Once Cicero was removed … Once the rock was lifted … What did they see: us. The ones who shouldn’t be here. The aberrants. The ones who weren’t with the programme. Who weren’t careerists. Who weren’t all about the usual things. Once they saw that …
Were we a threat? Laughter. Some threat. But we needed containing. Sure – to be on the safe side. We needed to be … controlled. Just in case.
We’re different in kind to them – that’s what they knew. In species, more or less. We’re not homo academicus. What are? Home prole. Homo useless. Homo aberrant. Homo fuck up. Homo idioticus. Homo not quite.
Different in kind! Different in outlook. In temperament. And no doubt in IQ …