All right, this concludes our brief trip to see Kevin. On Thursday we’ll be back with Jacob and crew. All the Genocide Men are so good at making friends, aren’t they?
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Kevin: The Genocide Project was founded to centralize all weapons of mass destruction. There's nothing in the charter saying that I can't make more. I have control over your bioweapon stocks...launch codes for your nuclear arsenals...and command authority over your drone fleets. What's one more augmented agent?
Stefano: The centralization of superweapons was made in an environment of trust. Specifically, we trusted Doctor Lamb.
Kevin: Well, Lola's retired. You've got me now. If you intent to question my authority...I may have to prove how quickly I can depopulate a continent. Are we done here? It's tea time...and I'd like to nuke some whales before supper.
Stefano: The centralization of superweapons was made in an environment of trust. Specifically, we trusted Doctor Lamb.
Kevin: Well, Lola's retired. You've got me now. If you intent to question my authority...I may have to prove how quickly I can depopulate a continent. Are we done here? It's tea time...and I'd like to nuke some whales before supper.
Heh! Called it…kind of.
“Now, a game. Show me who does the best monkey imitation. The loser gets a booby prize. Want to know what it is?”
That ‘environment of trust’, best comedy line of the chapter so far. There must have been an outbreak of dumb virus when that decision was approved.
Deliciously sinister; I love it.
I have to agree with Kevin, it’s always nice to get your nuking done before supper.
How retired is Lola, by the way?
Darls Chickens wrote:
There must have been an outbreak of dumb virus when that decision was approved.
Yes, look back through the story. The human genetic code has been altered. It wouldn’t surprise me if common sense has been officially bred out of the species as a whole.
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People do dumb things after decade-long global war and plagues. It was more fear than trust. But I’ll note that today’s U.N. already has authority over all their members’ biological and chemical weapons — look up the BWC and CWC.
The big difference is that the U.N. does not have an enforcement wing. G.U.S. does; the Genocide Project.
Common sense bred out?
Looking at the Crimea events and reactions to them, there’s serious doubts in was bred in to start with…
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“Gentlemen. Lsdies. Who put this man in charge of our WOMDs? Because fire them. Now. Before they do anything else we all regret!”
I believe that it would be a very bad idea to allow anyone to have access to all your weapons of mass destruction, because Kevin. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end. Of the world.
That makes Kevin world dictator. Oh well. We’re all doomed.
LOL, he’s right – that guy is an fool who opened his mouth to remove all doubts.
Centralizing power to prevent abuse. What could possibly go wrong? If I was Kevin, I’d soooo be having the IRL equivalent of a troll face about now.
And the worst of all, is that Pup’s reply to the council is perfectly reasonable in his position. There is this story of Bill Gates once sued, and forced to stand in front of a court. When he was standing in front of the judge, he simply replied “I know where you live”. Coming from any other man it would be laughable. Coming from one of the richest men in the world, who controls the software of the world, I did think it twice before sending him to jail.
Pup is just that, a man who withhelds the military might of world in his hands.