In the latter half of the 23rd century, scientists discover a way to greatly prolong human life, but only at a cost…
“[…] the old saying, that if you put a frog into a bowl of hot water, he jumps out. Reasonable… But if you put him into a bowl of cold water resting on a heating plate, turn up the temperature slowly… he will not realize the water’s getting hotter until it begins to boil and he eventually dies… It’s probably bullshit, since frogs can’t be as stupid as we’ve been.”
[unintelligible]
“[…] had the opportunity to change the world, and we did nothing…”
[barely comprehensible, question about leaders of the movement]
“No one saw (…) saw the need to organize. They were all like: ‘Let’s change something somehow somewhere somewhat.’ In the end, they were all fighting for themselves instead for each other…”
[time jumps ahead – interrogation fragment from a later interrogation]
“[…] wasn’t particularly violent […] It wasn’t particularly outrageous. At last, it wasn’t… particularly noteworthy.”
[unintelligible, distorted]
“We were part of what we thought was a movement [mumbling noises] Said [NAME REDACTED]. But that movement led to nowhere.”
[silence]
“I still wish I could have done more besides planting bombs and leading riots, but I had a family to care for […] The money AAP offered me seemed to be alright, so I joined them and stopped supporting the movement.”
[barely comprehensible noise, something about “so it was about the money?”]
“You know the most ironic part? This, at its core, was a revolution against the power of money… But we needed money in order to organize the revolution. The few of us who realized that soon changed sides.”
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