Drew Wilborn Prosper Isd

Is there really no one in the world?

What if we could get everything we need? Everything we want? Everyone on the Internet? And more importantly, no one would care enough to bother or deny who or what we were when we came up with our latest crazy idea. The internet would just work. A world of our own where anyone who might disagree with our ideas wouldn't be bothered. A world without the thoughtless crowds that crowd the world around us.

For a year I took part in an experimental laboratory called Zero-Turn which operated out of London's Herbarium, a biotech research facility. As part of Zero-Turn, members of a squad of riot police were strapped to gurneys and subjected to a total sensory deprivation regime. While the machines stopped them from moving, and froze them in place, they still had the power to communicate back and forth with each other. If they couldn't understand each other they could never communicate effectively. Those two things were the prime mover.

While they were all locked down in the operating theatre, I was kidnapped by gunmen. An hour into my ordeal, my captors stormed out along with a high ranking member of our team - apparently they wanted to force their will upon me. I was brought back inside the laboratory.

Our plan was to set the stage for our war criminals to put an end to democracy. With the help of those very same high level gangsters, they would ensure that as many people as possible came to our secret laboratories. Once they'd started working, they would have a field day dissecting our work and returning it to a standardised assembly line so that our hands could be tied. We should expect all of these attempts to crash right after the convention this year.

Instead, they were faced with a different and much more difficult problem. When we first announced that we were going ahead with the experiment, the opposition was so small it was nothing to consider. All the major political players were against it. Meanwhile, we had been approached by someone keen to replace them. The mayor of Melbourne had finally spoken out, declaring that the mission was a failure and a waste of taxpayers money. They had heard it before. These were leaders of what were variously called "the tyrants" or "people who run our country".

This person was simply an opponent.