Co-opted Brand

"You may have picked up, even at this early stage, how much his reading between the lines has been influenced by a certain detrimental habit.

"It does not mean that he is not one of us. Quite the contrary."

"Trivializing corruption may be to strong a way to describe it. If so, the vector's direction as opposed to it's size still appears valid."

None of the group would deny that a certain "defensive" component had arisen. It invoked a bit of sympathy. But to a person, the team is aware of the stakes of neglect, however understandable.

Their collaboration had come into being precisely because decorum as previously defined was no longer adequate. Too many had been harmed to retain the status quo.

"So why must we change?"

"It is what humans do, and among the living, not alone."

© 2012 Buzz Hill