116 lines
6.6 KiB
Plaintext
116 lines
6.6 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
### ###
|
|
### ###
|
|
### #### ### ### ### ####
|
|
### ### ##### ### ###
|
|
### ### ### ### ###
|
|
### ### ##### ### ###
|
|
########## ### ### ##########
|
|
### ###
|
|
### ###
|
|
|
|
Underground eXperts United
|
|
|
|
Presents...
|
|
|
|
####### ## ## ####### # # ####### #### ####
|
|
## ## ## ## ##### ## ## ##
|
|
#### ## ## #### # # ####### ## ##
|
|
## ## ## ## ##### ## ## ##
|
|
## ## ####### ####### # # ####### ###### ######
|
|
|
|
[ Peter Haynes International Operations ] [ By The GNN ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|
____________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PETER HAYNES INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
|
|
by THE GNN/DCS/uXu
|
|
|
|
|
|
We all know Peter Haynes. You do not? Trust me - you do. Perhaps not by his
|
|
name, but by what he does. He has never justified his special (to say the
|
|
least) kind of occupation in public; and I believe the reason for that is
|
|
simply that no one has ever had the chance to confront him, even though
|
|
most of us have been in contact with him, one disturbing way or the other.
|
|
But the other night, I managed to catch him on tape, talking about himself!
|
|
(It was a sheer coincidence; I will not bore you with the details.)
|
|
This exclusive transcript must be handled with discretion. Be careful to
|
|
whom you pass on the information in this file. Some people in the world are
|
|
better off if they do not know about Peter Haynes and his company.
|
|
|
|
PETER HAYNES: "... face the facts, we live in a world that goes around
|
|
thanks to a complex - yet delicate - bureaucratic machinery. Political
|
|
constructions, social arrangements, law and order, you name it; all these
|
|
things requires millions of people tangled up in a complicated web of
|
|
rational assignments to function properly. Behind every fire fighter,
|
|
police man, politician, doctor, teacher, judge, lawyer, and so on, stands
|
|
thousands of workers with various indispensable duties.
|
|
Tell me, if you ask the phone company to connect a new telephone in your
|
|
house, how many people will handle your request before then phone is
|
|
actually installed a couple of hours later? One? Two? Wrong. Eighty! If you
|
|
commit a crime, get arrested, prosecuted, convicted and sent to jail - how
|
|
many people do you think have been involved in that process? Ten? Twenty?
|
|
Wrong. More than a thousand. If you go and vote? One-hundred? Wrong. Around
|
|
sixty-thousand.
|
|
That is how - and why - it works.
|
|
Every cogwheel in the great apparatus of the state fulfils an important
|
|
task. Nevertheless, if one breaks down it can be easily replaced. This is
|
|
not to say that 'human individuality' has 'seized to exist in our modern
|
|
world'. Those who claim such things are just confused. Your unique
|
|
individuality has nothing to do with your status in the machinery. The
|
|
machinery do not conceive your individuality. You do it yourself. If you
|
|
fail with that, it is your own fault. The machinery has been made so that
|
|
you may freely, within certain limits, do what you want with your life and
|
|
individuality. Seriously speaking, do you not feel like an individual? Do
|
|
your family and friends treat you as an unimportant and replaceable object?
|
|
I do not think so. And if they do, change your circle of acquaintances. Do
|
|
not blame the machinery.
|
|
The Whole is not a person. The Parts are. But what do they do? They
|
|
follow strict rules. If they do not, they will be replaced. The Whole is
|
|
dependent upon the rules. A police man simply cannot look away if he sees
|
|
someone commit a crime. He must do what the law commands him to do. A state
|
|
secretary cannot throw away incoming mail, he must organize them in proper
|
|
stacks. Whoever gets your call at the phone company must pass on your
|
|
request so that your phone eventually is installed. No exceptions.
|
|
Now, in this gigantic bureaucratic machinery, who is to be blamed if
|
|
everyone have followed the rules - yet something goes wrong?
|
|
No one.
|
|
You see, the Whole is indeed responsible for the failures, but not the
|
|
Parts. And the Whole is not a person! And only persons can be blamed! So
|
|
what are we going to do? (Failures do not happen very often. Sure, through
|
|
your eyes, that do not perceive the big things in this wonderful world - it
|
|
might look like that; but you are narrow-sighted and ignorant. The Whole
|
|
works - and its occasional failures are necessary so that it can correct
|
|
itself. The rules the Parts follow are not inflexible, but they must
|
|
firstly fail in application, otherwise there is no reasons to change them.
|
|
Or do you have some better suggestion? Perhaps we should just guess which
|
|
rules that some day will lead to unwanted consequences?) But the question
|
|
was: who is to be blamed? If no single Part in the machinery is responsible
|
|
for some tragic outcome, who must be forced to stand up and articulate the
|
|
painful information? Who? There is no one!
|
|
Until now, that is.
|
|
You know me. Perhaps not by my name, but by what I do. I am Peter
|
|
Haynes, my company is Peter Haynes International Operations, and my work is
|
|
simply to pass on unavoidable information that no one wants to pass on. Not
|
|
only do I relieve innocent people (clerks, scientists, presidents, and so
|
|
on) from making themselves look evil; I also provide the community with
|
|
Someone to blame, not merely an abstract Something. I travel all around the
|
|
world, and I tell people such things that they are about to die, that they
|
|
must give up their homes, that some war is necessary, that there is nothing
|
|
'we' can do, that there is unfortunately only one solution to a problem and
|
|
you will not like it, and so on, and so on.
|
|
I do not enjoy my work. It is terrible. To make people face the facts
|
|
has made me hard. But for that sake I have no desire to quit; I am well
|
|
aware that my assignments are important, that I fill an empty slot in the
|
|
wonderful machinery we call 'the system'. That keeps me going. (And anyhow,
|
|
the day I decide to quit - someone will quickly replace me.)"
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
uXu #511 Underground eXperts United 1999 uXu #511
|
|
Call KASTLEROCK -> +1-724-527-3749
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|