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The Orchestrated Mess
A short story about an amazing mess and the inevitable clean-up, as the show must go on.
The Uncivil Mess of the Masses
The people in the land were afraid of the future and what it would bring to them and their civilization. Even calling it a civilization was a stretch, considering the uncivil way many people were behaving within it.
What most of the citizens and strangers in the land didn’t know was how everything was being orchestrated; the purpose of the orchestration was to create a certain amount of chaos from which order would then be applied.
Like sanding and scrapping the old paint off a building and applying primer and new coats upon it for revitalization, the trillionaire elitists were working their plans into the societies beneath their illustrious purview.
Most people couldn’t imagine having millions of dollars, much less billions or trillions at their disposal. The type of perceptions this brings of the world are much different than they could reasonably perceive, even among the most imaginative.
One would suppose those who had the most money and wealth were the most benevolent, yet they couldn’t suppose they were actually the most diabolical. Perhaps, the collection of such a large amount of money was evidence of their character in the first…