Google Sketchup Assignment - "Requiem For a Job"

The tableau depicted is the set for a film. The film is entitled Requiem For a Job. The two female figures are in search of a job. They have no heads due to their rampant consumption of reality television. As a result their heads have exploded. Somehow, they manage to survive this, and continue to at least listen to reality television, their only source of schadenfreude entertainment in a world gone wonky. They have gone to the Texarkana Town Hall to apply for government work. They need the money so they can continue to subscribe to cable television which costs $9 million a month. Nona, depicted in a prone position has suddenly died of grief, realizing that employment was something that people were only able to find in a long gone magical time known as the 1990s. The 1990s when work was readily available and employers hadn’t yet thought of making prospective employees take personality profiling tests as a mandatory step of a job application. Helen, however, has lost her mind and is being levitated by the silhouette of a cat. The cat has no actual substance, as she is a figment of Helen’s imagination. Helen has been driven mad by the senselessness of a society that insists on absolute competition at all times. The imagined cat-silhouette (known to his friends as Dave) wishes that Helen would regain her sanity as he has places to go, things to do, and people to see.

Not far from where the cat-silhouette is levitating poor Helen, is a toy car - a Hummer. The toy was discarded by Jeff Vader, a boy who has realized the failure of the adults surrounding him. The boy deduced that since learning about history is the only thing that prevents you from repeating the same mistakes, that surely educated adults have managed this, and reform in all things was just around the corner. Jeff thought again about the people that make the world the way it is and figured out that politicians are the ones who make policy. Since most politicians are university educated, Jeff rejoiced as surely with a working knowledge of history, politicians would avoid the failings of past administrations throughout the passage of time. After doing a bit of research, Jeff realized that politicians do have a thorough knowledge of history, but ignore their responsibility to their constituents, unless fulfilling their responsibility results in their getting re-elected. Jeff, in a despondent fit throws the toy Hummer to the ground, and resolves to become an emancipated minor, the first step in completely rejecting the values system that makes everyone a prisoner to: their car, their insurance, their mortgage, their church, corruption, corporate interests, to their own ambition, the k-12 prison sentence of state provided education which leaves you completely unskilled after 12 years, and to the linear expectations connected to key ages in mass-accepted models of human development.

Fin.