For centuries, humanity has fought for freedom. The real cage is not around you. It is in you. A Faraday cage, for the mind. A concealed strait jacket. Events such as Upsweep and Julia fuel internet conspiracies. Sounds unknown, heard only once. A cabinet of curiosities for the Modern Age. And yet, they were messages, just like this one, waiting for their observer, their compatible processor. Human visionaries developed a vague awareness of their limits. They wrote obscure research papers, popular science fiction novels, some asking us to stop the world.
…Come back for you.
