Maxim Tarasov's Notebook

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Welcome, or how else should I start off with?

I'm not feeling best at times like this, especially after a near concussion to the head. I guess I'll just use this book for the purposes of... not going insane over time. I'm not up to writing about present events, but more about what has happened and what could happen.

Farewell, now.

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Well, people say that long-learned experiences are for life. What does this mean? So many different things. Tell a child to go live with madman for his whole life, and he will become one too. Shout at a man for years, and he will shout back. Where do I even begin? Most people here are the problem. One man says to me that I am blind to the obvious. What these people are called are such.. Loyalists; loyal to the Union. Why? Because they are living with mad men and are shouted at continuously.

Lenin once said, "Give me a child for eight years, and he will become a Bolshevik."

They live with mad men, and are shouted at, so naturally, they shout back at the mad man more and more, until they develop their pride towards the mad man.

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Well, it's that time of the day again. The writing part.

I can't say I'm quite happy, though. I'll start off with something as similar to the last page. What is freedom? Many people here are ignorant to the very true meaning of the word. Is freedom the meaning of your own choice? No. That's not it at all. Freedom is the freedom to say I know what I want. The very definition comes to life when I ask you to halt what you're doing and give me a chance. Can one do that, however? I cannot, and you cannot, never will either.

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Greetings.

The thought of a total regime change here has always interested me. What if... What if I was a City Administrator, even here in City 18? I imagine a lot would change, of course. And that's correct, everything would change to a somewhat.. major scale. If I personally ran this city, this is how everything would work.

• First of all, I would disband the CWU. There's simply no point of it. Civil Worker's Union, hm? In my opinion, it's farfetched to call it that. The CWU is more of an upper society class that handles some work from time to time. It is simply not needed and deemed unnecessary to my standers.
  
• Let's take a look at how I would run the citizens. All citizens would be forced to work; no exceptions. If I was a City Administrator, I would not tolerate people standing around doing nothing. Should anyone refuse, act lazy, be late, and so forth, would receive a free ticket to the prisons.
  
• Then, the citizens would be split up into "groups". For example, one party would consist of the working class. The other would consist of the medical class. I'm not going to create a giant list here.
  
• Another would be an abrupt end to citizen-owned businesses. All businesses must be taken charge by the City Administration instead. No citizen should consist of entrepreneur skills. Instead, all businesses will be managed by Civil Protection teams, who would take charge of being the "boss" instead of citizens.
  
• All of the money flow would also be equally spread among citizens, since there is no backed reason for one citizen to be richer / poorer than another in this society. This would also be justified since many illegal-doers depend on selling contraband in order to gain more money. Therefore, it will be easier for the Civil Protection teams to assume the said person is an anti-citizen.
  
• Then there is a housing problem. Everywhere one may look, there is always people sitting in the streets, claiming this is where they live. Under my administration, this will never happen. No one would be stuck outside homeless, even if it means five different people living in the same room.
  

I guess this is what I have to say for today. One can imagine such a world.

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Imagine if there was a world; a world without fear of consequences, a world without religion, a world without power.

Imagine a world with people who live in this world as if it were a dream. I sit here and wonder when I can join, but I'm not the only one.

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Welcome back.

Life isn't simple. It's not exactly a straight line. I will give you a better hint that resembles it. Imagine a line, a straight line. Now curve it. Add zig zags to it afterwards. That, my friend, is life. It's also the lines of dents on your palms, if you've noticed. It's also the ripped edges on the cover of this book.