Anne of the Black Gables

The New Evil

Ioslation creates this vulnerability.

So, now that we have established, either through your reading of Wired magazine and you are just now tuning in...not having read anything else I have posted, the Wired articles probably suffice.

What we have established is the foundation, the eye opening, the waking up into a higher consciousness, via machines. Really, the instant scholarship of the digital age, the low burn (all cellphones are probably powered by the equivalent by what all of the power generated by solar arrays) and global access, the appeal to Oral practices...this is new.

Oh sure, there is lots to be afraid of, sci fi tells us so. But lets not be afraid. Lets do what those sci fi movies tell us not to do, lets go ahead and work in the direction of what HR Giger and HP Lovecraft and PK Dick saw as the extinction of the human, more human than human.
Boogie man, really.

So, what is the evil they envisioned? Duplicates without human values. Nihilists, thoughts, images and societies  on the other side of the black hole.
No more than Heironimous Bosch or Tolkien's arguments about Beowulf.
Monsters.

However, what monster hid are now revealed.
Those who are not digital are to be tracked by other means, as every creature on the planet will be...just like the Domesday survey or Deuteronomy...finance demands this.

Tracking people has become acceptable anyway. The hue and cry about the Patriot act never has emerged into a political will, not enough people are complaining, and so its something that was seen as inhuman, now somewhat more acceptable. We aren't doomed this way, but yes, yes, yes...then follows a cascade of more inhumane dystopias, all paling really in comparison to the old hardships, and then the Hell's they imagined, seem so cartoonish.
Torture and body mutilation, they went underground, into psychic mutilation..more about that later.

Now, though, the hell of secrecy and the hell of publicity.
Whose in control? Not the controller of the recording and monitoring device..the drone in which the Human behind it has a learning curve...to eventually step away with quite a vision of Earth. With probably really good potential for literature...(though, that does not ensure a larger soul, these people are still depersonalized for service and technique).

The old stories say the same thing, limits. Human limits. Meant to curb hubris, meanness, short sighted, selfishness...inhumane tasks made less mundane. Jobs, whether making pots and sowing fields requires Thoth, or, typing on the computer requiring thought...it would be easier to just give orders...the ultimate goal for every tyrant, every self so inflated that they cant stand the chores expected of them because of their elevated social status...no?

2.
What was the "Nationalist motives to compete" goes away in a puff of digital smoke almost like the advent of the scribes forgot about Kings, as least those who could read what they scribed.
The institutions supporting this "National drive to compete" can only be possessed by a diminishing increasingly irrelevant retiring generation, the family achievers finding their children no better for brutality than the rest of their generation, no matter how well their own experienced brutality motivated them to run over whatever obstacle at all cost...to escape.
The Imperial Nation is too easily comprehended as the photos of the decades emerges. Modern competition works fine without Imperialism. Yet, some people are not as motivated to be dominating, no. What did we lose, ten or twenty percentage points that composed a society driven to tyranny?
My family dynasty will exist for generations to come, said every Emperor and King. But....they dont.
Not that they know that...all they get to know, tyrant after tyrant, is that the family is a lot more complicated than a harbor for unbridled ambitions.

The story that was once open, industrialism seemed like the end point, there would no other world, this one worked forevers...until WW2, and who knows...its now closing...as fast as the new opens, right?
No other technological shift in population has ever been so sudden and, well, feelable, as if History is also being reduced to finer, granular level one can get the feels for.

But even that is no big deal, really. Nothing to be afraid of, the no great shakes...we all feel a bit more liberated in that the technology enables Justice and Law to prevail even better now. Its a very civil change of things, actually.

A large police state added at the verge, during the 1990's, and then from there prepped, staged, to jump on the National bandwagon of digitalization, circa 2000's...largely the Clinton and Bush era legacy of controlled social change.

