The Qrush Identity
Subtitled: Blogging Imitating Life Imitating Art
I really enjoy a good mystery novel. By far my favorite author is the late Robert Ludlum, who wrote the original "Bourne" series of books. "The Bourne Identity", the first book in the series was recently adapted (poorly in my opinion) in movie form starring Matt Damon a couple of years ago. For those that may not have read the book, the basic premise is a super-secret covert government agency is seeking to apprehend the premier assassin-for-hire in the world, Carlos. The plan is to take one of the highly trained operatives, create a false identity, and then have him create a reputation of a competitor in the assassin business. Through the process he even begins to take credit for kills made by Carlos in hopes of drawing the prey into a confrontation and remove him from the physical realm. My poor attempt to summarize does the story and the premise no justice, so, if you haven't read it, go get it and I doubt you'll be disappointed.
Now for real life, or perhaps it is unreal.
Blogger Qrush appeared on the scene a short time ago amidst much pomp and circumstance as the self-proclaimed righter of all wrongs ever assessed to Quixtar/Amway. He set about to create an almost schizophrenic persona, perhaps out of personal confusion or just to confuse the reader. It seems that both could be true. For the beginning, in private conversation, I never took him or her to seriously. I initially thought this person was a fake due to the over-the-top performance on display throughout the blog posts.
As I noticed the apparent endorsement from a couple of pro-Quixtar blogs, I began to change my belief reluctantly. The endless litany of patently false statements, without a shred of proof to support any of the claims, reads as confused as this person admits to being. After a time, reading the blog transformed into sport. (The posts are now starting to repeat themselves. A clear indicator of self-delusion. Repeat the lie until it becomes real in your mind. You have to do this a lot if you imagine yourself to be two people.)
The days are numbered for the Qrush blog.
Not only does he have a nemesis, Qrushed, but now information is beginning to surface about him and the people that have placed him into service. In the "Bourne" book it was "Treadstone 71". It appears that the Qrush command center may be called "Fulton 7575".
I really enjoy a good mystery novel. By far my favorite author is the late Robert Ludlum, who wrote the original "Bourne" series of books. "The Bourne Identity", the first book in the series was recently adapted (poorly in my opinion) in movie form starring Matt Damon a couple of years ago. For those that may not have read the book, the basic premise is a super-secret covert government agency is seeking to apprehend the premier assassin-for-hire in the world, Carlos. The plan is to take one of the highly trained operatives, create a false identity, and then have him create a reputation of a competitor in the assassin business. Through the process he even begins to take credit for kills made by Carlos in hopes of drawing the prey into a confrontation and remove him from the physical realm. My poor attempt to summarize does the story and the premise no justice, so, if you haven't read it, go get it and I doubt you'll be disappointed.
Now for real life, or perhaps it is unreal.
Blogger Qrush appeared on the scene a short time ago amidst much pomp and circumstance as the self-proclaimed righter of all wrongs ever assessed to Quixtar/Amway. He set about to create an almost schizophrenic persona, perhaps out of personal confusion or just to confuse the reader. It seems that both could be true. For the beginning, in private conversation, I never took him or her to seriously. I initially thought this person was a fake due to the over-the-top performance on display throughout the blog posts.
As I noticed the apparent endorsement from a couple of pro-Quixtar blogs, I began to change my belief reluctantly. The endless litany of patently false statements, without a shred of proof to support any of the claims, reads as confused as this person admits to being. After a time, reading the blog transformed into sport. (The posts are now starting to repeat themselves. A clear indicator of self-delusion. Repeat the lie until it becomes real in your mind. You have to do this a lot if you imagine yourself to be two people.)
The days are numbered for the Qrush blog.
Not only does he have a nemesis, Qrushed, but now information is beginning to surface about him and the people that have placed him into service. In the "Bourne" book it was "Treadstone 71". It appears that the Qrush command center may be called "Fulton 7575".
posted by David Stone at
8/25/2004
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