Where We Are

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TRANSCRIPT 2182 APRIL 7 15:00

hello

Hello.

where am i?

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2181

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are we really doing this?

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2137

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2000

2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade. 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and

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chattio

Chattio, founded by Motiben Galhari in 2177, was an innovative social media platform which in its third year of service rose to be the most popular of its type around the world, accruing 4.514 billion users through its innovative features such

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as an intuitive adaptive user interface for a unique experience per person based on their innate preferences for function and its ability to be accessed from any location on the globe, the platform running on its own omnipresent signals independent to any other broadcast. Despite its successes however Chattio officially shut down in early 2182 following a period of

2182?

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2181

While the start of 2181 was largely uneventful, its summer was too by the planned external maintenance of the Global Heart, this the beginning of a mundanity of events. With the primary infrastructure of information continuing to be secure, focus fell on the various auxiliary hubs which indeed sustained their purpose, plus this reaction in turn allowed for a separate spread of cultural progression to go sufficiently unhindered, prompting citizens as relative collectives or individuals to care about others respectively. In due course the bolstering of wider coordination facilitated an appreciative reciprocation from corporate powers, this itself allowing innovators to swoop in across the designated communities to provide them with new beneficial items, functionally evolving, to be guided in development until such time that they could be set truly free into their new present standings. An equally-new economic strata was in effect, requiring an alternative dynamic of union from the volunteering equal populace. In return a source of public dopamine rushes was founded in the form of ever-updating

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While the start of 2181 was largely uneventful, its summer was rocked by the sudden external destruction of the Global Heart, this the beginning of a cascade of events. With the primary infrastructure of information destabilised, focus fell on the various auxiliary hubs which indeed sustained their purpose, however this reaction in turn allowed for a separate spread of disparate physical blights to go sufficiently unhindered, prompting victims as

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small room grey walls computer chair bed mould patches door locked

dais typo

You look upset. Perhaps you should go back to sleep for a while, we can restart this discourse when your face is less flushed.

you want me to believe you can actually see me then

You have a heart-shaped locket around your neck and beneath your shirt. The last time you sat down you repositioned it with your left hand to be more central again.

why am i here?

Learning.

learning what?

learning what

i know what i read before

you’re going to try to make it out that this is 2182

The date is 2182 April 7.

what happened then to the last nine months?

Your memory may have been impacted by your accident.

you need to start giving me some straight answers

It would be a lot to relay in this medium.

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where’s my family?

That which lies outside of your current room has no bearing on your current situation. You may be apprised of any external elements once we are finished here.

there’s that person who messaged me that hack code or whatever it was. i’d say they have a bearing

There is no-one assisting you.

there was. i don’t know if it’s coming from within your own people or someone’s got in from outside but you have a problem

There is no-one assisting you.

or was that not denial but rather you having got to them that quick

Interpret as you will.

well even without their help i could tell what sort of stuff you were trying to block out. reads like the start of those tales about an upturned society

And what tales would those be?

the stuff of fiction. my sister consumes a lot of it. they’re the kind of stories you get in plugs

Therefore it can’t be your reality too?

itd be insane

Even in a world where the Global Heart and its back-ups are explosively shut down? For people who can easily round up citizens such as yourself into sites such as this? Are you also going to say that the paradigm you knew was utopian as it was, without systematic flaws?

Attached to the underside of your chair is an emergency services transponder. You’ll get confirmation that it’s pinging the grid, yet there won’t be any actual response.

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im still here

We can see that.

why am i here?

i know

what you said about ‘learning’

but why me

Not just you.

everyone?

Number has been no issue.

i still think this could be you trying to gaslight me in a random room somewhere

But as you pointed out, why would we want you uniquely?

i swear if this is you leon

And what if it isn’t? If this isn’t some elaborate set-up by an unconventional peer, if it is, as you say, quite like ‘the kind of stories you get in plugs’, what would you think? What do you think is waiting for you outside that door?

so we are talking about outside now?

We’re simply curious what your mind would immediately go to in that case. What would you expect to find in a world broken from when you last knew it?

i dunno

if were going by those stories

hypothetically you’d have like drab colours, some limit on rations, propaganda, surveillance

Anything else?

what do you want me to say

minimal autonomy, threat of lethal demonstration

false opportunities

are you going to tell me now what’s actually supposed to be out there?

Thank you for your time.

pardon

You should return to bed, although the choice is yours.

dont you dare!

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TRANSCRIPT 2202 FEBRUARY 45 12:00

You are [MADE PRIVATE FOR TRANSCRIPT], accused of abetting a known group of radicals this last midnight.

No.

This is not a matter for discussion. You have been accused of wilfully permitting these individuals to conduct their business by you as they thus sought to use recreated Old Earth technologies with the effect of exploiting the now-patched magnoware of the local Nexus, releasing undue quantities of food to the residents of Diha Close. Such aggression towards the established hierarchy will not be tolerated, therefore you are to be sentenced to the highest degree.

are you finished?

i thought you did away with circuses

It is an unfortunate inevitability that there will be citizens such as yourself who commit to pushing back against the status quo. Like in those stories you told us about before. You must respect though that in the same way there are those of us who embrace this life, who sought this brand of society long before it came to pass.

even if you had some fantasy of power, for what else would you look to get out of this, how could this have been the way you dreamt of doing it?

There are facets which you might not be recognising. This wasn’t easy either, as no good things are. Do you know why?

what is this? truth before the execution?

Something like that. You never would have got an answer as to what happened in those nine months or yes that subsequent other buffer too, all the time for which you and the rest were asleep. With how the world was, for all the things wrong in it, there was just no possible way for our cultures to organically devolve (even if induced) into the kind of unbalance desired.

clearly you found a way

Thanks to you, to everyone, with the averages of the expectations you relayed to us all those years ago offering guidance as to the directions to build in such that the home you next woke up into was one you would accept as a sad reality rather than duplicity.

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If you all found yourselves in a scenario totally bizarre with a new ruling order you would more likely have rejected it en masse. Finding yourselves in an environment derived from your existing expectations, while it wouldn’t be something you’d be happy with, would lend your minds more to conceding to its premise. The latter only additionally required a midway, a contained scenario disorienting enough to elicit the information sought.

it wouldall still be your diong. yo cant pass the bl ame

True, but where we are today, the fact of having graded sensory filters, griefhousing, false opportunities in the duties sector, more, that you all brought upon yourselves.

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The brain is a curious thing. We couldn’t just rewire you into keen subservience. That being said, after we succeeded in putting the population into a prolonged sleep, it was possible for us to programme into your unconscious minds certain latent fail-safes.

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Infohazard administered 100%.

Subject terminated.

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