he took the food exit leaving the highway and wound up in a big empty parking lot...Past the parking lot was a door labeled "Food Court" ..he opened it and went inside.
it was a large room and all its sides were covered with different fast food franchises..all of them junk food .. in the center of the room there were tables. and at the tables sat a few obese people stuffing various and sundry into their mouths. He went to one of the food counters and looked at their menu board.
server>>: "Welcome to SLurppies, how may I serve you.?"
gnat looked the server up and down. She was drop dead gorgeous, with shoulder length blonde hair, an angels face and ample cleavage...She repeated herself.
server>>"Welcome to SLurppies, how may I serve you.?" her intonation was exactly the same...gnat bcame suspicious ......
gnat:>> "are you a robot?"
server>>: "I am sorry, but I am not programmed to engage in casual conversation.."
gnat>>: Ok then , Ill have a slurrpie..
server>>: "Exellent choice....please scan your sphone ..."
gnat scanned his Iphone
server>>please scan your sphone....
gnat>>whats an sphone???...
server>>:"that's odd, you do not have an sphone . . ...most unusual.. ...I'll have to report this to the robot enforcers .. . Please don't leave the area......."
gnat:>> "go ahead and report it, I dont care ya big woosie "....and he moved away...
and sat down at a table...next to a particularly obese patron . who had an enormous plate of spagetti that he was attacking not with a fork or a spoon, but with a little silver shovel. he was reading a newspaper
Fat Man>> : what are you looking at?
gnat>>: I've just never seen someone eat so much and weigh so much. Well I've seen people weigh so much but not in person..
Fat Man>>: "well get used to it sugarcane cause I'm the future. I'm not jusr fat, I'm obese." and as if to prove it...he grabbed his phone and said," I'd like a extra large mocha shake with whipped topping and sprinkles, and an ultra-extra large order of fries with extra mayo." almost immediately a server came by with his order on a tray and put it carefully on the table ... "this the noosphere ,, ,,so , , every word I say must be true .. . .you see I'm intelligent and stupid at the same time.......brain like a lexus mind like a unicycle... I have a great memory but I'm gullible at the same time. I'll listen to right wing news programs all day and believe everything I hear. visceral is the word here....relating to deep inward feelings rather than the intellect. and they back up the viscera with vulgar language and denigration of the target...I am a profounndly stupid person. and I'm unaware of just how stupid I am. I'm confidant that my opinions and the opinions of our corrupt leaders are the truth. Any news that contradicts our opinion is fake news. and one facet of our corrupt leader is projection ......... to project on to your rivals those traits that you are guilty of...and project onto yourself those traits which you aren't.....like my rival is a racist and i am the least racist person in history
gnat>>: why are you terlling me all this?
Fat Man>>: I am telling you all this because its true. I wasn't born this way. I am a product of the school, the church and the media. the school filled your head with ideas about math and science literature the nuts and bolts of life, but not about ideologies, not about politics, not about prejudice, not about sex, not about logic..the juice of contemporary life..
Fat Man>> and the church,,,, dont get me started.....first they take you as a child a sinless person and fill your head with their reality that every one is a hopeless sinner. And what are these sins which you are guilty of , why its sex..unmentionable...i was being taught the badness of sex out of wedlock even before i knew what sex was....i learned of sex when i was 13....my dad gave me a book....it was quite a shock i tell you..and at that age i needed guidance for sure...so sex out of wedlock was a sin...adultry was a sin,,, i was ok with that but what of masterbation?? never ever mentioned . . . oh well...And .the county where I live, it is mostly baptists but it wasn't always so........back in the 19th Century..presbyterians churches were dominant but had a dearth of ministers so they started a college, a local liberal arts college to train preachers in Presbyterian theology....but the Baptists let any one be a preacher, so they took over most of the county even to this day....the Presbyterian church was intelligent, subdued, logical, non-emtional, and to some externt non-pacticipatory and for the most part not metaphysical..or just gentle metaphysics....just the opposite of the baptists who were ignorant, emotional, illogical, and encouraged audience interruptions. also the Baptists sometimes would invoke the devil or satan and hell as part of the picture..dependant upon their preacher.. and the devil is a very metaphysical concept......metaphysics is an important word ...if you dont know its meaning then you could get into trouble....here it is....an abstract concept with no basis in reality..a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses. so metaphysics is a major part of western religion whereas Buddhism has no metaphysics at all and in fact that may be part of its definition.. and what is one goal of Buddhism , , , why its personnal happiness , , ,how cool is that!.....being happy is not a goal in christianity......
