The luxurious white yacht rocked smoothly on the waves. The silence of the endless sea was diluted only by the cry of restless gulls and the quiet lapping of the waves. On the upper deck, blown by a gentle south wind, sat at a table two of our old acquaintances - the permanent king of television Ivan Ivanovich and the alcohol tycoon Vasily Vasilyevich. With them was a relatively young member of the "club of interests" - Alex Gotman.
Since childhood, Alex was a smart boy, and in the early nineties he realized that the newly appeared clumsy computers would one day turn this world upside down, and he needed to get into this "mainstream" in time. It was difficult to recognize in this imposing young man the young man who, more than twenty years ago, first got acquainted with the computer. Now Alex Gotman is the king of gaming corporations, his fortune is in the billions, and millions of children and adults sit in front of their computers and, like laboratory mice, press buttons, bringing Alex every minute fabulous profits.
- Good, after all, today the weather. Sunny, but not hot, - Ivan Ivanovich broke the heavenly silence.
- Yes, - replied Vasily Vasilyevich, - the weather is undoubtedly wonderful. It is a pity, "of course," that the whole company did not gather.
- Time is money, gentlemen. Nikolai Nikolaevich, for example, has no time for rest now - the football championship is in full swing, only have time to substitute your pockets. They say that his “wards” literally spend all their salaries on tickets and sweepstakes,”Alex said, intently wiping his misted glasses.
- Well, everyone has their own. And everything has its time. My "golden hour", for example, is on New Year's, when thousands of those who are duped by all this festive hysteria carry their stash and savings to supermarkets in order to buy "elite poison" and get poisoned with it, "answered the king of the alcohol industry Vasily Vasilyevich.
- I must draw your attention, gentlemen, that only my business, as a rule, does not have seasonal ups and downs - you can click the mouse and degrade at any time of the year and in any weather, - Alex said with poorly concealed superiority.
- Your business, Alex, is relatively young. And it is difficult to analyze it now, since there are no long-term statistics. However, I have to admit that it has a number of advantages and benefits. This is mainly the breadth of the audience. I heard that even pensioners play these "dances" of yours. And for the same "Minecraft" children sit down as soon as there is an opportunity to reach the mouse, - said Ivan Ivanovich.
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- Yes, dear Ivan Ivanovich. What can not be said about television, which is losing its popularity from year to year, although the majority still obediently accept everything that you pour them there. However, games and the Internet are increasingly distracting young people. Imagine what would happen if after a couple of generations people stopped watching TV altogether? - Alex asked a question that Ivan Ivanovich often asked himself and was afraid of an answer.
- What to say? It will just crash. Not only my business will collapse, but also the alcoholic empire of Vasily Vasilyevich, as well as the business of our friends who today do not have the pleasure of being with us - the sex industry of Peter Petrovich and the food corporations of Uncle Misha, ” Ivan Ivanovich answered dejectedly.
- Yes, what to say? If it weren't for television, who would even start doing all that on which we make our money today? Well, who would have thought of buying and drinking alcoholic poison in the store for their hard earned money? Or constantly stuff your stomachs with what to call food your tongue won't turn, and then remove the heaviness in your stomach with Mezim? Or already from 10-12 years old to be concerned about the question of how to lose virginity? Who would have thought of such an unnatural and wild stupidity? No, gentlemen, we owe all this to the highly respected Ivan Ivanovich and his well-functioning system of fooling the population, - summed up Vasily Vasilyevich.
- This is another plus of the gaming industry that it does not depend on television. The distribution of my products is established via the Internet, and the popularity is growing due to the rotation of the product in the youth environment, - Alex answered.
- Yes, I must admit that even in the event of the collapse of the system of manipulation of the population with the help of a "zombie box", the gaming industry is perhaps the only sphere that will continue its work with practically no losses, and we must use it for our purposes - in the end, and you can push all this rubbish through games, - said Vasily Vasilyevich.
- But this is not the main advantage. As Ivan Ivanovich rightly noted, I have a very wide audience. The fact is that there are still not so few reasonable citizens and it is quite difficult to convince a more or less adequate person to do obvious harm to himself - to drink alcohol, smoke, throw some substances or poison himself with semi-finished products. But the harm of computer games is far from obvious, even to conscious people. For the majority, computer games remain a harmless children's entertainment, which sometimes is not a sin to amuse yourself and adults. You can often hear in response to stories about the dangers of games something like: "well, at least he does not drink" or "let it be better to play at home than to wander around the doorways" - I don't know who launched this concept into society, but it is for us very profitable. And most of all I am amused by stories aboutthat screen violence not only does not negatively affect the psyche, but allegedly even helps "sublimate negative emotions." You must believe in such nonsense! Alex laughed heartily.
- Here you, dear Alex, correctly noted. The harm of alcohol, as a rule, is noticeable relatively quickly, even if a person, as we have suggested to them, is poisoned "moderately". What can not be said about computer games - the degradation of the user who is addicted to them will only appear after a few years. Moreover, those around them, most likely, will not associate a gradual increase in aggression, social maladjustment, social phobia, lack of physical development, and so on with playing on a computer. Yes, and such personality defects are noticeable, as a rule, already only at the stage of the final stage, when it is difficult to change something, ” Vasily Vasilyevich agreed with Alex.
