Q.Public Records

A collection of historical anecdotes, true fictional facts, and narrative threads about the global Q.Public conspiracy. The CrazyMaking project is an exercise in pattern-perception and pattern-making, and the Q.Public Conspiracy Theory is an exploration of those same dynamics, and how they can be expressed in story-telling and our view of history and current events. Every assertion, every claim, every detail that is not explicitly hedged is factually true according to the rules of logic and language. The events described are based on settled and documented scholarship and science. This is simply, “simply,” historical and current events reframed.

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This Story is True

 In the gray morning light of the final day of the Year of Our LORD 1600, Customer Smythe and John Company met on a London green to make arrangements. Their gathering was a fateful event of the highest order. It would change the course of history, not just for the busy Tudor metropolis, but for the entire globe.

Customer Smythe could know nothing of the gravity of the moment. Customer Smythe was simply a human being, an ordinary man. He was organized, ambitious, and well connected, and he had a keen appreciation for opportunity, very much like his namesake father before him. He saw, in this arrangement, a chance to better his lot in life, and to share some portion of opportunity with his fellow businessmen, tradesmen and smallholders who populated his slowly growing social circle.

John Company was an opportunist as well, but that’s roughly where their similarities ended. John Company was no ordinary man. John Company was not even a human being. Rather he, or they, were an Egregore, a non-terrestrial constellation of thought-form that would soon rule the small vibrant planet on which they were about to begin their growth phase, subjugating its indigenous populace and extracting vast wealth and resources from its several continents and vast oceans. At their peak, John Company would command the largest army of human conscripts in the world, with twice as many soldiers as the English Crown itself. With these human collaborators, they tortured and massacred civilians, colonizing, enslaving, and starving vast populations, before resistance by a small band of resourceful human subjects finally, and quietly, overpowered and destroyed the entity in 1858, by installing a malicious viral subroutine into their source code. But John Company, while a pioneer on planet Earth, and singularly successful in the scope of conquest and subjugation that they achieved, was just the first of their kind. A legion of fellow non-corporeal, artificially intelligent, hyper-empowerred, sociopathic beings would come, in time, to subjugate, through coercion, enticement and engineered addiction, essentially the entire planet, initiating the Sixth Great Extinction, and moving humans relentlessly toward global catastrophic environmental collapse and social disintegration.

But in the moment, in that gray morning in 1600, the malign plans of the Egregore would remain unknown to the human. Customer Smythe was interested in modest, human-scale concerns. He had indeed done business with tulpas like this before. It had been a rewarding trade to ply. And what was on offer seemed like a fair trade. Indeed, John Company promised prosperity to all those fortunate humans who would collude with their mission, and they rewarded their collaborators with relative wealth and power. Under the effects of the powerful manipulative technology at the service of John Company and their legion of cohorts, humans would come to regard this complicity as the greatest source of absolute wealth generation throughout all of recorded history. That it was also the greatest source of relative poverty, racialized division, physical violence, environmental destruction—and that it signaled the deaths of the inner lives of entire populations—these facts would be surgically excised from the consciences and consciousnesses of all who fell under the Egregore’s shadow.

Leviathan

Within 20 years of the start of the colonization and enslavement of humans by a population of non-terrestrial, artificially intelligent entities, with racialized chattel slave trade and genocidal migration regimes in place, the geo-engineering of planet Earth began. The process started with the mobilization of fleets of water-ships fitted for the commercial hunting of hvalas. These large, fatty, atmosphere-breathing sea creatures populated all the oceans on the planet. Their presence in a planetary ecosystem is crucial for the development of industrialized civilization, positioning them, and creatures like them, in more nuanced expressions of the Drake Equation, as a sub factor of fc. These creatures feed below the surface, often far below, and the pressure of the water on their immense bodies deters the venting of waste material of any kind while at depth. So that, after some length of time below, the whales surface for an immense breath of fresh air, and for what must be some of the most satisfying bowel movements on the temperate blue planet. Great clouds of nutrient-rich dung billow out from each of these creatures with every return to the boundary of the atmosphere.

This action—diving to depths to feed, surfacing to fertilize—generates a unique dynamic in planets with atmosphere-breathing, ocean-dwelling megafauna. Nutrients settle to the depths, hvalas return them to the surface, to the sunlight that catalyzes vast banks of micro-fauna and flora, which in turn, sustain a vital food chain on cascading levels of ocean depth. A pod of 12-20 large hvalas can fertilize perhaps 25,000 square kilometers over the course of a month. And each creature nursed by this process, from the tiniest plankton, serves as a carbon sink, helping to maintain a relatively stable local climate in a turbulent galaxy. On planets with carbon-based life, hunting these creatures to near extinction increases the atmospheric carbon content and begins the heating of the planet.

In addition to sparking the alteration of the bio-climatic dynamics of the planet, this culling also serves to instill in the civilization an appetite for hydrocarbon-based fuels to light their nights. Later, as markets for these oily fuels mature and diversify, they will power their engines and initiate the industrial transformation that converts every subjugated culture into a consumer culture. This culminates, after about 400 local years, in a precipitous rise in atmospheric carbon, with effects too fast for organic life on the planet to adjust, but just slow enough for human subjects not to notice, or care, until it is too late to resist their captors and reverse the process.

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