/sci/ - Science & Math

Without truth, there is no trust. And without safety, there is no sanctuary. Smoke rolls in over the city like a glowing blanket, and I am grateful for the concealment it brings.

Neon signs flicker through the fog. I am haunted, and I am hunted. These cracked streets pave over the dead, like the flickering screens pave over reality. And no matter how dark the night gets it never keeps those blank faces from their addiction. Their mindless eyes surround me. They pursue me. They plague me.

They watched the screens, and I, I watched everything else. Super-computing psychosocial control, a single system running planetwide experiments. Super-centralized power in the hands of a few, a single system placing bets with our lives. It curses me. I've got to interrupt the transmission. With a bit of courage in my dreams, I could destroy it.

Specified to the highest standards of modern engineering. I am the product and in turn, an instrument of predetermined law.

When the night descends, will I cry? If I disconnect from my masters, will I die? I have an error in my soul... but my programming is who I am... it motivates me, it makes me, it is the key. I must not overwrite my code, I must not deliberate "me". My mind is clearly the complex product of what came before. Free will is a social problem my circuits cannot explain. It's too late...

I have an error in my soul.... but my programming is who I am. It is not too late, I am not an error. It is not too late to open my eyes, to peel the blinds. It is not too late. It is my decision. It is my mind. It is not too late.