utopian dystopia | 2: wake up
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7:00 A.M. The neuro-nodes™ instantly severe
their connection to the hippocampus and limbic
region of your brain, retreating from your
turbulent declarative memory and simultaneously
re-activating your dorsal lateral pre-frontal cortex,
returning rational thinking back to your conscious,
rejuvenated mind. Your eyelids snap open, exposing
your eyeballs to the artificial sunlight streaming in
from the computer-controlled blinds on the four panels
surrounding you. The dream you had echoes in your mind,
you can still feel your heart jack-hammering in
your rib-cage and underneath your temples. That was one
exhilarating dream, you dreamed of going back to the
21st century, the year 2012 precisely, the dreaded 2012,
when your species thought apocalypse was finally finally
here as the Earth warmed up and sizzled with heat,
hurricanes ripped through the Sahara Desert and quakes
measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale wracked Antarctica.
But man, man with their technology, survived although 90%
of the population perished. With the remaining talent
they were able to mass-migrate to Mars, in a mere half
century, colonizing, re-grouping, clinging on to the very
last vestiges of life. Half a century of history packed
into a five-hour dream, isn't that nice, you think. History.
Intriguing subject, but without a place in the modern
world. Science is king here, science rules, science, your
life-line, your savior. Science is religion. Oh and yeah,
science is what you work on, what your career is all about.
Work work work. Time to work. You pop nutrient supplement
pills into your dry mouth. You've heard ancient people
used to have meals three times a day, where they cut up
livestock, stick it into fire, and eat it. You wonder at the
inefficacies of your predecessors, and quietly breathe
a sigh of relief at the fact that you are born in this century.
Science has solved this inconvenience of cookery, of eating,
coming up with a far more efficient alternative. And now you
get ready to solve more inconveniences with science. Work>
7:00 A.M. The neuro-nodes™ instantly severe
their connection to the hippocampus and limbic
region of your brain, retreating from your
turbulent declarative memory and simultaneously
re-activating your dorsal lateral pre-frontal cortex,
returning rational thinking back to your conscious,
rejuvenated mind. Your eyelids snap open, exposing
your eyeballs to the artificial sunlight streaming in
from the computer-controlled blinds on the four panels
surrounding you. The dream you had echoes in your mind,
you can still feel your heart jack-hammering in
your rib-cage and underneath your temples. That was one
exhilarating dream, you dreamed of going back to the
21st century, the year 2012 precisely, the dreaded 2012,
when your species thought apocalypse was finally finally
here as the Earth warmed up and sizzled with heat,
hurricanes ripped through the Sahara Desert and quakes
measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale wracked Antarctica.
But man, man with their technology, survived although 90%
of the population perished. With the remaining talent
they were able to mass-migrate to Mars, in a mere half
century, colonizing, re-grouping, clinging on to the very
last vestiges of life. Half a century of history packed
into a five-hour dream, isn't that nice, you think. History.
Intriguing subject, but without a place in the modern
world. Science is king here, science rules, science, your
life-line, your savior. Science is religion. Oh and yeah,
science is what you work on, what your career is all about.
Work work work. Time to work. You pop nutrient supplement
pills into your dry mouth. You've heard ancient people
used to have meals three times a day, where they cut up
livestock, stick it into fire, and eat it. You wonder at the
inefficacies of your predecessors, and quietly breathe
a sigh of relief at the fact that you are born in this century.
Science has solved this inconvenience of cookery, of eating,
coming up with a far more efficient alternative. And now you
get ready to solve more inconveniences with science. Work>