Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 51 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION many Greys do finish like that?” “A certain number.” “What about the others? What makes existence toler- able for them?” “There are _ different answers, said the Instructor again. “ You have been told, before you came here as well as since you joined us, that the Greys work for the good of mankind. Terrestrial and interplanetary administration is in the hands of the Greys. We work on other planets in conditions that no human being could survive. We are the organisers and, one might say, the guardian angels. There is nothing in what we do that gives us any personal gratification * “But why go on doing it? Human beings don’t want it. They are full of suspicion. They would be glad if the Greys were wiped out. And it might do them good: it would renew human initia- tive.” “Would it? It might renew old jealousies and lead to 38 new wars. You cannot re- pudiate scientific progress, even when it takes a wrong turning: and we don’t know yet whether this is a wrong turning or not. All we know is that this thing has hap- pened, and we must cope with it. We must cope. If we scrapped ourselves now, there would still be resentments. The more sensitive men might be persuaded to under- stand. But the others—the vast majority — would be furious.. They would hate us for destroying the secrets of those thousand years that are now promised to every man when his body ceases to func- tion. And in a generation or two, even the intelligent ones would have forgotten. They would strive to re-discover the secret. And in due course they would do so. They would have to start all over again, making the mistakes that our earliest members made, painfully learning from experience and rebuilding our interplanetary empire. And in the meantime? The prob- comicloooks.com