i’ve kind of talked myself out in email and instant messages lately. there’s a lot going on with people in my life right now. most of it is interesting only to myself and those in the know, though. it doesn’t make for very interesting reading. i’m sorry.
although, there is something i’m curious about. while sitting on the futon melting from the heat the other night, i landed on a strange show on the cbc called spynet. i couldn’t help but wonder if this was some nefarious plan by csis (the canadian version of the cia) to indoctrinate young people into becoming spies.
really, it’s a brilliant idea and i can see how it could have been used by these agencies for decades. infiltrate the entertainment industry and influence the creation of television shows and movies that basically teach viewers how to kill a man, sneak into a highly secure facility, trace a bad guy, fly a helicopter, fashion a running automobile out of duct tape and belly button lint and then watch the new, partially trained and mostly brain-washed recruits line up for duty!
just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
That would be a great theory, except for the fact that CSIS gets tens of thousands of applicants for eager beaver spy wannabe’s each year.
but what if those people are applying *because* of all the entertainment they’ve been putting out there in order to get these people to apply? plus, because they’ve been watching these shows, they’ve learned the basics and are easier to train once they’ve been hired.
it’s all very sneaky.
*runs away*
you know too much already.
it’s strange, here in the uk we have a pretty similar show called ‘spooks’, currently airing on bbc television. http://www.bbc.co.uk/spooks
the tagline for the show is ‘mi5, not 9-5’. catchy… but not after you’ve heard it 9 million times, at every programme break, every day for about 3 months.
so, err… anyway. maybe it’s there’s an international shortage of spying personnel?!