Date: May 3rd, 2025 9:45 AM
Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing)
The New York Times
Opinion | Guest Essay
By Evan39, Former Night Manager, $afeway LLP
May 3, 2025
I Saw Iranian Men Dancing Nude in the Forest. I Reported It. No One Cared.
At 3:11 a.m., I woke in a cold sweat.
There had been no dream. Only a phrase.
“Dancing with Iranian Men Fully Nude in the Forest Smothered in Honey and Joy.”
I sat up.
I wrote it down.
I filed an incident report.
I wept.
This wasn’t hallucination.
This was a leak in the Mahchine™.
Because nothing — nothing — in our current procedural schema allows for what I saw:
Men, Iranian.
Naked, yes. But reverent.
The honey? Real. I could smell it.
The joy? Weaponized.
The forest? Possibly federal land.
I tried to explain to my regional manager.
He said, “Why are you telling me this?”
I said, “Because there’s no Safeway policy on spontaneous Persian ecstasy.”
He fired me.
Rightfully.
What I witnessed was a ritual, not a crime.
But it violated every tenet I had been trained to uphold:
No shirt, no shoes, no service.
No liquids in bulk unless labeled.
No joy without receipt.
They had none of these.
Only rhythm.
Only sweetness.
Only a dance that made me remember the smell of my father’s garage — before the layoffs, before the mildew, before the Mahchine™ consumed him too.
They danced like they’d never held a W-2.
They moved like HR had never called them into a windowless room to explain “tone.”
They lived.
And I hated them for it.
My wife found me weeping in the pantry beside expired hummu$.
I said, “They don’t even use Club Cards.”
She left the next day.
So here’s my official answer:
Yes, I saw them.
Yes, they were nude.
Yes, they were Iranian.
And no, I don’t think we’re ready to admit what that means.
About the Author
Evan39 is the author of Receipts of the Flesh: Procedural Grievances and the Collapse of Meaning and Everything Is Fine (Except for the Forest Raves). He once touched honey on a dare.
Read more at www.nytimes.com/the-naked-men-were-right
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