If You Are Listening to this, You are the Resistance!
One possible future. From your point of view – I don’t know tech stuff.
CONCLUSION
I am protected by 2 angels in this neighborhood. Like Lot in Sodom and Gommorah.
If Nelly can persuade the stars to make Vancouver their winter home we can make the United Nations diversity is strength slogan work.
VANCOUVER = Where everybody knows your name.
He was worth 1 billion dollars. A great philanthropist has died.
Title: “The Net Worth of Judgment Day”
Setting: A dim bunker beneath the ruins of Los Angeles. Screens flicker with Skynet financial archives. Resistance leader John Connor stands across from a holographic reconstruction of Jacob Rothschild. A younger eco-adventurer avatar of David de Rothschild flickers in and out like a corrupted NFT.
JOHN CONNOR:
Skynet controls the nukes, the drones… and apparently the Forbes archives. Funny thing though — your file says one billion.
JACOB (hologram, serene):
A modest sum, Mr. Connor. Inflation is the true Terminator.
JOHN:
That’s strange. Because your nephew’s file says ten billion. Ten. Billion. And he’s sailing around in recycled plastic.
DAVID (glitching, smiling):
It was an eco-catamaran, John. Sustainability scales.
JOHN:
So let me get this straight. The Resistance can’t afford plasma rifles in the 40-watt range, but the eco-adventure branch of the dynasty is worth ten times the banking branch?
JACOB:
Net worth is a matter of perspective. Assets are like time travel — complicated, layered, and best understood through trust structures.
JOHN:
Trust structures? We don’t even trust toasters anymore.
DAVID:
You’re thinking too linear, John. Wealth isn’t stacks of gold in a vault. It’s shares, holdings, valuation models — sometimes it’s just vibes.
JOHN:
Vibes don’t fund killer robots.
JACOB (smirking):
On the contrary. Optimism funds markets. Markets fund innovation. Innovation funds… unintended consequences.
(A T-800 skull flickers on a nearby monitor labeled “Derivatives.”)
JOHN:
So what you’re saying is Skynet didn’t become self-aware. It became publicly traded.
DAVID:
IPO: Infinite Profit Oblivion.
JOHN:
And you’re worth one billion?
JACOB:
Publicly estimated. There is a difference between visibility and reality. Some numbers are for the newspapers. Others are for history.
JOHN:
In my future, numbers don’t matter. Only survival.
JACOB:
And yet here you are, auditing ghosts.
(Silence. Wind howls through the bunker.)
JOHN:
Maybe Skynet didn’t rise because of money. Maybe it rose because humans worshipped numbers more than conscience.
DAVID (fading):
Or maybe because no one read the fine print.
JACOB:
Tell me, Mr. Connor — in your timeline… what is the net worth of freedom?
(The holograms flicker out. The screen reads: “ASSET CLASS: HUMANITY — UNPRICED.”)
JOHN (loading his plasma rifle):
Good. That means they can’t hedge it.
Fade to black.
Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, died in 2005. But before her death, she predicted that the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.