Endorsed by Jack Chapeau by Ted Pelton

Author:Ted Pelton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Endorsed by Jack Chapeau
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5486-6
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2006-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

ON THE DANGER OF NOT KNOWING

How do we know what goes on outside our country? Or even within?

One night, late, an old movie on television is interrupted by a special report. There has been a coup. Details are sketchy, but what is definitely known is that there has been an attempted takeover. A factory worker rubs the sleepiness from his eyes as the report quickly ends and the screen returns to black and white.

The next day, he asks others at the factory if they have heard anything. None have. He tells his fellow workers all he knows, which is very little, but as his words meet each astonished face he wonders if he was dreaming. But no, the graveness of the news-man’s tone had alerted him; he had listened closely to the sparse available details; he had rubbed his eyes to make sure he had not been half asleep.

But no more details come. The next regular news broadcast is aired with no mention of the special report, and no mention is ever made again. The man seeks out every bit of information in newspapers and on radio, knowing them to be more reliable than television. But what is reliability now? He cannot even trust what he saw with his own eyes reported as truth. His own reports are treated skeptically. Nothing, judging by all evidence following the initial alert, seems to have changed, and no one seems to notice what a lonely factory worker knows to be true: that the entire basis of cognizance is now different. He can no longer do his job after a time, needing to devote more energy to uncovering information. Others work and when they come home in the evening turn on the television to see what is new in the world. The former factory worker has theories they would all call crazy. No one seems to know what he does—except, perhaps, his enemies, who would believe everything he told them even while denying it to the last.

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