A Bright New Genetic Future For #Warren

It is a pleasant drive through the valley of the Flatapak river, fields of ocular pachydermal corn and neat spaced orchards of bright red apples line the yellow brick roads. A visitor to the region gets a real taste of small town America: toothless attendants man the gas pump, signs warn of Sasquatch crossing, and the occasional naked dead body dumped at the roadside by truck driving serial killers decorates the verge. Here the guns are as clean as the starched bonnets of the protesting feminists.
But I notice there is a something different. When last I came to this picturesque region it was common to hear dirgesome drum and bass music filtering from the abandoned shops on Mainstreet. Gone were the barbers, the Cunningham and Son hardware store, and the Tip Top Diner, replaced by Fentanol dens, Apple Stores and collection points for online shopping. But now the atmosphere percolates with the jingling of coins and the enticing merry music of fruit machines. Where once people shambled around seeking dopamine excitement, either through drugs or phones, now they scurry from card table to one-arm-bandit: their minds energetically calculating the odds, and memorizing the last jackpot payout.
I stop in the town of Warren, Oklachusetts, to find out what has brought about this quiet revolution.
Mayor Pipemender’s family has been in the plumbing business since the early ‘ought nines. She is a stout woman, positive about her body, and beyond description except in a favourable light. I meet her at the change booth she runs in the middle of town, where she greets me with a cheerful, “how!”
Between answering queries about the cost of unblocking a Japanese computerized lavatory bidet combo, and breaking dollar bills into dimes and quarters, she tells me about the changes in the town. “Well,” she says, gobbing into a spittoon between her feet, “like just about everywhere in Oklachusetts this place was a shit-hole. And then OneWorld Genetic came and we haven’t looked back.”
OneWorld Genetic is the brainchild of brothers Patak and Wayne Le Bronski. They both trained in meta-physical biology, at Kale University. It was while studying for twin PhDs in interpretative genetics that they had a brainwave that by applying stereotypes to genetics they could make a better world.
“When they first set up shop at the old needle exchange,” continues Mayor Pipemender, “we all thought they were were nuts. But when we found out that you could learn to ride a horse by tapping into a genetic memory of a Mongolian ancestor, we were hooked. It became a whole new way of life. Old folks would suddenly learn they had a teenage grandmother and before you knew it they were skateboarding and dealing drugs down at the skate-park.”
But the real game changer came when people began to discover they were Native Americans. Mayor Pipemender explains, “My assigned birth-name was Ophelia Dicks, and I was never happy with it. As a lesbian, it just wasn’t me. But when we learned we were Native Americans it just seemed right. And it cut down on arguments too. In the bad old days people used to say we were all immigrants.” She takes a slug from a bottle of Old Crow. “But those days have all gone. And everyone is happier.”
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