Chapter 3 (Cont.)
The governments had also implemented a lot of secondary cybernetics such as the artificial personal assistant. Programs which measured national loyalty. Algorithms to regulate expenditures. Many more. All of these, installed within people, were wirelessly connected to the central matrix, thus granting the authority an ubiquitous surveillance on its subjects. However, some people were able to disconnect from the shackles with luck and pure technical prowess. Those people were indeed masters in that field because the security protocols were absolutely the most advanced and ruthless, the attempt at breaching them is akin to moving on a continually fraying tightrope over a cold abyss. If one was to fall, who knew what happened onwards; so far no trace of violators has been found. The governments across the New World Federation have major differences in governance, jurisprudence, economics. Virtually every field. One thing that they all have in common, however, is that defying security protocols is seen as unforgivable treason. Many have been framed to be treasonous but quite a few had managed to escape the matrix without detection. When I was at Sojourners, I had met multiple individuals who had hacked their way out of the system. One such person, Norman Sickfried, was a paranoid man reaching his geriatric age. Even at 137, his brain had eluded senility, much to his dismay? I have the impression that he is afraid of being alive. The man was untrustful of others and spent most of his time in his decrepit shack; when a moribund cardiac patient is nearing his death, at the point of grim reaper's slash one could see the waveforms of his heartbeats reach a complete flatline. It seems like Norman Sickfried's moribund trustfulness had suffered a similar state very long ago. Everyone living in the New World is a New Worlder, the people I have known at least... Some of the matrix-breakers were resoundedly vindictive, I imagine many of them are behind the brewing rebellion, I wonder how the situation in Tatterstown has been as of recent... Rebels were just not in shady places like Sojourners, Moiré and Pasteore but hidden in the places reserved for the obedient. The flowerbed has Death Camas and Lupine, summoning: blows the Angel's Trumpet— projectilebearing recess of hidden aggression. These bunches were gravely secretive, I imagine many of them rank high among Horseshoe's New World viability list and unlike the oppressed in the impoverished areas, who had high density of people organising towards freedom, the model rebels had manifold ulterior motives, not all of them but most I bet. Even far before the onset of the great war, corporations were gaining strong foothold in ubiquitous breadth of human interactions. They arose following the death of imperialism in the Old World, to reap the full benefits of individual ambition. Hence individuals around the world started bringing groundbreaking ideas and erected monumental signatures in the waking grounds. Now, the universe has always been on the flux between the freewilled and the determined, and it's the perfect circumstance because foremostly in theological terms, either pure freewill or pure determinism would render the ardour of existence null. Man would not be man if he could only be virtuous. God has set the tides of existence and causality in circulation and then He let its subjects have the drive and the ability to alter its course. According to some religions of the old world, man is God's greatest creation and the very creation of mankind had led heaven into a schism. I sure hope God thinks it was worth it. It's all about perspectives and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle was not just a thing about momentum of electrons around the nucleus but it can be allegorically applicable to the study and fact-checking of perspectives. Human perspectives are fundamentally incapable of discerning the ultimate truth for mankind exists within the bounds of universal continuum itself, just like the lesser creatures and the inert creations. Man is subject to change and he cannot look at the nucleus of truth firmly while his interiors are going through change and are tied to biases. What's the solution? Sciences were conceived from the dawn of time to study things factually. Throughout the ages, sciences evolved to form watchtowers along the circuit around the nucleus. Hence mankind, in its unsustainable form, could ascend to these towers to get a better look at the truth, the nucleus. It granted them slightly elevated perspective compared to the base, yet both mankind and the watchtowers are within Heisenbergian scenario: "you cannot look at the truth unequivocally while you are still moving and if you come to a standstill, the erasure of invisible facets around the sphere takes place". God is outside of this dilemma, maybe He thinks there's still hope for humanity, surely that's the way it is. He can look at this model, detached from its very system, judge the state of thriving towards or deviating from the truth. I myself am subject to this model, but no matter where I am in the circuit, ground or towers, as miniscule and unwise I am: the fate of humanity seems utterly despondent.
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