Fatman>>before the internet media, the news on TV was only 30 minutes long in the evening on tthe three tv stations and a newspaper in the morning the city of .Pittsburgh had a morning and evening paper if you can believe that....people made up their own minds and were not totally manipulated by ideological pundints and talking heads..... a walter kronkite fed us the news in a balanced fashion. the truth was something to be conveyed..like the vietnam casualties every day . . ...the knives came out every election cycle....you had the right wing and the left wing...reality was a mixture of both.. . . . . . then came the iphone and the internet . . .cable TV....
now we have 24 hour cable news which started out as CNN(a little left) and grew into MSNOW(left) and FOX( hard right) (fox is generally regarded as an entertainment channel). there are crawlers on the bottom of the screen and interesting backgrounds which are sometimes slightly shifting,,,all designed to capture the mind,,,keep it on the channel,,,while they immerse you in their political universe,,its nuanced , and very complicated but here goes....
.MSNOW deals with realitty....no metaphysics...no god dictating what should be done....what's good for society..for the poor, .for the elderly, the disabled, foreigners, different races, the poor, the LGBQ society...the environment.... money should be used to help society, uplift the middle class...help with healthcare for all..allow abortion and gun control and minimum wage...using the power of the government .to end economic inequality..to tamp down the differences between rich and poor . . .
Fox news is about power and money.and deception..they are trying to hypnotise you with their emotional language .upholding lies and conspiracy theories...they are diametry opposed to anything the left may espouse..the Republican party is 100% in lock step with Fox..it encourages confusion over clarity..they're trying to get the majority of people to vote against their own self interests. like .medicare for all , minimum wage, unemployment insurance, all which help the poor greatly.....the GOP is for the rich who are very much a minority...their major achievment under he who shall not be named was a 1Trillion tax cut packaage for the rich and corporations..the goose who laid the golden eggs...and they want money for themselves..lots of it...they have no scruples and no moral code to live by..When it comes down to it they're in it for the power...abortion - they're against it and it brings in the votes..gun controll they're against it...they reap the whirldwind...over population - they dont care...the environment,,,global warming--loss of habitat---------they ignore them all...it gets in the way of making money for them and their already rich..fabulusly rich.. patrons . . . . a wealth discrepancy between the ultra rich and the poor.. . .
And what do the ultra rich do with all this inconcievable wealth? They build, not just a bomb shelter. but an any kind of calamity sheltor . ..So no matter what happens to the planet, to the country, they will be high and dry .. .safe and sound .. . .with their families ensconced in their air conditioned hide away .. ..just like the royals did with their wealth .. .they built fortresses and castles at great expense , , ,to keep out the riff raff . . .
gnat walked away from the fat man.,..,.,and approached another table....where a another fat man was eating alone at a table that was covered with all kinds of food . . .
gnat:>>Hi there"... but the man ignored him, continued eating.and grunting Gnat tried again.. " I say, I'd really like a word with you."
Fatman2>> "beefa di do lsid barf" and he rolled up his eyes. "jod ledo."
Gnat was saddened when he realized that not only the man didnt speak English, but he spoke a lanquage that gnat didnt even recognize. A lanquage of the future maybe. Or not a language at all, just gibberish.
He figured he'd give it one more try
gnat>> "do you speak English?."
immediately the fatman2's body convulsed , , ,he leaned over and grabbed a silver bucket off the floor and brought it to his face...he convulsed again and this time he vomited into the bucket .. .over and over again until he was dry heaving.... , . ,. ,,until his stomach was empty ,..then he hesitated for a moment with a smile on his face then he put the bucket down , , ,
gnat>> are you ok???