Many benefited. Crime is at a low level, well, the low droning screed of street crime and gang violence. That doesn't happen anymore, so now on to the random shootings...and despite all the posts in my social media feed, I feel like these are not that frequent.
Thus, that slot meant for crime seeks out to fill itself, and having one layer of overt crime reduced, it reveals another crime underground, now technologically enhanced, and always a international network: human slavery.
What is their weapon? Fear...so they bound themselves together early on...the pedophile network, the slavery network, the prostitution and drug trap, but now very, very new drugs...but, as this kick of power and control was growing out of their own fears, so strong, they are blinding themselves to humanity.
And none of them carry of magical ring of invisibility, though many think they do.
The magnification of the "Panopticam", the bugs eye views...this was waiting to receive them sometime after the psychologists began to model them, before 1997.

3.
The story of the good Psychiatrist, her lost private practice, and ruthless pursuit, through a world of abused new hypnogogic psychiatric drugs...wherein, some of her former psychiatric patients had lured her into other blackmail arrangements.
So she is to says anything. later on, after the first blackmail ANOTHER blackmail is there, for even more backlash...but that is later on in the series.
Also, as a re-occurring scene in the first season, people show up, old friends from back when (High School, Medical School), even in this scene where she is public, complaining, but then some mole is passing around videos...she never sees them.

After she is fired...early on in the first season, this regular guest appearance starts up...its not predictable...though more often she gets visitors almost every episode.
Somehow, she has to have a pause in the sequence of events, wherein, she keep this going...escaping, dodging, investigating...her phone somehow tracking her....but she used it so well forensically.

Half Hour episodes, with ten minutes part one, ten minutes part two, ten minutes part three...sorta. Really, they need no standard end point. One can write up a twenty minute to forty minute show.

SEASON ONE
Okay.
After this intro episode where two patients reveal this world, this first episode, like, part two, she makes antidotes, experiments..(locking herself in her safety house, but then waking up unconscious she wakes up somewhere in town, standing on a street corner) but then succeeds, fails...these drugs including abuse cases which open doors into abusive familial relations wherein the mentally ill person is too afraid and they use hynogogic drugs to get answers.
First episode so far.
Part two, she goes to locations:
All these leading to her discovery, but only in glimmers...almost like "The Prisoner" show. Except, its not a place its all around her...due to her job. Yet, the first place she gets caught in one, her drugs did not work...and so, she wakes up, and is let go by these creepish guys now in the room (where before she was at a party her patient had mentioned was trolled by these people).

Episode Two
That day, later on, after she goes to work
She loses her job due to blackmail. Her board review is up too.

Then, she goes into role playing game scenes because the other patient mentioned that as where she got drugged, raped and blackmailed.
There is a Pedophile network she is investigating.

(She belongs to no tough guys. Her family is not part of the series. She has mostly isolation, but there are people from her past...guys and gals, who seem to be dropping in, one or two every episode, who seem to be reassuring her after the blackmail made her lose her job.)

So this is the first two episodes, her intro, her investigation after a couple of clients make statements.., second episode, she takes risks and goes to locations...meets odd character.
Then is chased...and it captured.

Episode Three
She takes some pills, and of course, they offer a glass of water to drink. No talk, nothing more.
She drinks it and falls asleep.

However a drone is outside, and it is following her infrared. She is brought upstairs...though she is drunk...she thinks back to boxing...which she was really bad at, and then being all aggressive as a young chick to some cops, kicking them...coordinated however drunk.
So, they bring her upstairs, these two guys. One is the stranger.

She is interviewed before hand...but the vision of him is blurry. This person is meant to establish trust....as one falls alseep...so the care and reassuring the person is...becomes blurrier...normally, because it is waking up...though, she continually has to act like she is falling asleep.
So, she is led to the bed, and she is laid in the bed, and then they wait. One leaves the room. The other starts making noise, but at a opertune time she rouses, like she is awake, stairs down, giggles, then he shrugs his shoulders, drops his pants, and she pushes him over so that he smashes the window. She runs over to the door, locks it, runs over to the other door, locks it, just as people reach each door.
Then she runs to the window, opens it, and climbs out. Runs away.
Car comes...but then another car in the direction she is running comes...so that car slows down.

She runs a bit more, across a Elementary school, and then onto the opposite side she turns around and sees the car creeping around, hunting, but off.
She waits, listening. Then jogs around the corner.

She is darted as she sneaks toward her house.

End of third episode.


