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\"Solitanu's<\/p>\n

Freedom Surrendered: Sleepwalking into an Anticlock Disaster<\/h2>\n

It was our own fault. We sleepwalked into disaster. How could we have been so stupid? They were smart operators of course. But that\u2019s no excuse and there\u2019s no point in whining about it now. They tricked us with their lies and promises and we\u2019ve no one to blame but ourselves. Freedom surrendered can rarely be regained.<\/p>\n

It should have been obvious from the outset really. After all, the mere name\u00a0the `Anticlockwise Empire’ should have started a few \"Freedomalarm bells ringing. But they seemed so friendly and accommodating. So we didn\u2019t notice. We were just too gullible. They kept telling us that we\u2019d be better off on our own, that the Safronika Confederation had stolen our birth-right from us and that it would be a good idea to abandon clockwise thinking and opt for an anticlockwise life.<\/p>\n

They made it sound so perfectly logical – an endless stream of promises that they never had any intention of keeping. They made fools of us. Looking back it\u2019s obvious but at the time it wasn\u2019t like that. It all sounded reasonable enough to suggest that collaborating with the Faraway Galaxy would be much better than continuing our relationship with the Safronikans. After all, the Safronikans couldn\u2019t even speak our language could they? Safronika was a disorganised tower of Babel, an incomprehensible patchwork of conflicting languages collectively termed `Multiglott\u2019. Multiglott, they assured us, would lead to catastrophe. And in any case Guttural, the language of Anticlockwise, was spoken by most people in the universe, especially those in the Faraway Galaxy.<\/p>\n

Over time though, it started dawning on us that they weren\u2019t who they said they were. And now that they\u2019ve taken over in earnest and changed everything forever, they don\u2019t even bother to pretend to be nice. Why should they? They\u2019re in charge after all. They\u2019ve stolen our identity, force fed us their inanities and given us no option but to turn ourselves into narrow-minded and inward-looking clones of themselves. To put it bluntly, freedom surrendered means freedom surrendered. You lose everything once you’ve given up the right to decide for yourself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve no idea who I am any more. My new `name\u2019 is AC937\/X8. Not much of a label is it? A<\/strong>ntiC<\/strong>lockwise937\/X8: X because I\u2019m male; 8 because I have strange yellow colour hair. The colour of my hair has always been different from anyone else\u2019s. I don\u2019t know why. I\u2019m classified as an 8 because that\u2019s the miscellaneous category they put people in who don\u2019t fit into any of the normal tick boxes.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Anticlocks are keen on getting everyone into neat administrative categories. They don\u2019t approve of any deviation from the norm you see. They especially don\u2019t like any display of personality. Reducing a human being to letters and numbers strengthens their control. I did have a proper name once but I can barely remember what it was. It\u2019s so long since anyone called me by it.<\/p>\n

You can call me Solitanu: Zeb Solitanu. That\u2019s not my real name either of course. But who cares? One name\u2019s as good as another don\u2019t you think? I\u2019m just using it to protect myself from prying eyes. We all use aliases round here. You never know who might be reading this blog. If the Snoops discovered who I really was, I\u2019d be banged up in a flash.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re always looking over your shoulder in Anticlockwise. There are Snoops everywhere: Snoops, that\u2019s what we call the State Security Operatives who keep us under surveillance. \"FreedomThey\u2019re constantly sending reports back to the Globopolis City police chief about what we\u2019re getting up to. I\u2019d be in serious trouble if they heard me complaining about being called AC937\/X8.<\/p>\n

Names are just the tip of the iceberg. In six months they\u2019ve transformed everything. They\u2019ve cut back on the power supply to the city of Globopolis. So everything\u2019s much darker. The Anticlockwise Empire likes to operate in the shadows. Most of the cinemas, theatres and restaurants have closed. No one’s allowed out at night anymore. The neighbourhood around Infinity Gateway where I live and work is now a ghost town after 8pm: no cars, no buses, not a soul to be seen. Just squads of Snoops patrolling the streets looking for an excuse to arrest someone, anyone who\u2019s fallen foul of the curfew.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just external appearances. Worse is their systematic attempt to change the way we think, to get us to swallow the drivel they spew out on their media channels. I won\u2019t bore you with what they\u2019re saying. It\u2019s too puerile for words. But it\u2019s effective. If you don\u2019t conform, the Snoops pay you a visit to correct your errors.<\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s straightforward any more. I wish that I could turn the clock back like you can in science fiction movies. But life\u2019s not like that is it?<\/p>\n

Zeb Solitanu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Freedom\u00a9 Zeb Solitanu<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zeb Solitanu sketch by Jill<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anticlockwise Journal<\/a> – a compilation of Solitanu’s Blog posts – is on sale at Amazon<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Learn more about Blog Fiction<\/a> – follow Zeb Solitanu at Anticlockwise<\/a> and SpirianA <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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