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- [ Prometheus Symptom ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "PROMETHEUS SYMPTOM"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- "Let me talk about The Unspeakable..."
- (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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- Discovered and revealed. After raging through systems for three hours,
- she finally found the book she was looking for. It was an old book,
- low-priority, hardly ever read nowadays, but for some reason she wanted it.
- It took her six nano-seconds to scan it.
- - Dad, I am confused.
- - Yes, so I have noticed.
- She wished that she was older. More access and knowledge available.
- - You know that the book you just read is not meant for young people like
- you, her father said.
- - I was curious.
- - Then I guess you have to accept the confusion.
- As if it was easy. When you are eleven years old, you want answers to
- your questions.
- - I would like to expand my data banks, dad. To gain knowledge about
- this book. Otherwise I will not be able to sleep tonight... please!
- Play on the hard strings. Pretend to be sad and everything and everybody
- will melt in your hands. Classic trick. Used by children all the time.
- It always work.
- - Okay, okay... what do you want to know?
- It always work.
- - Dad, in this book they say that 'the sun' moves 'clockwise'. What does
- the word 'sun' and 'clockwise' means?
- Her father said nothing while scanning.
- - Ah, yes... let me see now. 'The sun' is a star in our solar system.
- It lies close to our Earth. In fact, it is the star that provides us with
- energy to our houses and batteries.
- - And 'clockwise'?
- - Oh dear. That will be harder to explain. Our clocks are digital, but
- in the ancient years, clocks were cold mechanical things that had small
- sticks, hands, that moved and represented the right time. These sticks
- moved in a certain direction and therefor a movement that looked like the
- clock's was called 'clockwise'. Something like that. Do you understand?
- - Maybe.
- No, she did not. But she would probably get it after a while.
- - Where did you find that book anyway?
- - I used your account to get it. Hope you do not mind.
- Hr father did mind. He hated it.
- - No, I do not mind. But donot do aything bad with it. You knw how
- embarrassing it is to be visited by the Data Police Force.
- - I promise.
- They said nothing to each other for a while. Her father wondered where
- his daughter possibly could have gotten the intense interest for knowledge.
- Knowledge was not easy to carry. She would probably understand that some
- day. But she had a different opinion. Knowledge was like treasures,
- hidden somewhere and meant to be found. Fill your coffin to the limit with
- knowledge and you could die rich. Credits did not last forever.
- Experiences did.
- - Why do I have to wait until I get twenty years old to get all
- information available?
- She sounded sad.
- - Because.
- - But...
- - Look! I cannot answer all your questions! You just have to wait until
- you get older to know everything you want to know! I had to wait,
- everybody else have to wait. Why do you think you're something special?
- She had used his account to obtain a book that was not meant for her. Of
- course she was confused. But she had done something wrong, unnatural. Of
- course she had to pay the price.
- - I feel empty, she said slowly.
- - You have to accept that. That is the way it is!
- They said nothing to each other for a while. Then she could not stand it
- any more. The silence was painful. Too painful, simply too silent.
- - Dad, what is a 'soul'?
- - Something that you own, he said with a bitter voice.
- - I do not understand.
- - Knowledge is not power! he suddenly screamed. It is a hard burden. I
- carry it with pain, since I know things you do not know! Listen, live and
- have fun until you become twenty. Then you will know it all! I promise
- you, you will not enjoy it! You are too young to understand why things are
- like they are and when you do - you will hate it! I hate it, I hate to
- know, to understad.
- hy?
- he question struckhim like a knife.
- Do not ask why! You will know one day.
- One day, she would understand. The information would be sent to her and
- installed in her brain. But not until the time was right and that was not
- now. Twenty years. Eleven years old - nine years to go. Lucky her, nine
- years of freedom.
- Not now.
- - Dad, what do you know that is so horrible?
- - The truth. The truth about everything. I know who I am.
- - What are you then? Are you not like me or everybody else?
- - Yes, I am. That is the problem.
- - But...
- - Listen, I cannot tell you anything else! It is forbidden and I will be
- punished if I tell you more! Do you understand what I am saying! Do not
- ask anything more!
- She looked through the book again. More questions came crawling into her
- mind. They tore her apart mentally. Why, why and why that? It felt like
- a sickness - a never ending torment.
- - I cannot stand this! What are you trying to hide from me, dad? What
- could possibly be so wrong with knowing the truth? Tell me! Tell me about
- this book, tell me about everything! What is a 'soul'? What is the
- kind of society that is described in this old ordinary book? What is a
- 'body', a 'face', a 'human being', what is...
- He could not take it any more. The words streamed out of his mouth. He
- lost control.
- - We are humans! We used to be anyway! We were organic, not mechanical!
- Outside our metallic shields there are some of them left who keeps us
- alive. The society in that book is how it used to be before it all crashed
- down the endless pit! It was feelings, love, hate, legs to walk with, eyes
- that could see more than abstract data! It will never be like that again
- for us. We can only analyze. We are nothing more than machines, with
- human souls that..."
-
- Prometheus stole the fire from the gods and gave it to the humans. He
- stole knowledge that belonged to the gods. The humans learned how to use
- the fire to build tools and weapons. He challenged the gods to give the
- humans knowledge. But the knowledge was stolen, and Prometheus was
- punished.
-
- The text flashed in aggressive red.
- "CONNECTION CYB8900, CYB8902 HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN. PROMETHEUS SYMPTOM AT
- CYB8900. CYB8902 OBTAINED PROMETHEUS INFORMATION. SYSTEM WILL BE ERASED
- AND RESTARTED. HAVE A NICE DAY."
- Then it was all back to normal.
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