Fourth Episode (first season)
Dismissal by the board. Freeing her to go into investigation.
She gets a job at a Used Book store.
She carries a gun. Then she is arrested and her gun right taken away because of...violating a law, so she goes back out into the world, and improvises her self out of another assassination attempt.
Not nearby the police station, but instead nearby the book store. A bullet goes through a book she is holding, from the back door that then slams shut, just as she is being fired by her deaf Book store manager, who is on the other side of the store.

However, the bookstore manager feels the pulse of air pressure, comes over, asks her what was that?
Oh, the book, see?

She shows her the smoking hole.

Its deadpan...but really going for a realistic feel. So she begins to take anti anxiety meds, and continues her investigations.

So, we find out she counseled a lot of people in the Military.

We also find out the human trafficking network in her town. What is eventually revealed is a trans ethnic slave market, where, buyers want ethnicities other than their own.

She finds out, of these people, by following one she recognizes by sitting in a car at a local convention.

She discovers a slave escape network, but keeps investigating. Like Heart of Darkness a little bit.

She finds a former experimentee revealing a lab.



Fifth Episode (first season)
She finds a lab with people being experimented on.

Then she finds a world, into which she is captured, that is like the British Show, The Prisoner.

Except she escapes.

Six episode
Then she begins to run, but write while on the run, around the US.

Last episode of Season One


SEASON TWO
The hunter becoming the hunted.

She finishes what she writes, publishes it by sending it online, and then, at a moment of relaxation...then is captured and taken back to the Prisonerman place, but this time its different.

A place where she is knocked unconscious but then revived, each time in a different place, like the Truman Show but each few episodes she is a different sci fi world, seeking to research in these strange worlds what the psychology will be like.

So, the first episode she wakes up in Male Gor like world, where she is suppossed to act like a sex slave, by nature of physical domination. Yet, she disagrees with this...and there are scenes where she sees the people, her drugged co inhabitants experimentees, being told what to say, and told what to do...she is also subjected to this...but she resists...mostly just by stopping...she is not physically forced...yet, soon, though at a wakeful spot (perhaps talking to Master...) she goes asleep again (they control what she drinks...its hard not to find somewhere that is not poisoned with this sleep drug)...
...and

Second episode
She wakes up in another worlds, a communist, Social Workers collective farm, where, she is indoctrinated...as if a member of the Social Revolution. There is no family, and she is assigned sex duty...which is finds ridiculous...falls into drowsiness, wakes up...
 in Gone with the Wind (bad idea?)...but she isn't working out as well as the other druggees, so they keep moving her

Third Episode
She is woken up by her kids, her husband...who explains things to her..something quotidian and she refutes that she ever gave birth, although they have pictures!
Her husband gets conjugal rights...but she resists this somehow, and wakes up,
and then she is an actress in a sitcom...the pounding on the door is the scene she has to memorize that day and all over her little apt. is actor career stuff...she memorizes the part, but when she is to perform it she is a terrible actress, but then she learns it is a porno movie, so this guy is to have sex with her. but she resists...then her 'acting coach' obviously one of the Masters, its just that he asks her questions about belonging...she doesn't really...so she falls alseep again.

Fourth episode
She pulls out the computer interface that connects a nueral web, and she is on a space ship with three other people.
They land on ice.
She is the doctor. Apparently, regulations are enforced rape...
But somehow all of them...maybe this is the final place, are the ones who seem to be resisting and paranoia ensues...murder, violence...she escapes by running out over the ice.

Fifth Episode
A rich Whore in some bronze age or Roman set...she doesn't buy it...though, each time she participates...willingly, buying into it at first, but then always some little thing revolts...
then, a member of a Jungle group of women victim revolutionaries, where is trained to use a gun...
then she is captured, set up to be a sex slave, Imperial male domination.."You are guilty of violating your father's will!" Rebel! Now you must pay..."


Sixth Episode


(Some people are aware the inescapable use of drugged water. They slowly dream into wakefulness then out of wakefulness into a sleep awaking the next day slowly out of a dream into wakefulness (what like a six second sequence of blurs, and stumbling cams, but strange noise pheonoms, something distinctly unique about each blurriness, you know...each time a different sci fi set. Like Touring the Worlds Fair projects of tomorrow. Sometimes its in a wasteland...having put aside a antidote that finally works...say, after the second season, or, the escape is the last show of the second season. I think you understand, like "The Village".)

