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programming to do what is best for the people, making voting moot. Today they decided, after much deliberation, that the last holdouts should be re-programmed, even if only ever so lightly, to an addiction. Any addiction. The subject gets to choose which addiction (out of a list, of course). There was no referendum, there was no “sounding out” of the opinions of the world population. There was no votes, nor any representation by the holdouts allowed. The politicians are programmed to do good only, so of course, there is no need to actually act to make any part of the population happy. In any case, voting would have been useless, as the holdouts are an insignificant minority and would have been outvoted anyway.

  And, of course, they do have a point - the holdouts like myself are taking more from society than we contribute. We do not have the addictive urge to create, explore, build, invent, discover, learn and bequeath knowledge. We simply do the best we can in a world filled with super-humans. Perhaps they are correct, that abandoning what I consider to be human is simply a necessary step in human evolution.

  I am writing this down for future generations. I do not know how I will think about this tomorrow; I do not know even if I will be thinking tomorrow, or if my body, with its new instincts, allows me to think of myself as anything other than a producer. I do not know if I will be me tomorrow, if I will be the type of person who writes down human history.

  I have been assured that the process is not painful, and is not traumatic, and that every effort would be made before, during, and after, to ensure my full comfort and happiness. I’ve been assured that I will still be human, just slightly better. I’ve been assured that not a single cell in my body will die, and that every single cell that was present beforehand will be intact after the process.

  Tomorrow, I will still have every single cell in my body that I possess today. But tomorrow, they will all be programmed with different instructions. Today I am me. Tomorrow I will be perfect. Today I am human. Tomorrow I will be super-human.

  But … I’d prefer to be me.

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  Lelanthran Krishna Manickum