The Queen and Dostoyevsky

The room was blurry due to the aftereffects of the dose of chloryl hydrate, but it nonetheless looked like a room fit for a king.  I was in a plush, four-post queen size bed with curtains, in a room decorated in Victorian- style furniture.  This room was certainly decorated by a romantic, with extravagant sculptures of sublimely shaped men and women, robust and boastful paintings, and books of the likes of Novalis and Shelley.  In a way this room resemble Frankenstein’s monster draped in royal elegance.  But most curious of all was the portrait of Queen Victoria the second, a portrait of the current queen situated in one of the guest rooms in Buckingham palace.  A simple syllogism allowed me to deduce that I, Zero, was in Buckingham palace.    Soon after becoming fully aware of my surroundings, two royal guards entered, along with a butler, and queen Victoria herself.    “No time for formalities young chap,” she said in an uber-posh English accent, “we have to get right down to the meat of it.”    “But you highness - “ I started.    “Enough.  I’m here to explain a few things to you,” she began.  “First of all, the globe now knows that Charlie Zane killed the Pope.  The globe knows you are in a British jail cell for GOD knows how long waiting to be extradited to Italy.  When you are extradited, you will be tragically killed in a plane crash.    “Secondly,  in the book The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky posits the notion that if God does not exist, then any thing is permissable.  Well, as has been revealed to you, God in the sense of how others see Him does not exist; GOD as we know it does.  But, the Omniverse is indifferent to our plight.  Therefore, anything and everything is permissable.  However, Dostoyevsky failed to consider causality and consequence in his equation.  This is where the State and more importantly the Order comes in.     “In a state of nature, everything is permissable, and we get nowhere, like the red queen in And Through the Looking Glass, running in one spot and never moving.  No one cares about consequences, and eventually the species becomes extinct.  The State, on the other hand, makes a contract with the citizens whereby order is maintained as the citizens agree to follow certain rules, and the state provides services and order in return.  The church was an important part of this formula: its alliance with the state in conjunction with the royal lie it provided endured that humans would remain docile and impotent, creating a red queen state once again.  But now we have television and Facebook as well.      “And here is where the Order comes in: the Order is here to fashion all human beings so that they are malleable, intelligent, and cultured enough to exist in a state of order without controls such as the state, the church, television, capitalism and computers, which are collectively known as the Monolithic church.  This is known as the neo-renaissance.  I am part of the State, but I am a red herring serving the Order, being one of the architects of the demise of the Monolithic church.  Oh look at the time...you should be leaving with the Heathrow hotels to finally see the Heathrow airport hotels.”