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Hera-of-Stockholm — Oracle Of Cyberia
Published: 2019-10-20 11:39:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1187; Favourites: 121; Downloads: 9
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For those interested in their possible futures, the Oracle was the go-to girl. And although she was mysterious and at oftentimes hostile or at least suspicious of her fellow humans, those seeking her out never ceased to dwindle. Although it might be that some backed out in the last minute.
And how she had got her power - no one knew. Some mutancy perhaps. Few people were born mutated in Cyberia. It was more often something that just happened one day. There were a lot of strange chemicals in the city's waterworks, weird radiation pockets hovering in its streets, and unstable mutagenic gases floating invisibly in the air. On any given day, every biological citizen was subjected to dozens of genetic destabilizing agents, and every citizen knew that they might be affected at any moment. And if not them, their offspring. There didn’t seem to be a pattern to it, and things like social status or the size of your bank account, none of that mattered.
"The oracle," Spark Bancroft-Winterbottom was saying. "The hell I am! The hell I am going to talk to that bitch."
"You're scared?" Jessie Electra tainted. "You're actually bat shit scared!"
"No but...!"
"The great Salomo Bancroft-Winterbottom scared! Of a little girl! Who would've thought?"
"Well, go ask her yourself if you're so stupidly cooky then," Spark said with a shrug.
Meanwhile the oracle herself hovered in the distance, looking at her weird interface and paying them as much attention as she paid the rats by the puddle...
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😳 I would not be advised by her ....
too dangerous ....
although 🤔 ... she is pretty
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Well, a lot of the stuff you mention is going on here on the earth. I know it sounds a bit radical but they put stuff in the water and the atmosphere is very polluted. And then there's lots of “weird radiation” including 5G which is just being rolled out and we don't really know what the effect will be in the long term. Some people though are very sensitive to these new frequencies. Sorry if you though I was referring to something else you've written because I'm not really familiar with your other work. Anyway, I do like this piece.
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Yes, I know, reality always beats fantasy. There's so much weird things out there going on. Environmental hazards, creepy cult, big companies spying upon us and politicans who are like taken from a Monte Pyton sketch.
I'm honestly more worried with what we eat than 5G. These artificial things they're having people eating these days, stuff made in laboratories thought to replace animal meat. Or cosmetic 'cures' about pumping poison (botox) in your bodies. I fear that it's gonna be a high road to cancer hell. Just like the cigarettes turned out to be.
Thanks by the way
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Absolutely. I'm always very careful what I eat (and drink) and if the UK leaves the EU I'll have to be even more careful as we'll be doing trade deals with the US and their standards are way way lower than the EU. Like they do GM and stuff and the whole Brexit thing is precariously hanging in the balance! Momentous times!
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Yes, I wonder what will become of Brexit. It's postponed once again, and personally I'm beginning to think it's not going to happen. Which I think is good, as it's better to do things together, at least when it comes to a union of democracies who've joined by their own free will. That said, I think the EU has become too centralized, a lot more things should be handed over to the member states to deal with on their own. People sit in Brussel and have no clue what life is on a Greek island, Austrian mountaintop or out in the Swedish wild woods.
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Well, I hope you're right about Brexit and I agree that we're better off together. Also, your second point about the centralisation of power is I believe crucial for the future prosperity of our race. A way will need to be found to empower small communities and disempower the large central hubs that we have now. I believe this will eventually happen but it may take a long time, although in a sense its already started because the ideas are floating around. The biggest obstacle is the financial system and that will have to go at some point to be replaced by something that's a little more fair and not the gross inequality we have at the moment. But a lot of rich and powerful people will want things to remain as they are because they're in a very privileged position, or at least that's the way they see it. But hey, I didn't say it would be easy! But there again it might be. There's the “hundredth monkey syndrome” where if enough people share a common idea it can spread rapidly by “unexplained” means and suddenly it's a reality! A jump in evolution and lets face it, as a race we're only in our infancy compared to what's up there in the stars! Sorry if I' m going too far with this but you feel like a kindred spirit!
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Yes I'm with you, you're not going to far, I love these kinds of speculations and I love that I'm seeing certain things happening around here too. Like small systems like Uber and AirBnB and Swish challenging the big old economies, and how companies like Spotify enabled tiny and independent artists to make money on their music for instance. You no longer need to have a large record company backing you and promoting you to be able to make it. Same thing with books, you can create and spread your own e-book for almost nothing these days. Only problem is the language. If you write in a smaller language, for instance Swedish the market is small. But perhaps there's a way around that too.
Then, on another note we need to get real with the environment and stop bullshitting around with taxing plastic bags and banning drinking straws and instead go after the large polluters and ravagers. And the politicians need to see their own behaviours first or they won't have any credibility. For instance why jetting around the world when there are video conferencing systems where you can exchange everything but the coffee and danish. Or the stupid commuting of EU politicians between Brussel and Strasburg. If they show that they are willing to change then I believe they'll be getting their voters alongside too.
Well, today's Brexit is off (and I won a bet) so I guess we'll see what's gonna happen...
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Very detailed and thrilling story to go with it too
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