Policy PoliceVolume II. Number 11.

Up Close and Personalised. Episode 11 . (Epilogue)

Firing Range.

Location: Classified.

Think of it as an extension of your arm.

??

It’s prosthetic. Like all

technology.

Prosthetic?

Back in the day, if you wanted to kill somebody, you used your

hands…

Then comes technology.

You pick up a rock. Much more efficient.

You shape and sharpen the rock. Even more efficient.

Develop a knife, a spear, a bow and arrow, a gun, a bomb, a bigger bomb. All in the name

of efficiency.

Less input, more output.

Less effort, more death. It gives you the edge.

But if the other guy has the same edge?

That’s progress. Build a better

bomb.

…and the world will beat a path to your

door.

But… There’s a “But”?

But when the technology fails.

When you drop the rock, you break

the knife, the gun jams.

You press the red button and nothing happens…

…it still helps to know how to kill somebody with your own hands.

This is an extension of

my arm.

You bet.

Like a cyborg. Sooner

than you think.

So.

But if somebody else is paying

for the prosthetics…

…is it an extension of my arm, or theirs?

Sometimes we’re just inputs in

somebody else’s game.

What if I’m playing my own game at the same time?

We all try. Not many of us

succeed.

Elvis did.

For now, in this game.

But the game changes, the

rules change the whole time.

So you can’t win.

Nobody wins completely. For all time.

Ever.

So what’s the point?

Ride the wave for as long as you

can.

And enjoy it while

it’s there.

And if it all comes crashing

down?

Pick yourself up and start

again.The End.