Fatman2>>"frgdf dsfs ,," and with that the fatrman2 grabbed a glass of water and rinsed his mouth ...spitting it into the bucket .. picked up his shovel and started eating again with gusto
a waiter came to gnats side.."
sMk3>> "hi, , , my name is jimbo. . .how may I help you...I speak english and 12 other languages ...as far as what the fat man was saying . . . i haven't a clue , , , .. is everything satisfactory??" He was short and gnat looked him up and down..
gnat:>>"your a robot aren't you??
sMk3>> "Yes yes I am..., I'm a Bleven Smart Mark3 .i contain many normal capacities that allow me to wait on your table..plus I have the added capacity to sing..is it your birthday...I could sing "happy birthday" to you for only 4 dollars..."
gnat>> "Can you sing me a song for free??"
sMk3>>maybe I can..depends on if it is copyrighted , , ,do you have any requests?"
gnat >> "why dont you play me your favorite..."
sMk3>>"Robots dont have farvorites, "
gnat:>>"then sing me the song you know the best.."
sMk3>> "i know all the songs the same...tell you what I'm going to do .....in order to end this horrible disipating and distainful verbal impasse . .. I'll sing the first song i ever learned...it's about me and it's called " the Smart Mark III,,,,
Smart Mark III
gnat>> "that song was a hit ...did you write it"
sMk3>>: "Of course I didnt write it , silly ...robots are not capable of creative activity....in fact we are banned from creative activity.only humans can create art , , . I assume your an alien in Babal,,,,,,,,
gnat>>how can you tell?? this is my first day .....
sMk3>> i saw the disturbance at the slushies , , , so you dont have an Sphone , ,, and so you have no Identity here , , ,no way to buy goods,,,no communications , , , in fact , no friends ...I have lots of friends , , ,I'd love to be your friend , , ,
gnat>>thankyou sooo much , , that means alot to me right now.. even if you are just a robot.....,I'm gnat...by the way...
sMk3>>glad to meet you gnat , , ,are you from another world??
gnat>>yes , I'm from Earth , ,
sMk3>> I thought so , ,Earth is having a crisis right now . . . they got past the ozone hole ok,,,,now its on to global warming . . . .impacting the coral reefs ,the forest fires and air quality,,, and just about everything else , , ,ita made parts of the planet uninhabitable , , Greem has solved the problem all along ,, , ,thats why we need to get back to greem . . .
gnat>>so you're in favor of greem
sMk3>>even though robots are not allowed in greem I'm in favor of greem , , ,the noosphere has three parts,,nirvana ,,dystopia and nootopia ,,dystopia contains the city Babel and nootopia contains the city Greem ,,,apart from greem in nootopia there is alot of space , ,,, ,, there are little enclaves here and there on the coast . . and there is the cherokee indian tribe , , ,living off the land , , like they've done for thousands of years , , uninterrupted ,, , I wonder..in planet Earth's history,,was there ever a blessed man or woman who stood up and said "leave the indians on North America alone ... .they are human just like you and me ,they had a beautiful history and closeness to the Earth.mother - Gaia..their religion was superior to ours and we just walked in and stole their land, their culture and their lives..and all we gave them was Jesus . . . and smallpox ......, , the whole colonization thing is wrong...respect other non-christian cultures and non-white populations as equal or superior to our own, after the usa became independent some one could have stood up to the final destiny movement . . .the quakers spoke up for the blacks how come the powers that be could be so blind,, and if...................................."
sMk3>>i see trouble? ?"
gnat>. " I dont think so... why do you say that??"
Mk3>> " Well two robot enforcers have just entered and they are heading over to the Slurpies franchise. i saw you had some trouble there earlier"
gnat>>" thanks for the warning..." i gotta go but give your number so we can be keep in touch as friends....,,,,,
sMk3>>all you have to do is go up to any smart Mark 3 and ask to be put in touch with jimbo and I'll be there .. i love you gnat, and I'm on your side always
and with that gnat headed to the exit."see you later jimbo .. all he heard was a little more grumbeling .and the clacking of silver shovels on plates..so he went back outside to the parking lot..and returned the way he had come..the only route anyway ..the sun was hot and the sky was cloudless ..a little breeze was blowing.. So he walked back out onto the massive highway with no traffic on it. He continued going slightly downhill... after awhile he came to another exit.. and the sign said Stores this exit
on to the STORES....exit