This text was found by Zhyrex on the streets of Dublin/Ireland..
Times are bleak . on new years day 2030 the masses, grouchy with lack of serotonin and sleep, wake up to yet another day of compulsory labour . their state alarm clocks go off and the morning wall VDU (compulsory instalment in all rooms) tells them to hurry up . they are given their daily dose of fluoride and prozac via their bathroom taps . they reach for fresh disposable razors, which now have a life span of two days. the morning wall VDU observes their movements, informs them of building traffic congestion in every suburb, urging them to get to work earlier . children are herded off to school in specially constructed Luas carriages with no windows . by 6am the M50 is jammed up . people don their anti smog face protection masks as they open the front doors of their houses and get into their cars, where they can take them off again. they say their good morning wishes to their loved ones via text message . the alarm clock blares from the car rdios as FM104 is the only radio station (it takes up the entire FM and AM bands). the daily death count on the road begins . the walls of the motorways are covered in billboards. the advertisements are all for chemical companies. they are offering a better version of you. for only nineteen ninety-nine you too can look as good as this. every motorway is eight lanes wide. barely decayed cans and crisps bags litter the hard shoulder. whatever few weeds appear in the cracks are chocked with carbon monoxide. people stare vacantly ahead as they reach the suburban ‘work zones’ . there are no pedestrians or cyclists. every work zone is windowless. lit internally by fluorescent bulbs which give off a brely audible low humming noise all day. every clock in and clock out is sent to a centralised state computer which works out the payroll. the times are sold to advertising companies. cosume or die. those who do not consume enough are taken away by the advertising police. they can predict when you get home and make sure an advert is displayed on the hall VDU that they think they can sell to you. if you are one minute late you are docked a days pay. all the work zones are service histories. offices are divided into individual cubicles with six foot high partitions. the work is designated by email. the work zones car parks are all underground. the different sections of the work zones are linked by underground tunnels. fresh air is deemed bad for workers morale. the air is pumped into ventilation systems is manufactured in laboratories. work canteens serve microwaved offal by-products. these are brought directly to peoples cubicles. the bringing of your own food is forbidden. the webcam perched on top of the work VDU monitors the attentiveness of the worker. permitted conversations at the water coolers are posted up next to the water coolers. topics include the traffic that morning , what advertisements were on the walls of the M50, and what the traffic will be like on the way home. approaching anyone of the opposite sex in work without proper managerial approval is a dismissable offence. all external email is filtered through various screens. all incoming mail is scanned for a variety of words. external web access is forbidden. people may view the company intranet however, which contains information on the company results, and the last traffic news. no phone conversations are permitted. work holidays are 52 days per year (including the weekends), although this is negotiable depending on length of service. all sex is forbidden. all children are grown in laboratories which regulate the number of births every year. lunch time at the office desk is 15 minutes. during this time advertising companies play 3000 advertisements (200 frames per second) across the VDU. viewing is compulsory. the flickering screen results in hundreds of new cases of epilepsy every year. this is cured with drugs placed in the affected people lunchtime offal.
There are two major hyper global mega corporate network corporations in existence in the world competing against each other. employees of either corporation are ‘encouraged’ to compete as aggressively as possible aganist the other. stress causes thousands of heart attacks across Dublin every week. the corporations are secretly owned by the same people. competition is manufactured to ensure obedience and productivity are kept high. the state (there is only one state all over the world) is allied with this one corporation and uses police brutality to keep the public in check. no type of protest is permitted. there is no such thing as free speech any more. anyone suspected of subversion is taken away for ‘re-education’ in specially modified prisons. nobody in the ‘first’ world hears about what happens in the ‘third’ world. all of the babies grown in laboratories are kept “genetically pure”. any attmepts at pirate communicating with people from other ‘trade zones’ (no such thing as countries any more) is a punishable offence. there is darkness nine months ayear from the pollution in dublin. cynicism is the only form of politics. all different product brands on the shelves are only made by the two global corporations (which of course, just the one) . there is no such thing as love any more. the concept of it was deemed outdated and pathetic by mainstream cynicism. every year the M50 grows by another lane in width. there are nine West Link bridges spanning the liffey valley. all shoping centres are joined together and from walled cities. FM104 plays the same nine records over and over again, 24/7/365 (not much change their then). whatever spare money people have is spent on robotic surgery, the newest body part add-on among woman is extendable steel metallic nails. Sellafield erupts nuclear discharge into the Irish sea as regular as clockwork. robot animals are kept in zoos for people to look at. all other animals are kept in battery farms. a highly effective informant system is operated by the state in order to keep an eye on possible trouble makers who are somehow not detected by CCTV or their in-house two way VDUs. you too could win a new car by informing on your friends. the TVs cannot be switched off. the only television station is also run by FM104. programmes include traffic news, updates on how the two global corporations are running neck and neck. and ‘celebrity’ news. all music sold in shops is from the FM104 playlist and nothing else. Walking around requires a permit. all refugees to Ireland are turned away at gunpoint. the few that do make it in are hunted down and killed. anyone walking around generally acquires lung cancer from the toxins in the atmosphere. the suicide rate is at an all time high. the road death rate is at an all time high. everyone wears black all the time. all schools are sponsored by chemical companies. there is no currency any more after the january 2002 euro RIOTS.