Chapter Three's New Federal Drupal Contract: Cybersyn 2.0

The Drupal takeover of the White House has been well documented and discussed, and need not be debated further in this forum. As some of the first Drupalists to attempt to overthrow the government, we were pleased to see this development. We take it as a signal that the time to initiate our master plan has arrived.

Now that we finally have a socialist president (and our strongest back-channel ally in Michelle "the Marxist Harpy" Obama), along with the necessary purges and infrastructure projects, we are finally ready to activate Project Cybersyn 2.0.

Simply put, while others are focusing on low-hanging fruit like Venture Capital, we are jumping the chump. Our plan is to run the entire US (and eventual world) economy using Drupal. We are picking up on ideas first initiated in the Allende era in Chile, where a socialist internet was created using a network of telex machines. Thankfully today we have a real internet, and can leverage the power of open-source tools (aka "communism") in constructing our workers utopia.

The first step in this plan was to get Stafford Beer (original Cybersyn architect, pictured at right) to be a contributor to the shadowy "Ctools" project, creating a platform for our ultimate feature-set. By utilizing his principles of cybernetics and the easy modal/ajax framework, we will interconnect a network of Drupal websites which will monitor all aspects of economic production, eventually providing a system for all for decisions to be made.

Some features on the early roadmap:

• RDF versions of all government paperwork.
• Drag-and-drop death-panels.
• New core API's, eg: hook_congressional_votes_alter($voteid, $op) where $op is "executive order", "pork spending", "offer of government job", "threat from rahm".

It's not all happy news unfortunately. For instance, much like the current Health Care Reform bill, while the drupal.org redesign has been formally approved, it will not go into effect until 2014. Such are the prices we pay for utopia.

NOTE: the original Project Cybersyn is totally real. Who knows what might have happened if a military coup didn't murder Salvador Allende?