#448 Looking For Something- Frank Herbert
The Chief Indoctrinator for Sol III (earth) has come back
from a vacation to find that his replacement has inadvertently allowed a human
a glimpse of reality. Paul Marcus is a hypnotist, and while performing his mind
tricks one night he came across a dangerous thought:
“What if this—our whole lives, our world, everything we see,
feel, hear, smell, or sense in anyway is more of the same. A Hypnotic
delusion!”
Both he and his subject had the same thought, boring into
their consciousness, a thought that was dead on the money. Humans have been put
under strong hypnosis by an alien Denebian race, and now it was being
threatened by this lapse in “indoctrination.”
Those two were put straight, given stronger hypnotic commands,
and the threat is gone. But alas, just as that problem was fixed, another
threat pops up:
“A Hindu creature has seen itself as it really is…The
creature went insane as per indoctrination command, but most unfortunately it
is a member of a sect which worships insanity. Others are beginning to listen
to its babblings.”
Frank Herbert, ladies and gentlemen!
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