“Crafted World”: Lives and Labyrinths
Hikaru woke up early at dawn today, slightly overexcited because he had an important online presentation coming up. He applied for a job in an international e-commerce platform called “Magic Directions”, and at a remote interview to which he was invited, he had to complete a certain pre-set special task – a presentation. Although he did not apply for a managerial position, the interview invitation he received by email stated that he would be required to make a presentation on how, in his opinion, the original shopping center should look like and what should be inside. Quite a large-scale task, which did not correspond to the position for which he applied. However, in an email they kindly advised him to try and not worry about anything. “Why not?” Hikaru wondered. And putting yourself in an awkward position is not such a problem. This has happened before. Hikaru always wanted to succeed, he always studied and worked hard, he tried different tactics to achieve the goal, but without much result. He shared his ambitions with his friends, even over time they had certain expectations that he was smart and persistent and would probably really achieve good results and success. His friends often ask him at a meeting how he is doing and how far he has progressed in the implementation of his plans. Has he already become a top manager or owner of a company? But, unfortunately, Hikaru is quite far from being a successful person. He even went through quite a long series of failures in his life and generally stalled in his development. He often works at an unpleasant and stressful job, is often overloaded and overworked, but this does not lead to positive results. Over the years, he has accumulated quite a large amount of fatigue and dissatisfaction with life. Hikaru feels completely unhappy and undervalued, even though he has put in a lot of effort. He feels like a person who has not been able to develop his potential sufficiently and is in danger of failure. This thought secretly devastates him, and he suspects that it may drive him to despair. His last two attempts to find a meaningful and promising job end sadly. After them, he is exhausted and heartbroken. At first, he worked as a junior employee in a marketing research firm, most of the time doing additional data entry. Every day he performs the same type of routine operations that exhaust him with their volume and uniformity of the information collected. However, some data aroused his curiosity, he learned a lot about the desires, goals, achievements and moods of people. And he clearly saw that people’s money and opportunities play a leading role, determine their existence and influence their plans for the future. In his last job, Hikaru had to participate in commercials and star in videos in which he had to convince potential customers of the benefits of certain products. Being relatively shy, Hikaru didn’t feel comfortable in front of the cameras at all, and he didn’t particularly like the products he had to promote. He really had to apply internal pressure to himself to perform this exercise. Because he needed money. Especially unpleasant for him was the arrogant and disrespectful attitude of the leadership. It was not easy for him to receive constant portions of criticism and appear smiling in front of the cameras after a few minutes. It was a real torture for him. Therefore, Hikaru was looking forward to the job interview at “Magic Directions” with great impatience.
At this time, thousands of kilometers away from Hikaru, Luis was drinking coffee with friends. Everyone was sitting at the table, sitting at the table extremely calmly, without any tension, talking to each other and relaxing. Only Luis looked nervous and tense, and he seemed to be restless in one place. He got up several times, walked back and forth and often glanced at his watch and smartphone. His friends will sense that something is going on and will turn to him: “Hey, Luis, what’s the matter, why are you so worried? What happened, did you text Carmen, did you tell her that you like her? You said you were going to write to her in the next few days to find out if she likes you too, and if there could be something between you?” Thiago turned to him. “I haven’t asked this question directly yet, we just correspond from time to time as friends, I didn’t admit it,” Luis replied. “Is that why your eyes are constantly darting back and forth?” Maybe you really like Carmen, but maybe not just her… It seems to me that you continue to seek adventure and passion!” Antonio said, and the whole group burst out laughing. Luis blushed, but told his friends that later that day he had an interview scheduled for a remote job, and he would have to make a presentation on “How the coolest restaurant should look like.” “Very good topic!” most of those present exclaimed. “And what will you offer in your presentation? What cool and prestigious establishments have you been to? Have you prepared great examples of design, services and events?” Isabella asked Luis. Luis was actually embarrassed, feeling that he hadn’t prepared particularly well for the presentation. At the same time, the situation with Carmen bothered him and confused him. He was constantly tormented by the question of whether she would refuse him directly or just hide. Or she’ll pretend she doesn’t understand what he wants from her. He was almost sure that nothing would work out and he would not be able to start a relationship with her. Luis had a long streak of love failures. He flirted with many women, but only with a few of them he managed to establish even friendly relations, not to mention love ones. Luis blamed all his failures on poverty. For several years he had been earning too little, and his calculations showed that he could not afford to have a girlfriend. His calculations showed