Thing a Week 22: Stirring Statements from the Future.

By the way, to any possible readers and myself, I'd like to state that there is a high possibility that next weeks post won't take place until the 22. I felt like writing something vaguely stiring and creepy.

"And THEREFORE, if we wish to continue on the path of Right and Truth, we MUST continue to follow the will of the Overmind. If we are to remain great in the eye of the Overmind, we must FOLLOW the Overmind. WHEREVER it may lead us, WHENEVER it requires our service, WHATEVER that service may be, we MUST BE READY. Let vigilance and industry be our watchwords, let obedience be our state of mind. If we follow in the steps of the Overmind, surely nothing but good can result! Today, I welcome you, the future, to take upon you the mantle left by the past. RISE, I say, RISE-for if you do not, then what exists for tomorrow but the oblivion of ignorance and, worse yet, of unguided knowledge? Let us remain watchful ever, that we do not find our minds slipping into the Chaos,-NAY the ANARCHY of individuality. And if, on some future dawn, the temptation presents itself, I bid you remember 1077! In the coming years, remember today! for this is the day that the children I see before don the mantel of the Protectors of Tomorrow!"

Vice Admiral Cobar Entz returned to his seat accompanied by the enthusiastic roar of the ignorant, sat down, and fell apart inside himself. He had preferred the day when the wave of progress hadn't felt like it was trying to convince him to fall off a ledge. And now here he was, issuing gaudy declamations to the future backstabbers that he was training to dethrone him. He felt old, and tired, and as he looked at the crowd, they seemed to be baying for his blood.