.
DG: So did the rabbit look real?
FS: The rabbit was slightly transparent but cute nevertheless. Door munched on the astral crap
of one of the young girls and realized that she had loved to watch the little holo-rabbit when she
had been alive. Suddenly, Door felt sad and thought, Poor little girl! Poor little rabbit!
DG: So did Door feel regret in the end?
FS: Mere death does not change the habits of a lifetime. After a while Doors noticed that the
other astral maggots didnt seem to have a clue about what they were doing. The holographic
animals came and went and the maggots could have cared less. Doors thought I will observe
and learn the ways of these strange creatures. With my superior intelligence I could rule this
species. I vow that someday I will be the king of the astral maggots. There also must be some
way to make this astral crap commercially viable. Perhaps it could be sold as a type of
entertainment to the right buyer.
DG: Well I suppose you have to admire his determination.
FS: I guess, William tried to raise his hand and make a fist but of course astral maggots didnt
have hands or even bodies at all. They were just a gray putrid pulsating energy mass. God saw
this little display of rebellion and thought to himself, It just never ends!
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6.11 The Patients Final Dream
Doctor Delta: A very hard meme to figure out.
DG: What dreams have you had since our last session?
FS: I dreamt that I was in a room in a high tower. There were three thrones in the center of the
room. Erotron was sitting in one throne. My mam was sitting in the second throne. A lady
wearing a black lace veil that covered her whole face was sitting on the third throne and I
couldnt tell who she was. I could make out the outlines of her faces and her full red lips.
I sensed a great beauty behind the veil. Erotron was holding a torch in her right hand and a
cross in her left hand. My mam was holding a wand in her right hand and a cube in her left
hand. The mysterious veiled lady was holding a book in her right hand and a sphere in her left
hand. The three women were chanting something together. Lightning hit the tower and I woke
up.
DG: What comes to mind if I say three?
FS: Togetherness
DG: Torch
FS: Truth
DG: Wand
FS: Energy
DG: Book
FS: Destiny
DG: Cross
FS: Unity
DG: Cube
FS: Stability
DG: Sphere
FS: Completion
DG: This is some really heavy stuff. I am going to need some time to figure out this dream.
What other dreams have you had?
FS: The night the Earth died, I had a disturbing dream. I dreamed that God was playing
solitaire. I asked the God if I was in the game. God said, In a manner of speaking you are. I
then asked God what he meant. God looked at me and in a stern voice said, You really are a
fool. After this dream I awoke on this Earth.
DG: But this session does have an end. Any last comments before this session ends.

Dr. Gammas Notes: The symbolism of the patients dream is based on some sort of larger
symbolic system. This is not a typical dream by any means. Not sure a Freudian way is the
best way to approach this symbolism. A Jungian approach might be more appropriate.
There is some sort of binary code at work. The right hand of the three women always
holds a phallic symbol while the left hand holds a shape, perhaps a feminine symbol. The
destruction of the tower suggests the destruction of a male force.
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Were the women chanting for the lightning? I vaguely recall running into the symbol of
lightning hitting a tower but not sure where.

In a way you get three binary messages that is reminiscent of the I Ching.

Dr. Delta: This was Dr. Gammas last session with Freak Show. That night, Freak Show died
via a process popularly known as spontaneous combustion the next evening. Spontaneous
combustion is not well understood. A person seems to go up in flames with no external source
of combustion. Freak Show was playing solitaire in the recreation area of the hospital when this
event occurred and this is interesting given the dream he told Dr. Gamma during the last session.
Several reliable staff members saw the event. The event was also videotaped by the recreational
room surveillance system. No external source of combustion was seen or found in the
investigation by the local fire department.

Freak Show of course had repeatedly claimed that spontaneous combustion occurred as a
punishment, meted out by mysterious beings he called the Omegas, when visitors from another
Earth violated what he referred to as the Square Earth Law. According to the patient, the Square
Earth Law states that persons from a Square Earth should not give persons from a non-Square
Earth technological knowledge from the Square Earth. Freak Shows claim that he would
eventually die via spontaneous combustion was greeted with extreme skepticism. The claims
were made prior to his death but now are a source of further mystery. It was almost as though he
had finished his story and it was now time for him to go. I am not a religious man but I wonder
if he was recycled and where he went if he had been recycled. The death of Freak Show was not
the end of the infections. The three infected therapists in turn infected other members of the
psychotherapist community and the infection has continued to spread exponentially. Anyone
reading this transcript should follow standard level two post-memetic infection protocols in order
to avoid infection.

Dr. Gamma disappeared after the last session. The police found him several days later in a
decrepit hotel after the hotel owner complained that he wouldnt open the door or leave the hotel
or pay his bill. The walls of the hotel roomed were filled with symbolic memetic formulas
written with a black marker. I cannot explain the how a man with no formal training in this area
could come up with such advanced equations. Despite my own acknowledged expertise in this
area, I had difficulty following some of the more advanced equations that use, I think, chaos
theory to greatly increase memetic infection levels to an unheard of 8.0 and above, at least at the
theoretical level. Dr. Gamma had more or less invented the equivalent of a memetic atomic
bomb i.e. he had figured out how too exponentially increase memetic reproduction.

The institute handled the bill for repainting the hotel room after the equations were
photographed. The equations are considered quite dangerous and only level 5 and above
personnel are allowed to read them.

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The, so-called, Anti-God Formula itself, that was impossibly written on the ceiling in giant
letters, has been seized by the FBI despite my assurances that institute security was of the highest
level. Dr. Gamma claimed the Omegas gave him the Anti-God Formula that would end
universal suffering once and for all.
Hopefully, this transcript will allow future therapists to learn from Dr. Gammas example and
not to make the same mistakes. Dr. Gamma is currently in therapy but his prognosis is poor.