that if he had a girlfriend, he would have to earn enough money to support her. Everything had to correspond to his ideas, he had to have enough means and opportunities so that he would not get into an awkward situation and so that he would not have to worry about someone taking his girlfriend. In his understanding, if a man does not have enough money, he can always and at any moment lose his girlfriend and be left alone. She can leave him and go to someone else who can support her and provide a good standard of living. According to him, a man needs to have money to be self-confident, make offers to women and be able to keep them. These ideas of his were formed on the basis of his observations of life, on the basis of his contacts and conversations with other people. In fact, the continued lack of money was his biggest pain. This prevented him from communicating and living normally. It lowered his self-esteem, undermined his plans and saddened him immensely. He always wanted to do something to move up, but did not know what exactly, he always dreamed of succeeding, but luck never smiled on him. He worked a lot, but his hard work did not achieve anything, only exhausted a lot of nerves, acquired many small sores and lost a lot of time. What has he not tried in his life – to work like a decent person and be a good boy, or to embark on risky ventures and play the role of a bad boy. At one time, Luis even wanted to become a gangster or mafia, seeing this as a solution to his problems. He thought that in an instant he would earn a lot of money, quickly rise in the mafia hierarchy and become attractive to women. But after he did not earn any money and the threat of prison hung over him, he abandoned this idea. In desperation, he started looking for borrowed money to start a business, but no one took him seriously, and he had no serious contacts. Luis was left with only his dreams and conversations about how to make money. From time to time he bought lottery tickets, played in casinos and took part in sports betting, but he could not win from them, in fact he was a serious loser. At one time, he gave money to dubious brokers who offered him incredible rates and profits for investing in digital assets, but then they deceived him and closed his account. He was just calculating the profit and spread a rumor that he expected a serious income, with which he intended to purchase commercial real estate, and it all failed. He also wanted to open a bar, restaurant or nightclub because he was a party lover and loved nightlife, and he had little experience as a waiter and bartender. With this bar or club, he wanted to be the center of attention and become a cool guy, a man with money, surrounded by a lot of attention and women. After things went awry again, to put it mildly, Luis again had to work at a lousy job and in lousy places, and with his small salary to cover debts and try to get out of the financial hole in which he found himself. Luis was very tired of his failures and was up to his ears in debt. It was no accident that he was waiting for the interview with excitement and genuine interest. After so many problems, he had a chance to get back on his feet and go on a new, curious path.
After a long wait and excitement, it’s time for an interview. Hikaru and Luis took their places in front of their computer screens. The two were separated by thousands of kilometers, but they were going to do everything in their power to start a new life. The inscription “Magic Directions” and a logo depicting a curious fountain or geyser appeared on the screen, from which a large number of directions, gifts, products and surprises flowed along unusual trajectories… After that, a video clip began, in which an e-commerce platform called “Magic Directions” was presented. At the beginning of the video, an advertisement for a new operating system called “Mystery OS” and several other companies was also shown. Hikaru and Luis also noticed an advertisement for some kind of international foundation or mutual aid forum with a logo resembling planet Earth, in which many people were holding hands inside a circle. It was clear from the video that all employees and many customers use devices running “Mystery OS”. All new employees will also receive it. “They deliberately created an entire operating system to be able to distribute among their employees and customers these special magic devices full of unknown applications and services…Interesting strategy!” Hikaru thought about it. Otherwise, as far as could be understood from the video, the application icons in this operating system are dynamic. When the user taps the application icon with his finger, a window with information about the application and an enlarged image from the inside automatically opens, showing clips with the purpose of applications and the latest news about these applications. The longer you hold your finger on the icon, the larger the window becomes until it takes up the entire screen and starts. The idea of dynamic icons seemed curious to Hikaru, but slightly intrusive. In addition, the video talked about the e-commerce platform “Magic Directions”, “Magic Directions Browser” and “Magic Directions Launcher”. A new world of possibilities and directions opened up before Hikaru, and he hoped to find the direction of his dreams. At this time, Luis was trembling in anticipation. It was as if he had swallowed his tongue and didn’t know what to say. The clip representing “Magic Directions” ended, and a very beautiful young woman suddenly appeared on the screen, dressed in dark or black designer clothes and a slightly strange hairstyle – her hair was separated by black and white longitudinal stripes of the same size. The white stripes in the hair were a different shade than those of the elderly, and it looked as if it had been done on purpose. But she was