THE ULTIMATUM MANIFESTO

THE ULTIMATUM
Manifesto

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20/04/2013

I feel you there, in our possible future, watching us every moment of our lives, through your Archive, or your Memory Mapping, or your ability to see clear through time.

I know. I know that it is possible that you are there, right now, reading this.

In ten years, 20, 50, 500... Whenever you are right now, you and your kind are responsible for the mess our world is in. Not the environment, the politics, or the culture, but the massive wave of multimedia that exploded out of the years post 2000, which grew into social networking graph API's, viral marketing and everything that has turned us into ants living for the next like.

Know this. Know that even if you are just some innocent bystander, reading this on your tablet, a photocopy, or on the remains of my hard drive in a landfill hundreds of years in the future, YOU have the power to change this sick feedback loop of what seems to be the future worshipping the early 21st Century.

And if you just laugh at this document and do nothing, you too are doomed to our existence. For we know what to do now, if you are possibly watching us, then we can send messages to you. This is that message.

This is a time capsule filled with memetic virii. The vague concepts and chilling dialogue will pull you into its web, trapping you, making you think about what this document is really about, or hoping to achieve.

To put it bluntly, no matter who you are or when you are you have just read this message, you have activated the timer, and it is a bomb.

A logic bomb. Very simple.

Wrap up easy to understand concepts with information that is hard to grok, run the reader around in circles for a bit, lead them down the garden path, and then write something like "you have activated the timer, and it is a bomb.".

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This is an ultimatum and a manifesto, a digital Fight Club with whomever and whenever you are. And the first rule of this Fight Club, is there is a movie called Fight Club and you should go see it.

Go on, search "Fight Club" now, and see what happens.

Oh, you found a movie called Fight Club? Watch it.

Wasn't that awesome?

Now download the book, and read it.

Finished?

Why did you watch Fight Club? Why did you immediately read the book afterwards?

You see, dim witted denizen of the future, that was another circle.

And that's just a taste of the SHEER power of OUR technology. Just because we can't see into the future, doesn't mean we can't influence it. For instance, a human race that has come back from near extinction and discovers "advanced digital document storage on the 21st Century and what seems to be a catalogue of parallel Universes.". Which, of course, is people that don't know what a movie is thinking Vanilla Sky is a Scientology manifesto.

The only way this can be tackled is with a "war of words" from 2013 to the near future where everything turns to shit in whatever way, explain that the late 20th and early 21st Century have achieved great things and aren't as decadent and self involved as we may seem.

Does that sound far fetched to you, dear reader?

What if hackers in 2013 all over the world slipped white text on white page backgrounds into websites, branded with this manifesto? No-one would know they were there until you clowns in the future just searched for them.

How many did you find?

I realise that outlining clearly useful strategic social engineering concepts in public is naughty, and this manifesto will either seem over the top, not over the top enough, or seen as the joke that it is. Ask Shakespeare about that particular dilemma.

So how far will this document delve into the hidden mysteries of the magic art of Quantum Mechanics?

You obviously haven't been paying attention, this is not a document about Quantum Mechanics.

So, in the end of the end that we all will visit one day, will you be a soldier, or a fat lardass who is barely human and feeds off the information of the past?

I'm guessing you're a fat lardass.

Yours Sincerely,
Anon.