X by J.D. Glass

Author:J.D. Glass [Glass, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781602820487
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2009-02-17T06:00:00+00:00

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Charli was amazing, so much more than what Ben had told him about her, even more than what he’d hoped and deduced from his files and observations. Tough stuff, she was—no crying, no tears at all, no sentimentality. He should have predicted that—it was another mark of her breed.

All the preliminary testing as well as the theory he could find had said repeatedly that these subjects had something a little different, and very interesting, about their brain waves. They all ran an almost constant Beta wave—their minds were never at rest, and it was in this group that the discovery of Gamma waves had occurred: a subset of Beta waves, Gammas represented masses of neurons firing together, and this is what excited him. It was a hyperengagement of cognitive activity, was linked to the synchronization of both conscious and subliminal stimulus. The outward manifestation of that? A constant, cool, logic that arrived at answers in seemingly nonlinear ways.

And that logic…what a mind she had.

He began by discussing a little bit about genetics—without telling her of the experiment she was more than likely a result of, and he began with his theory of the improvements to human stock inadvertently begun during World War II. It was an opportunity to sound her out for himself, if she really would “believe” as Ben had put it, or argue him down.

“Hitler,” he opened, “was a prisoner of his own inferiorities, and the mistakes of his culture. That’s the problem with little brains,” he said and smiled, “too small to crawl outside of their own holes. He wanted a Master Race—and he created one, out of the very people he tried to destroy.”

The curious and inquiring glance she rewarded him with allowed him to continue with an enthusiasm he hadn’t felt in a long time. A quick glance at Ben revealed his interest, and with his audience set, John continued.

“It’s really quite simple,” he told them. “By herding all those he considered undesirable into the horrible conditions he did—people already molded by generations of constantly being forced to adapt and overcome, people, thus, already a bit of an improvement over average—he weeded out the weakest of them. Think about it—it was only those with the strongest physiologies who survived the worst of conditions, only those with the ablest minds who escaped.”

He paused and took another sip of his coffee. It was atrocious, but it was a civilized action, and he was a civilized man. Besides, it gave him a moment, the moment he needed to perfectly phrase the words he wanted to say, thoughts he hadn’t shared with even his closest of associates. “Those that suffered, survived, and reproduced—Hitler’s wrongheaded policies made the best even better.”

He waited and watched them both for their reactions.

“That definitely has a certain…Darwinian…poetry to it,” Charli said finally, seeming suitably impressed.

“Man, that’s just…that’s so…” Ben shook his head. He glanced up and met John’s eyes with his.

“It is,” John agreed. “Now imagine, just imagine, if that sort of breeding—selection for better stock, as it were—was done purposely and irrespective of cultural conditions.

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