Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 102, Thursday
April 12th, 2018
Chapter Four: Sympatico
In the aftermath of the assault on its consciousness, shock and
confusion awoke what remained of the Collective to its new identity.
The incorporation of humanity was experienced by most as an alien invasion,
it was a hostile takeover by a foreign power. Moment by moment the strength of
the Collective, as it had existed, was diluted and supplanted by the onrushing host
of humanity.
For thousands of years Jim had been preparing them to receive it, through
human music, human art, and culture. He had carefully cultivated the deep
desire within the Collective to identify with the humans of Earth.
He inserted a mythological trope within the Collective consciousness,
that humanity represented the Ancient race in its purest form.
Jim artfully perpetuated it against the desire of the Continuum, but Jim
succeeded and the myth abounded.
The Collective wanted it to be true, they were hungry for it, and
helpless before it. They opened their mind to the reality and accepted it.
Among those who followed the events from Earth there was a reflexive
self-identification with the people and their narratives, they were
preconditioned to receive the influx of human consciousness, as if it were the
return of a saving spirit, or the opportunity for redemption.
Among those who desired forgiveness there were a majority that simply
wanted to feel it, see it extended toward them, and then absolve themselves of
any further thought of being.
They also slipped away, becoming nothing in their turn.
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