The Mind™

Excerpt: #926 File Under: #Dystopia

Mom got her monthly booster dose today. Says the tagline over and over again before she goes to it.

“Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! That way, it can’t mutate!”

The replication rate of the virus is kept at bay that way, or something.

She thinks I’m crazy for choosing quarantine. That I spend too much time alone on The Mind™.

In her day, she had The Internet. They called it “The Web”. Says that we’re lucky that we’re free now. The Mind™ won’t let us ask questions that aren’t good for us. The Mind™ knows best.

In the days of the Internet, people could say and do whatever they wanted on there, that it was a “web, for real”. That you’d be trapped in its lies. The development of The Mind™ changed all that.

She keeps telling me that I don’t eat enough of The Provisions™. In her day they had to work and go to Super Markets to buy food sourced “from goodness knows where.” She says that I’m overprivileged, that I’ll never know how hard they had it, back then.

But I’m not sure. The injections make me tired. Plus, I’ve never been sick before or since the outbreak. Doesn’t make sense to me. I’m glad we don’t have to work though. Sounds sad.

The President of the United Empire™ just announced a new Intravision™ show. I can’t watch it until I renew my subscription to the Optical Intravision Implants™.

Mom says I should hurry up and do it.

In her day, they had Television. You would need a screen in your living room that you plugged in and had to look at. But she didn’t watch it much, because of The Internet.

Intravision™ revolutionised all that with the pictures being projected to your brain and all.

The Implants™ hurt my eyes, that’s all. I get headaches and nausea. I asked The Mind™ what causes the headaches, but that question is too dangerous. I don’t mean anything by it.

I have Auditory lessons while The Implants™ are out of action. My Universal Education Unit™ is monitoring my progress for Retardation and Rebellion.

I get worse Universal Merits™ now.

I really don’t want to be Retarded or Rebellious.

That would be sad.

It’s Provisions™ Time.

I had better go.

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