Chapter 5 (Cont.)
There is a woman sitting on the barstool near the counter my interest was piqued cause I had seen the insignia on her chest when she turned back for a while to check something. Other than that she's there on her own minding no one's business. Engaged in the simulacrum? Ever since I joined here, it's been what 4 years. I have noticed the lack of connection or coordination between Datamangle Inc's cybernetics and surveillance division. No it's not that they don't ever the see the face of one another but any sort of connection is behind a semi-permeable membrane. They don't act like two branches of the same corporation but as if two separate businesses working with each other for mutual benefit and non-classified collaborations, and most of the them are Datamangle's consumer products with connections to the central matrix. And the collaboration is only in the sense that the surveillance division properly evaluate the security protocols. The concepts and engineering are all cybernetics division's. But in a way, like I said there's the notion that they are two separate businesses in such that they both work for mutual benefit while keeping internal information classified, the surveillance division is still the domineering business, not in a threatening way but in being a ultra-classified operation. They carry the mystique of being directly involved with the central matrix. This woman- she peeked behind again. I think I saw her somewhere before. Her appearance does carry a sense of impervious secrecy. Surveillance agents, as I have seen at Datamangle were always agents from the surveillance HQ, always in state of loose ensemble of few meshes. Teams only arrived when there's culminatory period of security protocols implementation on any hardware and software that interacts with the central matrix. The moment they are done with that, the teams leave the cybernetics facilities immediately. I am at marketing department and we don't interact with enough, in the case of interactions being necessary are taken care of by my superiors. But during the times when I'm off work, such as lunch break, I'd in the grand hall of eatery. Usually dispersed from the cybernetics people, even among themselves, already made a miniscule presence by cybernetics demographic, they would be seen in very small groups and the sight of completely a sole surveillance agents being a dot somewhere in the vastness of air conditioned hall is an usual sight. Maybe in one such pause from the work, at the cafeteria, I had seen her. Not that I'm actively looking to seek them out. They don't even strike me as anomalous presence in our facility. It's true that large teams only arrive at cybernetics facility during the time of manpower-demanding situations. But it's also true that the sights of seeing them at the cybernetics facilities is a common occurrence. And congruently common is their perceived quiet intimidation factor. How do they interact with cybernetics people? If it's a colleague oh no the more accurate term is partners assigned to a project. But as I was saying, if the surveillance agents see you as partner, they would be completely open with only within the parameters of the project's handling of information. If you are not partners, then they don't treat you like dirt either. No not at all. Both are Datamangle and by the corporation's legislation, both departments including the other specialised branches of Datamangle are tied to have one common purpose and are the same organisation. Class divisions was a thing of the old world and all its history. Even though, history, as taught by New World Federation says that the new world, not just our loose ensemble of independent city-states that we call the NWF, but the whole surviving humanity outside of the NWF— this new world, strongholds around the world surviving the nuclear apocalypse, is said by history to be a complete rebirth of mankind. But class divisions remain. I'm confident that's a basic component of how humans form society. What's the law of economics? What even is economics? Deciding how to rationalise the distribution of seemingly infinite demands and painfully finite supplies. At one point in history, it was easier to get these rationalisationa through. Given how natural resources were abundant. I'm only speculating, the surviving world, at least the NWF has no case of abject poverty outside of marginalised demographics. It is true that there are still professions which are more predisposed to higher pay but every type of profession which had holders that held citizenship status with the central matrix led their life in higher standards compared to any known case in the history of the old world. Back then, the world's highest class were the wealthy investors and the various forms of governments the old world had, from monarchy to democracy. It's not any different now. The bureaucrats and the corporates are the prevailing class in our timeline. They are the same yet so different. Same drift towards wanting to both organise the society and carry the human condition forward, has necessitated the same acts carried out by the old worlders, just in a contextual manner. Maybe if the world had progressed to our timeline's without nuclear annihilation, maybe things would be less Draconian then. Humans would likely have depleted all resources but luckily at the same time, developed spacefaring technology enough to go on intercolonial expeditions. Resource harbouring at the very least. Interplanetary resource-farming then eventually developed spacefaring technology. Maybe humanity would be exploring a different galaxy altogether. Instead of doing meaningless acrobatics in these saved aquariums. In here, the post-human society, the corporates and the bureaucrats are the apex predator. There's no analogous animals left outside of the protective matrices throughout the world to draw biological apex predator comparisons. No corporate or bureaucrat would say "I am the lion of this society of sheep". Both lions and sheep, the one that survived by manmade salvation of Noah's ark, are merely preservations in zoos. Oh you are a lion? Lions live in zoos in our world, brother! The old world's boastful faunic comparisons were rendered vastly outdated in the new world. The only apex predator remaining in the world is indeed man. Back then, humanity established dominance over other species because it can think and carry out what it thinks using its hands and move about with its legs to ensure the ringings of what he thinks reverberates everywhere. A lion was physically superior to humans in terms of strength, but humanity built civilisations and lion didn't. Humanity grew starches and alcohol and lions didn't. Humanity annihilated the world and the lions didn't... Aren't we indeed the apex predator? With no nations or animals to dominate anymore, have we become predators amongst ourselves?
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