- And the profit? What a profit, let me tell you. How often do you manage to get a person hooked on the same alcohol so that he would lower his entire salary cleanly? And we managed to develop such a scheme with these online games that at first we lure with free "buns", a fascinating interface, a character "pumping" system, and then for further advancement in the game, a person is forced to lay out serious money, and there are cases when people even loans were taken to buy some virtual improvement and go further. Just think about it - people spend a lot of money to pay for a thing that does not exist at all. They pay simply for a set of numbers, for a binary code that creates a beautiful object in front of them on the screen that shoots or drives fast. What other business area can boast of such success,so that a person just pays for emptiness !? - Alex exclaimed enthusiastically.
- Yes, the era of IT-technologies … - Ivan Ivanovich said thoughtfully.
- It's great that we manage to put any human achievements in the field of science at the service of our own interests. Modern technologies allow us to fool people even more effectively and multiply our profits, - added Vasily Vasilyevich.
“However, we should admit that there are those who resist the process of global mortification of the population, and they also use the same Internet to open people's eyes to the essence of things,” Alex justly noted.
- Come on, Alex. We have already brainwashed these idiots so that they are ready to tear to pieces anyone who tries to scold their "favorite drug." For the sake of experiment, try to come to the mob on a New Year's visit and talk about the dangers of alcohol. You won't get out of there alive. The same New Year's glass of champagne is a tradition so familiar to any “reasonable person” that most will never believe that it appeared quite recently after our film “Carnival Night”. And it's dangerous to stutter about games and stuff. Torn! - Vasily Vasilyevich laughed.
- Yes, that's right. And all because we took into account the experience of totalitarian regimes and we do not openly force anyone else to do anything. We have a democracy. Everyone has a choice. Which we artificially form, slipping several deliberately wrong options to the crowd. So people don't really have any real choice. Most often this is a choice between something harmful and very harmful, - Ivan Ivanovich also said with a smile.
- Yes, it is this concept that works in the case of computer games. It's better than drinking vodka and using heroin. Therefore, parents should be glad that their son is alive and well and does not wander around the doorways, but quietly sits in his room, staring at the monitor, - Alex answered, wiping his fogged glasses again.
- As for "alive" - maybe, but about "healthy" - this is clearly not for long. At the very least, psychological problems are provided. So, if the parents are satisfied with the unadapted Pithecanthropus, which has grown to the chair at the computer, let the kid run the Internet and buy a gaming laptop at an early age,”Vasily Vasilyevich laughed again.
- Ivan Ivanovich, this is what I think … - Alex turned to his interlocutor, - we need to launch a campaign in the media similar to alcohol. To instill in the minds of people that playing games is cool, modern, good for health. Thinking, they say, develops. And the reaction. In general, as with alcohol - to choose some insignificant plus and inflate an elephant out of a fly, while hiding a hundred minuses. And it would also be nice to suggest that, they say, computer games are typical of Russians. Well, by analogy with alcohol - "Russians always drank." How do you like this idea?
- Come on, Alex. You absolutely hold them for morons. Games appeared 20 years ago, how can we convince them that "the Russians have always played"? They are, of course, without brains, but not to the same degree,”Ivan Ivanovich said with a smile.
- All the same, you Ivan Ivanovich, think too well of them. While I was flying here while on the plane, I heard the dialogue between my granddaughter and my grandfather, and the granddaughter was sincerely surprised - how could it be, they say, why did our people get surrounded all the time during the war, couldn't they dial on their mobile phone and say that they needed help, or write a message in social networks. And the girl, by the way, was ten years old. So, dear Ivan Ivanovich, the generation of morons is growing. They can be convinced that Ivan the Terrible played in "Stalker". We will correct Wikipedia for this information and that's it. And then Wikipedia modern youth do not go in search of information, - answered Alex and looked at Ivan Ivanovich over his glasses.
- Well, maybe you are right. You know better than young people live today. In principle, an interesting idea, worth trying, - Ivan Ivanovich agreed.
- It is necessary that in every home, in every family there is a newest gaming laptop that can handle any modern game. It is necessary that everyone in the family, young and old, play the most stupid and obscene games, but always with very beautiful graphics - after all, our "experts" need to praise this primitive for something. It is necessary that father and son literally fight for the right to spend an extra minute at the computer. It is necessary that the children in the family stop communicating with their parents altogether, and the parents themselves are also not too eager for communication, because they also have a mission on pause there, in the next room. We will enslave this world, we will turn it into one continuous matrix, where everyone will sit like zombies and only press buttons, multiplying the funds on our accounts,”Alex dreamed excitedly, actively gesturing with his hands.
- And you can also use the method of Nikolai Nikolaevich, who inspired people that screaming in the stands of the stadium, jumping with joy for every ball thrown into the goal is a manifestation of patriotism. With games, you can do the same - they say, playing games on the theme of World War II is very patriotic. And in general, it is high time to equate computer games with one of the sports, so that every gamer can proudly call himself an "athlete", and call the time at the computer "training", - Vasily Vasilyevich continued to develop the idea.
- Also a good offer! - Alex took off his glasses again and a light of greed and madness flashed ominously in his eyes.
- Okay, enough about business. Isn't it time for us to bathe? - looking at the mirror water surface said Ivan Ivanovich.
- I support. And we will postpone the enslavement of the Universe until tomorrow,”Vasily Vasilyevich laughed and patted Alex on the shoulder.
The sun was already sinking, and red, like blood, paint slowly poured the clouds over the water surface. The yacht added momentum and, slowly cleaving the waves, headed towards the barely noticeable landscape of the ruins of ancient Chersonesos …
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