Experts agree that these are the End Times, but that this shouldn’t affect the day-to-day. We should still pin our shadows firmly to the soft flesh of our insteps before leaving our shelters, and we should still whistle one of the prescribed uplifting anthems as we go about our deconstructions, whether these be environmental or institutional. Those without clearly-defined roles are, of course, required to work on themselves: tools will continue to be supplied, but sharpening remains the responsibility of the individual until such time as all individuality is stripped away. The Authority is at pains – particularly your pain but, of necessity, everyone’s pain – to stress that, while the playbook is biblical, this is an equal opportunities apocalypse, and all will be purified by fire, irrespective of personal beliefs. A precise schedule is yet to be ratified, but Experts agree that, if we all keep our bloody noses pressed to the grindstone of disarticulation, the Five Year Plan will take four years, tops. In the meantime, we should go about our daily tasks with a smile, a song, and as suicide note with a forged signature; and, at the end of the day, we should lock our shadows away where no one but The Authority can see them.
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Oz Hardwick
Picture Nick Victor
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