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So I was trying to provide this one with more information to take back to his hive when I said, “I just don’t understand how the Mayor got elected. I mean, he’s not even qualified. Did you see the thing the other day about how he peed in a pool?”
And the guy - this one was not a bad upgrade, The Hive had clearly worked out a lot of the bugs since the last release - he said, “You know, that bugged me for a long time too, the Mayor getting elected, but I think I have figured it out, finally. See, I like movies. I enjoy them. I think about them a lot, but I could never make a movie or anything, don’t worry, I’m not the kind of guy who secretly thinks he’s auteur. I like my job. But here is what I have figured out: every person has within them a shitty screenwriter. Only most people don’t write, so they don’t know that they’re constantly writing a bad movie in their head. They just think they’re thinking and how did they learn to think about the really big things like terrorism, like espionage and international relations, or how to run a city or manage a municipality? What to do about the homeless problem? Do these people read any history? Do they go to school for this stuff? Do they look at the world? Do they read non-American media? No. They learned how to think about the world from shitty movies, based on shitty screenplays written by shitty screenwriters. I didn’t vote for the Mayor - I didn’t actually vote. I don’t. What’s the point? - but I understand why someone might have. People are all just trying to understand the world and sometimes the only way the world makes sense is to think about it like it’s a shitty movie and the Mayor is basically a real-life character in a shitty movie.”
He took a big swig from his drink - his third - and he looked at me like I should toss my hair and giggle about how smart he is. So I tossed my hair and giggled a little, not because he was so smart, but because he might actually have been right, so I wanted The Hive to know that they were on the right track and I appreciated it.
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