A Prayer for Empire

Abe Golam
Director of the Office of Political and Economic Insecurity
US Department of Art & Technology

A Prayer for Empire (excerpt)

Our Father Utopia and Our Forever Deceased God,

We praise You for Your goodness to our nation, giving us the appearance of Empire. With Empire we can turn sugar water into profits and software into gross national product. With Empire, we can turn soft core beauty porn into commercial advertisements and yet still claim the moral high ground for our economic production.

With Empire, we can infiltrate the bowels of the Everyman and insert a laxative of pseudo-leisure so that we may play the stock market and eat our mad cows with drooling rapture.

With Empire we can rid the world of nations and institutionalize a social bureaucracy of networked alliances determined to rid the world of borders.

Finally, with Empire, we can transmit our radioactive waves into the atmosphere of whatever geopolitical location that dares threaten the economic prosperity of our People as it attempts to annihilate whatever social difference there may be among us.

We need not practice what we preach. We need only preach what we want the television to transmit to our robotic brethren. For it is our nation of robot worshippers that reigns supreme.

Our operating system is sanctioned by the One God of Code,

YOUR one code of greed and material lust, salivating Lord. Amen.