INTOXICANTS: smokes Havana cigars, opium

HOBBIES: loves to work on his back with a back scratcher

HEALTH RISKS: high blood pressure, onset cirrhosis

Sighed. He had to do something to give expression to his sadness. Thome’s father was a member of the House of Lords and managed the still handsome fortune of his family, which had roots back to the thirteenth century and which, despite closed factories, was still respectable. He owned pieces of several digital companies that principally dealt in the collection, evaluation, and manipulation of data and, as an old friend of the military, was on the verge of founding the country’s first private army. He financed an online newspaper where imaginative students published fake videos, photos, and reports that furthered the so-called division of the populace. At his IT firm some of the employees in the microtargeting division were working successfully on the reinvention of Britain. A lot going on, this old house. You could say that Thome’s father along with other billionaires would play a significant role in the collapse and resurrection of the country. Like god. Or Jesus. Whatever. Thome’s father was a member of the Hayek Society, an aggregation of free market fundamentalist idiots who were members of the Atlas Network, an aggregation of still more neoliberal idiots who were busy with the abolishment of government, and all of them wanted to quickly reshape the world before they died. Or just get more power. Or money. Or—

Let’s take a quick look, for instance, at the plan various old bastards had been executing for some time. When you use the instruments of democracy to completely pulverize trust in democracy—that is, put absolutely rubbish individuals in top positions, instigate civil wars, incite the so-called good against the so-called bad by means of Nudging, by the manipulation of their goddamn brains via devices, social media, false information, when you render the press utterly untrustworthy, when you encourage brutality, Nazis, ignorance, and fascism—in short, when you perpetrate insane chaos, that means in the short-term: diminished profits. But shit happens. You just have to consider the unbelievable easing of the financial system the next step involves. The next step, which was already imminent.

The Earth. It needed to be liberated from humans a bit. Sound crazy? Not at all. If it comes across strange to you then it is only because you can’t grasp the magnitude of the vision. Right, well. Let’s talk about the family. How it wanted tradition, and how

THOME

Was a disappointment for the noble pedophiles. Thome had gotten accustomed to being despised by his parents. In his circles that was actually a basic principle of family. Mutual disdain was the foundation on which the kingdom had been built. Tradition, boarding school, university, expensive cemetery plots. That’s how you could summarize the CV of his people.