very beautiful. Luis had never seen this before, she looked like some kind of star or actress. She introduced herself as Linda and greeted two job candidates who suddenly saw each other because they appeared on a split screen for a moment. Hikaru was smiling and confident, while Luis looked slightly confused and worried. The two introduced themselves in a few short phrases, then the faces of three mysterious men appeared on the screen. A man in his forties, whose beard was oddly shaped, as if there was a butterfly in the middle of the beard, addressed the two candidates via video link: “Hello, how are you? How is the weather there? I see you live in different regions of the world,” the man began, and the candidates said with a smile that they had good weather. “Well, I’m glad, because now I’m going to tell you what the weather is like here. First let me introduce myself – my name is Richard, and I am one of the main managers and owners of the e-commerce platform “Magic Directions” – a platform that strives to offer its customers original products and unique directions. We strive to create unconventional things and apply unique approaches. Our strategy is to provide our customers with as many interesting options and promising opportunities as possible. We strive to provide a variety of products and services to suit every taste and encourage our customers to use our services as often as possible. We try to build trusting relationships with them so that they come back to us again and again. We are trying to create a different atmosphere for employees in the company, which has nothing to do with any other. We will distribute brand new tablets and laptops to new employees so that they can work wherever they want – in bed, on the beach, in a cafe, in a beauty salon and wherever you can think of. Another advantage for us is that we do not have standardized working hours. You can work as much as you want, and at any time convenient for you – morning, evening, night, you choose when and how much to work. You just log in, work, and suspend or log out whenever you want. The system is configured in such a way that when you log in, it immediately loads tasks to complete, and you just need to follow the instructions and arrows. The system will guide you by itself, and you can skip tasks that you don’t like or that you don’t understand. After you skip a task, the next one will automatically appear on the screen, which you can complete or skip again. There is a lot of work and tasks, there will always be something to do when you are in the system. Each task is accompanied by an explanation of what actually needs to be done. If you don’t understand what to do and how to handle the task, you just skip it. And again, I remind you that you can switch off and take breaks at any time. You decide when and how much you work. Life is not just a job. This concept is specially designed to make the employee’s life easier, give him the opportunity to better plan his time, especially free time, and have more free time in general. Payment is made on the basis of completed tasks, undertaken cases and initiatives. The more diligently you perform your tasks and understand the company’s activities, the more your salary will grow!” – Richard gave some explanations about the workflow. “Hmm, for me, everything here does not look like an ordinary company at all, where did I end up? I wonder if this is some kind of mafia structure or some kind of sect? No, it’s just that you can see from miles away that this is not an ordinary company. It is clear that they are ambitious and have great resources, but what are they striving for? What is hidden behind this “company”? I have never seen such things before and have not heard of such approaches. Everything looks very suspicious… ” – Hikaru thought about it and began to worry seriously. “How nice, you work as much as you want, and you have a lot of free time. Very cool! I want to try it,” Luis thought, not suspecting anything.
After his long speech, Richard gave the floor to two other mysterious men. The first of them introduced himself as Martinez and announced that the company was striving to develop business around the world, that it was developing many international projects in various fields. And the third mysterious gentleman just kept silent and listened, in the end simply congratulating the two candidates on choosing a new life path and expressing the hope that they would never regret their decision. Three mysterious men and a beautiful presenter watched the presentations of the two candidates. According to the plan, Hikaru had to present a unique concept of a new shopping center, and Luis – a restaurant, bar or nightclub. The mysterious atmosphere prompted Hikaru to the idea of creating a mysterious maze of buildings and premises with a non-standard layout, unlike other shopping centers. His suggestion to create a maze was like a showroom, only of a different kind. He suggested that there should be secret rooms in the shopping maze, which can only be opened with special keys, codes and QR codes and which are available only to certain buyers. He also suggested creating original corridors, elevators and rooms with a unique distribution, for example, placing a maze map and special screens on each floor that will guide customers and explain where they are going and what is offered there. According to him, the commercial labyrinth should be based on originality, and there should be a lot of original design solutions and products in it, where both small and large companies can emphasize their style. He believed that mysterious spaces would maintain intrigue and attract people. “Original products and mysterious spaces. Intrigue! Sounds tempting. We can work in this direction! We can develop such ideas, improve them and use them successfully. I like it!” Richard noticed.