The institute never fully recovered from the bad publicity surrounding Dr. Gamma and Freak
Show and was forced to shut down a year later. I found the whole incident exhausting
professionally. I have discontinued the clinical practice of meta-psychology. I am currently
doing consulting in the area of memetic advertising. Memetic advertising is the application of
memetic theory to sell goods and services. My new job is much less hassle and more money.

MEMETIC INFECTION COUNTERMEASURES

You have been exposed to bits and pieces of the Anti-God Formula in this session. The exact
way this formula works is not totally understood and much of this information is confidential.
Stare at the following counter formula for at least one-hour:

B > - B

Whether or not the symbols actually make sense is irrelevant for the efficacy of this exercise.
The infectious level of this session is extremely low but the virulence is extremely high. I
believe this is the memetic structure that ultimately led to Dr. Gammas metaschizophrenia.

Ungaro: After I finished reading the novel some strange events happened. I will treat this
document as a novel although I think it is something more much more. I had a disturbing dream
just like Freak Show. I dreamt I was in a casino. In a corner I saw someone throwing dice. His
face was in the shadows. As I approached the man through the noise and smoke I was amazed to
see it was Einstein. I asked Einstein, What is the secret of life oh wise one?
Einstein replied, Am I throwing the dice or is God throwing the dice? Once you understand that
then you understand everything.

Gamma never returned from his foray at the Golden Monkey. Also at this point in my reading of
the document, one by one the classmates of Gamma started forgetting his existence. The very
act of my asking them about Gamma seems to cause this effect. They recall him during my first
e-mail inquiry but not the second one. Its almost like some reality virus erases all trace of
Gamma as he is mentioned. He no longer appears on the alumni lists of Texas A&M University.
Our fellow students think I am pulling their leg when I mention our missing classmate and then
suggest counseling when I insist on his reality. Counseling? After what happened to Freak
Show? No thank you! The pictures of Gamma and myself at the Golden Monkey go through
two phases. In the first phase he disappears from the picture.
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In the second phase the picture itself disappears. My co-workers who met Gamma at my
birthday party do not remember his presence at all. I have learned from my experience with my
classmates not to insist on Gammas existence to loudly.

I think I understand what is happening. Gamma is being erased from above for reasons beyond
my understanding. If the memory of man no longer contains Gamma then did he exist? I say
yes but wonder. Will I to be erased by the ultimate author, God. What is my crime for such a
sentence? Infection! There is only one hope. This document must be published. Surely
thousands of readers cannot be erased.

Or can they?

I am a bit paranoid at this point. For this reason I have resorted to using a pseudonym. Hugo
Ungaro is not my real name. This is simple manuscript like any other and there is no divine
aspect to this text and should be analyzed as text period. This text deconstructs the relationship
between patient and therapist in that the roles are reversed and permeate each other to some
extent. There is also an implicit deconstruction of text type. Is this text a scientific record, some
sort of Socratic dialogue, a type of novel or all three? The three types of text seem to permeate
each other and destroy the boundary between these types of text.

Finally there is interpretation within interpretation like worlds within worlds. Freak Show is
trying to make sense of his universe. Dr. Gamma interprets the story of Freak Show using his
Meta Freudian theory. Dr. Delta interprets Dr. Gamma and Freak Show using memetics. I
interpret all three characters using my own minimal knowledge of literary criticism for lack of
any other way of trying to figure out this text but I would say that ultimately this is a story about
interpretation. Frankly, I found literary criticism to be by far the most boring class for my
masters in English and by far preferred the hands on TESOL classes but for once in my entire
life I think that class on literary criticism has come in handy.

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7.00 DISCLAIMER FROM DR. DELTA

1) Dr. Delta refuses to take any position about the debate in the media about the actual existence
or nonexistence of Squares. Publication of this book does not in any way constitute support for
those who claim that Squares actually do exist.

2) Dr. Delta takes no position, pro or con, about the divinity of Freak Show and/or claims about
his status as a prophet.

3) Dr. Delta takes no position pro or con about a conspiracy that led to the death of Freak Show.

4) Dr. Delta totally denies any control of his activities by Squares or any other outside agency.

5) Dr. Delta denies suffering from a metaschizophrenia condition.

6) Dr. Delta denies that reading this manuscript can cause metaschizophrenia*. In particular, Dr.
Delta denies the Anti-God fantasy is infectious in nature as presented in this manuscript.

7) Dr. Delta categorically denies any knowledge about the disappearance of, the former Assistant
Director, Dr. John Arrow.

*This statement is based of the assumption that the reader has followed the memetic infection
countermeasures at the end of each chapter. The author bears no legal or financial responsibility
for readers that do not follow the memetic infection countermeasures outlined in the document
and do incur memetic infection due to their negligence.
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8.00 Message from the Author


Dear Reader,

My name may seem familiar since I am the son of another novelist Hugh B. Fox Jr. I am Hugh
B. Fox III. This is my first novel. I am already working on a second novel titled, I was a
Teenage Zombie Hunter. This work will be more commercial. I also have outlined five novels
that are follow ups to Half Square to form the Square Earth Saga. I am interested in networking
with other writers and most of all agents.

I am a professor teaching in Asia. My doctorate is in Education and my subspecialties are ESL
and educational technology but obviously I have many other interests. I am very interested in
feedback about Half Square and can be reached at foxhugh@yahoo.com.

Cheers,

Hugh