So, this is it… at last. I wish I could say this was a pleasant surprise, but it’s neither a surprise nor, as you will surely agree, very pleasant. Well, I’m nothing if not pragmatic.
Well then, Concerned, under other circumstances I like to think we might have been able to work together in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. Certainly judging from your brief tenure at the research facility, while I was it’s administrator, you showed every promise of becoming a valuable and productive contributor to the scientific process. And yet, I’m not sure what spurred you to it, but there is really no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist.
Your mentors are partly to blame, of course; my disappointment in Rebel #594 and Citizen #X74B is far greater than my sorrow over your unfortunate choice of career path. In a way I suppose you could not have done otherwise. Who knows what seeds of iconoclasm they planted when you were young and gullible? But while they certainly share a great part of the responsibility, for the recent troubles, it is you alone who have chosen to act with such wilful disregard for humanity’s future.
Tell me, doctor, if you can: you have destroyed so much — what is it exactly that you have created? Can you name even one thing? … I thought not.
I have laid the foundation for humanity’s survival, and not as we have narrowly defined ourselves but as something greater than we could ever imagine, something that we can now only begin to glimpse.
Look, take a well-considered look at what you are throwing away. Is it worth it?
Consul.
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