As practice for that foreseeable future I'm going to clarify three or four terms starting with the term "adhocracy"--this is a term that definitely needs some of the mud wiped off it. However, this word's meaning will only be useful for the duration of my rant. An adhocracy is "a temporary organization [in this case an organization of one: me] set up to accomplish specific tasks [in this case ranting] and then dissolved" (Miller 140). I hereby declare this page an adhocracy with myself as the malevolent dictator. My first edict is as follows: There will be no questioning of anything that one may either see, or read within the demesnes of this adhocracy, because as Salaman Rushdie says, "How bad-mannered it would be to ask a man [or a malevolent dictator] from where he brought his gifts!" (Rushdie 67) In other words, even if you don't like what you see, no mud-slinging.

Oh yeah, the next jargonesque term I as malevolent dictator deem worthy of a wipe is "futurists" or "People who construct models or scenarios of the world of the future by extrapolating from present data or trends" (Miller). Futurists accomplish this by using the Delphi Technique, which is "named after the ancient Greek oracle....a method of forecasting future trends and events" (Miller 143).

I'm assuming that these definitions have removed the ambiguity from these previously muddied terms and that I don't have to explain that futurists are individuals who figure out what we are gonna wanna buy from looking at the shit we've already bought, which is where the B.P.s come into this rant. The B.P., or "Beautiful People," are "those whom the media have declared the elite in fashion, status, and social importance" (Miller 178). The B.P.s are the folks that we all wanna look and be like: right. So the futurists, through use of the very technical Delphi Technique, take a peek at what the B.P.s are doing and reproduce it for the masses. Futurists do this out of kindness. After all, the B.P.s are our role models. "Role models: are people who provide hope, inspiration, or incentive to others" (Ackley 135).

Then there is the plain model (if such an entity exists). This type of model is the very epitome of desirable acquisition. Models are V.I.B.P.s that are used by futurists to sell the masses what they have created through the Delphi Technique from the B.P.s. "Models: In couture fashion, the garment itself--as opposed to the person who is wearing it" (Miller 188). The personages futurists use to sell the masses stuff are defined as nothing. Futurists teach us to desire nothing. Therefore, I, as the malevolent dictator of my very own adhocracy, create my second, and final edict: For the extent of one's visit to my kingdom one is neither to desire, nor to consume any stuff. This should be an easy edict to follow seeing as how we really want nothing.

"And out of this thinnest thread, this ink-wet line of words, must rise a visionary fog, a mist, a smoke,[all of these things are as clear as mud but somehow better because I don't have to clean anything] forging histories, sorrows, quagmires,[okay just a ittle mud] entanglements..."(Ackley 138)

Ackley, Catherine Anne, ed. Essays From Contemporary Culture. Orlando: Harcourt, 1998.

Kitson, Viv. "The Poet". Under Twenty-Five. Eds. Anne O'Donovon, Jayne Sanderson, Shane Porteous. Brisbane: Jacaranda, 1966.

Miller, Don Ethan. The Book of Jargon. New York: MacMillan, 1981.

Rushdie, Salman. Shame. London: Picador, 1984.