trends that you’ve just got toget on and it’s like this chick in leather
wearing black makeup and with a shaved head and she’s fucking
beautiful and I’m crying as I’m reading this and thinking, you
fuckers, you’re going to take this away from me too? Man, I just got
up out of my chair and washed all my makeup off and threw away all
those clothes and said, ‘I’m going to be as God made me to be, and
I’m not going to be judged by how I look anymore,’ and I walked out
straight out of rehab.”
“What happened after that, Melissa?” pressed Safora.
“I got arrested for indecent exposure and fined three-hundred
dollars. But ever since then I’ve tried to look at myself differently.
Still, I cry about the fact that I’m not one of the beautiful people and
I can’t help but think how much easier my life would be if I was. And
how much better it would be.” She paused and tearfully added, “And
how much…happier I would be.”
She began to sob.
“Yesssss,” hissed Safora compassionately. Safora was the
spiritual counselor for our therapy group, and if it wasn’t for the fact
that she had clearly developed limbs and a perfect mastery of the
English language, I would have placed her in the class Reptilia. She
hissed when she talked and her skin even gave off with a distinct
green underglow. She directed her next hiss at the entire group.
“Ssssociety has hurt us all, yes? Melissa here has shared with us
a painful story of society hurting her. But it was not the members of
modern society that rejected her—they didn’t know what they were
doing. They merely acted in accordance to some higher imperative
that directed their attacks. But what is this higher imperative? Is it an
individual? Is it a magazine? Is it a group of people, or is it society
itself? Most would say that it was in fact society that was guilty, but
this is not true. Society is constantly changing, and as such cannot be
pinned down. We cannot fault the ocean for being stormy; it is a
pawn to greater forces just as the boat is.”
“So what is this terrible force? As the Omniraja teaches us, it is
the linear, upward gradient; the force that the church once
successfully controlled for eons, but which was let out of the bag
during the Enlightenment period in Europe, when it was
transformed it into a god. What I am speaking of is the unchecked
force, of progresssssss.”
She continued: “We consider ourselves to be the most
evolutionarily advanced beings on this planet, and hence the most
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