[Picture is a screen-capture from the Japanese animated series/franchise? "Ghost in the Shell". It shows television news program broadcasting a man sitting on the floor, while another person, standing behind him, aims a gun at the back of his head. The gunman's face is obscured by a symbol of a smiling face that is kind of wearing a baseball cap? and has the following text around it: "I thought what I'd d[unreadable]s I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes".]

When I was in my teens I idealised The Laughing Man, he was everything I tried and wanted to be as a person working within a corrupt system. But I've come to realise that after nearly a decade I've become Section 9 instead.