The introduction of brain chip implants was a good idea, well executed.
We had sought to control the populace more for some time, or to control their behaviour- to stop various crimes once and for all. This was the best way we could come up with. Strange that the answer would lie in a long since forgotten memory of an old fantasy programme from our teenage years.
Such a simple idea, too- insert a chip into someone’s brain that will cause them intense pain if they start thinking about harming another human being. Everything from assault to rape, murder and paedophilia- later robbery and fraud too, we threw in all crime eventually, they became a thing from history as we rolled the programme out across the nation.
The end result people could handle, even if they objected to the chip itself; and even if it meant we would empty the prisons, seeing as there was no more need for them. We covered this by increasing industry- more jobs and prosperity is always a winner.
Then we cranked things up a notch. The little silicon gems we’d made could control thoughts, not just lead them or train them. Legitimate polls would remain so to the outside world. People could believe we still lived in the old ways, that they could oppose us democratically, while we knew otherwise.
When we came to power we had aims, a vision of how we wanted the country to be. That dream has now been realised.
We had sought to control the populace more for some time, or to control their behaviour- to stop various crimes once and for all. This was the best way we could come up with. Strange that the answer would lie in a long since forgotten memory of an old fantasy programme from our teenage years.
Such a simple idea, too- insert a chip into someone’s brain that will cause them intense pain if they start thinking about harming another human being. Everything from assault to rape, murder and paedophilia- later robbery and fraud too, we threw in all crime eventually, they became a thing from history as we rolled the programme out across the nation.
The end result people could handle, even if they objected to the chip itself; and even if it meant we would empty the prisons, seeing as there was no more need for them. We covered this by increasing industry- more jobs and prosperity is always a winner.
Then we cranked things up a notch. The little silicon gems we’d made could control thoughts, not just lead them or train them. Legitimate polls would remain so to the outside world. People could believe we still lived in the old ways, that they could oppose us democratically, while we knew otherwise.
When we came to power we had aims, a vision of how we wanted the country to be. That dream has now been realised.
Note: I probably didn't realise it at the time of writing, but this one is annoyingly similar to The Removal of Free Will, it seems to me now. The programme mentioned was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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