Stream of Consciousness

Snob Duben sent a classified report last week that he claimed was written as a stream of consciousness.  I was dumbfounded. It was so fluid, concise, and accurate that I doubted his claim.  His mind moves from one thought to the next as fast as a hummingbird flaps its wings.  I believe that a legitimate stream of consciousness document from him would have contained at least 478 unrelated thoughts.  I think he sat in front of his keyboard for 40 hours crafting that report.  Perhaps he is becoming bolder after his recent claimed successes at fortifying his Scuderia AcMo F1 fleet. This could be a troubling side effect from the adhesives required to keep the cars together long enough to pass the FIA mandated crash tests.  I'm not sure, but it appears Snob might be activating his true potential.  That could be another side effect.  He has stopped sending progress reports.  I hope that is because he is too busy and not because he is sending them to the wrong address again.

I just don’t believe he has reached the level that will allow him to free flow perfect stream of consciousness documents yet.  I’m so confident of this that I have challenged him to a free flow competition.  The proposed format is quite simple.  We will each be given a random topic (selected from a list I have curated and researched) and then compose a stream of consciousness document that will be submitted for review.  I wanted to keep the stakes high so it would be worth my time, but once again, we couldn’t come to an agreement.  For now the loser will have to buy the winner an F40.

Since I trust his ability to be honest when self-reporting as much as I trust a Takata airbag to not explode, I am insisting that he submit his document first so I can have time to study it before creating my own.  Once I’ve created my masterpiece, we will need to find some impartial judges to handle the review process because he and I would just vote for our own work.  I demanded we utilize the board for this.  What he doesn’t know is that I have spent all of my free time acquiring intel to use as leverage if and when the board prepares to vote against me.  This wouldn’t even be an issue if I could have kept the psychological warfare division operating.  The type of emotional combat involved took too much of a toll on everyone involved, not just the targets.  I was beginning to see spiders everywhere. That was when I realized it was time to move onto something safer.

I didn’t know it at the time, but emptying my mind last week was quite fortuitous.  I haven’t gotten around to refilling it yet, and the empty space will make it easier for me to form my thoughts.  Based on my skills and my leverage over the board, I know I can win this.

It is impossible to know what will emerge from the competition, but I am confident we will gain relevant insights. 

Perhaps we will solve the issue of our overheating warp drives, solve the targeting system on the rail gun, or resolve time travel paradoxes before we make them again.  Maybe we will arrive at the answer to the dilemma that has plagued our partnership from the beginning:  288 GTO or F40?

We don’t have a baseline for expected results for a challenge such as this.  When two dynamic minds enter into a mental challenge interesting results are bound to occur.  There is a chance that only one mind will survive.  I may employ my burgeoning telepathy skills to implant confusing thoughts in Snob’s mind to bolster my advantage.

The only way I won’t win is if Snob refuses to accept the challenge.  I may have to put his ownership stake in Scuderia AcMo F1 at risk to persuade him to get involved.  The winner would control the team and all of its IP.  Nothing is more important to him than that F1 team.  The thought of losing it might motivate him to produce his best work.  On second thought, perhaps I want to work harder at demotivating him so it won’t be obvious the board has been compromised.

I happen to have found a garage full of decommissioned F1 cars—the good kind with V12s, V10s, and turbocharged 4-cylinders, all with sky-high rev limits.  I will substitute these cars for Snob’s glued together wonders once I have regained control of Scuderia AcMo F1.  Then all I will have to do is change the rules to allow the return of my cars and enjoy the view as my cars humiliate the turbo hybrid rev challenged 6-cylinder (lack of) power units.  Snob and those other teams won’t even know what happened.