Luis listened and worried more and more, as if he wouldn’t be able to say anything and would fail. He thought for a long time about what exactly to offer and still could not come up with anything attractive. However, the idea of a maze appealed to him, and he decided to continue it, so as not to show that he could not think of anything. Everything today seemed to him like a mysterious labyrinth. His whole life had become a labyrinth from which he had to find a way to get out successfully. When it was his turn to present, he also proposed a maze-like restaurant concept, with a unique table layout. Contrary to the expectation that the tables should be closer to each other so that people can communicate more easily, Luis suggested that the tables should be spaced and located in different parts and corners of the restaurant, just like a maze and to form spaces and territories for the privacy of different groups of visitors. He proposed that the tables have special screens from which people can view the service and the atmosphere of the restaurant, and which have the possibility of a video connection so that they can communicate with their friends and other patrons of the restaurant. From these screens, according to Luis, it would be very cool to be able to request a video chat and get to know visitors from another table. First, to be able to see each other and if they like each other to continue the conversation. The interviewers clearly liked the idea of screens on the tables in the restaurants, because in addition, they could attract more customers for their many applications and promote them to the people. “With such ideas, we can really help people have a better time, make more new friends and communicate. I think it’s great to have an easy way to get to know other customers without going around different tables and disturbing people. It’s not good when a stranger cheekily sits down at your table. With such a service, people could share stories and, to a certain extent, get to know each other in advance.” Martinez commented on the idea.
The interview was already coming to an end, periodically a beautiful young lady Linda appeared on the screen, summarizing the details of the interview and giving additional information to the candidates. Looking at their screens, Hikaru and Luis noticed that Richard had an impressive skyline of a big city behind him, and he was clearly in an office on the top floor of a skyscraper. In front of him was the “Magic Directions” logo. Martinez, on the other hand, was on a terrace with a beautiful view of the mountains. The third person, who did not even give his name, seemed to be in some more secret place, various items were visible on his desk, probably quite expensive and handmade. Above it was a picture with painted skyscrapers towering high in the sky, behind which a high mountain could be seen, above them the sky and two inscriptions located near two opposite corners of the picture – “Sky Club” and “Artisans”.
Author: Anton S. Petrov
“Crafted World”: Preface and Introduction
Preface
This series was created in order to show how far difficulties and failures in life can lead us, what we can face if we lose heart, in what risky and dangerous situations we can find ourselves, in what stories with an unpredictable outcome we can get into. This story is put together to show that people will always strive for the best, no matter which path they choose. They will always strive to rise, surface and move on. Yes, in search of the right path, they will find themselves in difficult situations, and sometimes, finding themselves at a dead end, they will have to interact with people who cannot be completely trusted, including suspicious or even dangerous. In their desperation, people tend to believe in sweet fairy tales about a bright future, about incredible offers and unexpected successes. In such difficult periods, they tend to trust even people they don’t know at all, naively expecting that these people will become their saviors. Often this naivety leads to even more difficult situations, to even more unpleasant consequences, which further deplete their strength. Their desire to fight in life begins to weaken, but hope still remains. Their unrealized dreams are buried somewhere deep. Many people do not despair completely, but simply carry the pain in their hearts. They return to their gray daily life, go to their disgusting work. But they don’t give up. They keep trying to find the right way and achieve results and success. These people have achieved a lot, graduated from school and university with honors or, at least, with high grades, received a lot of praise at work, were promoted, of course, they received criticism and dismissals, they also had failures, like any normal person. Yes, at some point, negativity can begin to dominate someone’s life.At the same time, he wants to achieve something more in life, to achieve higher positions at work and in society, to please his loved ones with his successes, he wants to prevail over his critics and generally be more successful and happier. A person can be very ambitious and purposeful, and also have a great desire to achieve high goals, to become a successful person. He can invest a lot of time and effort in his endeavors, try to make his dreams come true. But it doesn’t always work. Often things don’t go the way we want, but in a completely different way. A long streak of failures can seriously disturb and depress a person. It can make him less smiling and cheerful, and more thoughtful and unhappy. And when it goes on for a relatively long time, it becomes complicated. A person can start hoping for unexpected luck, an unprecedented surprise and a turning point in his life, without doing anything special. He can hope that circumstances will change someday and everything will work out by itself. Or that he will meet his savior. The role of such saviors can often be played by people who like to profit from the life problems of ordinary people and their naivety and despair, various scoundrels, scammers and criminals who offer unrealistic and impracticable things. Thus, the cycle in which a person’s life can consist mainly of difficulties and negative emotions can repeat, and more than once. This can lead him to despair. It is very bad when there is not even a breath of fresh air in life, nothing interesting can be seen on the horizon that could please him and inspire hope, nothing can be