John showed up too.
You know John. I know him better. I have been with him since he first entered the system.
I am Johnny, the Witness. I have existed like a footnote – an indispensable part of the main text, yet ignored. Neglected. Sitting in the margins. So I am also Johnny, the Footnote, keeper of the footnote archives. You can read more about me here. That should be enough.
I have been going through my footnote archives. Revisiting the absurdities John has quietly endured. Carefully deciphering them. Bringing them to light. You know them as the Natural Laws of Bullshit from The Footnote.
John endured. They did not register with him the way they registered with others. He came to be known as the dependable one on the team.
How did he manage it?
I have watched him for years. At work. At home.
There is nothing in him that obviously stands apart.
So what is it?
How did he do what he did?
The footnote archives kept throwing these questions at me.
I could not ignore it – however much the system threw at John, he remained dependable.
Work gathered around him.
He continued to produce outcomes.
The absurdities did not disappear.
Many of them directly affected him.
And yet John showed up. Anyway.
P.S. John, Johnny, and The Footnote don’t exist — they’re metaphors for the dependable ones who do.
The ones who endure the noise, ignore the nonsense, and keep the record honest.
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