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~ W.H. Auden, Poet
MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE
(((((( DDDDDDDDDDDD ))))))
H
ear that? Those are the Ds coming your way: Dread. Dissatisfaction.
Depression. Disquiet. Discontent. Disillusionment. All predictable consequences
for either door, the disharmonious emotional whispers onward to your final
destination: 
M.O.D.E.L. Citizenship
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But before embarking, we’d like you to forget about those Ds. Instead, we
want you comfortable. Entertained and humored. So here’s one of the 
SCRIPT’s
many red herrings: a movie…
You see, both 
SCRIPTED
paths cannot survive without their ministry of
entertainment: distraction. While we’re blissfully preoccupied watching our
funny movie while stuffing our face with genetically modified food and being
herded toward the slaughterhouse, our minds are being melted into submission.
Pay no attention to what’s outside the rail car. Negative interest rates? Here’s
a cat playing with a ball of yarn. Twenty-trillion in government debt? Check out
the celebrity dresses worn at the Oscars! Stock market crumbling? Sign this
petition to stop HBO from canceling The Sopranos. Middle East genocide? Meh,
did you hear Katy Perry’s new album?

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You see, if you’re too plumply entertained in hyperrealistic distraction,
you’re no threat—no threat to the paradigms and certainly no threat to the meat
grinder awaiting. Just sit back, relax, and focus on your movie because this train
is leaving.
Unfortunately, distraction’s objective is not to keep you entertained. It’s to
grind life into mediocrity. Autopiloted inertia—when both 
SCRIPTED
paths
seem inescapable and reversing appears impossibly painful. While season
twenty-two of “whatever show is hot” rolls on, inside your spirit withers. Dreams
fade. Life mulls into the trivial and mundane. The pending suicide mission is
resigned as fate. Suddenly, instead of talking about goals and dreams, you’re
talking about how much the Lakers suck this year. Distraction is the medicating
cocktail that lets us swallow our ignorant resignation that life will be ordinarily
destined for a weekend and a once-a-year vacation. Meanwhile, the clickety-clack
of the train tracks count down the years to the last and final stop…

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M.O.D.E.L. Citizenry
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CHAPTER 12
M.O.D.E.L. CITIZENRY:
SERIAL #666-77-8888
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still
a rat.