debrief

May 16, 2019

For the sake of argument …

— Assume, as Dr. Leary postulated, that mind-expanding drugs are exactly that. Add several decades of official and amateur experimentation, and you will find a population with small but significant changes taking place in their brains, minds and bodies – since the brain and body, along with external forces, all interact to make up mind.

— Assume further that what had previously been dismissed as anomalies became statistically measurable and even predictable.

— Before long, you’ve got teenage mutant ninja turtles. It’s a new renaissance, but it’s taking place in the age of speed. Mostly, it’s the sensitive who are most affected. Trauma and tragedy, along with high intelligence, are predictors of minds that break, or leap about, or develop networks of hairline cracks, in interesting ways.

— Other factors come to bear. Heredity. Irregular vision. Clever hands. Athleticism. Intrepidity. Introspection – a highly examined life. A deep sense of shame and guilt. Anger at life’s injustice. The pressing urge to stand one’s ground. A wide range of skills, from music to mathematics to languages to unusual dexterity: glovers; watchmakers, jewelers, surgeons, sculptors, painters, writers, chefs, weavers, millers, tanners, tinkers, tailors and seamstresses, lacemakers, architects, preachers, readers, scholars, lawyers, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes, astronomers, engineers, prophets, pilgrims, shamans, fortune-tellers, potters, glass artists, spies, gamers, programmers, pilots – anything almost too complex — and all those who love not wisely but too well …   

— These factors are observed, tracked, measured, tested, and spurred. The authorities, the keepers of [power], naturally monitor them. And have methods, albeit sometimes crude or untested methods, of controlling their subjects.

— What results? Many things.

— Consider cannibalism, sacrifice, torture, execution, gang rape, or any other form of eating living things. It’s not about nutrition. It’s about defeating and partaking of “strange” DNA. Failing harvesting these subjects, though – for they can be both useful and amusing, the freakish things – the most effective course is thwarting, stunting, scorning and shunning. Alternating with overlavish or too-faint praise to keep the freaks on shaky ground.

A digression …

In my case, it was a glimpse of my future at the hands of a … sadist without limits or any shred of humanity. A “man” who put the garden-variety sadists I had known before in a golden playground light.

So, this future: it was to start immediately. One of my daughters – at the sadist’s direction, for none could resist him – would run over me with my own car, but I wouldn’t die. I would never die. I would rise up, again and again, starting on my own street and continuing around the world, forever, with throngs of people following and beating and laughing and jeering at me. I would be forced to tear down every human-built edifice ever erected, then rebuild them all, with my bare hands. Forever. With complete, utter, endless violation of my body as a side dish.

That vision, as Sound of Silence describes, was planted in my brain. I know who put it there. And I know he must have had help, because he’s not one of the gifted. But he “leaked,” or let slip, a few other visions, which it seemed (and seems) to me he had already accomplished.

“He” is the orange baby. And if he does come after me, you might be next.