Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader.

[white_wolf]

"After almost 12 years, first as a summer intern, then in the Death Star and now in London, I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its massive, genocidal space machines. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.

To put the problem in the simplest terms, throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.

The Empire is one of the galaxy's largest and most important oppressive regimes and it is too integral to galactic murder to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of Yoda College that I can no longer in good conscience point menacingly and say that I identify with what it stands for.

For more than a decade I recruited and mentored candidates, some of whom were my secret children, through our gruelling interview process. In 2006 I managed the summer intern program in detecting strange disturbances in the Force for the 80 younglings who made the cut.

I knew it was time to leave when I realised I could no longer speak to these students inside their heads and tell them what a great place this was to work..."

[link:http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5007&Itemid=81|

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Clever

[Brettongarcia]

2. Makes sense as the declining British empire. But also ... Limbaugh? Or the churches?

Programming the minds of others, through endless repetition/hypnosis.

Weekly, daily brainwashing sessions; where the same things are said over and over, a thousand times. Until you are a "ditto head," as Limbaugh himself called his followers.