seen that could awaken him to a new life. And such a turning point can still come, and it can come quite unexpectedly and be associated with circumstances that are completely beyond his control. Suddenly, interesting people may appear in someone’s life. Whether these will be the very people we need, we don’t know yet. But they can offer even more than we expect if we agree to change our lives and go a different way. We will be brought back to life, and we will again be ambitious, purposeful, combat-ready and happy as never before. We have a curious way to go. We will face adversity and adventure again, but we will have wings. The choice of what to do and what steps to take is up to us. Things may already be going better than expected, but we always have to be careful what we do. We can fight for success and good goals, but we must be careful with methods and means. Yes, at some point we may find ourselves on the side of successful people and leave the past behind. But we are still human, we must not forget about the human in us…
Introduction
In the “Crafted World” series, we will witness a large-scale struggle for supremacy and power, we will witness a clash between various alternatives for the development of a world in which ordinary people may at first seem like small pawns in a big game. They will have to cope with life’s difficulties on their own and look for a way to success. Many of them will not be able to find the right path, will face difficulties and will become desperate. They won’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. As if nothing can save them. They will continue to work in their disgusting, stressful, low-paid jobs, live their boring lives and blame themselves and others for their misfortunes. They will suffer from grief and poverty. They will envy the rich and successful and wonder why they fail to realize themselves well, fail to achieve their goals, fail to realize their dreams. They will wonder why other people have everything and they have almost nothing. They will compare themselves with others and secretly wonder why they are worse than others. They will ask themselves what they are wrong about. They also studied well, didn’t they also work, didn’t they also strive to succeed? They also try very hard and start a large number of undertakings. They will often wonder why their life is so complicated, unhappy and filled with negative emotions. Why don’t other people understand their problems, why are they treated so coldly everywhere? Why do so many evil people make evil comments, trying to make them look like losers? Why are there so many people who rise without having any special qualities? Why are there so many people who can only flatter the powerful, lie, slander others and maintain a loving relationship with their superiors, but at the same time climb the career ladder relatively quickly? While the main characters of the series are smart, ambitious, hardworking, proactive and really think they have the qualities necessary for success. A significant number of successful people also have the same qualities. But our heroes have not been able to succeed for a long time. Despite the stereotype that if you are smart enough, ambitious, hardworking and proactive, you will definitely become successful. Failure and poverty suppress their self-esteem, their will to live. They begin to lose confidence in themselves, their qualities and abilities. They lose their tone and desire for development, eventually reaching despair and timelessness. They begin to hope that everything just comes from somewhere. But it is unknown from where. Or they hope that everything will happen by itself. They begin to trust questionable people and follow questionable practices that bring them more problems instead of success. These people are sinking more and more financially and psychologically.
And as we know, unexpected surprises often happen in life. While there is absolutely no hope for improvement on the horizon, a mysterious man named Richard (Rich) suddenly appears in the lives of the main characters. Rich looks like a successful middle-aged man running a solid business. Rich says that he can offer them development options if they are sufficiently restrained and loyal. At first they suspect that he is just another fraudster who just wants to make more money from suffering and desperate people. But, surprisingly, it later turns out that Rich is actually a member of a very powerful secret community that seeks to create, offer and develop an alternative to the current world order. People call this community the “Sky Club” because they hold their secret meetings high in the mountains or on the upper floors of skyscrapers, away from the eyes of ordinary people. Another unofficial name for them is “Artisans”, because they love original handmade products, and also like to receive and give original handmade gifts. Their love of original things becomes an important part of their strategy to gain more power and influence in the world. They encourage people to create original products and have an original way of looking at things. In their opinion, every person and every business should have its own unique style and its own unique face that distinguish them from the rest. In order for there to be more happiness in the world, it is necessary to create, sell and distribute more unique things. People should not create and produce only identical or similar products. The Sky Club idolizes talented people and relies on human ingenuity, on the desire of each person, team, group or organization to create their own unique style with which they can stand out from the rest. It welcomes diligence and hard work, it welcomes the desire to learn and practice, it encourages the creation and implementation of innovations. This secret community seeks to change the world by offering more opportunities for development and more opportunities for interaction and mutual assistance between people, seeks to change people’s way of thinking, change their value system and at the same time gain even more influence, power and money. Their concept of changing the world order is based on the idea that people have the opportunity to unite in interest groups and on certain common grounds, creating mutual aid organizations that interact with each other. For example, people who share the same values and ideas about life should be able to join groups or clubs and create mutual aid organizations