Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Friday, April 12th, 2019
Chapter One: The Discontent
In order to
generate the energy that the Continuum required for the narratives it delivered
to the Collective, energy for the great dramas and the intrigues the Continuum
incessantly devoured, energy for the stories that provided meaning to the disembodies
consciousness of the Collective’s membership, the Continuum became an adept, an
artist at developing the experience of discontent.
Throughout
the million worlds of the Empire, with its trillions of people, only a tiny
fraction enjoyed lives of peace and relative security, the majority were in a
perpetual state of uncertainty, of uneasiness, fully occupied with the desire
for a better future.
There was a constant
steady pressure derived from the experience of lack, of having nothing, and from
the felt need to protect what little resources they had, resources that were
always in a state of depletion, this pressure drove the narratives forward.
Discontentment
was energy.
The people
had ambitions, most of which were centered on the simple desire to live out
their lives and raise their families, to see them advance and to experience
some joy in a state of relative peace and security.
That
prospect was always under threat.
Happiness is
what the people desired, they were conditioned to believe that it could only be
found in extrinsic things.
Access to
those things was under the constant control of the Empire through the
Continuum.
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