It had started
centuries ago, nobody remembered who caused or why it happened anymore all they
knew was that things were supposedly better before it happened. They were so
use to it being how it was that they even lost meaning to what being better
than it was event meant. Their minds were now incapable of imagining such
strange ideas such as that. They did not think their world was perfect or even
good, they just couldn’t think of anything else. If given enough time one of
them could probably think of ways things could be better, but of course there
was no possibility of them acquiring this amount of time. They were not unhappy
because they were never given the opportunity to develop emotions they just
worked stopped for a little while at random intervals and then continued to
work. Some claim that somewhere in the back of their mind they thought it was
wrong, but this was a lie seeing as that part of the mind was blocked off and
forgotten about a while ago.
They had no idea what it was they were working towards
all they knew was to do what the rest of their family did which had supposedly
been assigned when it first started. Sometimes a person would wonder what it
was they were building and what the end of result of it was but those people disappeared
and were returned a few months later with their minds relocked off and put
under extra guidance just in case the lock came lose again.
Every once in a while there would be a sign that had a
picture of someone and old forgotten word on it that was spelled
r-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n, these posters would usually be there for only one cycle of
working then resting and occasionally the person on the poster would appear
working next to someone else in the line next time work started.
When it started to change again they were confused. All
they had done for their entire life was work then rest repeatedly so when they
no longer had to do that most of them just stood there. They all had basic
knowledge and language skills but they had never used them before and had no
idea how to react or what to say. They did not know if it was a good thing or a
bad thing all they could tell was that they now had the ability to think about
if it was a good or bad thing.
Their
decisions were about half and half. Half of them went to explore the world to
see if they could find more information while the other half decided to
continue to work. After a few days most of the half that continued to work had
collapsed because there was no longer anything telling them when to rest so they
just kept working. The half that went exploring soon found ruins of odd places
that appeared to be different from the work stations they were at. They did not
know what these places were but they looked comforting so they decided to try
to rebuild it and to stay there. In the ruins they also found things that
appeared to be digestible even though it was not the paste like substance they
were accustomed to eating.
Eventually
some of the explorer found some books, they were surprised to find they were
able to understand what the text inside the books said. A lot of the text in
the book had faded away but from what was there they realized that the places
they found had been called cities and the people in these cities were also able
to think like them and were not forced to work. There was still no recording of
what happened and they accepted the fact that they would never know what
happened and decide to try to just forget about it and move on with their new
lives.
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