If I ruled the world...
Well, let us assume for a moment, that I were someone powerful, benevolent and good...
If I ruled the world, I would make it so that the middle-class, the lower-class, the derelict (ADD COMMA) and all the rest no longer suffered. There would be no discrimination, just mutual respect between sexes, between those of differing sexual preferences and identities, between races. Homosexual couples would receive the same rights as heterosexual ones. Everyone is equal.
If I ruled the world, I would promote an equal (ADD DASH) opportunity education system, so that everyone would receive the chance and right to learn. I would push studies in 'green'. I would try to clean up the air, the earth, the seas, to rid the world of environmental problems, and to rectify all that we have done with pollution and over-harvesting. Money would be put into research for disease control and anywhere else where it is needed most, and I would endeavor to rid the world of starvation, disease and poverty.
But, considering the world, all its people, and its global powers, I would have to be one evil (ADD COMMA) bad-ass motherfucker to have taken over it. (YOU CAN SAY 'THE WORLD' AGAIN, INSTEAD OF 'IT'.) Where my perfect little utopia above sounds like Communism done right; (USE A COMMA HERE INSTEAD OF A SEMI-COLON) I'd much rather have a dictatorship where I make things right. Forcefully.
If I ruled the world, I would own the biggest, baddest, most powerful and state-of-the-art military and chemical organization; chock full of the most absurd, unbelievable weapons, bio-weapons and technology. I would patrol my streets with tanks if it took that much to keep the people in line.
Despite my initial cruel and frightening takeover, I assure you that my intentions are noble. To unite the earth under one government, would turn it into a super-utopia. To be rid of all discrimination, to pass policies that would allow money to trickle down evenly. To bring about world peace through violent union.
I would give such instruction to my military:
Keep peace, do not run over pedestrians in streets when patrolling. Stop at stop lights when the lights turn red, follow traffic laws of the city. You set an example for the rest of the world. If you respect the people, they respect you. However, if any one of those upstarts that tries to protest so much as touches your vehicle, take it as an aggressive act and respond appropriately. EVERYTHING IS A SHOW OF BRUTE-FREAKING-SUPREME-FORCE.
And finally to consider, as the spoils of war, I would, as Supreme Dictator of Earth, indulge in petty and bigoted things. (THE USE OF 'TO CONSIDER' HERE IS CONFUSING. PERHAPS YOU CAN RE-WRITE THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THIS PARAGRAPH. ALSO, USE A COLON BEFORE THIS LIST THAT FOLLOWS, AND USE SEMI-COLONS THE SEPARATE THE ITEMS ON THE LIST THAT FOLLOWS, AND NO CAPITALIZATION FOR THE ITEMS ON THE LIST.) Like a harem of beautiful people. A zoo of the most exotic animals. A private jet. A private symphony to play my theme song-- why yes, I would go so far as to have a theme song composed for me. I would also like to have a heated-indoor-swimming-pool, and a garage full of luxury cars. As every super dictator is wont to do... at some point or another, because they are special.
It's probably a good thing I don't have megalomaniacal tendencies, nor do I aspire to rule the world.
Monday, August 17, 2009
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HI YVONNE, I made some suggestions in your text above. You have written a very amusing piece. The challenge now is to make sure when you are writing that you write with an artist's eye for description and odd detail. Imagine everything you see is something you have to memorize and describe as if you are about to making a photo-realistic graphite drawing of everything you see.
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