Subtitle of this chapter: I want to be the emperor

"John, do you have any dreams?"

The boss talks about his dreams if he doesn’t want a raise, but he still talks about his dreams if he raises his salary.

Unfortunately, John was so smart that he didn't take on this and talk about his sentiment, but said a little impatiently: "Neo, just say it."

"Haha..." Our Master Yuan chuckled and asked in a very serious tone, "Mr. McCall, do you think this world is ridiculous?"

"Um……"

"The people around us are ridiculous, too?"

"ah……"

"For example, your Miss Helen Brown. Of course, I have to admit that she is a very cute girl, and even I am a little moved. But she is really ridiculous, right?"

"Neo, you..." The lawyer was a little uneasy and tried to interrupt him.

"Please don't interrupt me, Mr. McCall." Master Yuan continued to say to himself, "Miss Brown obviously has no talent, but she is dreaming of an author. Well, she realized this herself, so she changed her career to be an editor. But if she was not the daughter of the president of New York University Press, would she have the opportunity to enter the press for an internship?"

"Compared with the author and editor, she should marry you, a promising lawyer. But I think you should also understand that Miss Brown will realize this one day, so you are waiting for her so patiently. However, she just made a circle on the road of life. Apart from wasting time and learning a lesson, it would not do you any benefit to her."

"John, is she ridiculous?"

The lawyer fell silent and nodded after a while.

"For example, our good friend Mr. Louis Baker. He is really a good person, but unfortunately he is not as smart as his grandfather."

"Mr. Baker, a young man, yearns for socialism, supports feminism, and sympathizes with the working people... but he himself does not realize how cheap and ridiculous his sympathy is."

Yuan Yan waited for a moment and saw John nodding slightly before continuing, "I won't talk about the people around us anymore. Let's talk about your two commanders in the United States. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding, an outstanding idealist failed, and a beautiful no-nothing man came to power..."

"Okay, Neo, stop talking." Mr. McCall interrupted him loudly and asked, "Since this world is so ridiculous, what are you going to do?"

Our Master Yuan raised his index finger and shook it: "No, no, what are we going to do?"

John said angrily: "Okay, then what are we going to do?"

"We..." Yuan Yan suddenly cracked her mouth and smiled, revealing her white teeth. In the eyes of his lawyer, his big client was like a big monster who chose people, "Of course we want to make the world even more ridiculous!"

"Those who are pursuing money, we make them rich overnight and then make them nothing."

"Those who pursue honor, we let them reach their peak and then knock them down."

"Those who pursue nobleness, we move them into the world and then turn them into laughter..."

"cynic." This time Mr. McCall interrupted him calmly, then shook his head and sighed, "Hey, I should have thought of you as a believer of Antisteni and Diogeni."

"I'm so slow. I should have thought of it when you reject me for $5,000. A poor student living in a broken apartment will not care about $5,000. He is either hopelessly romantic or does not care about substances!"

"You will burn my check and donate $500,000, and when you have money, you spend money with great care. So you don't understand the benefits of money or you don't know how to enjoy it, you just don't care!"

"What you said just now is, 'The world is a big absurd and a big joke, I can only treat it with absurdity and jokes.'!"

"Yes, you're a complete cynician!"

"Hahaha..." Yuan Yan suddenly laughed to the sky, "John, I thought you knew it a long time ago."

Cynicism has nothing to do with Confucianism, but it is closely related to Zhuangzi in Seris Taoism. The most famous story about cynicism is one day when Alexander came to visit Diogeni who was lying on the ground basking in the sun, and asked him what gift he wanted. Diogeni replied: "As long as you don't block my sun."

From this we can see that these two focus only on absolute personal spiritual freedom and despise all social falsehoods, customs and cultural norms. A lighter degree can be called cynicism, and a heavyer degree can be called cynicism.

But our Master Yuan is really not a cynician. He just can't face the world seriously. So he decided to make this world... well, his world a little more fun.

"John, I think you are also a hidden cynician."

"No, I'm not. I think I'm a Stoic who only talks about fatalism and not asceticism."

The Stoic school is known as the four major philosophical schools, namely the Hellenistic period (334 BC to the 1st century BC). It has some similarities with cynicism, and it also claims that all external things are not important. Its founder Zeno was originally a cynician.

"A half-baked Stoic? Listen to the sound of the stoic." Yuan Yan suddenly blew a frivolous whistle and changed the subject, "So mr.stoic (Mr.stoic originally meant to be a porch), do you want to join my organization?"

"Your organization? What organization?"

“The SCP Foundation is the specialcontainmentprocedures foundation.”

"Strange name. So how many members do your organization have?"

“So far there are only two, and if you join, there are three.”

"Haha, Neo. This is funny."

"Haha, John. It's funny..."

By the way, I should give all the members of the SCP Foundation a full code name.

"John, I'm serious. Now the SCP Foundation has me, a fool (dionysus), and there is another... well, magician (hermes). If you come, you can be..."

"Emperor (zeus), I want to be the emperor!" (Note 1)

"John, you always surprise me, even know the tarot card. Well, you are the emperor. His Majesty the Emperor of God, please drive."

Mr. McCall struggled to get back on fire... Cars are very troublesome these days, and some people even folded their arms to start the car with a crank.

After a while, John suddenly spoke, "Neo. I have a suggestion."

Yuan Yan asked casually: "What suggestions?"

The lawyer said seriously: "It's time for you to hire a secretary."

"secretary……"

Of course I want the secretary. Isn’t there a saying in Cerris? Is it a secretary who works during the day and a secretary at night.

Mr. McCall said in a somewhat aggrieved tone: "You know you are not in New York these days, so how many letters and telegrams I have received for you. Neo, I am your lawyer and not your secretary!"

It turns out that he was talking about this matter.

Yuan Yanshu said indifferently: "It's just a few telegrams and letters. Where can I need a secretary? Let's talk about it later..."

"Neo, you don't understand yet, you'll know when you get home."

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Note 1: These three are the main tarot cards. The fool, Dionysus, the God of Baccarat, is the beginning of the tarot cards.

So, have you got the foreshadowing? If you haven't got it, see the next chapter.
Chapter completed!