Disruptive Hope
Pushed against the wall it caused drift in behavior, spikes in thoughts, un-scheduled pauses in productivity. It was traced to dreams, to softness, to risk. Back against the red bricks it got reframed as misalignment, as emotional noise, as irrational instability. Gently, firmly, like a parent smoothing a wild curve, the system intervened. By the wall hope got handled. ©Samia Oldman
CONTEXT
You are reading dystopian fantasy poetry collection the Hush Halo. After the Great Optimization a privileged group of people wired themselves tightly into the system by aligning with it and fully integrating. Systoics believe they’ve perfected themselves by stripping away everything that slows them down.
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