Given my painfully copious amounts of free time in Albuquerque, I've had plenty of hitherto unexperienced and unanticipated moments of introspection, world inspection, and mindless drunken soul searching. Needless to say, all of these moments are bookended either by work, school, sleep, or running, or wishing I had a gun to shoot the various strange things that have been inhabiting my apartment as of late. But I digress--here is my step by step plan for world domination from an economic perspective.
Preface: This isn't going to be a needlessly bloody revolution or anything like that, though it will have its fair share of coups. Instead, let us conquer the world through its most ubiquitous, easily influenced, and most powerful organic compontent: the semi-global economy. I call it organic, becuase it is an inevitable mechanism of any society that has developed beyond the hunter gatherer phase. Society, for the uninitiated, is comprised of these funny little carbon-based creatures known as people who live in "harmony" with large, diverse groups of one another.
It is in constant flux. And seemingly insignificant things like butterflies shaking the dew off their wings on the Veldt can ultimately lead to dozens of failed investors tossing themselves off skyscrapers in New York. Isn't that gorgeous example of cause and effect?! Albeit, it is a bit like a Goldberg device (and hence is susceptible to increased entrophy as more complication is built into the device) it still accomplishes the desired task (the energy expended to set in motion a series of events such as this is almost negligible. Considerable mental engery is required however, in order to place all the pieces at their proper place and time). As society grows and develops in a strangely evolutionary pattern (apply evolutionary theory to the different "appendages" and "structures" of society. They're reactionary, largely, not anticipatory; See if you don't agree)the economic machine grows alongside it. Reflecting the culture's needs and values; sometimes chewing it up and spitting out a new version to better deal with neighboring societies and their own economies. It's like a mini-god. A deus ex machima, literally. Always on hand to recreate the scene whenever it goes stale or becomes too dangerous.
Great, now I'm aware that I'm babbling. What the fuck was the topic anyhow? World domination or something? You'd do best to forget this whole post, friend. Before I go, though, I'll leave you with something: homino homini lupus. That's basically the formative impetus behind my whole still-born plan for world domination. Rely on the inescapable fact of human nature to result in world economic collapse,then place my own version (appropriately titled "Economy version 2.0")into effect, and watch as everything trickles down to the guy in the center as the world is rebuilt, globally, under this new system. Economy 2.0 is centralized around my giant, phallic TOWER OF DOOM, and all of the resources of the world that i'll need to build some kick-ass doomsday device will be available. There will be tons of random enemy encounters in case anyone dares to climb the 99 floors along THE SPIRALING STAIRCASE OF CERTAIN EVISCERATION. And each enemy will become progressively more difficult, allowing the potential hero plenty of time to build up his experience to a ridulously high level where he will have no problem destroying myself and my earth-shattering harmonic resonator. (Damn, that sounds cool: "Earth-Shattering Harmonic Resonator". Was it DaVinci who thought he could split the world in half if he could find the right frequency?)
After all, it's not about winning, is it, my fellow villans? It's about having fun and looking cool along the way! Just ask Chow Yun Fat.--HK_Newbie
