My Plans for the Future



Twenty years from right now, the world will be a place so different from the current norm that the very thought of what is now our present existence will seem fabricated and mythical. There will be new comforts and technologies, new trends and tastes, and a completely new world power - ME.

Iím sorry, I believe I was a little vague when I said that I would be a world power. What I meant by that was that I would be THE world power. I will stand unrivaled and unquestioned as the head of the Globose Commonwealth of Humans, and whatever I deem law is law - whatever I deem illegal or punishable is corrected. Of course, such utter domination does not come easily. I have a complex plan, beginning with my graduation from high school, that will faultlessly lead me to supreme world power.

You see, Iíve already begun preparing for my life of conquest and rule. Of course Iíve been spending a lot of time bossing people around so Iíll be ready when I get to the top, but Iíve also been preparing for my rise to power. For two years now, Iíve been working long hours at countless joe jobs, and stuffing every penny Iíve earned in the bank. I have already been accepted to a tiny college in Michigan with a full four year scholarship, and have informed my parents that I will be attending that college, needing only meal and spending money from them - which is to be sent in cash Upon my arrival at college, I will take up a part time job near my dorm room, and as for the classes I will be signed up to take from my college, I will skip every one.

Once this routine is established, I will have my name legally changed to John Carrousi, which also happens to be the name of a well established SCUBA diver and marine expeditionist. My next move will be to contact every corporation and multimillionaire in middle America under my new diver persona, and pitch to them an expedition to find a sunken ship lost while transporting loads of gold. The only problem will be that this expedition will require some funding, and I, although well qualified as a marine expeditionist, have not the means to fund it. After promising more than a full return to every get-rich-quick schemer who hands over a check, I will buy loads of guns and hire as many members of the local militia groups as possible.

About the same time my failing semester grades reach my parents, I will take my little army overseas and land them in Zaire, the relatively inactive and seldomly noticed African third world country plagued with horrible debt and inflation. There we will march right into Kinshasa, Zaireís capital, and take the country over. Without the means to ward off any set of well armed men, they will have no choice but to comply. I will then give every citizen a choice. They will have the option of being a soldier in my army and fed two meals a day, or they can be put to work on the land raising crops to feed my army. I will then have every tree that stands in Zaireís woodlands torn down and sent overseas to be sold as cheap lumber. Much of the millions in profit the lumber sales will bring me will then be put to use mining the rich supplies of copper, diamonds, and oil, which will be sold overseas as well. These resources will be strip mined very easily without the intrusion of those annoying trees or animals. With enough profits from the slashing and stripping of Zaire, I will be able to hire even more mercenaries and buy even more guns, and soon I will have an army capable of crushing any force in southern Africa.

I will then march into nearby Congo, and impose the same strip-for-money policy there, and one by one, every African country will fall under my control, followed by the middle east, then Asia and the pacific islands. With my army in the billions, and my wealth in the trillions, after I have taken over Europe, North and South America will pose little threat.

The Americas defeated, I will just claim Australia as my own, and there will be no dispute. I will then become the ruler of the human race, which I will collectively call, for aesthetic reasons, the Globose Commonwealth of Humans. Once I have received my supreme and absolute power I will set rules and laws for the people and laugh at them for being little lambs that were so easy to take over, and I will enjoy my power restfully. You see, there is nothing anybody can do to stop me, and nothing anybody can do to avoid me. I will rule you. I will own you. I will tell you when to eat, when to sleep, and when to breath, and if I decide that I donít want you to breath, youíll just have to go without air. Iíve given you warning. Watch out.