Paradise

   "What are we going to do?" Asks my wife of twenty-five years. "Both of our families have been loyal, upstanding citizens of the dome city of New Seattle for four generations. Our families were considered among the richest in the original metropolitan area of Seattle before the two class system predicated that the finer class, which we were deemed part of, shield ourselves off from those undesirables. And now they want to throw us out into wilderness? Live among the barbarians no less?"
   "Honey, you know money and value of a person's wealth is no longer consider a class distinction, here inside the dome. Androids do all the work for us, grow all the crops for us, and guard us from the people living outside the dome." I explained to her.
   "Then why, if there is no class system, did the Carnation family get evicted into the wild two years ago?"
   "Honey, even though back in the day being rich and being a socialite meant more than it does today, the Two Percenters, who control the androids make the rules. Their word is law."
   "Well, its not right. Why do they get to say what is best for everyone under the dome?" She thought about her next statement before she asked it. "When was the last time anyone saw one of these so called Two Percenters, anyways?"
   "Someone is running the show, somewhere. Who else would be giving the androids their orders."
   We both sat there quit for the moment. Waiting until that dreaded knock came to our door.
   Suddenly, the front door opened without a knock or an announcement.
   "We are here to escort Mister and Misses Johnson to the outer hatch of the dome. Please, do not try to use any kind of violence against us. We are program to take you to the wilderness any which way we can. We are programed to use force if need be." One of the first androids into our home said to us.
   There we were, led by two androids in front of us and two behind. As our friends and neighbors watched and whispered about our fate.
   My wife screamed, "They'll becoming for you one day. You are not the elite any longer to the Two Percenters. Now you are the second class citizens that they feel they can do anything they want to. Like evict you out of the dome."
   We noticed the androids did nothing to stop her. They must be programed against violence or us trying to escape. Not our verbal assault on our leaders. We both chanted our battle cry until we were led to an inner hatch which we were ordered to go through.
   "You will enter the chamber inside and wait until the outer hatch is opened. Then you will leave. Android 20349001 will make sure you don't try to linger in the chamber too long. Thank you. Have a nice day." A different android told us, from the one who spoke earlier.
   "I can't look," my wife said. "Tell me what you see when the door is opened."
   "I will," I said confidently. But I didn't feel very confident at the moment.
   The hatch swung opened and I walk to the edge of the dome and the brand new world my wife and I were about to enter.
   I hesitated. I didn't know what to say to my wife.
   "What is it honey? What's out there?" She was staring at me scared.
   "It's, it's paradise!" 

 

This is,

Saying There Will Always Be A Two Class System

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“That's right, there's free beer in an Irish paradise.”
- Kevin Hearne, -

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