That means that everything I do is calculated to play well within my show.
If you visualize yourself sitting in a theater --which, truly, you are-- and if you visualize me up on stage, you can see the meaning behind everything that I do. You should interpret everything that happens here not as the words of a newsman or a man on the street with a placard, but as a performance in a tightly controlled environment.
When I lazily resolved five years ago that I would overthrow the government, I thought it best to frame the action within a stand up comedy show.
So here we are.
Or did I get bored with the end-in-itself comedy and then think it a plot-plausible evolution of the show to become a revolutionary? Who knows. Who cares. It doesn't matter, and I'm not even sure that I know. I'll claim whatever backstory works better for me.
But the point is this: Everything that happens in my life becomes part of my show. Deval Patrick, for example --either by design or willful neglect-- lobbied for a five-minute scene in my Behind the Music movie. And he got one.
Everything goes into my Behind the Music movie: the evidence I have assembled here, the political arguments, the disarming of criminals and the restoring of law to this land.
This theater in which you sit is my world. Everyone here knows that everyone else is getting the same information. And that is the power of the performer. Within this theater, I have disarmed with truth any who would engage me with lies.
Now visualize the Big Brother Machine that does the eavesdropping. Visualize it up on my stage. Would even a single person in my audience be able to mount a defense of it as I walk over to unplug it? No, of course not.
Within my theater, I may do whatever I want as long as it is geared to restoring lawfulness. Because no one can complain about lawful behavior, right?
So within my theater, I can't lose. It is theoretically impossible to climb up on my stage and engage me. I win. I win because all I want is lawful behavior. (Which truly is all I want because I cannot stand lawlessness and murder and thievery.)
But let's say that the Big Brother Machine is not on my stage; it's over there in the corner. You see that all I have to do is to step off the stage, give a hand signal to the lighting guy to follow me over here, and unplug the Big Brother Machine. Wherever I am, as long as the stage light follows me, is where my stage is.
It is theoretically impossible to engage me and resist my efforts at restoring lawfulness wherever I may travel. That is the strength of the "show" paradigm of political action.
According to the rules of a show, all behaviors of the performer must adhere scrupulously to things that play well. That is why you will not see me blowing things up or murdering anyone or hiding a bag of cocaine on my person. And because I am telling you this, should the Government Man attempt to plant a bomb or a bag of cocaine on me, you should regard such a thing as unlikely, considering that you know that I know that such a thing would not play well.
So during my trip to New York, there will be many attempts to trip me up or set me up or to otherwise remove me from my stage. Should such attempts be made, you should ask yourselves, "Does that play well? And since Chris is so mindful of things playing well within his show paradigm, would Chris likely do such a thing?"
All I have to do is to brandish my one weapon --moral authority stemming from the truth-- and walk up to a thing and unplug it, or to walk up to a man and arrest him.
That is the show paradigm of political action. No lie can engage a show that is founded on the truth. That is why I win.
I would ask that when I come to New York, that the resources be dedicated to following me and recording from afar all that I do. Your cameras are my stage lights. You folks in New York have to keep the lights on me in order for this to work.
So I need guys with guns and badges, I need control of those unions, and I need lighting.
Taking back your city and your national government is a conceptually simple matter --because no lie can engage the truth. And when those who consider themselves my political adversaries attempt to engage me --as they will-- I need all my peeps in intelligence and the FBI and the news media and everywhere else to come out of the woodwork and throw their truth bombs in my information war.
This plan works, folks.
