Manifesto Jamie C

Manifesto; Build A Friend

In this new technological age communication is easy. A colleague across the world can be reached at but the click of a button. But with this comes the true impersonality of the e-mail or text message. A new era is eliminating the need for actual human contact and, as individuals, we must rise up and fully embrace this wonderful new dawn, and usher it towards a new nation of hermits.
Throw off your fellows,
Build your bubble,
Build a friend.
This creation shall be your world, your friend, your whim incarnate. People only think of themselves, it is common knowledge. Didn’t Jean-Paul Satre once say; “Hell is other people”? Wouldn’t things be much simpler without the daily bother of everyone else? All you need is one true companion.
Your world shall revolve around your “Doll” as it shall be dubbed.
Built with your own hands,
Shape it in your own image,
Mould it of the one you love,
Force it into the one you hate.
Buy a lamp to talk to,
I cannot tell you what to do in your world.
You can place it where you want, talk to it, ask it questions, for eventually, in it’s own subtle way, your Doll will answer you back.
Should I eat the orange in my left hand or the apple in my right? Your Doll’s head (or lampshade, whatever) seems to be resting slightly to the left. The orange it is then.
Only you can divine the subtle nuances of your Doll.
Eventually, it will make all decisions for you, it would all be so simple, why listen to other people? Your Doll relies on you,
Why would it lie?
It will never leave you if you speak harshly,
Challenge you if you harm it,
Complain if you leave it’s bulb on all night.
But it will always watch you, and remembers all the secrets you have told it, you will never need anyone again.

Rules;

 All members must constantly achieve the perfect state of ignoring all advice and opinion given to you by anyone but your Doll, yet retaining a constant concern over everyone’s opinion of you, everyone but your Doll.

 There will be three levels of membership:
Gold: Life-sized, humanoid form.
Silver: Any other humanoid figures either too big to carry or easily portable.
Bronze: Non-humanoid structures and ready-mades without further improvements.

 Any member concerned with their current rank is not a true member, no follower would be concerned with others trivial opinion on their status.

 If your Doll is worried of your low rank, a letter of complaint must be composed and sent to your local High Hermit, so your opinion can immediately be ignored (as per rule one).

 More membership categories may be added in future after a census of existing Dolls is carried out so as to be ignored by the High Hermit.

 It is not possible to drop a Doll. A Doll that seeks to end it’s own existence by leaving its owner’s hands proves the unworthiness of its creator.


 You may never destroy your Doll, unless in self defence.