James Gilbert

RECYCLE,REBIRTH and REPLENISH

Recycle,rebirth replenish, the three r,s a mantra, a pledge, the permanent revolution. The Visionfiles we watched,for our education, showed that during those times ,most of humanity had lived , fuelled, by both waste and exploitation. The residue, we ,the survivors, harvest, every solar cycle , was also testament to this . The decadence in their lifestyles was difficult for us to comprehend. Future structuring , the very signature of civilisation, was conspicuous by its absence .They had access to recordings from the past , so only malfeasance, and conscious negligence could explain their actions. The subjects had more than one uniform. They had no utility features at all, they wasted their precious body fluids, only having the most primitive ways of checking their bodies chemicals, there was no way of immediately indicating distress or disease. How many crimes went unpunished, how many organs were wasted , lives cut short, by some antiquated notions of self. The revolution had cut these poison vines down, and daily we sifted through the soil of recycled fields, pulling out the roots , so no more could the clamour of an individual, drown out the sweet harmonies of the reborn collective. It was in those fields doing the task I was allocated,that led to my first real experience of anxiety.