I must be nearing the end of my longevity, for I have recently begun socializing with humans again, some of whom I am becoming quite fond of. Last night I had a conversation with a reader of mine. We met at a microbrew pub and talked for three hours over as many beers. I was hoping for an assassination attempt as my Harm City page has been barren of late, but this kindly human feted me instead. He brought up what I thought was a very minor documentary review I did on Monday about Google’s attempt to scan all of human literature and establish a universal library. Another reader had written in and commented on this brief review, so I was once again blindsided by how something I spent 15 minutes writing could strike such a nerve. Below I quote Mathis, who I suspect is descended from North African Jewish Berbers [I am an accredited anthropologist you know—well, for me it’s zoology]:

“If you would have told me twenty—even ten—years ago, that I would be watching an Aljazeera or goddamned Russian TV documentary , and saying, ‘yeah, that’s unbiased coverage, how come our American press is so slanted’, I would have said, ‘Fuck you!’ But the sorry fact is that our press is so far into the political pocket that all you have to do to be seditious and question The Empire, is to do objective reporting. The commentators on that documentary I did not find very interesting. They are all equally just commodities. I think you’re lucky man—I mean as a writer. Granted I don’t know anyone who would want to live like you, surrounded by these soulless hipsters in here and those violent criminals out there. But you are to the wall man; you, Donavon, Nowicki—you guys are writing about the near future like Orwell, and London and those guys did. But they wrote in a time when you could write, that the right to a voiced opinion was considered a bedrock value. Dude, you are ten years from getting shut down. Maybe you will last longer since you have the fiction and the combat and your opinion is buried in all that shit. But guys like Donavon, he had to get out of the workforce and become a tattoo artist just so he could continue to voice his opinion—and that’s now. What about tomorrow?”

I reminded him that Fred Reed has been censored by the U.S. government for commenting on military affairs.

“Okay, one down, partway down at least—the elder statesman banned by the establishment. What about the rest of you guys—you being the least known—when does Google or whoever pull the plug, and silence the alternative voices?”

I confided that I do not think it will come to Homeland Security kicking down my door. I do, however, expect that one day, I will log onto the back end and find out that my articles critical of our modern matrix might have been deleted, or to find filters in place that prevent me from using certain words [which initially happened until Charles worked some magic to permit me to use certain proprietary names. I could not post an article that reference prescription drugs, NFL players, etc. and that was just voluntary web host controls.] Granted, my commentary on what I regard as our ‘sick society’ is not a large part of my work, and is certainly of negligible importance as my readership is tiny and is self-help and fiction oriented.

Below is the list of authors that I expect to be silenced, restricted or killed by the corporate/government/media complex in the next decade in the order in which I think their state-inspired demise is likely:

1. Fred Reed [in progress]

2. Jack Donavon, author of The Way of Men, [they might actually shoot him]

3. Stephan Molyneux, libertarian YouTube talking head [easily frightened by sun-glassed goons I think]

4. Andy Nowicki, author of Lost Violent Souls, [mental health facility here he comes]

5. Peter Joseph [will be bought off with a recording contract]

Fortunately, as a lowly extraterrestrial anthropologist, I am immune to terrestrial persecution, as I have transmigratory properties, and refuse to be held responsible for the caustic ranting of my increasingly decrepit LaFond avatar. Did you know that ever since I permitted this stupid ape to unwisely take up boxing again at age 51 that his nose bleeds constantly? Charles, can I get an upgrade please? There is surely a genius level athlete available somewhere on this overpopulated continent!