that interact with mutual aid organizations of other groups and clubs. These organizations should have their own budget and be able to provide grants and loans to their members and other organizations. The money should be collected at the expense of membership fees, which are not fixed, but in accordance with the capabilities of different people, and thus a budget and a reserve fund should be formed. The rich should be able to bring in more, the poor less. Financial control should be strict, and all participants should participate in voting and make decisions about what to spend money on. According to Sky Club members, mutual assistance is expressed not only in money, but also in providing opportunities, guidance, advice, a good attitude, as well as in the development of good and mutually beneficial relationships. Sky Club members strive to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to get help in case of difficulties, and not be left to fend for themselves alone. The members of the club are convinced that if a person is sure that he has someone to turn to for help in a difficult moment, he feels more secure in life in general and more confident in the future. They develop curious secret methods to achieve their goals. They work extremely carefully on their ideas about life and the new world order and inspire their followers to work together with them, to enter into the role of craftsmen who create every detail of the new world with great care. At the same time, according to Sky Club members, the official state should not stop functioning, legislate and collect taxes, but it should work better. In their opinion, the creation of mutual aid organizations does not weaken the state, but complements it. Groups, clubs and mutual aid organizations can solve problems that are beyond the power of the state. This way, people would have more opportunities to discuss and solve problems. It would be easier for them to find common ground if there were things that unite them, or they united around ideas that they like. The Sky Club community has powerful tools, lobbies and mass media, but it promotes its ideas unnoticed, without coming into direct conflict with rulers and governments around the world. Many members of the secret community are truly convinced of their rightness and sincerely want to help people and create more opportunities for them. In their opinion, there are too many people in the world who are under the pressure of poverty and lack of sufficient opportunities for development. Sometimes difficulties and failures lead these people to despair and deadlock. They don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Their life is hard, hopeless and unhappy. Everyday life is gray and unpleasant. Hard and unpleasant work and lack of prospects exhaust them physically and mentally. And the appearance of people like Rich is an unexpected surprise for them, a ray of light and a breath of fresh air in their lives. Rich gives hope to these people, awakens them to a new life and new adventures. A new path of development looms on the horizon. Interaction, mutual understanding and mutual assistance between members of the organization and people in general are put in the first place. Many people are starting to believe in the ideas of the Sky Club community. Over time, the secret fans and followers of the Sky Club community will increase significantly, its strength and capabilities will increase. However, many of the followers are not perfect at all and often act on the verge of the law, which leads to conflicts with official authorities. The community is gradually turning into an empire, which is a real challenge for governments around the world…During this time, some characters who were previously desperate and unhurried find themselves on the crest of a wave, becoming leaders capable of coping with any challenge. It’s just that the methods and means that different characters use to achieve their goals and common goals are very different. Between the followers of the “Sky Club” (“Artisans”) quarrels and conflicts begin. An important challenge for many of them is to preserve humanity in themselves and treat others with understanding. There are also unscrupulous people who create disagreements in the community and among its followers. As often happens in life, common goals and ideas aimed at the common good are overshadowed by personal ambitions and spoiled by greedy people and the struggle for power. Subsequently, the organization “Global Forum of Mutual Assistance”, created by the secret community “Sky Club” (Artisans) splits into two large groups or factions, between which an insurmountable conflict breaks out. It is incredible to what extent people who recently sat at the same table and shared common ideas will hate each other. It is incredible how persistently they will try to harm each other and seize more power. A protracted media conflict will begin, during which the leaders of the two groups will constantly try to denigrate each other. Media and hacker attacks will begin, exposing abuses and personal ambitions of leaders. Attacks on the media supporting opposing ideas will include hacker attacks aimed at changing their program. Tactics will be widely used in which media outlets supporting opposing ideas will be hacked to change their logo in prime time and broadcast completely different programs, shows or versions. After a hacker attack, they will often broadcast programs and shows that look like real ones, but which tell about other things and versions, about other scenarios. For example, it will become very popular to add such additions as “Nice”, “True Story” and others to the official logo of a particular media outlet, as well as to broadcast shows and news programs similar to real ones, but with different versions and facts, often completely opposite to those that are broadcast systematically, without a hacker attack. Over time, the conflict subsides, the structures of the “Sky Club” begin to weaken and finally disappear and sink into oblivion. The “Sky Club” or so-called “Artisans” disappear as quickly as they appear. With them goes the utopian idea of a better life, which is based on idealism and devotion of people and opposes human imperfection, as well as underestimates it, which ultimately led to the failure of the organization and the collapse of its ideas.
Author: Anton S. Petrov
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