THE Interview:
Everyone Should Read This
by Piso Mojado
copyright 2012 Piso Mojado
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THE Interview: Everyone Should Read This
As most of you read this, the identity of the interviewee will become more and more evident. In fact, when I ask him about the basis for his world-changing plan at the beginning of the interview, he will reveal himself to many people just by his answer.
Before I transcribe the first part of the interview, however, I want to answer some questions that will naturally occur to my readers.
Why would someone like C. C. C. (these are the initials of his nom de guerre; I will call him Three-C throughout the interview) tell his story to me? The New York Times, The Washington Post, the largest newspapers in Texas or Massachusetts or Michigan, The Economist, The Los Angeles Tribune -- all of these, among hundreds of other media outlets, would be a much more reputable place for Three-C's message. Why in the world would Three-C bother with an author who is not read by any nation's policy-makers?
The sad answer to this is that, throughout five decades, Three-C has sent articles, letters, and emails to all these places. Not once has anyone printed his ideas. Today you will be reading Three-C's story for the first time (!!!), even though you've undoubtedly heard bits and pieces and yes, perversions of his ideas.
The second objection that readers are bound to have is that I, Piso Mojado, have written mostly humor, satire, and parody as an e-author. How do I consider myself an appropriate scribe for ideas that could forever alter our world for the better, for a plan that could completely change the universe that we live in? After all, I wrote an entire book with a Welsh village as its background even though I'd never once set foot in that village nor had I ever met anyone from that town. I'm not exactly the kind of partner that someone who wants to excite world leaders should have, am I?
"You've really hit the bottom of the barrel," I told the interviewee. Three-C didn't actually agree with this assessment, but I never heard any protest either. I had no sense, though, of a desperate man who has run out of ways to get his message out into the world.
I've tried to be a credible interviewer in this piece. I promised Three-C that I would try to discipline my writing style, which some people call "quirky" and which I myself label as "permanent-state-of-shock-consciousness". I said I would stay in the background as much as possible except to issue prompts to move the interview along. I also swore I would attempt to keep my satire demons in check.
This previous paragraph is a nice lead-in to the last issue I want to address before I type the interview. Why should anyone believe this interview?
The response to that should be very satisfying. I will be the moderator only. I'll just be asking the questions that I think you, the reader would ask. I don't need to be credible. I don't matter. None of this article is about me.
There's also the opposite side of the table to consider. Why should anyone believe the man being interviewed? It's hard to believe that someone in government somewhere would not have taken a closer look at Three-C's plan unless there was a fatal flaw in it. There's just far too much benefit to be gained from Three-C's ideas if they are valid.
But I don't want to be yet another clueless skeptic dismissing the idea of ethanol gasoline brewed from agricultural by-products. I want to be fair. I can do that best by staying out of this story as much as possible.