Induction

You’ll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you.

From now on, you’ll have no identifying marks of any kind. You will not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter.

You’re a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu, and dismissed just as quickly.

You don’t exist. You were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence, your native tongue.

You are no longer part of the system. You are above the system. Over it. Beyond it. We’re ‘them.’ We’re ‘they.’ We are (…)