A Tale Of Doings by Philip Quense

Author:Philip Quense [Quense, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798607787875
Published: 2020-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Cataloging

David and Manda flipped through the bios of Mop, Arc, and Gimp to plan out the day’s experiments on the slaves.

Manda said exasperatedly, “We give more than we get. If we give them too much info about exchange, QC might require us to terminate them.”

“But look at the bio of the Tri-Coalition state that we’re constructing!” David rolled his hand around, and a 3D image of their collected information displayed like a globe on the projector. “The most extensive empirical data on the Tri-Coalition on this side of the divide.”

“Unconfirmed data is biased information.”

“It is cross-referenced at least.”

“Unless they are all playing us.”

“These aren’t missionaries. I doubt the info we are gathering is a coordinated effort to undermine our understanding of our enemy, but one day we may find a means to test out the soundness of our information.”

On the 3D screen, main categories included “Raising Youth,” “Work, Life, and Career Paths,” “Government,” “Health Care Systems,” “Products,” and “Technology.” Each category was being filled with information. “Weapons” and “Defensive Fortifications” remained generally empty. Only the conjecture tabs were filled in these two areas.

“The structure of their society is so different from ours.” Manda flipped to one of the law subfolders. “Look here. Two of the slaves mentioned a governmental structure that requires a public vote.”

“What is a ‘public vote’? I heard Jim and Joseph chatting about that earlier.”

“Essentially it boils down to everyone gets a choice.”

“Choice of what?” David was confused, but he let Manda finish as he snorted a red energy dust off a disposable tray. The trash-collector arm on his desk sucked the tray from his hand and made it disappear.

“Who rules. The government is held accountable to the public by some sort of written regulation.” She pointed at a topic title and explained, “They rotate leadership through this voting system.”

“That sounds like a lie.” Some of the information they gathered was outlandish and hard to believe.

She flipped to another section labeled “Education for Postadolescent Youths.” “And look here, David-23. At a certain age, the youths decide whether they go to school or to work.”

“Does that say, ‘Human beings have to pay for education’?” He was baffled that education was not standardized and forced equally on all. “Imagine the chaos of people being held to different intellectual standards.”

“Believe it or not.” She shifted the screen again. “We only have three accountings of this strange reality. Gerry, from Carl’s cohort, has a lot of other questions about costs for education but are putting together more questionnaires to find out more about this.”

“Manda, I can’t wrap my head around this ‘optional’ society.” He agreed with Manda that human being society was illogically based on personal choice. “What an unstable structure.”

“How does a society allow individuals to take part in making laws? What demented leadership gives untrained youths the option between education and career…?”

David cut her rant off. “Not just choice of career or education, Manda. Lab Experiment Seventy-Four indicated that Mop mentioned a system where an individual chooses the company they work for.

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