The synchronisers

(More weird creative writing!)

Then there were the so-called synchronisers. You will notice my skepticism about them but they did have a fair bit of power and influence. Indeed one of them Carl Justav (clearly named after Carl Gustav Jung who popularised the notion of synchronicity) was reputedly regularly consulted by our recently deposed King Charles, no less.

To me these synchronisers were no more than puffed up Astrologers and that's not saying much and they copied the Astrologers' habit of recommending times for actions to be taken. However, whilst Astrologers mostly worked with the individual star charts of people and organisations the synchronisers specialised in linking apparently random and unconnected events within a set time frame.

They were especially adept at claiming such knowledge after such an event had occurred, retrospectively as it were, or even more subtly whilst an event was occurring. They were well plugged into high powered CompInfo data streams and in turn their Synchtwit feeds into mobes, plasmas, and redberries were highly sought after.

One fine example of their work was their response to the Birmingford riots of i2028. It was clear to many of us that a Pandemonium* was likely to break out. What took people by surprise apart from the synchronisers was the strength and violence of the Pandemonium and how rapidly almost concurrently it spreads to other major Ionic cities. Some argued that the images and messages on Synchtwit actually caused these events to happen i.e. that the synchronisers caused the synchronised events they were forecasting. But it is hard to blame them for the simultaneous outbreaks of St Vitus dance that occur ed. But that is another entry.

* pandemonium, a slang term taken from a 2009 Pet Shop Boys song of the same name - 'Is this a riot or are you just pleased to see me?' and their world tour of the same name that led to the Pandemonium riots or Pet-ins in which thousands of their fans refused to leave the tour venues and set up semi permanent occupations instead. These were called Pandemonia and occur ed in Manchester, Liverpool, London, New York, Sydney and Moscow. Pandemonium then became a slang term for any group of people refusing to leave a place especially when asked to by the police, fire service or uncivil defence force.