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Long title because I didn't like what I named it originally but couldn't think of anything better :(
Sharing Links:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pantheon/id1498984739
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https://www.instagram.com/the_pantheon_remembers/
https://open.spotify.com/show/6Pmngtn7BBnOeAiOzAriHJ
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-pantheon-57860820/
https://podcasts.google.com/? feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS84MTExODEucnNz
(Aggravated, bordering on angry) No, I don’t think I can give you a different answer. No matter how many times you bring me here, I can’t give you another answer because it wouldn’t be true. I didn’t do it. Or, wait… if I say that I did do it, what are the consequences? Are you going to turn me over to Them, or are you just dealing with Them over here? Because if I can get assurances that it would just human authorities dealing with this, then I would be okay with lying in saying that it was me, just so we could end this, because no prison, no modern prison is going to be as bad as waking up every day at five in the morning for this, lies spat in my face every single day. That entire time, telling me that I did something that I didn’t.
But, no. No. You can’t give me those assurances because I know. You would turn me over to Them. And I know you have me here not because you think that you’ve found the guy who did the embassy bombing, but rather just because you needed to give them a face. You needed to have someone to take the blame for it all, and that unlucky someone just happened to be me. I know that’s whats happening here, because you have the wherewithal to know that I’ve been telling you the truth this entire time. Where was I on that night? I was at home. I took an hour long shower. It was the longest shower that I’d ever taken in my life. And I only did that because I’d been having a bad day. I’d been at work pretty much the entire time before that. Eleven hours. And that was, that was it. That was like the two things I did that entire day. Whole time I was at work I didn’t even leave the office. Everyone there can cover for me. And, look, I… it is no secret at this point that I harbor no sympathies for Them. I do not like them at all. That is… true. But, but! Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you do THAT! And I don’t even know how to make a bomb! A regular bomb, let alone whatever that was!
It wasn’t me, I have no associations, and you know that. YOu know that, and yet you’re paralyzed by this Macchiavellian style thinking where you reiterate to yourself over and over again, “oh, we have to hand someone over, and we can’t get the actual person in the right period of time, so we’re just going to haul off this random dude who happened to not be native to the area, just happened to be working here. I get that. I get that you’re in a bad situation. And, listen, I know that you can’t tell Them that. They’re not very forgiving. Everything I’ve seen of Them tells me that They are nothing but cruel mechanical beasts. Whatever our worst aspects of existence are, they embody it and more. That is what I have seen every single time. I know they won’t be merciful with you, they won’t be merciful with anyone if the ydon’t get a culprit, and they don’t get punishment. But I’m just wondering how hard this could actually be? Because this isn’t Fall times, okay? You can track people down.
Everyone, well, not literally everyone have tracking devices on them all the time, willingly. Like that’s just a fact of life. And you still have to resort to something like this, where you take someone who is completely innocent, and you’re just using him, me, as a scapegoat. Like what is that? How incompetent are you? But I guess that puts everything into perspective. Of course you’d be incompetent, because who else but incompetent people would allow any portion of our world over to those beasts? We all know why they’re here. They aren’t here for cultural enlightenment, technological investment, or even to get the scrap metal tidied up. They are here to establish hegemony over the local resources, and us. That is it. And they are doing so intelligently, slowly, bit by bit through treaty. And everyone understands that, everyone can see it, but we’re just too bloody bad at this to do anything about it. So, instead of ever finding the will to stand up and do something about, like really do something, not just getting rid of an embassy, we blunder around, and then it comes to this.
You have to stand against your own kind to appease them. I know I sound like I’m the sort of person who could’ve done it. And believe me when I say that I almost wish I had. Just so I could spit in the eye of today’s order. Honestly, there is nothing more dehumanizing than today. Where we have accepted even another layer of oppression to our lives, not just the human government, not just the corporate structure, but the Exar as well. Every second my mind screams out for freedom, and everyone else’s does too, unless they’re dead. Every second, and we all know that’s right. So, yes. I didn’t do it, but I wish I had, and at the very least I hope you come to a verdict soon, because living in this limbo, it’s… I probably shouldn’t say it, because there’s a thousand different ways that it could be worse. Honestly, if you’re going to kill me, if you have everything set on taking my head, just hurry up and do that, please, because I would much rather not be alive than whatever is going on right now.