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April 9, 2016

Zone Seven

Our planet is divided into zones. Travel between them is not allowed. This helps prevent the spread of bad ideas.
We thought we could end this problem (bad ideas) with an implant in the brain, but there is some process that we do not understand by which the implant is spontaneously disabled and sometimes perverted to anti-social uses. Some attribute this to the “soul,” an ephemeral thing that some say lives on after we die. This would be laughable, except that it causes so much trouble. We have found that we cannot kill all of our citizens who think they have a soul. There are too many of them who are too productive in many ways beneficial to our planet as a whole. We are in the process of placing them all in a special zone, which we’re calling Zone Seven. | Blogging About Books And Life

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 9, 2016 8:57 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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