Humanitarian Catharsis by susy derkins
April 3rd, 2008 2:13 AMOne on-duty security guard and two on-duty Police Agents, one outside a bank, the other outside the Electric Power offices.
This task had been sitting in my tasklist since Glasnost. If it wasn´t for the fact that it had been a gift from Charlie Fish I guess I would have managed to not sign for it, or to sign and then drop it with any seemingly reasonable excuse. Which would have been wrong because it was a task I really needed to do.
You see, I´ve been living for too long under the grip of corporate repression (bosses, security guards, arbitrary authorities) and the combination of fear and annoyance is getting paralyzing and is taking its toll on my sense of humor.
Now that I did this, it feels as if the whole wall of conditioning can indeed be blown to pieces. I finished about an hour ago and I´m still shaking, man, it was an exorcism...
The tool I used to make them laugh was the comic strip "Fables of Cops and Robbers", which is just funny as hell and brilliant.
The policeman with the long gun asked me to first tell him two jokes, one for free, one for the photo. He laughed only at the first one.
It seems that whenever there are two security guards/policement working together, the good cop/bad cop rule applies: the partners of my two policemen refused to even talk to me, and kept giving the evil eye to his partner while I talked with him and documented him laughing.
The task is done and I am thankful for ROTM: I was scared of it, and doing it proved that the deed was silly and so was the fear of it. And it reminded me that the whole enchilada is actually pretty silly. An enchilada that´s invisible to anyone else, and yet, it is.
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Thanks guys! You´ve got me back to the front player page :)
Is the sped-up video on my end or did it just come out that way?
You've struck your blow against the machinery of oppression!
I sped-up the video on purpose, it felt better that way, not exactly sure why.
The enchilada is inside all of us.
Oh yeah. Now I remember. That is the reason I love this game.
Thanks, Susy!
yes! YES! tenacity for the win!
fue un ataque perfecta, comadre! su tenacidad superara los tristes puercos malditos!
I am not sure about machinery of oppression anymore, which is probably the whole point :)
Yes, abomine, so rude of my part to hide the punch line. I´ll fix that.
Y un honor ser su comadre, ¿qué se toma?
The uniformed seem so much more ready to serve when they smile. Friendly police have always been the most effective. Thanks for showing us those smiles!
It seems that whenever there are two security guards/policement working together, the good cop/bad cop rule applies.
YES!
Whilst getting harassed by two security guards for 25Zero's attempted and failed completion of Public Surface, Kyle was trying to explain what was going on. One refused to listen to anything he said, and one was the reason we didn't get taken to the police.
The system works...
It's kinda hysterical that you all think smiling cops won't shoot you just as dead as snarling ones if you end up on the wrong side or the perceived wrong side of the law. Or maybe just the wrong end of authority (Tiannamen Square 1989).
The system doesn't work at all, guys. Not one little bit :>
Well, I don´t know if everyone else is seeing it in the same Tiannamen Square context, which is crystal clear to me but is certainly not what this task was about. Of course police will shoot you if they get up on the wrong foot and you happen to have the wrong hairdo. We live with that in my country as a matter of course. That´s what the comic is all about. If you get mugged the last thing you´ll do is call the police: they´ll take whatever is left or beat you. Oh well.
You see, this task was about security guards and I extended it to policemen only because the police here actually work as security guards, parking lot attendants and the like.
And my interpretation was that it was about making them laugh as a way to break the insidious atmosphere that an army of security guards provide: security guards are harmless, always polite, never raise their voices, and are really not guarding people about any real danger. But they are looking at you all the time, they will tell you that you can´t sit there and that you need to wear your stupid badge at all times, they give you the evil eye if you come to work in sneakers. They keep you living in perpetual annoyance if you don´t fold you hands to the corporate civilized model. And they do that because we agree to be squeezed into stupid soul-eating corporate seriousness. And we have to stop agreeing and take charge. So if I see that I can make them laugh, next time they tell me that I can´t sit down on that fountain I am just going to laugh. Or I am going to ask "why?". And they would smile and mumble something and leave me alone. That was why I did it.
And yeah, the system doesn´t work.
Susy! I'm so proud! I'm sorry that I haven't been paying attention to SF0 recently and I missed your wonderful breakthrough. You rock my world!
Charlie!!!!! The rocking is the other way around! You´re like a rainbow :)
Yay! You finally got it!