66 - An IMPORTANT DRUNKEN ANNOUNCMENT.

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Comrades, Consumers! I think probably maybe we're actually going to be O.K. because Kirk is really nothing at all like the Master OR Major West, and he's not taken any hostages or pretended to be the Admiral or set up any death traps and even though he's not really a very nice person sometimes and he's pushy and doesnt seem to understand that hitting someone in the arm isnt very good behavior for friends but hes actually O.K. and not so bad and he gave us all fizzy champagne Perfect for any barbecue, wedding or other social event which would be the constant envy of your friends and neibors AND he doesnt sound drunk.

PLUS the Admiral isnt very good anyway so i dont mind him not driving the ship for a bit.

Comments

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

You cannot spell, sir, and everyone's drunk.

...I did nothing. I haven't even met you.

Handwriting suddenly becomes incredibly, deliberately neat and careful!

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I can spell just fine. Besides, Kirk really is a moderately acceptable person.

...Sam, you've got a beard.

[Pause]

I'm sorry, Comrade. You look like a hairier version of someone I know.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Your testimony was noted, I promise you.

I was going to say, I think you have me mistaken. Who is this Sam gentleman? Does he really look like me?

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

He looks... sort of like you? Only less ugl-- less hair, and no scar on his face. He might be a bit younger than you as well.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I'll have to look out for him. Is he a warden too? The scar, I cannot help, sir, as I'm sure you can appreciate.

annnd the drunkenness begins to creep back in.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

There's actually two of them, theress the Master who's an inmate and he wears a suit and has no sidebutrns and there's Sam, who's a waeden and wears shirts with enormous pointy collars and has sideburns and that's how you tell them apart.

How did you get your scar?

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, if we all look similar, then I'm the one with the beard and scar and no left hand. What kind of fellow calls himself 'the Master', anyway?

Mark of war. I was cut open by the enemy in the Netherlands. Lucky not to die, really.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

That would be a pretty strong defining feature, I suppose. The kind of fellow who likes to kill lots of people calls himself 'the Master'.

Who were you at war with? The Netherlands?

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

And I look like this man? He is what, a murderer? Not a soldier, I take it?

No, Spain. I was fighting for the Dutch.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

No, not a soldier. He's an alien, who may or may not have committed genocide.

I thought you were English?

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

A genocidal alien. Only here would I think that possible.

I am. I fought for pay.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

I know how that feels. You came here recently?

Oh. Well, that's arguably the best reason to subject yourself to potential violence!

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Relatively, yes.

I would suppose it is. Although I have found better things to fight for since then, I do admit.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Really? What were those things?

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

A just and fair cause. Freedom from tyranny. I could go on.

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Hm.

Fighting for the freedom to be miserable and poor. That's not as good a cause as everyone seems to think it is.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

If you're already miserable and poor, you might as well fight for the freedom to improve your life somehow rather than live at the whim of a tyrant.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Poor in what though? You work hard, you buy things, you have a little money in your pocket and a beautiful quantity of belongings, and still people say that they're poor.

Sometimes there are things that you think you want, but that really would just ruin everything. The people you call tyrants are just protecting you.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I think food and pay and the ability to write freely without being flogged or arrested are things that people have legitimate reason for wanting. I do not know which time you come from, but I cannot think of many where oppression, starvation and endless, pointless conflict are considered anything but poverty.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Well, if it's all of those things then maybe you have a point. Sometimes though, you have to have some to protect you from the others.

...I think my world was a little different to yours.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I think your world was far different, sir. I cannot imagine a situation where a tyrant would be a necessary thing.

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Think of it as... Imagine you're in a shopping center, and there's something really, really bad outside, and you don't want your children getting hurt by it. So you lock the door and distract your children with the things in the shop, but if they try to leave? Or if they try to convince the others they need to leave? You have to stop them. Because if those door opens and what's outside gets in-- then the bad thing is everywhere.

So you protect them, and they kill you for it.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I...I'm afraid I really don't follow that analogy. I get the general principle, I think. There's a difference between protection and abuse of power, sir. Yes, it is a fine line, but not one which should be stepped over.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

It wasn't an abuse of power. We were all part of something bigger than us, it protected us and we protected it and everyone had a place and everyone was needed until they weren't...

They didn't even know what they wanted.

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

...I was not accusing you of anything, sir. I apologise if it came across that way. I am sure you did what you must. It is not for me to judge without knowing.