The Oracle Trilogy Book One Ohm's Node

Preface

Part 2 

''Make it the greatest reality show the Earth has ever known and include everyone. Everyone is a potential influencer and hero. And why all this trouble? Because it wouldn't be a human story without the antagonist. You'd think that the evil had already been done, right. I mean, how much more harm can man do than kill a planet? By all accounts, cosmically and Earthly, you are the bad guy. The really evil guys! I've heard them talking out in the fields where they try praying food out of the ground. You are the enemy and any talk of fixing it is high order bull shit. If they knew who you were, they'd shoot you on the spot. They don't get that it was all of us who contributed and when you push them on it, they'll say you made them use the oil and gas. It was your technology that required your oil, so you made them do it. So, who's the villain? The guy with a drone that targets corporate wealth and big oil or you guys who blithely continued your shit until it was way too late. Or again, them who are so desperate and pissed off that they stopped listening a long time ago. And so, like all good stories, it's complicated. The bad guy is now the savior, the good guy thinks you have an ulterior motive. You've seen the online graphic strips.'

'Because even though God is about to put the Out of Order sign on Earth for higher forms of life and the evil doer has shape shifted into the savior, there will be those who fight you to the bitter end. You know as well as I, a few groups who now are directing your audience to kill those who did this.'

'Did you want to say something?'

'No, no, great stuff, keep going.'

'Okay. So, your antagonist in this case may be a very large slice of our Earthly citizenry and perhaps not an antagonist but more like an antihero. And this is where you must think hard on the way forward. Your antihero has developed a cult that is intensely flawed, complex and engage in destructive actions. These cats offer a more nuanced view of their characters' journey. Not white and black. They have strong beliefs and have millions at their backs. Yeah, a lot are dying from the ongoing plague and are suffering mightily and so are weak which takes us to the real evil, those who only give a shit about having what's left or doing crazy stuff because they're living in an apocalypse.' 

'A brilliant, introverted dink hacks LUNA and turns her into an avenging warrioress. Now there's a visual. Just as things look like there's hope, boom, a meteor wipes out LUNA or the satellite. The Chinese play dirty and sabotage our plans because they want to be first at saving the planet because the one who saves the planet gets to have what they want and make the rules? Or worst of all, some of those hybrid creatures escaping the offline labs, mate with humans to create a super race of computer eaters.' 

'Here's an idea. As you can see, I'm being extempore here. Hire me as an on grounds consultant and I'm assuming you've got the bucks, get a handful or two, hell, get a thousand of the most imaginative young artists on the planet for me to work with and create an incubator there for the human imagination. Don't just look at common mediums but those birthed by both the tripledemic and the great revolt. Find the minds on fire out there, create a beautiful space for them to cohabit and turn them loose, with a modicum of guidance because they will inevitably mostly be young.'

'Give them everything they need and a level of use of LUNA. They'll understand. And as you know, this new variant isn't touching most under twenty. A note of warning. You must understand the psychological profile of an artist. To entice them to co-create with others in the middle of a protected military installation may be a heavy lift but if they get that it saves the world stuff, you know.'

'Alas, just as my imagination, truly god's gift to us all, has begun sputtering to a fizzling end, you've reenergized it with your quest. Whoever you choose, I wish you every ounce of support and yes luck with your most humble project.'