Saturday, August 9, 2025

SPECULATIVE WEAPONS DIVISION #2:

LITTER DEMORALIZATION SCHEME

This is an experimental weapon system designed to demoralize the enemy. It involves conspicuous littering that must be done in an aggressive manner. Basically you illegally throw your trash away in view of other people but you must do it with a devil may care attitude that gives the impression that you really-truly-deeply do not give a fuck. 

Such action on your part may trigger aggressive responses from witnesses that may even include physical interdiction and assault on your person. You must be prepared to stand your ground if you are attacked. If necessary, you may, at times, have no choice but to execute a tactical retreat, but you must never admit fault, rhetorically back down, or apologize for littering. 

If you do back down or apologize this will make you appear weak and it will de-emphasize the action of heartless littering, and in actuality it will make witnesses think that you are merely careless as opposed to heartless. Carelessness may inspire wrath but usually it also inspires the thoughts that you are just a slob, possibly an asshole of the most trifling kind. 

This is not the desired effect. 

If you do not have the will to fight then you are perhaps not suited to the litter demoralization scheme. Reassignment may be necessary. 

This is not capricious stricture. 

Theatrical heartlessness is key to the demoralization aspect of this weapon system. You should be dressed to the nines. You should be carrying yourself with runway arrogance. You’re staring people in the eyes. You’re stalking up to your target and hurling bags of garbage at them with the style and panache of a martial arts movie star. 

As litter demoralization agents fan out across the land, the enemy population begins to perceive that their fellow citizens have totally given up on trash cans and recycling bins and even landfills. Everywhere is the landfill, now, so why keep on fighting?

Some may object to the idea that this assortment of actions constitutes a weapon or weapons or weapon system. We will leave the finer details of such inquiries to the philosophers of war and the metaphysicians of weaponry. 

We feel secure in categorizing this complex of behaviors as a weapon system. Controversy always attends innovation. Profound innovation necessarily incurs profound controversy. Profound controversy necessitates furious dialectic. We do not shy away from such contests. Sometimes you must win a war to be able to fight a war.