Golem Watched Them Use His Software For Free

What Wicket thought was that Golem had become an embodiment of the new age media. A media that with advanced technology was capable of putting together stories as no media before in the history of mankind, and on a truly global basis. They could put together a story that wasn’t even true. When a school shooting occurred in the U.S. it was indeed a shot heard ‘round the world’. Perhaps, Golem himself was not aware of the extent to which he mirrored events around him. Maybe his shaved, reflective, melon green face had absorbed so much that he himself no longer could digest all of it, nor make sense of the incoming signals. Maybe events had taken over Golem L. Window, and he was now merely a puppet, the puller of the strings something other than mankind. Was that something higher good or evil? The answer was not necessarily clear to Wicket. Maybe it was good fighting evil or some combination of the two, the results of which would test the nature of humankind. What would happen if 400 million people were killed in some bizarre turn of events? Where would mankind go from there? Would it not be a sort of a second Noah’s ark scenario, or even not unlike the second coming of Christ?

Golem was asking questions at the very moment that Wicket was asking his. The video TV tuner capture card killings would necessarily be random would they not? Well, most of those killed would probably be guilty of using software without paying for it. Some would be down loaders of music without fees. Would these people represent the evil amongst us, though, in any meaningful way? What would they all have in common? They would have all been trying to get something for free. Most would rationalize it with the notion that software was so easily reproducible, or that they didn’t use it commercially, or that software was just too expensive to buy all you wanted of. It just didn’t seem like a big deal they would say. There are so many movies. Why not buy pirated DVDs? They would have all been trying to get something for free. Golem stopped there. That was all he needed. All of them would be freeloaders.
Some of them who had been to Thailand must have felt like kids in a candy store. Everywhere pirated software existed for three dollars a disk and almost any program on the planet. Wicket knew that when the newspaper said that a shop had been shut down that it meant maybe five out of thirty thousand or so. Did the Iguanians buy that story? They better get out on the street and have a look around.