Anyway, first half of the sixth episode, she escapes this. Second half, she encounters, in the small town square, a Theater group, she is invited to join...yet when the pursuit is catching up to her...they close up, and hide her.


THIRD SEASON
Then, the third season she is on the run again, but this time she is brought into a network of Marines.

They are a traveling theater show...Ren fair like. But their audience is only by social network. They perform to Military groups. Each performance is a code.

She is brought into their group, and learns to sharpen her improv. She learns some moves the first episode, training...then she attacked and uses her moves, and the attacker she finds is one of the troupe in disguise.

The troupe has a Cajun, Puerto Rican, with accents, Swedish, Irish  and Black, woman. She is a Jew.
They all wore different skin tone makeup, so they all looked white...it was a enlightenment style show.

So she learns in the first Episode how to fight.

The raid rich peoples homes...its a series of break ins, done very realistically, wherein, the get materials and collect them, and then leave them all in one place.
End of the Third season episode

Episode Two, Season Three
The next episode, she is hobbled by a injury...ankle turn. Stabbing, falls...whatever...

So, she is sent to a remote place to rehabilitate. There is a mole here though, and so begins an intrigue she can only feel out by speech, as she in wheelchair bound.

But as this resembles a ten little indians story, she figures it out and has planned a trap.

Wherein, that takes two episdos, so by the end of episode three, that very night she reveals the murder, nullifies her, leaving ten more people not murdered, she is then captured and taken off again.

Episode Four, Season Three
Now she is lobotimized (its not commen knowledge that you can outgrow them...hence, some people had lobotomies again and again...)and put into a prison camp and made to work, not so long as to require the actress to lose a lot of weight...but, she escapes when it floods, end of Episode Five.

Episode Sixth, Season Three
She shows up in a camp with some abusive Call of Cthulhu fans, who kidnap her and keep her in a basement...so as the discuss what to do, with her, she washes dishes and gathers the laundry...their discussion gets personal sex slave, they talk about the drugs. each one has a moral reaction...but they seem to be too fascinated by the idea of the experiment.

They hear her sweeping, they look around the house...then she says "she aint doing none of that shit anymore if they dont leave her alone...she just wants to sleep in the basement..".

"And do household chores?" They look around at themselves,  "okay".


They get embaressed, but its still creepy. She goes to bed at night and listens to them play this Cthulhu game...and they are monstrous, though, its really funny.

SEASON FOUR
This begins episode four, when she has a implied a few weeks of rehabiliting, yet at the beginning she  has a psychotic breakdown, and those guys call the ambulance and they take her away.

One guy follows her story, in the next episode, where, at the middle of the opening season episode, she is put into a psychiatric cycle, interviewed.

Episode Two
She is fairly back to normal, and it begins with her still not telling her story...meanwhile, this guy shows up and gets her story, eventually contacts (off screen), one of the Marine chicks...lets say the French girl, and she breaks in and breaks her out, the very day the Paranoid Schizophrenic medication take over...so, she acts totally inappropriate to the drama of the scene.
Not intelligently, but you know, no Dsytopic, but like, okay move on.

Episode Three
So, the last part of season four is the Marine keeping her secreted away, wherein, that first time she is shown the place, her Marine friends humble, small home, she sleeps, and then wakes up in the middle of the night, a has a dream.

Episode Four
Dream ends, she wakes up again. Then, she is toured through...back through each world, to end of episode four at a announcement of a trial.

Episode Five
At the court trial...wherein, the last episode is a court case where she testifies, and the second to last is her review of the "striking of the sets" that formed some nine episodes of the second season.
The trial reviews the fantasy world, as a layer of bs that is meant to psychically dominate people, selling them on moral relavitism, wherein, its end is still Human Trafficking, slavery, largely pedophiles and rapists.

Sorta like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo meets Travis McGee.

Summary

1st season, psychiatrist investigation leads to Slavery, into capture and escape.

2nd season, Hunted, is subjected to a sleep experiment world.

3rd seaons Theater Show to Nunnary. Lobotomy, prison camp/

4th season  Call of Cthulhu, chores/Review of Sleep experiment World/Court Trial.